Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-11-23
At WASHINGTON.

The extra session of Congress has near
ly come au end and MI. HAYES has
managed to more than hold his own. His
case has been taken in hand by some of the
Republican party managers in the Senate
and they deputiZed committee to walt
upon HIM TO find out where he stood as a
party man in view of his Southern policy,
which had included the appointment of
some Democrats to office. The President
is reported as expressing himself to the eff
feet that he was loyal to the Republican
party and so far from thinking his South
ern policy was inimical to it. he thought
it might eventuate in getting some six or
seven Southern States for the Republicans
through coalition of the old Wings and
Evarious other elements" negroes we
presume) ''nationally opposed to the OPP
posed to the Democratic party" He did
not intimate any purpose however of chang
ing his policy. Doubtless Mr.. HAYES
spoke of the ''six or seven States" more in
the kindness of his heart than from any real
hope that the traditional old Wing party
in those States would ever league with the
negroes who constitute the mass of che
Republican party in the South. He is
hardly of the opinion that the Democratic
party which from the instant the war
closed has made one long and persistent
| fight to set the States composing the Union
on their feet, will now, just as it is about
to enter in the control of the national gov
eminent, experience any serious detection
frou it's ranks. He can hardly believe
that in any Southern State the Democrat
ic party will be so forgetful of the past as
| to divide and give place to one of those
legislatures that call for troops and other
erwise subordinate the State to the Nation
al government. - He. cannot surely think
that sssix or seven States'' that have been
in the furnace of Republican party govern
ment have so soon forgotten the fire. He
must recollect that while he is ii patriotic
President and man who has made himself
in every way worthy of the affection of the
Southern States, yet it was but few votes
at the cincinnati Convention that stood
between him and Jim BLAINE" a man
who would have been a curse TO the coun-
try. 1t is the party that the South fears
the party that put Mr.. HAYES in the front
and which he has grievously disappointed
and which regrets his election far more
| than the South does the loss of President
of it's own choice. lie must not confound
himself with his party as far as the South
| is concerned, nor mistake its admiration
for his virtues as any liberation Of the vices
of his party. There are many changes
brought about by the whlrligig of time, but
the sight Of the "Old line Wing party
| of the South lacking itself on to State Re
publican organizations. the mass of their
| constituents being the most ignorant and
| degraded class of suffragaDs in the world, is
one that the President need hardly take i'll
to any horoscope that he may be casting for
| the future ''Republican party.
The President was quite affable and
quite at his ease With the deputation from
the Senate as be could we'll afford to be,
| seeing that he has the whip hand of them.
! Strange as it may seem, the Democratic
House of Representatives has by negligen ce
allowed the army to be increased to 25,0Ol
| men bp ali amendment in the Senate to the
House bill which had cut it down to q, 00u
men. The Republicans when it Game back
| to the House voted for it solicly and the
Democrats by absent. eism allowed it to
pass. 1t s just about three millions dollars
| difference that the people will have to pay