The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-11-16
HAYEs's NEW DEPARTURE.

| President Hayes knocks under-givcs in
puts on the ounces cap and steps down low II
the valley of humiliation 10 admit that he has
committed the objectionable crime in politics
and diplomacy blundcr His southern pol
| icy with which he started out a year ago witt
such a flourish was all wrong-has turned on
miserable falure-musl be abandoned incOn
tlnently, and return must be had to the south
ern policy Of the preceding Grant administra
| ton. fifty named and characterized ms organ
lied hell" 1t is not, says President Hayes
that my policy was not in itself wise and hu
name, and gave peace and prosperity to the
South, but i, contemplated something higher
and more Important was intended to disin.
tcgratc the democratic party there, break up
the solid south" politically, and build up and
| give success to Il southern republican party,
and in this it has totally failed. Therefore he
faces about and tells attorney general Dcvans
to tcmporize and dilly-dally with this business
no longer, but let loose the dogs Of war and
give these southernors-as aioresaId-"hell."
1t has all come outfits new dcparture-in
an authorized interview with the editor Of and
which the President directed to be published
in, his kitchen cabinet organ, the Washington
National Republican, of Tuesday Heretofore, .
the President is represented as saying, at has
been customary to make II great ado about
southern outragcs on the eve OF elections, and
then say nothing about them afterwards. We
have resolved upon different course. We
keep quiet and let the outragcs occur, and then
all the machinery of the department of justice
will be employed to punish the guilty"
At the late election in South Carolina the
I"Red Shirts" not only forced the negroes by in
|timidation in several districts to vote the dem.
ocratlc ticket, but the managers of the election
at several polls where there was reason to be
levc the republicans had majority refused TO
count the ballots. The defeated candidate for
Congress from the Florida district, which in
cludes the famous county of Alachua, also sends
up Il wall that 1.-THE county returning board has
rejected good returns" and he calls Justify upon
the government to send t. 5 marshal and Il
squad of soldiers And Mr.. Hayes says TO
Devans, "Of course these matters must be at
tended to. There is no need of a cabinet con-
sultation on the subject. The L, 5. law
plain. Spare nothing to secure its rigid en-
forccmcnt.'
Welt is to be hoped Mr.. Hayes and Mr..
Devans will succeed. IT, by sending marshal,
or even Il squadron or two of cavalry, they can
compel South Carolina or Florida return
ING board to do right, they Will have accom-
pished vastly more than was deemed pos
siblc or desirable in Alachua in 1876, or in
South Carolina or louisiana when Old Wells,
Boss Chandler, John Sherman and the rest
demonstrated 50 strikingly in the case of the
Tilden electors the vast superiority ofthc count
ing over the voting power.
Sc Hayes, like the old man III the fable find
ing neither words nor tufts of grass available
will try the virtue of stones. But have Hayes,
Chandler, Don Cameron, &c. who are said to
be cheek by jow in this business any idea
that the solid south" can be broken up and n
republican party resuscitated there by a return
to the wretched Grant policy? To say nothing
of the temper of the southern people in the
matter will the north consent to repetition
of the monstrous outrages of compelling re-
publican victories, and of organizing legislat-
ures and inaugprating governors against the
will of the people at the point of L. 5. bayo-
nets ? The day for all this is past. The bloody
shirt belongs to another era, and its attempted
revival as an effective electIoneering device
will prove as iruitless and absurd rs would
the attempt to revive the coffin handbil excite
ment against General Jackson.