The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-27
nAYEs AND mo POEICY.

which he was elected, and the doc
rines of the Cincinnati platform, is
Ealing forth unfavorable criticism |
rom Republican, orators and edi-
ore. Or course the president had
% do something, and whatever
;ourae of action he chose would
assure opposition and denunciation.
The country, by popular vote,
had repndiated Grants policy. 1t
may have been wise and best, but
The majority rnles in this govern
ment, and that majority had said ii
was dissatisfied with Grants south-
srn policy. The very idea of quar-
tering troops on people is repug-
nant to any American. Kansas
would not have stood it as long as
some of the southern states did, and
the southern states would not have
stood it longer. For a year or
more they simply awsited the re-
suit Of the presidential election and
the indication of the policy to be
pursued by the new administration
Grant had been numerically criti-
cized all over the north. A Con-
gress bitterally adverse to his ad-
ministration, and especially to his
southern policy, had been electe d
by the northern people. The Re-
publican party was divided. Un-
der these circumstances Mr.. Hayes
came in. There were buttwo cour-
ses for him to pursue, to adopt the
concillatory policy he is now try
ing with the South, or to continue
the military occupancy of some of
those states. To do this, he would
have to increase the army to at least
100000 men, because at the first in
dicatiOn of the continuance of mil
itary rule the southern people would
undoubtedly become more rest
less and disorderlY than ever,
and it would have taken an i'm
mense force to keep them in sub
lection. He was confronted imme-
diately with another difficulty, and
that was q Democratic house of
representatives that would refuse
all appropriations for even the ar
my tLen in the field. So, In fact,
as we view the matter, there was
but one course to pursue, and that
was TO use the power and influence
Of his administration to restore fra
ternal relations between the two
sections Of country, by policy of
reconciliation. Humiliating as it is,
it was not in his power to longer
keep troops At the South. The mis-
takes in the treatment Of the South
ern people were made several years
before Mr.. Hayes cut any promi-
nent figure in national politics, and
the present condition OF the admin
istratiOn is the natural result of er-
rors that he is in no wise accountable
for. Mr.. Hayes is put to the alter
native of doing the best he can I'M
der the circumstances, and he is do
ing the only thing he could do.
Now. while we do not think Mr..
Hayes the Wisest man In the world,
yet we do think it wrong to divide
the party from that support que
him before his policy has fair test.
The spirit of much of the Repub-
lican opposition is both discourag-
ing and disorganizing, and we think
unjustly so.
In the matter of civil service re-
form the presidents action meets
with no better encouragement. Ev.
erything he has done is denounced in
the same unfair spirit. Has not the
Republican party and its press and
orators preached reform? Hsye
they not grown eloquent every fall
campaign over what the Republican
party would do to reform the civil
service2 The promises were re-
newed every year, and now when
the president attempts to fulfil his
promises in this regard he is set up
on by the Republican press and de-
nOnnced as thaugh he were a crimi-
nal. Do we not all remember how
the papers have growled about the
undue influences and corrupt prac-
tees of federal Office holders
Have we not been told a thousand
times of their management of par
ty machinery-how they cheated
the will of the people. If we mis-
take not some of the identical Kan
sas papers who are now denounc-
ing Hayes for his order forbidden
officers from deYoting their ener.
gies to party affairs instead of their
official duties, have complained the
loudest about the evil which the
president seeks to check. They
have demanded the very thing the
president has done and now at
tempt to rldicule him for doing it.
1t looks as though many Republi-
can editors and partizans were go
ing out of their way to find some
poor excuse for denouncing him
and his policy. We believe he is
conscientiously trying to discharge
bis duties in the best manner pos
sible amidst the great difficulties
that surround him, and is entitled
to the decent respect of the people,
IS well a. to their support.
War BaIIeGIns.
July 19.-Russian kilograms deny
that their forces south of the Bal