The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
destruction shall sweep US into a reme-
diless financial perditisn. Down with
the traffic.
THE NEW PAR Y-JOHN HAN
COCK AND BEN HILL.

THE NEW PAR Y-JOHN HAN.
COCK AND BEN HILL.
1t is stated that Hon. John Hancock,
if Hayes be the coming man, will be
of the Cabinet, ana that the purpose of
the President will be the organization
of a party in the'South whose distinc-
tive idea shall be hostility to ultraism
whether of the Bob Toombs or Governor
Davis sort. Old Wings, with shadowy
memories OF the long ago, when Henry
Clay was wiser than Texas or the Union
these few old men are to be evoked
from charnel houses of forgotten
creeds and compacted into party In
the South. Ofrecent years parties have
been distinguished in the South mainly
by race-features and color of skin
has made men Democrats and Radi-
calls. There have been hardly enough
white men in the Governor Davis or
Radical party of Texas to illustrate in
physical facts and mottled appearance
its moral leprosy. Mr.. Hayes, we are
told, cooperating with our fellow citi
zen Mr.. Hancock, would change all
this. The postoffices of Texas and
marshalships and Federal sinecures
are to be disposed of by Mr.. Hancock.
He proposes TO accomplish TWO pur
poses; the one, that which Hayes
especially approves, involving the seq
regation of conservatism everywhere
in the South the other, which would
create new party in Texas, that Gov
ernoI Hubbard or John Ireland or
Coke may not be chosen to high offices
by majoIities SO overwhelming that
Democratic nomination is the equivo-
lent Of an election, and legislatures
and conventions are so thoroughly
Democratic that unrestrained partisan
action is as unwise as violent, and, as
illustrated in the deeds of the constitu-
tional convention, absurd and unstates-
manlike. Hancock and Bell, and pos
sibly Wash Jones, may lead the way
and there are many to follow. The
spoils of office are potent. There is
much advertising proffered the press
that approves the scheme. There are
consulates and little foreign missions
and postoffices and mail agencies and
marshalships and many vigorous, &C
tive young men, and they who have
been providing themselves with long
certificates affecting moral and partisan
worth, addressed to Tilden, need only
have Hayes's name substituted. The
change of principle is possibly not so
real as apparent. Southern politics,
save as modified by race-relations, have
little defniteness of ideas or purpose or
unity. We abhor carpet-bagism as
operative in Louisiana, South Carolina
and Mississippi and of this measureless
calamity Nr. Hayes proposes to re-
lieve US. This accomplished, the South,
except office-seekers and party man
ayers, Iecks little of men or means con-
spring to assure the result. If Hayes
become, in his conduct towards the
South, proper Democrat he will find
very certainly ana very speedily Han
cocks and Hills enough to handle the
spolls and ring out tho old and ring in
the new regime with an intinitude of
zeal startling to patriotic partisans.
As newspaper men we contemplate
these revulsions in political conbina-
tions with not little interest. We
can see il them, if achieved, some
good for these States. The new Or
ganization will hardly gather strength
enough to control States, and to the ex-
tent that it may the people might we'll
congratulate themselves that the new
order of things is to be preferred in
finitely to that in which unknown ad
yentuteFs from all lands were invested
with the mastery of office and with
honor and gold. There is in the facts
defined, even here in the South, a
broad field for the Illustration of wise
benefcence by the newly gov
ernment at Washington, and though
the simple republican facts and forms
and philosophy of American republi-
canism died with the century, the
practices of Hayes's administration
may be infinitely wiser and more gen
erous to the people of the South than
those of his iron-handed predecessor.
Meanwhile, it would be we'll for those
good Jealous Democrats who have in
duced the community to sign certifi-
Gates of intellectual and. moral
worth to substitute Hayes's name for
that of Tilden's and to insert q
declaration in the rcmodeled petition
for Office that they propose to become
members of the party devoted to home
rule, economy and Hayes. Will there
be such party, and do letter-writers
and Washington newsmongers proper
ly make Hon. John Hancock the leader
in Texas and Ben Hill its exponent in
Georgial
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