The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-11-08

Ransom and Lamar, and expressions of
distrust and disapprobation from such
Republican leaders as Blaine. Conkling,
Howe, Edmuuds, Cameron and Anthony
Discuss the situation with Republican
politicians out OF Congress. with the
chairmen Of State committees and other
active party men, who come here 10 get
some light, if possible. 10 guide them in
their course at home, and you find them
emphasizing the sentiments you hear at
the Capitol from Republican Congress.
men; while nine out Of ten Democrats
you meet praise the Administration as
good enough for them, and say Mr.
Hayes is doing better than Governor
Tilden could have done. a cufiously
mixed and muddled state of affairs,
truly The Democrats think that the
effect OF the course pursued by the Adj
ministration will be to disintegrale the
Republican party, and give them an easy
victory in 1880; and many Of them be
lieve that before the Winters session of
Congress ends, the President will either
be driven into their outstretched arms,
or viii, at least, be pushed into admins
tering the Government without regard
10 the interests of either party. Mean
while, the Republicans argue and scold
in private caucusses, and alternately lay
plans for coaxing and Tightening the
President into the position they want
him to assume.
When you seek for specific grounds Of
complaint from the Republican leaders,
they run in a few strongly marked
grooves A Cabinet which they dislike
in part a few appointments OF Demo
crats-only three OF any Importance, and
a total of less than a score, big and little;
an excess of cordiality toward the South;
n lack of intimacy with the chiefs Of the
Presidents own party n want OF prompt
ness and judgment in making changes in
the public Offices an injudicious order
to Office holders too much talk, without
action, in the matter of Civil Service re-
form, profound ignorance OF political
methods, and pervading verdancy in
most political matters which causes much
of their action. however well intended,
to seem the work of greenhorns-this,
substantially, sums up the bill Of particu-
lars, however is drawn the general charge
which il really the important cause Of
discontent-that the President is not
acting with any consideration for the
J future of the Republican party. Old
fashioned, steady-going Republicans, be-
! lieying that the continued success Of
their party is essential to the good gov
ernment and prosperity of the country,
transpose the Presidents motto and
think, If they do not say, he serves his
country best who serves his party best. W
And their fear is that Mr. Hayes, while
keeping his eye as he thinks on the good
of the country, is allowing the best in
strumentality for accomplishing that
good to be broken up.
What do these Republicans waut2
When they came here fortnight ago
they hardly knew themselves. They
were so much occupied in comparing
notes, as to the general dissatisfaction,
that they did not look about for a rene
dy. Now they think they have found
one. There is a pretty general agree
ment among them that the party may
yet be saved, if the President will take
their advice. They insist that he shall
give indubitable evidence that he is a
Republican of Republicans, attached to
his party, and anxious to promote its
success, by changing his Cabinet to make
it representative of the active, earnest,
| fighting element Of the party. In a re-
organization they want Mr.. Schurz to go
out, because he is a German theoTist
who has nothing to hope for from the
party in future, and no sympathy with
Mr. Key they regard as a "fre in the
household" who ought not to be toler-
ated for a day Mr. Eyarts, some think,
might remain, on condition that he
should devote himself wholly to foreign
affairs, and not meddle with domestic
politics. Others regard him as a danger
Gus theorist, who is playing with the ma
chinery Of Government and trying TO put
its cogs and pinions together IN accord
ance with diagrams evolved from his own
| speculative brain. lie ought not to be
among the Presidents advisers, they
say, but might be given the English or
German Mission. Mr.. Sherman and Mr..
McCrary they approve as good repre-
sentative party men, and they do not OBJ
| jecs to Mr. Thompson or Gen. Devens,
who are managing their respective de
partments in a way TO escape criticism,
| but they would like to see men with
more political influence at home put in
their places.
After reorganization Of the Cabinet
| the party leaders want the Southern
policy changed They do not think it
possible to undo the work Of last Spring
some would say it would not be desira.
/ BILE, if possible-but they wish to have
the Administration agree to their theory
OF the future of politics, and act accord
ingly This theory is that the South is
going to remain solid, for the sake ol
ruling the country in alliance with Tam
many Hall, and that all indications and
predictions to the contrary are untrust
worthy. Now they do not propose that
the President shall assume an unfriendly
attitude toward the South, but only that
he shall abandon his notion of building
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way Of thinking and give them his aid in
beginning the next Presidential cam
paign early upon their line. Sectional
ism, they say, will necessarily exist for a
long time to come, because three hun
dred men control public opinion in the
entire South, and il is only human nature
for those three hundred to work together
with the aim OF getting control Of the
Federal Government and dividing its
patronage among themselves and their
friends. Therefore, they argue, the pol
icy Of the Republican party, and the one
in accordance with all its past traditions
is to antagonize the South and consoli.
date its own power in the North Aitel
acceeding to their views and policy in
this respect, they ask, finally, that the
President shall Withdraw the obnoxious
or impracticable features Of his Civil Ser
vice order, make series OF hrstrate ap
pointments, strong in a party as well as
in popular sense, and keep himself in
communication and accord with his party
leaders in all matters having a political
bearing.
Suppose the President refuses to &C
cede to those requests, and tells the Re
publican chiefs that he intends to keep
on managing his Administration in his
own way. What then There are an.
swers enough to this question, but who
can tell what is the right one A man
who could look into the future and tell
just what would happen in such con
tingeucy, would be in great demand in
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