The daily gazette., 1877-10-27
THE REPUB LICAN LEADERS OP-
POSED TO THE BEST WISHES
AND HOPES OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPTE
[ From the N. Y. Herald. ]

GOI LG.
From the N. Y. Herald.l
Finally, the Civil Service policy is
spoken of with boundless contempt and
dislike; they will have none of it. No
effort of Secretary Sherman, no amount
or thickness of sugar coating will make
it palatable to the anti-administration
leaders. They demand its abandonment
and return to the old system which
hourished under General Grant.
This is the attitude Of the leaders of
the Republican party toward their Presi-
dent and his policy at the outset of his
term. Now, what does this mean? The
plain truth is that the Presidents policy
has the support of the great mass of the
American people, regardless of the party
lines. The country rejoices in his efforts
toward conciliation. 1t sees with relief
and delight that industry has revived and
| commerce has recovered in the South
under the benign influence OF that poll
cy; that peace and brotherly good feel
ing once more obtain between the sec
tions. AS to the Presidents efforts to
purify and revitalize the public service
the country is equally with him; it sees
him endeavoring to remove the taint
which was brought upon that service
during the last administration it is pre-
pared to stand by him as long as he cou-
rageously continues his efforts in that di
rection, no matter how the professional
| office-seekers and the machine politicians
may struggle and howl. And as the coun-
try hailed the news of his Cabinet ap-
pointments as the dawn of better and
purer day in our politics, so it would not
see him dismiss the three gentlemen
whose removal is so specially demanded
by the politicians without a dolorous
sense that the President had fallen from
! his high purposes and had surrendered to
the baser elements of his party.
The RepubIicda leaders, then, stand
openly and defGntly opposed TO The best
sense and the best toishes and hopes of
the american people. They mean to re-
open the Southern question, which the
President has SO wisely closed; in fact,
they have re-Opened 1t.
They are opposed almost to man to
the policy of pacifcation, they oppose
with even greater bitterness the punfica-
tion of the civil service; and if they can
carry the day, if they, astute, adorit, per-
tinacious and bold, with the courage of
men who have long misruled, can force
the President to submit, they will un-
doubtedly plunge the country back into
all the violence, bitterness and scan
dalous maladministration of the last
seven OF eight years.
| What is the duty Of the voters under
those circumstances? Elections are soon
to be held in four of the most important
States of the Union-New York Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts and NewJersey-
How, under the circumstances we have
accurately described, should those vote
who wish tn see the policy of pacification
continue, who do not wish to see the
country again torn by the Louisiana and
South Carolina questions, who desire to
see the public service purified and the
jobbers put away from The Treasury? 1t
, would be absured to say that only demo-
! Gratis favor the Presidents policy. A
large proportion ofrepublican voters in
all the States approved it heartily. But
| in these November elections how are
these republicans to vote? How can they
give an expression at the polls to their
sentiments? Certainly not by voting the
republican ticket, for this will be to vote
for the opponents of the President 'spolicy
to give their support to the men who are
oetermined,as recent events in Washing.
ton show, to break down down the
President and force him to surrender hi.
policy. In New York vote for the re-
publican ticket means approval of a SCI
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In New Jersey it means approval of Mr.
Robson and contemptuous opposition u
all part the Presidents policy. Ii
. Pennsylvania it means success to th,
. )Camerons and contempt for the Presi
;. dents policy. In Massachusetts, alon
was the policy approved in the platform
but the candidates, if they were cate
chised tomorrow, would approve neithe
: of the platform nor the policy.
/ 1t seems clear, therefore, that whoeve
lg votes the republican ticket in any of thes
is four States in November will vote to COZ
ofl denim and not to to approve of all ths
President Hayes has done and is strivin
I'll to do. His vote will strengthen the OF
e. position to pacification and purificatioi
X 1t will aid the enemies of the Presiden
M it will help TO break him down; it wi
strengthen the hands and encourage Il
'u- purpose of those who seek to break u
his Cabinet, to reopen the Southern que
tlon and to plunge the public service ba,
ost into the control Of political gamblers. v
is do not know what the President himst
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