The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-17
HAYES SURRENDER.
TaE @FALWART REPURgHcAMs IRE
GARD 1T AS AN UNCONDITIONAL.
SURRENDER.
They Demand n Change I'm His ca fHfuaf~
ana the Abandonment of His Southern
Policy and Civil Service Reform.

WASHINGTON, D. G., November 10, 1875
Il whatever Mr.. Hayes may have intended
when BIT the last moment Of the late CANVASS
he surrendered to Hale Gorham Il Co., and
placed his administration at the disposal Of
the Radical committee, there is no room for
doubt as TO the Interpretation placed upon his
action by those to whom hs eapitulated, Tn
thelf estimation it was end Ia regarded as
AN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
not even Including the barest "honors OF war',
This great fact must have dawned on Mr.
Hayes within the last four days At all
events, the first demand has been made rpon
him In accordance with the stalwart Radical
Interpretation Of the terms Of his surrender.
and that demand is, as / write, being consd-
cred at the White House preyerfulIy and with
multltudnous psalm-singing. 1t is long
story, the most Of which has been told over and
over again in these and other columns so that
only recapitulation Of the main points Is,
necessary.
| THE SOUTHERN POLICY OF MIR. HAYES
as understood by tho stalwart Radical, and
as defined in the lexicon Of Eternal Hate, is
divisible into two departments
| First the sentimental, embracing the CO.
called pacificatlon OF the South. abolition of
the color line, and upbullling of o. new or
Hayes or administration party down there,
with the odds and ends Of ancient Whipearv
more modern carpet-baggery SO far as the
| calendars OF the criminal courts will permit
scalawaggery and nggerlsm whole tn
be preCipitated about tho nucleus of the c,1s
tom-hou6e and fused into homogeneitv az IT.
Were by the Tires OF that sort of patriotism
| which Is kIndled by the prospect Of an office.
hicr rcT,tir ,t,I =,
oouthern policy (so-calledD was matter Of
small concern to the stalwart Radicals They
cared MS little for the dreams Of Hayes as for
the tloral poetry OF his private secretary.
Rodgers, SO long as the aforesaid dreams did
not become realities In the shape of official
appointments.
| The which brings me to confederation OF the
| second or practical department of Mr. HAYES
Southern policy as defined In the gtaIwart
| lexicon; that is to say,
| THE DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL, OFFICES.
and the dole OF salaries In the South. ASH
| said before, Mr.. Hayes might have gone on
| sentim entalizing from now until the fourth og
| March, 1881; he might indeed have gone
phlandering to the utterrnost ends of Texas
| and babbled OF green trees. running brooks
and Cancellation at every cross roads south OF
Mason and Dixon's line and it would have
been all right so long as he kept the Federal
offices filled with such earpet-baggers and
| scaaWags as did not for the time being hap-
pen TO be engaged In HIling the local jais.
But Mr. Hayes committed the fatal error Of
trying, albeit in his feeble way, to join prac-
tics to his precept and the result was that he
appointed Jack Wharton and Albert Leonard
to the offices Of Marshal and District Attorney
~ lar nj k1r~I ts,S
don, Scalawag Pitkin Or sOn1e other person oF
that ilk and antecedents.
just where the great difference in anteee-
dents between Jack Wharton and Pitkin came
ia it would be hard to say except perhaps
that Pitkin's association with the Grant gang
ante-tlated Jacks by two OF three years, Civ
ing him that much Of % "pole'' In the grand
scrub race for the FIRST money" Of scalawag-
gerry.
This, however, made all the difference in
the world to Blaine BIZ Chandler and the
stal wart mob generally, whose sole concep~
ton Of fitness for Federal office In the South
is based upon the degree OF repugnance with
which the respectable white people Of the To-
cal'ty Involved may view the applicant In
deed Blaine has been heard to say in one OF
hs hts Of spleen OF Hayes for trying to find
q decent man to fill the position Of United
States Marshal in Georgia, that IF he were
President ne would make 1t rule to appoint
those men who had fewest recommendations
from the rebel Democrats Of their neighbor-
hoods p
You will thus observe that 1t was not the
sentiment OF Hayes policy toward the South
that gangrenod these eOwardly Inagnants
with transportation, but his attempts, stray
and feeble though they were, to express hf;
policy, in practice by appointing here and
there to
FEDERAL OFFICE I'M THE SOUTH
person who, whatever else might be said Of
him, was neither blackgnard nor feIon.
But the staiwarts, St, long as Kellogg from
personal motives, and Matthews, Il Hoar, Booth
and Chrlstiancy from sentimental impulses.
would vote with the Democrats in the Senate
to confirm these nominations, were powerIess
and had to chaw the bitter shreds Of their
rage in sullen silence, or at the worst in surly
imlpotence. They, however, bided their time
~ 'se recwitte,' as the Rasslans say OF them
selves. Well, they have not got done ''biding.'s
Having. by stress Of the October defeats.
forced Hayes to go back long ways towards
the worst devices OF GrantisIn, and having,
through passing causes, made some Fictitious
gains in the northeastern corner Of the Union.
they interpret them as an expression of stall
ward Radical confidence in themselves over
Hayes and crowd the corridors Of the White
House as fast as they arrive here to demand
that the prediction recalcitrancy Of Hayes
be made permanent and thorough
Ihat poor apology for q firm and consistent
statesman is warned that the result In New
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey means g.
demand on the part Of the Radical rank and
file for
THE RESTORATION OF COHKLrNG, DON CAM
EXON AND ROBESON
to that erninence in the eoungels OF the party
and to that consideration at the hands Of the
administration which they formerly enjoyed
in the builet-headed days OF Grant And the
second In this series Of easy lessons in the
science Of stalWartisIn is that it means a.
thorough reconstruction Of Southern pat
ronage.
When first heard Of tho 10 overnent against
Albert Leonard last Friday, thought it was
sporadic case caused merely by the fact that
Fcf Jrrit via nf
support happened to want that particular
place. But have since Iearaed that the move
ment is comprehensive; embracing not only
every local appointment made upon Demo-
cratic Senator's or Representatives recon-
mendation, but also Key and his whole batch
Of "OId Line Wings" appointed to the smaller
grades Of postoffices That is to say, Fitz-~
simmons, Of Georgia, the collectors Of five Of
six Of the smaller Gulf and Southern Atlantic
ports. Jack Wharton and Albert Leor5ara,
lie Denis KearDa7'g Mungolian a9 L.. paaisn