Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-21
STEPHENS STATEMENT.
What the Georgia Statesman Thinks
Men and Measures of the Future.

wat the Georgia Statesman Thinks of
Msn and Measures of the Future.
The Hon. A. 81. Stephens, of Georgia, vice
president of the confederacy has arrived at
Washington. In conversation with a per-
sonai friend he said he did not believe that
the money issue was the cause of the defeat
OF Democracy in Connecticut, New JERSEY
and New York. It had no more effect than
did the Kansas bill in the election of 1854,
when the Democrats had only sixty-seyen
Congressman left. 81 feel sure that the
money question will be dead in its present
shape. I believe in honest money. The bill
matured in the committee on coinage
weights and measures shoald have been
passed. The Democrats need better leaders.
The only great leader the Democracy ever
had was Stephen A. Douglas. If the plat
form for 1880 is carefully drawn and good
men nominated, see no reason
why the Democracy cannot win" Mr.. Ste
phens did not see how the President could
change his policy, or how his recent utter
ances could be construed as a change of pol
icy. "I1 is said the vice president of the
confederacy, 'the duty of the President to
punish Democrats in the South
IF FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD
at the polls. 1t is the sworn duty of the
President to execute the laws Stephens
does not think the Independent movement
in Georgia will be serious. He considered
that Ben Hill made a mistake in attacking
the administration in his letter. Such a
course, Stephens thought, would have bad
effect on the Democratic party, which could
not in, GS,vy 10 Cd
The Democratic majority in the next House,
Stephens thinks, will be four over. all, and in
the future the Democracy must pursue a
conservative policy and be cautious IN legis.
latlon. Being asked as to his impression of
the cipher dispatches. and his views of Til.
den's chances in 1880,
STEPHENS EvADED THE SUBJECT,
and declined to reply. The Washington
Post also has an interview with Ste
phens. Being asked what he thought
OF the reports of President Hayes change of
poilcy. Stephens said: "My answer is, /
haven't seen any change of policy. So far
as ! have heard. it is that he intends to exc.
cute the laws, as expounded by the courts.
His policy, as I understood it from the be-
ginning, was to Withdraw federal troops from
the occupancy of State capitols, and to allow
the people of each State to govern them
selves under their own State constitutions
as they pleased, provided they violated
no federal law. This regarded as
THE TRUE CONSTITUTIONAL POLICY
then and now, and I've seen nor heard moth
ing from Mr.. Hayes inconsistent with these
principles. The foundation principles of
true Jeffersonian Democracy (Which is the
true basis of all constitutional liberty are
law and order, and the enforcement of the
laws. Mr.. Hayes has done nothing con-
trary to this. 80 far as am informed, and /
can't see why the Democrats should find
fault with any executive for carrying out
their own fundamental principles. If Con-
gress has made bad law, it is not the Pres
ident's fanlt. 1t is his duty to execute it,
and, if no don't do it, he's not fit for The
place, whether it's a moonshiner, or bull
dozer, or anybody else. If the law has been
violated, it is the Presidents duty to enforce
it,