Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-04
HAYES SOUTHERN Po11cY.

MIR. Fernando Wood, of New York, adj
ministered fitting rebuke to the stalwarts
of the Republican party in the House on
Monday. Although the passage in Mr..
Hayes message which he used as pretext
Tor his remarks hardly warranted them, he
nevertheless had ample excuse for the stric-
lures he made in the tone of the Republican
press and the policy being pursued by the
administration. Viewed from partisan
standpoint, Mr.. Hayes was perhaps justified
in selecting two instances in which it was
alleged that outrages had been perpetrated at
the South, and ignoring many instances at
the North, where injustice had been done to
Democrats; but a President IS not supposed
to be-or should not be-a partisan. MIR.
Wood called attention to the fact that in the
city of New York no less than
fifteen thousand Democrats had
been disfranchised at the recent elections
by the overt acts of government officials
acting under instructions from Washington.
He might also have spoken of the fact that
in Cincinnati a large number were in
Inundated by the same means, and that in
the Third Minnesota district more than
thousand voters were compelled, on pain of
dismissal from employment, to cast their
votes for candidate for Congress whom
they did not wis to have elected.
MIR. Woods regrets that Mr.. Hayes has
seen fit to lend himself to such trick are
thrown away. Nothing better could be ex-
pected of him. Yet his offense, SO far as
his utterances go, is ''onIy little one'' His
avoWai OF 6 change of policy is timid, half
hearted and equiyocal. He does not assert
that he has made change, and his language
can only be construed in that direction when
taken in connection with his acts within
the past few weeks. He has certainly
lent his official countenance to series of
very disreputable acts, having only barti-
san purpose in view. He has been bull
dozed by the stalwarts of his party into I'M
dertaking policy repugnant to him person.
ally and to his sense of duty. He tries to
conceal the fact, but nevertheless it crops
out in his every sentence. Mr. Woods re-
Marks. while ostensibly aimed at HAYES,
were in reality aimed at those who were be-
hind him and urging him forward Hayes
is merely the tool of far more dangerous
class OF politicians who would be glad to see
renewal of the bitterness of the war be-
tween the North and the South, that they
might profit thereby. In this sense Mr..
Woods remarks were timely and we'll said.
They cannot possibly be said to be an attack
upon the executive, for every person who
heard OF read them understands fully that
they were not intended for him, but for his
hackers i'll the very reprehensible policy he
has inaugurated.
No fair-minded man dare assert that the
elections at the South were not as fair and
free from intimidation or violence as at the
North. That injustice may have been done
IN some localities is probable, but injustice
has also been done at the North, and quite
as frequently as at the South. There is no
excuse for discrimination in favor of or
against either locality. It is Mr. Hayes duty
to punish violations of law north of Mason
and Dixon's line just as vigorously as he
Furnishes like transgressions south, and a
policy that is sectional is not only unfair and
partisan, but illegal and criminal.