The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05
THE ssCHIVALRYo OF THE
PRESIDkNT.


1t is little strange and may involve
somewhat of selfish dishonesty of pur-
pose, when, in 1879, the Democracy
went off solidiy to the support of Gree
ley, chanting his praises as ardently as
those of Tilden In 1876 but when Hayes
accepts Greeley's theories and platform
and fills his cabinet with Greeley Re-
publicans Except Shermsn), making
Carl Schurz and Grosvenor, who were
foremost in the Greeley movement,
prominent IN the personnel of the gov
ernment = when Hayes does these
things, and only halts and hesitates in
the grim presence of Packard and Kel-
logg, these same Democrats are abso-
lutely horror-stricken that the STATES
NAN dGrss to approve in honest words
the honest, patriotic acts and declara-
tions of the President. We do not see
that Greeley's supporters Of 1872 were
the worse Democrats or more uuwor-
thy adherents of Tilden in 1875. and If
we fail to laud Hayes when he does
Democracy, how could we approve
those who only spoke Democracy. And
if the South could urge the election of
An untried Republican to the pres:-
dency In 1879, what crime is it that we
only laHd Republican who is tried
and is not found wanting. We can
see the danger that party leaders con-
template. We can see how the solidi-
ty and compactHess of the Democratic
party is endangered by these proper
concessions to Hayes's assertions of
purpose and statecraft, bat we do not
see how honest men, pretending to
conduct honest newspapers, can re-
press the simple truth or how they dare
to distort or to conceal it from their
readers.
How plain story 1t becomesl We
supported Greeley in 1879; we were
Democrats in 1879 and Greeley q de-
vout Republican, declaring, out OF Of
fee, that he would do what Hayes has
done, and proposes, IN an official paper,
to do when invested with office. Gree.
ley gave Us promises; Hayes gives US
facts. We voted for Greeley-may we
not laud Hsyesi Greeley intended
to have Schurz and Honest Dick
Thompson and William N. Gros-
venor in his cabinet, and we
were enthusiastic in admiration Of the
erraeic, honest old printer, and now
when Hayes not only calls about him
these men but gives them actual power
aud thrusts into his cabinet . Southern
Democrat, the straightest OF his sect,
even as Greeley would have done, how
is it that We must invcigh against
Hayes and jet could toll day and night
and shout ourselves to hoarseness to
crown with immortal reno~n the
most vigorous writer and thinker OF
modern times who wrote and thought
for forty years simply that he might
destroy Democraey. Il q Democrat
not . Democrat who approves the prac-
tical Democracy Of Hsyes, and was he
. Democrat when he voted for the Rad.
icsl of infinite theories, Horace Greeley
There Il singular want Of sense and
an infnitnde Of nonsense in the con-
duct Of papers like the Register, winch
sees only treason 20 Democracy in each
approval Of Hayes, even when disap-
proval would be treason to truth
It oec1rs 70 as thst sane, honest
people, who 20 about the world with
their eyes and ears open, viii see and
hear Of the folly of this transcendsntly
pare and exceedingly sensitive Democ-
raey. When men like Lyman TIrm-
buA and Governor Palmer, sdherents
OF Grseley and for years past Of the
Democratic party, assert their unquah-