New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-10
ABOUT KEEPING THE PEACE.

ABOUT KEEPING THE PEACE.
Is the next Congress 10 be Democratic III
both branches7 That is momentOus ques-
ton how do the Republicans of New-Iork
propose that it shall be answered. Upon
their efforts will the answer largely de-
pend. for if there are no Republican
gains in Congressman III New-Hork, none
are likely anywhere. 1t is time, then,
for mutual forbearince within the Republican
ranks, a time for hard work, not for hard
words. But just when the necessity OF rally
ing every Republican voter is most apparent
the air is full of rumOrs of wholesale
removals in the Federal Offices of this State,
and the President is openly urged by
some of his friends to set mp a guillotine.
These evil councillors are well enough aware
that the way to get votes is not by seeming
to prosecute any wing of the party on the
verge of the campaign. Nevertheless. they
advise the President who should lead his
party, to turn his guns upon his own sol
diers lust as the fighting begins. This may
be the politics to feed grudges. but 1t Is not
the politics that will reverse the Democratic
majority in the House of Representatives and
elect Republican Legislature.
1t has even been urged upon Mr.. Hayes, by
journal whose editor was once a higl-prest
in the temple of Civil Service Reform (and
who now is an active and very zealOus candi-
date himself for the United States Senate),
that the Administration must "de-COnklingize"
the Federal Offices in this State. 1t is not
said boldly that every friend OF MIR.
Conking must be removed, but it Is
declared that the Senator's supporters
shall not be allowed to use these Offices against
the Administration aud in Mr. Conkling 5
favor. But this Is mere mincing of words.
The real proposition is that Conkling
men shall be turned out, and anti
Conklng men presumably Curtis men)
shall he put in; in short, that patron
age-for TO this complexion have some OF our
reformers come at last--shall be used 10 de-
feat Mr.. ConklIng. This is said to be the
Presidents duty. We deny it. The Pres-
dents duty is to do what he eau properly
towards Republican success in this State
this Fall This is not the way to go
about it. This is the time not to
make removals, unless for clear cause. II the
President has desired TO make them, he should
not have waited until the opening of n cam
paign. He has had almost two years in which
to make changes; way not have made
them before The only removals he has
effected are in the New-lOrk Custom House,
where, after one singularly unfortunate at
tempt he has succeeded in getting exceed
ingly good appointees at last Now he should
let well enough alone.
Ii is not the Presidents duty 10 defeat Mr..
Conkling, any more than il IS to elect him.
The Republicans of New-York can safely be
left to choose their own Senator. Mr. COnkliDg
has no mortgage on the place, and if he is re-
elected it will undoubtedly be because the
sentiment of a majority of the party, on the
whole, prefers nobody else before him. If he
is not reelected, it will be because the Re-
publican party thinks it has some other
member quite as capable Of filling the
post with honor TO the great State
and the great party whose representative he
Will be. But THE TRIBUNE does not propose
to begin fighting any Republican candidate
now neither should the President First
"catch your hare.n Let us first carry the
LegisIature-not throw it away by starting a
premature quarrel as to where it's votes
shall go.
The President is a sincere man, and it is the
sincere men who often get the strangest no.
tons of duty. IL is his duty, as we see il, not
! to start faction fight just as the main battle
begins. 1t is his duty to preserve during the
short campaign the status quo which he has
been content to maintain for the previous
eighteen months. TO do otherwise would be Il
blunder in politics-a blunder that, TO the extent
OF its natural influence, would be crime against
the Republican party. Certainly no man who
advises it can have desire for the party's
success in both Congressional and Assembly con-
tests as his controlling motive. And probably
he will be baked in the qualification of the
motive he does have. Three months ago
the Presidents patronage might have de-
feated Mr.. COnkIing, An effort TO use
it for that end now would be too Late
to be effective, and would be much more likely
to react in favor of the man it attacked.
BUTT might so weaken and distract the party
as to defeat some Republican Congressman. Is
President Hayes ready-are the advisers of
fresh removals at the opening of the cam
paign ready-tO take the responsibility of that
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NOT A MISTAKE.
The Southern policy of President Hayes, as
it is called. is no longer subject of reason