The daily gazette., 1877-02-24
WHY AND now rHE FRAUD rs
COMMI rTED.

. OOWAAEEE
The mystery of Tilden's disposition viii
soon be solved IL is the first fruits of the
''new departure" in Radicalism foreshad-
owed In the articles from the Cincinnati
Gazette, Hayes's home organ, and the
Hartford Courdnt General Hawley's pa
per, republshed by us in December.
These articles denounced reconstruction
as "a blot on the Republic" acknowiedg-
ed that carpet-bag government in the
South was an outrage upon deceucy, and
announced that the future policy of the
Republican party would be to consolidate
the old Wing element of the South, and
substitute that element for the carpet
baggers as the governing class. Mr.. La
mar was invited by Mr.. Halstead to visit
his frienu, Governor Hayes, and Colonel
Roberts did 60, and Immediately there
after the press was filed with reports Of
oyertures said to have been made BY the
Governor to Lamar and Hampton. Inter-
nal improvement by the General Govern
ment was the policy of the old Wing
party. The support Of the Texas Pacific
railroad scheme was therefore an appro-
pirate measure to inaugurate the new de-
parture in Congress. 1t is now announc-
ed by Mr.. Foster, Mr.. Hayes's representa-
tive, that his friend Hayes means to, take
the South to his bosom, and even the
I"Kitchen News" which has hitherto had
nothing but invective for the whole South
ern world, has become as sweet as sum
mer upon Rebels.
Now this old Whig element, which
has thus come into favor with the jobbing
element of the North, is the old slupe-
holding element. What we lately quoted
from Whitelow Reid, in 1855, as having
been said by Hampton, that the negro
vote would ultimately belong to that class
of persons, is now seen to be true.
For the purpose of this election the Radi-
| Gals still will insist that South Carolina
and Louisiana were carried by Snttmido-
tion, but hereafter they agree that it will
be entirely legitimate for their old masters
to own the negro vote, because they
mean to take them into partnership in
the Government, and will get the benefit
of the negro vote in that way instead of
by the aid of the carpet-bagger, who has
proved failure, and is therefore to be
given up.
The effect of these negotiations and
some Of the talk of the negetiators is Civ
en- letter in the New York Herald OF
yesterday. We give an extract: st
"The desires of the Southern men have
not been strong or unanimous for Mr..
Tilden during the struggle since Novem-
ber. They were anxious chiefly to secure
| their State governments. In Florida, for
\ instance, when the recanvass caused
Drew, the Democratic candidate, to be
declared Governor. the local interest in
Mr.. Tilden's success slackGned so sud
deny that the most prominent native
lawyer retained by the Democrats left
Tallahassee for his his home at ence, and
the subsequent efforts to save the State
for Tilden were but halfhearted. In
| South Carolina there was, even during
the canvass. a third party, for Hayes and
Hampton After the election bthe chief
| and almost the only, anxiety OF the peo-
pie and of the political leaders was to Sc,
| cure the State government. In Louisi-
| ana it was just the same; and any South
ern man will tell you, nyately, that ifthe
Republicans had cast off the carpet-bag-
gers in those States last summer they
could have carried them very largely for
Hayes In South Carolina the interest
in Mr.. Tilden'slelection was so slight that
when the Democratic congressional COM
mittee went down there they found no
one to care whether Mr.. Tlden had car
ried the State or not.
FINALLY, it has been a common re-
1
Tilden comes in he'll break up the party
1t was generally acknowledged that he
would select good Cabinet, and would
make sound administrations; but it was
also taken for granted that he weuld put
in the highest places men like Charles
| Francis Adams and Lyman Trumbull,
and that he would seek his supporters
| outside rather than in his party, which
| was not relished by the true-blue Demo-
Gratis"
The object in the future, as in the past,
will be simply to make the Government
an engine ofjobbery. The only differ
ence in. the future will be that the old
whig element, which formerly owned the
negro labor, and (Which will hereafter own
in addition his vote, is to come in for
snacks in the partition ofthe taxes which
are to be imposed on the people by the
high contracting parties. 5l4
Such are the considerations which show
why and how Tilden was not allowed to
take the seat to which the people had
elected him. But few OF the politicians
at Washington from any section of the
country favored Tilden. He belonged to
the old Silas Wright style of Democrats,
who are thoroughly in earnest in cutting
down expenses, and putting stop tothe
taxation and debt-making which has be-
come the fashion of late years with all
parties. A man who cut down the ex-
penses of New York from 100000 to
about $4,000, 900 in twobears, if seated in
the Executive chair at Washington would
destroy theperquisites ofplace, not only
there, but all over the country. Such an
example set there, and Ysuch principles
would rapidly extend through the whole
governmental system-Federal, State,
municipal, town. and county. There
would begin at once shrinkage in the
emoluments Of foffice-holding, ,job-making
and bond-selling, which would reduce
multitudes who have lived on legisla-
tive job-making and tax-eating in one
form or another to hard work for their
living.