Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-15

Uall0t. mat doctrine Is heresy to-
day; but heresy does not fear to.
morrow. A Henry Clay did not re
mark, | would rather be Taft than
President just now.
Schurz will be vast improvement
over Chandler in scholarship and a:
an exponent of principles; but he is
likely to be inferior to him in execu.
tive capacity and as an administra-
tive reformer. l have spoken with
contempt of Chandler in this cores.
pondence, and | felt the con- Tempt ]
uttered for his character and his man.
agement of the late campaign; but |
disdain to join in the calnmny about
corruption in his Department-for, al
tho he has put none but Republicans
in office, he has rooted out incapacity
and dishonesty wherever be has found
it, and has recognized and managed
the interior on business principles and
methods. If Schurz does as well he
will do we'll enough
Key is a good man / believe. and an
honest man, and Union man. know
that his nomination has been urged by
the best men who are opponents of
national ideas in the democratic party
OF the South If the President had
put too Southern men in the Cabinet,
one a Sothern native white Republican
like Alcorn or Settle, and the other a
Southern native white Democrat, of
the national wing, like Key or Joshu..
Hill, his policy would have been as
wise as it would have been bold, and
every intelligent Republican familiar
with the Southern situation, and I'M
influenced by ambition or hatred,
could have endorsed it and should
have supported it with cordially and
hopefulness. Such | am told, and di-
rectly from the White House, from
Southern man who spoke with the
President-was the programme that
he had arranged when he left Ohio.
Indiana influences caused him to yield.
1t is national misfortune.
The Southern Republicans.
For it is an insult, keenly felt. - and
| speak from personal knowledge by
all the brave and noble men, natives
of the south, who, for years, have
stood up unfiinchinely against the
fiercest storms of calumny and of
ostracism among their own people
because of their alliance with the Re-
publican party. 1t seems to them
like an official announcement, by a
Republican President, elected by
Southern votes, that no Southern Re-
publicans are fit TO be honored and
trusted with national positions. Scores
of these men, each of them leaders in
their States or counties, have called
on me within the last two weeks, and
have spoken freely of this affront.
The Democrats will proclaim it from
every stump, at the next election. II
this error is not undone, we shall drive
from ii majority of the white Re-
pubicans of the South and certainly
we shall not gain Democrats enough
to fill Up the gaps.
South Carolina and Louisiana.
The Presidents policy on the two
Republican Southern States is not Of
ficially announced yet, but nearly all
of his partizans are plotting for the
recognition of Hampton and Nichols.
That is to say, it is maintained that
because the Mississippi plan did not
succeed in these States, -because the
Republican majority was so great, aud
the devotion of the poor negroes to
our party is religious in its character,
that not even the assassination of
their leaders and terrorism and the
threats of homelessness could over
come it we, Northern men, republi-
cans in power, shall rally to the help
of the baffied ruffians and finish the
task OF the bull dozers If this policy
is carried out, there will be an exodus
from the party that will make Moses
aud his little crowd of fugitives for
gotten. For every Republican who
honestly believes i'll his creed must
decline to become a party to this
browning infamy and the Southern
white Republicans will leave us-and
nearly all the negroes in body. But,
until the President shall declare by
his own words or acts that by self
government be did not mean the rule
of all the people but only sohite.gov-
eminent and that by Home rule he
meant only democratic supremacy
without regard to the rights of the
majority Il shall decline to believe
that President Hayes is traitor and
an migrate. ! can not believe it. |
know only that because he speaks
words of goodwill some Of his fol-
lowers are arguing that it ID right to
sacrifice our friends in the South in
order to prove their loyalty to him!
she who serves his country best
serves his party BEST" says the Presi-
dent. And it is equally true that he
who is most loyal to principle will be
most loyal to the President, whether
it shall cause him to thwart or to sup
port the policy of the Administration.
JAMES-REDPATH