The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-11-08
But ono SAFE Path for Hayes.

But One safe Path for Hayes.
There is only one safe path open
to Hayes, ifhe would make his adj
ministration respectable even in his
tory. To make it a success in a par.
titan point Of view, is now impossi-
Bile. He must go ahead as he began.
He must strive to be The President
Of the country and not of a party.
He has confessedly discarded the
partizan methods of the Grant reg
ime, and struck out for himself a
new policy, having reform Of theciv-
il service and the pacification Of the
country for his watchwords. To
abandon that policy now, andbecome
the plant tool Of the Ring politi.
clans, would simply cover him with
disgrace. Such a course would lose
him the support he now receives
from the best element of the Repub-
lican party and the measure of re-
spect he now enjoys without refer
ence to party divisions. An honest
straightforward course in the adj
ministration of the government is
his only salvation, If he swerves
from the line of patriotic duty, in
the vain effort to rosuscitate the Re.
publican party, or to tear down the
Democratic party, or to build up a
new party for personal aims, he is
gone irreyocably. He must stand to
his colors or ignobly fall. He must
adhere with mistaken firmness to
the "homo-rule" policy that has al
ready given peace to the country
he must persevere TO the end in his
efforts to secure official integrity to
the public service-he must unite
with the friends Of retrenchncnt in
Congress in perfecting the great
measures of economy and reduction
of government expenses SO auspic-
iously inaugurated by the late Dem
ocratic House of Representative
he must, in fine, shape the future
acts of his administration with sole
reference to the public welfare. iii
pursuing this path Of duty ard of
safety he will be sustained by the
country, and be enabled. moreover to
prform the functions of his office to
the end, creditably to himself and
benefcially to the nation, securing
for his administration an honorable,
if not an illustrous, place in history.
TheRepubllcan complaints against
Hayes are not that his policy is not
right in itself--not that it is detri-
mental to the public good-not that
it initiates against the peace orpros-
perity Of the country-but that it
tends to deprive the party of the
benefits of sectional issues, and the
old Ring masters under Grant of
their wonted supremacy in the con-
troll of official appointments for par.
titan purposes or personally ambi.
tious ends as it may suit the spoil
politicians to award them,
The Republican conspirators who
cheated the American people out Of
their constitutionally elected Presi.
dent, are disappointed and chagrin.
ed that the beneficiary of theil
scoundrelism does not recognize theil
merits and reward the services of the
scoundrels. Shameless for theil
crime they demand pay for thoil
treason. Hayes, more fully appre
ciating the situation, defers to the
popular will-tries to give in some
degree expression to their voice or
public questions, and refuses to sur
render tho government to the con
troll of the conspirators and spoils
men. This is the "head and front O
his offending"
If he had taken Grants Admins
tration as his example, and had fol
lowed the footsteps Of that great mil
itary fraud and party tool; if he hat
permitted the corrupt Republican
leaders to have made cats paw O
him to rake their chestnuts out o
the Gre; then indeed would Hayes
have been a bully boy, But the ap
pointment of a few Democrats from
the South to office, and the establish
ment of the Nichols and Hampton
government in the States Of Lousia
ma and South Carolina, and thesnub
bling Of Slippery Simon and few