The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-11
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Mr.: HAYES and Ills Party.


Is it not possible that those Republicans
the effect of his policy on the party are
throwing away their time? 1t is said the
Camerons have determined to lose Penn
sylvania to the Democrats as rebnke to
the administration; that large body OF
the Ohio Republicans will refuse to vote
at the fall election out OF spite; that
great many New York Republicans with
Senator CoDkling are sulking; that the
white Republicans of the south will vote
with the Democrats hereafter as a rebuke
TO the administration; that the civil SER
vice rules laid down by the administration
are very distasteful to Republicans gener-
ally who declare that the enforcement Of
them will remove the old incentives to
eleetioneefing effort and cause the party
organization to lose its vigor; and that
that there is powerful b3ay of party
leaders who will not support the peculiar
Repubhcanism that the administration
represents. Weli-suppoSe all this be
true, what of it? 1t is no part OF Mr..
Hayes business to look after the Republi-
can party, and, in point of fact, there is
reason for believing he doesn't care
fig for it. There is not single member
of his cabinet eminent for party zeal, and
there are several who are known enemies
Of the regular organization. The secretary
of state and the secretary of the interior
are insurgents; the encouragement is a
conservative; the postmaster general is an
avowed Democrat, ard Secretaries Sher-
man, Thompson and McCrary are very
feeble representatives of the partisan
activity and devotion of which Morton,
Blaine, Chandler, Boutwell, and Logan are
exemplars. La making up his cabinet,
then, Mr.. Hayes has shown no anxiety to
keep the party in good working trim and
maintain its old spirit. He has rather
showed disposition to detach his admins.
tratioa from it, and to escape its res onsi-
bilities. He is Republican, indeed, and he
takes frequent occasion to say SO, but it is
very evident that he intends there shall be
nothing more than formal relations be-
tween the party and his administration,
and that each shall paddle its own canoe
for the next four years, Why should he
identity his administration with a party
known to be in minority? Why should
be, by challenging the special support of
this minority, provoke the opposition of
the Democratic house, whose power over
the purse and sword has been SO strikingly
illustrated in the Withholding Of appropri-
atoms for the armyP
Mr., Hayes understands the difficulties
and the necessities of his peculiar situation,
and he is adjusting himself to them. He
cannot afford to carry any extra burden,
and he does not intend to attempt it. The
Republican party must get along by itself :;
he cannot ana will not help it. He is going
to try to make his administration success
fui. He has disavowed second term. and
has no favors, therefore to ask He is re-
forming chronic abuses at the cost Of his
party; heis acknowledging and undoing
its bluuders. and he is thus trying to gain
the good will of the country at the cost of
his party's reputation, The Camerons may
give Pennsylvania to the Democrats if
they will; Conkling and his friends may
stand aloof: and the Ohio malcontents
may remain away from the polls and thus
permit the Democrats to in possession
of the presidential power But all this
will not subdue Mr., Hayes to the authority
of his party, The party may sink, if il
cannot swim; it may fall, if it cannot
stand; he will not bury it with blunders,
nor prop it with bayonets. His concern is
for his administration; he wants it to be
successful and he is determined it shall be
successful, whether the party survive OIL
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