New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-24
THE PRESIDEN rs JOURNEY.
Continued from First Page.

party ana make the tour of the mountains, ana
waited hero two nights and day. New England
Sabbatarian ideasdid not keep the from talking
politics. and there great deal to be learned by
good listener from the quiet afternoon chats the
cool verandas of the motel about current Republican
| opinion III New Hampshire. ] was little surprised
to find It so nearly unanimous. and strongly set
against the Presidents paciicatiOn policy. A little
surprised, Why! Because, knowing the ferceness of
party strife here, prepared for good deal of
hostility to the ideas controlling the Administration.
III seemed strange, however. that there should be
no earnest espousa of the side of the President The
discussion showed that various degrees of opposition
exist, from almost angry denunciation down to
mild form of disbelief in the wisdom of the policy,
coupled by ahope that it may succeed; but positive
support. on grounds Of right well expedoncy,
there was almost none. The general attitude of the
Republican leaders appears to be one of doubt and
observation. They will do nothing to embarrass
the President-On the contrary, they Will actively
sustain him against the Democrats but they believe
that the once Republican States of the South should
have been held by the bayonet as long ~ possible
and they anticipate failure of the policy of self
government and reconciliation Why should this
feeling be more general IN Ncw-Hampshire than in
other States! is natural question. Because this is
the home of Republican BourbOnsrn IL is
a State Of exceptionally bitter political
tests recurring every year. where the issues of the
war have more power to stir mems blood than any
where else in the country. The bloody shirt" has
never ceased to be the Republican orIilamme and
the Democrats still stigmatzed by the hateful
term of COpperheadS. Distrlst and dislike Of the
Southern whites seem 20 DC incraned. In no
other State is there such faith in Ben Wads theory
that the North must govern the South to keep the
South from governing the North There is no
wisdom IN sneerIng at these whims. The people
who hold them perfectly sincere, aud just ~
patriotic as tine most ardent advocates of recon-
ciliaton and reform They are honest partisaus of
the ideas that controlled the party during tho Grant
regime, and they cannot change their views with
change of administration. Their conversion to more
liberal opinions, if it comes. will come as thing of
slow growth, brought about by the manifest
of the Presidents policy.
| am glad to find evidences however, that the
change is going on more rapidly among the people
than among the working politicians The latter are
like leaders in the front OF battle recalled from the
charge by sudden truce before they think the
tory has been Won They are apt TO interpret the
truce rs a surrender But the average citizen may
be compared to the private soldier whom 1t is
easier to convince that the fighting has gone on long
enough
Mr.. Clark, the veteran editor of The Manchester
Mirror Republican,, told me at the White Noun
tains yesterday that he is convinced that the Pres
dents course meets with more approval than any
one would suppose who talks only with the work
ing politicians. THE politicians don't like the
order to tine ofice-holders" he SAID but it pleases
the masses They hostile to the Southern policy,
but the people are already beginning to see the wis
dom Of it. The time will soon come when the p0llti
clans will find out that they without backing and
then they Will make haste TO change their ground.
The people believe that Hayes is an honest man,
and that makes them disposed to look favorably
upon his course" Mr.. Bailey, editor of The Concord
Tdirot the State organ of the Democrats, spoke in
very much the same way. Ii ~ rather singular that
his paper should bo friendly to tho President
than the Republican organ at the State Capital. He
said TO me last night: "lhe people of both parties
are with the President. L have been through the
State good deal this Summer, out OF the towns,
in tho back country, and this is about the
way the substantial old farmers express themselves:
wall this Mr.. Hayes pears to be tryin' to do bout
what's right, and guess if the politicians will let
him alone he'll make the best President we've had
for q long time And you can't tell from their talk
whether they are Democrats or Republicans"
The strongest and most pertinacious opposition
the Presidents Southern policy encounters in New
Hampshire comes from The Concord Monitor, which
keeps whacking away at it every day with unrc-
hitting zeal. The paper is the principal or
gan of the Republican party in the State, and
adsytned alherent of James q. Blaine Among it,
owners is said to bo the Hon. William L. Chandler
who is trying to play the role of Achilles sulking in
bis tent He thinks he saved Florida for Hayes
lsome information got at Tallahassee last May leads
me to think So tool, and he is III bad humor because
he has received recognition from the Admlnlstra-
ton No one is so bitter he against the Southern
L., ,ittot To info how hat
bs tnkes this attitude because he has been given
An office Mr. Chandler belongs to the extreme Rad
zeal wing of the parry, faithful lien
tenant of Mr.. Blaine and believe he
would not have changed his opinion of the
Iousiana settlement if he had been given his choice
of the foreign missions Mr. Stevens the editor of
The Monitor said on Sunday: We have kept right
on; it is the Hayes men who are of the track. 1t
may have been good policy to surrender South
Carolina and Louisiana. but consistency to principle
required the support of Packard and Chamberlain
| would have sunk the party rather than give up
princple You ask me what would have the Pres
ident do now. First, stop all pharsaica talk about
carrying ont the principles Of the Cincinnati platform
and nut the New Orleans and Columbia business on
the ground of policy alone Then he shouldreconsruct
the Cabinet aud bring in active representative party
men. Schurz should be put out. He is German
Communist full of the Rod Republican ideas he
imbibed i'm the revolution Of 1913. Evarts should
90 too. lie is theorst, with no following ana
believes the Republican party is gone up, and is
lacking ont for himself Devens is a good man, but
he does not represent the sentiment of NewEngand.
Kev ougbt TO be put in some other place: so that
a wounded Union soldier who applies for post
office would not have to get down on his knees to an
ex-rebel Colonel
Among the politicians who are tnctured more or