The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-04
Republicans on the War Path.

and his associates.
Republicans on the War Path.
The HAYES organs have been striving TO
break the force of old BEN WADE's fiery let
ter, by alleging that its publication was a
breach of condolences. On that point Mr.
WADE has expressed himself pretty plainly
ia the communication to the Ct,r land Lead
er, which we published yesterday. As he
says, the letter was private and was not writ
ten to be published, but neither was IL
written to be concealed. when man of Mr.
WADE's standing in his party goes out Of his
way to express opinions on public question,
or in regard to the conduct Of a President,
Fraudulent though he be, he certainly does
not mean to hide them under bushel.
1t Is no secret that Mr.. WADE has given
uttorance to similar views to various friends,
and without the least injunction of privacy.
showing that he meant no reserve. and that
his sentiments were common to the people
in northwestern Ohio, whore he has long
lived and been much hOnorod. He surely
has a right to speak freely, for he took
prominent and influential part in the nomi-
nation ~ HAYES and gave pledges for him
in case he should Ice elected. Indeed, he NAV
Ice said to have brought the Ohio delegation
over to his Wow, as originally there were but
four members Of II who were inclined TO
HAYES at ALL and they were lukewarm.
Mr.. WApE's opinions are not only import
ant As coming from leading Republican.
whose public career has been spotlc--, but a.
rejecting the views heldby large portion OF
the party, East and West II others have not
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that they feel differently, but from motives
Of policy which will be- disclosed at the
proper time. Let II not bo supposed how
ever, because the leaders of the party have
not broken silence, that they are Indifferent
10 the issue as made up at Washington
The contrary is true, as will be discovered
soon after the opening of Congress.
While there has been no external demon
stration Of organized opposition to the
Fraudulent Administration, it is none
the less the TACT that n general under
standing has boon perfected, by COM
fcrcnces and correspondence, which can
hardly fail 10 shake the foundations Of
the iniquity upon which HAYES stands. The
machinery of the Republican party in all
the States is to-day in the hands Of oppo-
ncnts of the so-callcd southern policy. which
recently eliminated in the downfall Of CRAM
BERLArS and PACKARD. We say all the
states because there is no longer Repub-
lican party in the South, either in fact or In
name.
The doctrinaires at Washington like Mr.
Schulz and Mr.. EvARTs, who have set up
new standards of official promotion, chiefly
for the profit of their personal friends and
such political following as th"y may pos
sess. have, in the distribution Of patronage.
alicnated the great body Of working Rcpuh-
licans, who claim to have been faithful tOtnc
party. while these two members Of the Cabi-
net especially were seeking to destroy II
and 70 build up a new organization on it,
runs. These real Republicans ask with efn-
phasis whether Mr.. KEY, who voted for Mr..
IILDES, and since the election has repeat
eddy declared that he was fairly chosen by
great majority OF the popular vote. repre-
sents the Republican party; whether Gen.
DEvESs, ON the bench OF Massachusetts
ever did or said anything TO promote its
interest; whether, in word, the Cabinet Is
Republican at all.
The millennium has not come yet. While
parties exist, the motives the passions. anu
the interests which govern men in the great
organizations of life, as IN the individual
spheres of action, will continue to operate
They are seen under all the forms Of c1nsti-
tutional government, and they are natural
Hence, when Mr.. WADE and others like him
denounce the policy and the acts Of HAYES
and his Administration, as faithless to the
principles and treacherous to the traditions
of their party, We cannot blame them.
And when they complain that the honors
and rewards for which they labored during
twenty years, have been given 10 men who
never RAISED finger, without consider
ton, to help the cause they certainly have
the right to be indignant. No wonder there
is discomfort inside the party, and that "a
rising is threatened which will make sue
ccssful Fraud tremble in It's place.