Nebraska advertiser., 1877-06-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.

Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
WASHINGTON. d. c., June Is, II.
For the past ten years the>Demo-
cratic party has been nutured and en-
couraged by the mistakes and blum
ders of the Republican party. 1t had
no policy other than to make all the
political capital possible at the ex-
pense of its opponent. With an eye
single to the spoils of office. 1t has en-
deavored to fix the eyes of thenation
upon the follles of the Republican
party. forgetful of its own resemblance
to the whited sepuloher, which out
wardly Is all beauty and confines,
but inwardly Is filled with dead men g
bones and all uncleanness. With the
unenviable record of not having per-
formed one worthy act in fifty years.
with the responsibility of thousands
of political murders at the South lying
at its door, it nevertheless entered the
political arena last year with the
hackneyed phrase of reform" in
scribed upon its tanners, and so ad-
roitly did its leaders manage that
they came near bearing off the Presi-
Dental palm. What q change has
been wrought in the past three
months. To-day the Democratic
party is on the decline in all sections
of the Union, save perhaps the South
and 1t is by no means assured that It
will be able to carry Florida, Georgia,
North and South Carolina or LOuisi-
ana, In the state elections of 1878, as
the beneficent policy so happily in
augurated by President Hayes will
give the Republican party degree OF
strength and respectability in those
cOmmonwealths which it has never
before enjoyed. 1t is a mistaken Idea
to suppose that the masses of the
southern whites are opposed to the
Republican party per Sc. The fact Is
they felt kindly toward 1t after the
war. as was evinced by Republican
successes in Georgia. Texas and other
states in the state elections of 1868.
1t was the official jobbeTy and corrup-
ton practiced by INSCRIPTIONS men
under the guise of Republlcanism
which made the party a stencil in the
nostrlls of the Southern people. Ig-
norance and venality were the Ne
mesIs of the Republican party in the
south, and the strength of the party
was everywhere weakened by the too
frequent interposition of the National
arm to bolster up depraved state gov
ernments while they robbed a war
worn people of millions of dollars.
Ignorant negroes and corrupt white
adventures wellnigh destroyed the
party, and such was its condition
when Mr.. Hayes asoended the Presi-
Dental chair, that 1t became essential
for him to employ "heroic treatment" :"
and by the free use of the official
knife, lop off the incubuses which
had fastened upon It's body polite.
He has remanded corrUptIonists to the
rear, and all good men applaud him.
The peace and quietness which now
prevails In the South; the safety of
persons and property of fellow-citi-
zens In that region, attests In power
ful language the wisdom, and far see-
ing craftsmanship of the Executive.
Such Statesmen as Hill, Leach, La
mar, Hampton, FELTON,, and scores of
others who never had any real love
for the Democratic party, will not be
backward in repudiatlng that organi-
zation, and ally themselves with the
party now that they see
the government administered in the
interest of genuine reform. To whom
is the credit of this felicitious state of
affairs due? unquestionably to the
who In the selection of his
cabinet has given the highest assur-
ance of that policy of equity and fair
ness so dear to the American heart.
In Mr.. Schurz he found scholar and
ripe, far seeing and sagao-
Ious. AS the chief of the Interior
port folio, he has already shattered
all the rings which thrived under his
predecessors, and that department is
now worthy of the great government
of which It forms an integral part. |
In Mr.. Sherman he has found a states
nan at once pawerful, and in all re-
'pects adapted to take charge of the
National exohequer, whose broad and |
financial ideas will |
Don earn for him the sobriquet of the
Curgot of America. Messrs. Evarts,
dcCreery, Devens aud Key are all