The daily gazette., 1878-10-08
FIFTH EDITION.
From the N. Y. Herald to-day.
A Southern Critic of President
Hayes.

Senator Hill, of Georgia, was one oi
the most prominent among those South
ern democrats who chose patriotically To
throw the weight Of their influence In
1876 in favor. Of peacabls and constitu
tional settlement of the Presidential dis
pute. He supported the Electoral Com
mission, of which Senator Conklin1 was
the author; and, having given hisconsent
to its formation, he maintained that its
decision, whatever 1t might be, must he
accepted, and that to filibuster with the
view of carrying the count over the 4th
of March, or in any other way to obstruct
or prevent a legal conclusion being reach.
ed. was unpatriotic and wrong. We be.
lieve we do not misrepresent him When
we add that he was well pleased with the
policy announced by Mr.. Hayes in his
inaugural Message and was one of large
number of honest and patriotic democrats
who determined to give the new Presi-
dent an independentsupport in the efforts
he had promised to make to carry out
needed reform.
We recall these facts because they
make more pointed letter from Senator
Hin. which we print elsewhere, in which
he sharply, but as 10 seems to us Justly,
criucises the course of Mr.. HAYES, and
compares his abundant aud excellent
promis,s with his lameniable lack of pr T.
formance. He remarks, rightly, that the
Southern policy of the President was H.
evitable. Even General Grant saw in
the last days of his admi nistration that
the army could no longer be used as part
OF the partisan political machinery in the
Southern States, and he refused to rrcog-
nize or support Mr.. Packard in Louisl-
ana.
But Mr. Hill desired to see the civil SER
wee OF the couuiry reformed, especially,
as he says, in the Southern States, and he
appears to have been graft fed by the
Presidents unequivocal declaration of a
determination to undertake this work.
Mr.. Hayes, he writes, "has failed be-
cause he has shown himself utterly unt-
quail to his opportunity he has utterly
failed TO realize that the Chef Magistrate
of agreat country has no personal friends,
no personal enmies, and owes no person.
al obligations, but IN under obligations
only to his country. He has thrown away
the grandest opportunity ever given to a
man, only that he might give offices and
rewards to as worthless q set of rapscal-
lions as ever disgraced humadity; a set of
men," he adds, "who were the guilty
concoctors of the frauds in the South, by
the help Of which Mr.. Hayes reached the
White House."
Mr.. Hills indictment of the President
is good as far as 1t goes. 1t is too true
that Mr. Hayes has been weak enough to
appoint TO office, so far as he is known,
every man Of all the disreputable crowd
which in Louisiana and Florida manipu-
lated the election returns in 1876. Black
or white, obscure or prominent, a vigilant
search has failed to discover single man
who had to do with this disgraceful work
who has not been given some office, large
or small in his own State, or oftner in
Washington or in some distant locality.
They tell story in Florida that among
the hungry political small fry there
it became so well known that CON
nection with election affairs in 1876
would bling office in 1877 that
some ingenious scamps confessed falsely
TO misconduct, were promptly "taken
care Of" as the saying is, but were as
promptly dismissed when later it was dis
covered that their confessions were un-
founded.