The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-03-01

From the New York World.
The independent newspapers must b
. great annoyance TO Mr.. Hayes. Fol
some days they have been giving hin
advice about his Cabinet, which, - w
have before said, il not matter for the
public but for Mr.. Hayes and his part.
ners to settle. Now they are bothering
him with advice to build up party al
the South by appointing conspicuous
Southerners to high offices.
1t Is no wonder that the perplexed
Hayes should have felt compelled, as we
learn on the doubtful authority Of the
Washington correspondent of the Foe
n,nq Post that he has felt compelled, to
come out and say that he does not
know what no means to do about the
South until he has consulted what he
calls his constitutional advisers" and
it is 10 be hoped that Che Independent
newspapers will cease from troubling
him about his Southern policy.
We have already pointed out that Mr..
, Hayes policy is matter IN which the
people of the United States have no right
to influence him, as they would have if
thew had elected him President. He
owes the Presidency to four men in
Louisiana, and three or four in Florida,
who stole it for him, and to the Electoral
Commission, which held that 1t made
no difference whether they atole it or
not. Mr.. Hayes, therefore, as the crea-
ture of successful fraud, has not OBJ
legations except to the people
who committed the fraud, and
whether he discharges those OBJ
legations or not is matter be-
tween him and them. Thepubllc has no
concern in il. Still the public cannot
help knowing the facts in the case, and
the proposal that Nj. Hayes shall recog-
nize the majority in the Southern States
and bestow some of the offices upon rep.
resentative Southern men, is particularly
cruel. Mr.. Hayes will owe his position
as a President dc facto to such men as
Kellogg and Packard and Stearns, Gov
ernors de facto. To recognize the ma
iority in their states by taking the rep.
res entative men of those states into his
councils and permitting the majorlty in
those States to govern them, is to doom
the Kelloggs and Packards and Stearnses
and other political adventures to politi-
cal death. That would be hard thing
for:any Republican President 10 do. tits
worse than hard for President de tacto
HAYES to do, for 1t would cloud his own
title. Packard is exactly as good Gov
ernor as Hayes President. If Nichols
ia the rightfll Governor Of Louisiana, or
Drew of Florida Tilden is the
rightful President of the United
States. Everybody knows that that is
the fact, but how can Hayes be ex-
pected to admit it? To do anything to-
wards stopping the state OF things which
has prevailed in Louisiana for the last
six or seven years is to admit that Kel-
logg and Packard are usurpers. So they
are; ard If they are, what is Hayes? To
question their title, to admit that carpet
bageery is not the best rule for Southern
States, and that returning boards with
unlimited powers are not governments
republican in FORM" is to knock the
bottom out of Mr.. Hayes's own tub.
This is not the worst of the matter.
Hayes not only cannot Ego behind the
returns" which produced Packard and
Stearns, but if he did he would be guilty
of ingratitude, which is low vice.
Packard and Stearns and Madison Wells
and Cassanave are the authors of Hayes.
They have made him and they will keep
him constantly in mind of the fact.
Madison Wells is still peer in Louis
lana; but if Hayes should undertake to
let the people of Louisiana manage their
affairs, he would straightway become
vasssl even there. Wells did not "forget
his duty 20 the Republican party" when
he counted in Hayes, and Hayes counted
in will not forget his duty to
Wells. He cannot find places abroad
for all men, black and white, who lied
and sole and committed forgery and
perjury in order to count him in. He
will have to take care Of them at home.
And there will be no room for the rep
resentative Southerners when he has
provided for them all, even if the repre-
sentative Southerners liked their COM
pany, which they do not. The South
erners will be glad to be let alone, but
to let them alone would be to run the
risk of leaving Casanavc and Kenner
unprovided for, after they have provided
for Hayes, and it is not to be supposed
that Hayes will forget to whom he owes
the Presidency or fail to build up the
grand old party Of Packard and kellogg
in Louisiana.