New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-20
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY. MARCH 20 1877

causes of executive delay. The President
will appoint to Office none but good Re-
publicans. They must be honest, able
and efficient. They will be required to il
be permitted to load it down with their
corruption or their caprices. The
deliberation of the President may be set
down not to any vacillation of purpose,
but to a deliberation which will not be
deceived in its purpose. We may pre-
sumo that numbers of actual and con-
structive Republicans have rushed to the
front, provided with recommendations
and subscription lists for the latest Of
fees upon which they have fixed their
eyes. We may suppose the President to
say, ''Let me look behind these self-com-
mended patriots. There may be Repub-
licans who have done their duty from love
of principle, and not from hope of reward.
Perhaps they may do the Republican
party better service than these monopo-
lists of all favor. Let me take time to
see and inquire for myself" So the Off
cial organization of the administration
goes on carefully. That we have outlined
the position and policy of the President
correctly is evident from the personal
characteristics of the man. Heretofore
the organization of an administration has
been fixed by the bargains of nominal
ing convention, or adjusted through those
Office brokers, the Senators and Congress-
men. The change of system has struck
some of our friends with alarm. 1t has
given the Democracy false hopes.
The position of the President is but the
deliberate preparation for a work in
which he relies upon himself to execute.
His followers must be men like himself,
resolute and above temptation. Such a
command can not be recruited in a mo-
ment. 1t requires rigorous inspection
into the service. The Democratic party
suppose this deliberation was designed to
bargain with them. The REPUBLICAN
said two weeks ago that the Democracy
have had nothing to bargain with since
the organization of the Electoral Commits
sion. The eyes of the Democracy
have begun to open. The order of
the Postmaster General is the watchword
of the administration. 1t means that
honest, able and influential Republicans
for all offices. If such Republicans can
not be found, then persons shall be
chosen who possess the qualities when no
Republican can be found fit for the stand
ard of executive service. We can scarcely
suppose such case will occur, but we are
perfectly satisfied that the Key rule shall
be applied when it does. That the De-
mocracy themselves now admit the policy
of the President to be what the REPUBLI-
CAN has always reasoned it would be, is
made known by the following extract
from the Washington correspondent of
the New Orleans Democrat:
Great surprise has been shown by some
of the Democratic Senators and Congress-
men at the rule to be followed in the mat
ter of appointments. They believe that
under the declaration made by Hayes in
his inaugural speech partisan service would
no longer entitle a man to office. Democrats
1COItLd hare Just as much ShOt1 in the appoint.
mentS as Republicans. Several of them,
therefore, believing this to be the meaning
of the Presidents speech, made application
for appointments for friends The answer
TO these applications has been, in all cases,
a decided refusal, and declaration that
there would be no changes in the present
officials Tor some time, and that even when
these changes were made Republicans ,COltld
in all cases haze the preference
Let the Republican party here and else
where conform, then, to the Presidents
policy. Let them put forward men of in
tegrity, of ability and of devotion to Re-
publican principles. 1t is for this he is
waiting, and unless the party put forward
such men the President will hunt them
up himself He will carry no weight of
incompetency, and if it be packed and
piled on him by ambitious and unscru-
pulous men, he will just hump himself,
and pitch the whole package to where it
is likely it will go naturally and in due
course of time. Let the Republican party,
then, be convinced and contented with
the recognition and maintenance of the
Packard State ticket, with the appoint
ment of none but honest and competent
Republicans to Office, and with the Key
decision, that where no Republican can
be found who possesses these indis-
pensable qualities, then some person who
does possess them shall be commissioned.