The daily gazette., 1877-10-12
WILL Mr.. HAYES OR THE REPUB-
LICAN PATTY BE DESTROYED
From the N. 7. Herald

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The Rep abitcsn Defeat I'm Onto.
| OF course President Haye5 and his
friends win make light of the Ohio cleo
tion and attempt to explain it away, but
other people may not he quite Of then
mind. The public viii recollect that Mr.
Hayes made a circuit through his own
State in one of his late journeys and had
series Of great ovations that Secretary
Sherman delivered an elaborate speech
at Mansfield in defence of the Presidents 3
policy aud subsequently wrote an urgent
latter saying how very important it was
thatthe republicans should carry the State
in this election. Had they done SO, and
h ad the republican victory been as great
as that which has been acnieved by the
democrats, everybody knows that Presl-
dent Hayes, Secretary Sherman and all
the republican supporters Of the new
abae Endorsement OF the President by his
own State. The attempt to belittlo the
result, now that the Ohio election has
gone so strongly the other way, is mere
salve or plaster applied to q painful
wound. The gentlemen caunot be per-
mitted to avail themselves Of the artifice,
''heads win, tails you lose" As they
would certainly have claimed q victory
in Ohio ss An indorsement of the admin
istration it would censiste Mt and logical
for them to admit that the defeat looks a
great deal like rebuke. They cannot
have it both ways. Unless their failure
to carry the State is rebuke there would
have been no justification for claiming
the success which they hoped rs an ap-
proval.
1t will not do to attribute this result to
the workingmsn's ticket. 1t may be true
as given OUT as the White House, that
this ticket drew most OF its supporters
from the republican ranks. But since
there is as large a proportion Of work
ingmen in the democratic as the republi-
can party how did it happensthat this
new faction did not make equal inruads
into both parties? Why were the demo-
Gratis so much better able to hold their
men than the republicans? 1t was be-
eauss party ties have not been loosened
in the one organization as they have in
the other; because the democrats were
not dissatisfied, and many republicans
were. The chief ground of republican
dissatisfaction is unquestionably Mr..
Hayes Southern policy. This is proved
by the great falling off of the republican
vote in what is called the Western Re-
serve, which has always been the stroug-
hold of aggressive republicanism in Ohio.
Mr.. Hayes is reported to have said yes
terday that the result in Ohio cannot be
interpreted as condemnation of his
policy. inasmuch as the democrats of that
State have expressed approval of it. Ac-
cordiug TO this reasoning a universal de-
feat OF the republicans in all the States
should not be interpreted as a condem-
nation; but would he be Indifferent to
the annihilation of the party byt which
he was elected? Does he care nothing
for the fact that his friend Stanley Mat
thew is to have democratic successor?
Is he willing that at the middle of his
term there shall be democratic majority
in the Senate ss well as in the House?
Would he covet the position of Presi-
dent without party or a President de-
pendent on his political opponents for
the success of his measures and the con-
tirmation of his appointments This is
what such an endorsement" as he was
received in Ohio tends to. Democrats
indorse Mr.. Hayes police because it is
their own. lfit is policy to be patent
ed they claim priority of invention. 1t
is the policy for which the democratic
party has been strenuously contending
during the twelve years since the close Of
theaWar, and which the republican party
| has been just as steadily and trenuously
opposing. But in indorsing their own
| policy the democrats are far enough from
intending any compliment to Mr.. Hayes
1 or his administration.
Although the policy of President
Hayes is entirely right and wise it is
nevertheless a bitter pill forhis own pacty,
1t embodies different political doctrine
from that on which republicans have
| been nourished. While it Is consistent
enough with their national platform
adopted list year tits not consistent with
the spirit in which Mr.. Hayes canvass
was conducted b. his supporters. From
| the beginni' to the end of the PresIden-
t'al campaign the great republican bug
bear was "a solid South" During the
canvass Mr.. Hayes expressed no dissent
from this mode of conducting it. 1t was
| Dy SURFING appeals to sectional passions
that the republican party carried all the
| Northern States but four, and it s. emed
IKE turning pretty sharp corner for the
| President, as soon as he was in office, to
renounce and repudiate the ideas on
| which he'had been elected. Local self
government In the South was constantly
| advocated by the democrats throuphout
the Presidential canvass and was as CON
stantly seotfed and derided by the repdb-
llcan press and stump orators. The eff
rect or the canvass as conducted by Mr..
| Hayes supporters was to educate the re-
publican party in very different order
of sentiments from that which he has
made the basis of his policy. 1t is not
surprising that many republicans are in
no hurry to renounce what they were
taught last year, and have been taught
year in and year out ever since Andrew
johnson advocated the same policy
which Mr.. Hayes has adopted. When
the stone which the republican builder.
so long rejected is made the headstone O,
: the corner 1T is quite in the natural COURSE
OF things that many republicans should
lind 1t "a stone of stunt bling and rock Of
offence" This feeling is sharpened b,
what took place during the four exciting
stormy months between the Presldentia
election and the Inauguration. Mr.. Hayes
election was disputed on the ground thai
the electoral votes of Louisiana AND
South Carolina had been given him by
! sfraud. =. His supporters hotly repelled tha,
Rcharge, and in doing so maintained, witt
passionate persistency, that Packard nc
Chamberlain had legal majority as vel
, as the Hayes electoral tickets In tbos,
States. But when their electoral vote,
had been counted for Mr.. Hayes it seemed
to many republicans a glaring inconsis
tency for him to repudiaGe the guberna
torial candidates. -'''
1t looked too much like admitting
haw IN his own title-a view that Wa