Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-13
puR1IsHEp DAILY AND TREwEEKLY BY
EDGAR SNOWDBN.
THURSDAY EVENING, deer. 10. 1877
Ifapybody is surprised at the exutant VIC

Ii anybody is surprised at Inc eXultant WV
tory Senator Coukling gained, and the humill'
a,og defeat President Hayes sustained, yester
day. when tho Senate refused to confirm the
latter;s New York Custom House appolntees'
that uncomfortable surprised one can not be Mr.
HAYES; and, if any establishment legltlmately
attaches to the affair." it is the fact that so few
democratic Senators appeared IN the ranks OF
his victorious opponents. The enunclatlon OF bis
home rule and couciliatory policy toward the
South, while it gained him the good will OF
that entire section, aud, also, Of the conserVa'
tive portion OF the North, us a necessary conse-
oucnce, deprived him of the support OF the radl'
Gals b cause peace and reconciliation, with their
attendant blessings, arc Incompatible with the
prosperous existence of the radical party. That
the democrats aud conservatives were IN q large
maiuriv, the result of the Presidential election
had informed him, aud, us he had won their
assistarca and lost that of their enemies, 1t
would have been the part of wisdom to have
couiuucd the COURSE he had begun, which, 10
addition to vi ming him the friendship, not on
" of u vast majority Of the people Of tho coun-
try, bur, especially, Of that class upon whom the
Government relies fer its meaGs OF support, had
beeo pfoduclivc Of such manifold blessings 10
Que half of the Uoon ADD the beneficial effects
Of which were experienced throughout the 9th
er half Instead of that, however, he entered
upoo what everybody, except himself, koeW
was task impossible Of accomp ishment--that
of conciliatiug the radicals without concediDg
all they asked, which was complete and ab
solute reuuocation Of, not only his concliatory
aud home rule, but also Of his civil service re-
form policy, aud by so doing incurred, il not
the contempt, at least the displeasure Of many
Of those who had been among the foremost of
hi; adhcrens. In his efforts to achieve his
superbuman task, because peace 10 the South
meaus death to radlcalism, he went so far as to
designate some of the meansby which his peace
policy WIS bcipg executed as blunders, which,
however, would bot be repeated, aud to assist
in securing the admission of Mr.. Kellogg into
the Secate, thereby prolonging the effective.
nass Of fraudulent elections. By such proceed.
iugs be, of course could not expect to retain the
support of those whom his previous policy bad
made his 6rmest friends. and who were strong
enough to have enabled him to succeed in any
proper measure be might have proposed, and
having now driven from him their support, with
out having won back that Of the radicals, be-
cause his sefrespect will not allow him to de-
base himself sufficiently to meet all their require
men,s, he has not only no party, but no political
friends upon whom to rely. and, what is more,
but what he doesn't seem to realize, is left solely
dependent upon the support OF an i'll treated
democracy to save him from the impeachmeu'
with which some of the more ultra of his party
have Threatened him.