The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-06-21
Looks Like Farce.

! ed in connection with surrounding facts. We
read a number of the foremost Republican pa
pers in the country, that, in their editorial col
umns, heartily endorse the policy but their
| columns TEEN with articles of transactions and
expressions throughout the South, under head
ings evidently devised by the editors of those
papers, the drift of which is to show the utter
failure of the policy in mending the disposition
of the Southern people, or even making them re-
spectful toward the President. Eeach of these
articles seem to be broad sarcasm upon the ed,
itorials in favor of peace and conciiation. For
instance, q mighty effort was made, on the re-
cent Decoration Day, to promote fraternal feel
| ing by uniting and decorating Union and Rebel
graves, without distinction. Here is the way in
which it was received by the great body of the
Southern people, as expressed by their leading
organ, the Mobile Register, so long edited by the
late John Forsyth. We find this extract in all
the Republican papers referred to above, with
| the heading as prInted-and we may add, that
| this promiscuous decoration business is re-
garded in precisely the same light by large ma
jorty of the Union people of the North, from
their standpoint
THE PRoFFERED HAND REJEcTED-uow TIE LEADING
PAPER IN ALABAMA GREETs THE coScnAToRr SPIRIT
| OF TIE NORTH.
| Let us have done with all this Decoration Day
| twaddle! The right was right, and wrong and right
can never shake hands over bunch of flowers. As
well might Cranmer or Joan of Are say TO the men
who lighted the pyres under them '.You doubt
less right from your standpoint, and probably
right from ours, therefore let shake. and when We
are burned your friends and ours meet and scat
| ter flowers over graves" Where would Christi
anty have been if the friends of those who fought
with beasts at Ephcsus, who stoned and seOurg
ed and crusied, had shaken hands with the pagans,
and admitted that both sides were righti
The true Southern people have no wish to obtrude
their attachment to their principles upon the gaze of
the world; they honestly determined to abide by
| the Federal Government; they will struggle by all
peaceable means to make that government as nearly
| as possible like their beloved Confederate govern
nent they will cling silently in their own homes and
by their own graves to the sacred memories of the
most honOred past that glorified a conquered
people but they do not propose TO blot ont their his
| tory by such empty and abect twaddle that in
dulged in by the later Decoration Day orators, who
roll up the whites Of their eyes and say, God knows
| who right
We know who was right, and God knows that the
| South was right. God used the South a means of
evangelizng and finally lberating 100000 Africans,
and when His purpose was accomplished We find the
South stronger than ever, with its principles of gov
ernment more clearly recognized than ever before
Mobile f4ta.J Register, June 6h.
In the midst of this Cancellation business,
comes the dinner to Tilden and Hendricks by the
Manhattan Club, of New York. The speeches of
these two men upon that occasion, in connection
by these same Republican Journals to mean that
the Democratic party regard Mr.. Hayes as hold
ing his Office by fraud to be righted at the very
first opportunity. They already have major
ity in the lower House of Congress, and there
seems to be no doubt that they will have ma
jority in the Senate in two years. Then they
propose to refuse any further appropriations to
pay Hayes salary as President, to aid in car
rying out his authority. This will stop the Gov
ernment under Hayes. When remember that
the same party undertook to destroy the Govern
ment, and refused appropriations to maintain
the army, because it was being used to execute
the laws can any one doubt that they will carry
ont the foregoing programme, whenever they
have the power'
And who but Mr. Hayes, has wilfully and
stubbornly put this power into their hands! By
his action the South will send solid Democrat
ic delegation to the next House of Representa-
| tives, which, with the Northern Democratic
members, will make an overwhelming majority
| in that House. The Senate now has a Republi-
| can majority of only about five. The Southern
| policy has its adhereHts in the Seuate-S tanley
Matthews, the agent through which the sale of
| the Southern Republicans consummated, is
| there, as the mouth-piece of that policy. This
faction, aided by the Democratic members,
| will secure the seats to Democratic contestants
from South Carolina and Louisiana, cutting
down the majority to almost nothing. Every
Republican Senator from the South will be re-
| placed by Democrat, soon as his term ex
pires. Within the next two years. there will, in
all probability, be Democratic Senators in place
of Conkling, Morton, Stanley Matthews, and 9th
er Northern Republicans. This will make the SEN
ate hopelessy Democratic, and enable that par
| ty to carry ont their designs. Thus is Mr.. Hayes
deliberately placing power in the hands of the
Democratic party to unscat and disgrace himself,
crush the Republican party, and in all probabi-
ity revolutonize the Government.
We occasionally hear of leading Republican
| coming out in endorsement of Hayes policy.
Their sole idea and hope in doing this, seems to
be to nurse him along, and keep him from get
ting stubborn, and kicking ont of the traces al
together. They think that if they eau keep him
| in good humor, and secure the offices in Repub
lican hands, the party can weather the storm,
and right itself at the next election. What
humiliating position, and forlorn hope! Sena-
tor Morton, it is well known, recently published
| long letter which was supposed to endorse
| Hayes policy. What he thinks of that policy
and his reason for pretending to endorse it, are
set forth in the following statement of an inter
view with him.
WHAT Mr. MORTON THNKs.-The Burlington Ha,ck
eye whose representative interviewed Senator Morton
on his way through that city the other day.
that the Senator has great confidence in the Presi
dents patriotism, but he doesn't think the policy will
succeed. Mr. Morton is also confident that if the Re
pubeans avoid all dissention within their ranks
and if the President continues to appoint Republi
cans to office and in other respects demonstrates his
adherence TO the party that elected him. the Repub-
will carry Ohio next Autumn, and every other
Northern State which they carried at the last elec
ton"
1t behoovcs all true Republicans to stand
firmly by their party, refusing to be deceived by
"poicy" clamor, that they may be in condition
to rescue their party and redeem the country at
the next election.
E- Hayes must have the credit of one good
achievement-he has reconciled Charles A. Da-
oft h. Can G..