The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-30
IOWA REPUDIATIs HAYES.

The news from Iowa Is just now very inter
esting reading for the Administration ant
that clique of the Republican party whicl
holds that the Southern and civil service pol
! icies of the administration can be reconcilec
with the principles and practices of that party
| 1t matters not how Mr. Hayes came by The
Presidency, his course since his Inauguration
| has been dictated by public sentiment which
he found 1t impossible to resist and that has
never found expression in the principles Oh
practices of the Republican party.
That fact has been formally enunciated in
the first Republican convention that has met
since his inauguration, and we have no reason
to doubt that it is the purpose Of the party
leaders throughout the whole North to force
the administration to choose between re-
pudiation and abandonment of It's policy
and the forfeiture of the party support
Our dispatches yesterday told us that a
resolution indorsing the President and his
policy was received by the Iowa convention
with "tumult, in which were mingled vocifer-
Gus protests and hisses." This uproar was
Quoted by the chairman ruling the resolution
out OF order. Another effort was made to OBJ
tain declaration that the Presidents policy
would secure the results asked for in the res
olutions submitted to the convention; but
this, too, was cried down
After relating these two attempts on the
part of the Presidents friends to secure the
Endorsement Of the convention. tho dispatch
says:
Mr.. Cults offered the following resolution:
Res0tued, That the so-called Southern policy
which has been inaugurated and pursued BY
the present national Administration is in ae-
cord with the principles of the Republican
party.
This was received I'd general tumult.
DR.. Beardsley moved that it be referred to
the committee on resolutions.
Mr.. Merriam, of keokuk county, moved.
amid great excitement, that the resolution
be tabled Adopted by vote of about three
to one.
Here, then, is a formal declaration on the
part of the Republicans of Iowa that Mr..
Hayes policy is not approved by them and
that he must change his whole course il he
would retain their support and endorsement.
Gear, the nominee of the Convention for
Governor, is strongly opposed to the Hayes
policy and it was his open and bitter denun-
citation of it that secured his nomination. It
was well known that no candidate who failed
to so express himself would have the ghost of
a chance.
The policy men attempted to temper de-
nunciation of the Administration by urging
that the opposition should be content with
securing all the candidates and formal
of the old faith of the party.
But In this they failed, and the combination
would not rest satisfied till it had passed it's
Judgment on Hayes and the Southern policy.
I'm cnpnnntipu with thts. I,,r hat DE-
ard was there for the purpose of g firing the
northern heart with the recital of his woes
and the Presidents treason, and that Kellogg
was to be present also. These worthless could
have been called into service for but one pllr-
pose and this purpose it is hardly necessary
to suggest. A dispatch to the Cincinnati
Enquirer gives the following account of
Packard's and Badgers reception at Des
Moines:
They were received with great enthusiasm,
and are guests Of Hon. G. G. Cole, at Cole
chester Place, where Gen. Grant was enter
tanned two years ago, and where his famous
school speech was written. Scores of leading
politicians, including most of the candidates,
have had private conferences with Packard !
this morning. He declined an invitation to
make public speech tonight, saying he was
not politician enough to make a speech with
out saying something: He thought any pub
lie declaration from him would be miscon-
strued, and attributed to the influence of
Blaine or Morton, and that they could only
result In harm. He was glad to talk private |
y with leading men, but refused to discourse
On politics in public.
1t is impossible to mistake the import Of |
occurrences like these; but it is none of our |
light and, confident that Hayes will not
allow himself to be driven into reputation
If the only course that could have reconcled |
MS accession to Office to the people, we leave |
jhe Republican party and the Republican
to settle their differences |
rs best they may. !.