The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-06
HAYES AND GONKLlNa.

so far ~ these gNhlhllfh hIN '""'
oerned ~ integers In the republican
party, the democracy Doesn't care q
loss up whether Mossup heats Barry, or
Barry beats Mo"up," but il Is evidently
our policy toao conduct our Affairs, ~
that tho breach between them may be-
widened instead Of healed, Our inler7
cat and policy both point to the nooe'''-
" of dividing them rs far M va can
without u positive commitment to.
either ono Of these greOt chiefs
Of widely divergent republloanlAm.
In many respects Mr., Hayes has acted
10 m to win for himself the good oPln'
ion of democrats all over the nation,
but moro especially at the south Yet
in no single instance has he ever indle
Gated purpose which h not bitterly
hostile TO the democratic party as u ma
tlonal organization and friendly to the
republicans. II il no part OF sound
policy for us to 20 blindly with either
wing of the republicans and thus heal
the deadly breach now eSistinH
uniting them and throwing the battle
of 1880 sQuOroly in their hands,
Looked nj ~ u matter simply bee
tween the two men, and the policy
which animated them, wo, in common
with all liberal democrats, would be-
inclined to act with Mr. Hayes, But
in the matter of appointments whero
they are made, ns has been tho case NO
far only from the republican ranks IL
can matter little whether the senate
confirms or rejects, The matter then
becomes u simple one of fitness,
and if republican party rule is followed
even that question ia vastly narrowed
down, Corruption has ever been the
rule with them, and our democratic
senators can only make the choice be-
tween degrees Of turptudo DoubtIosa
this fact was plainly in Senator Max
cy's mind when he refused to vote to
confirm the appointment which super-
coded Arthur rs collector of the port OF
New York We certainly ought not to
adopt either Mr. Hayes or Conkliugs
fights when they are purely family
disagrecmcnts, but if we oan widen the
breach aud disturb the councils by vot.
ing, frat with the one and then with the
other, the policy of the course will hC
perfectly apparent to the mercst tyre
in politics at the first glance.
1t is due alone to the dying out o
the feelings engendered by the war, anc
to the soItoning influences OF time, thai
we owe the nmcIlorntlon in the pole,
OF the national administration, and no
to any personal ngclcism interest ii
the bosom of Mr., Hayes, Time hat
said to the passions OF wal, Peace, b,
still, and accident has chosen Mr.
Hayes as its mouth.piecc Had Ccnk'
ling been president, perhaps IIayc
might now be leading the hosts of op
| position in his stcnd. We may for III,
moment endorse u single net of Mr.
Hayes or of Conkliug, but that does no
prcsuppose u pnrllsanship Of either u
republicans We can only do that whel
they abjure the gospel of hate, the part,
of hate, and como into the democrats
fold, and become part and parcel of it.
With the quarrcls of the chiefs of re
publcanism, rs such, we have nothin,
to do, but if we can seize the circum
stances presented by their chickering's Il
disturb their councils and snatch the
government from their clutches, il il
our bounden duty to do So This wat
the line of policy agreed upon by tn,
democrats in both the senate and hous,
of representatives, and this spiri
actuated Senator Maxey in voting us h,
did, and the other senator and repre-
sentatives voting with Mr., Hayes.