The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-15
Parliamentary Government
From the New Orleans Timc b

MacNluhon Is threatened with u rcyolu"
ton for proposing 70 40 WIN ,'TH,I u'u
in 1874, and what other presidents uld pG-
fore lilm, rs u matter OF course Ulu'I Nv
constitution, and without invoking the
slightest criticism. An election ma DGcll
.lr,d In France, aud II political party has
carried the day. clcctlng Il mnlOrlly % lNe
rOuular branch Ofthe DatlOnal legislature
Being thus yicLOrlOu, ut the polls, u uc-
mand, that TIE president change hi cADl-
net and his policy, 50 ~ TO- conform toItS
principles, The demand Is right ana ~
thc world says II Is right 10 refuse W
comply with 1t, Is TO be- gniltY OF IaufPt-
ton, frcnuhmcn VII not submit TO oUtU
u defiance Of the popular Will NeItief
would Eu@li,Inncn, ,...
But Americans do. IN lSiltho i)elHo"
cratic party carried the country ny IN
enormous majority and elected two-tH lfor
fthc members OF the pOpllpr brallCIi Oh
Congress. But nobody thought OF ASKING
Grant. the peoples servant, TO 0hty Tue
peoples will. Had he adopted the Demo
cratic policy and selected Il cabinet lroll
the leading Democratic tOEgre,'meh' NC
would have done precisely what queen
Victoria would have been Compelled louo
under similar circumstances. VI co"rs'
hi, difference Is attributable TO Iuhu"-
mentally different Institutions, bUI lhe
truth Is We are not lS Tree ~ we lhlllh VT
are. We are ruled by III c.eGllYc '"ar anu
have no mean, 81 man ing Him CONFORM 10
lOur WISHES. FOR tour years ne - III lh'HI
respect, an absolute dcspOt. lie can o.
hi, own motion, at any moment lnVolN'
Us in foreign war, ana all We can 10 - "
70 at his bidding to the slaughter iH'
remote constitutions! check by wIIlcl thv
people can reach him IN about three year
by c!cCtinG a Congress mat VIII fcIN''
him appropriations Is totally lnclllclchJ'
IL Is Of no real Importance Who tht nom
inai head OF the government Is ne may
be Il hereditary HING or he may nc cl!o''I
by lot. The important thing Is FOR MN u
b. the creation VI the people, cOLiiOI!e'
by II cabinet representing tlclr expressed
Wi>hc-. tnGc. our system, WINE IiIc ma
iOrily Of the popular vote does not hecca
,arily mlhc the candidate receiving II th'
legal president, il should make 1t lhcuil
benton WhUU.ocyer is president to carr,
out the Will OF the majority. In 80 lar IL
he j. doing this, Mr., Hayes l. not a trallo
10 free Institutions, but Is just the reNcr,t
He is the !ir,t American president Wli'
un5 risen ahUyctiie imperial aild dcSpolI
traditions OF party government to bow
the espresso! viii otJHc people.
Hayes differs from Andy johnson am
john Tyler in that. from the standpoint
of parliamentary Goy"rnmnn Mt, they deIie'
the viii Of the majority, whlic ne is 10y.
to it. In ISL John lyicr Gciied thc vii
Of the country, whichha Just pronounce
lOr Wing principles, ANA hcrHmc olioI!
Ia lsdj Andy johnson dcIied the DOM
namt sentiment OF the country, which wa
Republican. 1t was essentially the sam
thing tor Buchanan in l,5S, when The nc
publicans elected the majority OF tn
House, to refuse to adopt II lirplDIIca
policy. or for Grant to Getty the WI Of III
country in the oannc manner in 1871. Inc
simply did violence to the parll&mcntaf
%priuciUlc of Government.