The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-07-26
Public Opinion.


hinges OF the knee" to the king but no
man can be found who will deny that
had President Hayes policy of surren-
dering the Republican States of the
South been announced last Fall. he
would not have carried a single Northern
State Burlington Hawkeye (Rep.)
1t matters very little, in any practical
way, what Mr.. Wade may think of the
business; but his views are interesting
as a reminder of what Republicanism
was before it gave up its fundamental
principles Boston Post (Dem.)
There is no justice in debarring from
active participation in public affairs the
man who is doing honorable and faithful
work for Government Portland Press
! (Dem.)
The symptoms from the rural districts
are decidedly favorable to the unequiv-
ocal Endorsement of the Hayes Admins
/ tration by the Cleveland Convention.
/ The Republican Germans are unanimous
and strong for the Administration, and
determined 70 speak right out CCincin-
natl Commercial (Ind)
The Louisiana specter stalks in the
corridors Of the White House, and it is
said that Hayes hair turned white in a
single night with fear His friends,
however say it was his plug-hat, and not
his hair, that turned white Cincinnati
Enquirer (Dem)
President Hayes has a fashion of coin
ing laconic maxims. The last is: Il
propose to take the office holders out of
politics" That is ineligible, and means
businels. 1t will gain in favor day by
nav Tho machine will do
well to heed the warning Utica Her
aid (Rep)
In South Carolina, too, the Republi
cans talk of disbanding. Does it ever
occur to the Democratic leaders that
they may get the South too solid2 The
people of the North don't like the look
Of States where minority cannot even
exist-[N. Y. Tribune.
The President has carried grief into
the Departments at Washington, by de-
claring that the usual extra vacation of
two or three weeks to 60 home and vote
will not be granted in future to the
clerks 1t has beer customary to give |
each clerk 80 days vacation and extra
leave of absence at election time, but in |
future the election absence will be taken |
out of the 30 days, if it is taken at ALL
IN. Y. Tribune.
Hayes has given his Office holders in |
Ohio to understand-through the Gin |
cinnati Commercial-that they are to |
stay away from the Cleveland Conven- |
ton do without its Hopley il Private |
Dalzell, or its Pietro Cuneo2 There's /
conundrum for this administration to |
crack. And what will the aforesaid gen.
tlemen do without a Convention2 The |
situation is fearful to contemplate -
Kenton Republican.
The policy is bearing some fruit, and
the windfalls are abundant. The big
gest one so far Is in Mississippi, where
the Republican party has disbanded. 1t
dropped suddenly but not unexpectedly, |
for the various expedients of Schurz,
Matthews, Lamar & Co had crippled it
even to the core. We have been told
that the policy was the thing to build up
the Republican party South. Probably
the old Whig have "yamoosed" with that
idea Boston Traveller.
An eminent and honored Republican,
Of long experience in the South and
familiar with the Southern
spirit, writes us a private letter from
which we take the liberty of making the
following extract: Every man may to-
day look to see the South move steadily
forward to the control of this Govern
ment with as much certainty as he looks
for sunrise to morrow-unless all the
logical and actual result of Hayes con
duct can be overcome or nullifed. -
Albany Journal (Rep)
If no one is to be placed in official po-
sition except those who know nothing
about politics, and those who are in
official positions are not to be allowed to
participate in politics, then surely Web
,ter had better revise his definition of
the politician; the Republican party had
better be disbanded and all citizens rele.
gate the political affairs OF the country
20 the Civil Service reformers, whose
)nly credentials TO official position is
hat they are innocent OF politics and of {
he science of goyernment.-[Bu Burlington
Hawkeye
A delegation of Charleston merchants {
Tisited Cincinnati on Monday, and were ,
received by the Chamber of Commerce
President Tupper OF the Charleston
made a speech for the delega-
ion, in the course of which he paid this
ribute to Preside mt Hayes "Gentlamen,
{ it required any further influence than
hese interchanges Of hospitality between
,ur two cities-our homely greeting Elm {
and your grand reception of
,ur delegation-if il required any more
han this to warm our hearts to you, gen.
lemen of Cincinnati. il was the recollec-
ion that it was the son Of Ohio now in
he Presidential chair at Washington
Who removed the fetters under which we
,roaned He struck those fetters from
,ur hands that bound us under the
most degrading despotism that ever
rushed q people. For more than ten
lears we have been ruled by adyenturers
md robbers. The lowest classes of our
titles united with such men in monop-
,liziDg all our offices of trust and profit J
But President Hayes struck the hydra
leaded monster of corruption with the !
pear OF Ithuriel and il fell dead at our
eet had the honor to represent the
charleston Chamber of Commerce in the
delegation that visited the President of
he States, and told him the story of our /,
Inces we so long endured, his bright eye
Ilmost seemed to moisten and his cheeks j
% flush with emotion, and | felt then
hat the cause of South Carolina was in !
afe hands, and that he was destined to
,e the ruler of once more free people"
IN. Y. Tribune.
What time and space the Cincinnati ,
does not give to silver money
md the dangers from ice-water, il devotes
o insisting that the approaching Repub- :