The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-10
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waged against the Administration, says
the Chicago Post, lies in the dec option
which is made to fit the purposes of the
| Implacables under the leadership of
| Conkling, Blaine, Edmunds, and other
chieftains whose only importance repos-
es in their ability to echo the war cry OF
the leaders. We have been repeatedly
and gravely assured by the Compression
al opponents of Mr. Hayes that their hos
tility arises from what they are pleased
to term his defaction from the establish
ed principles and usages of the RepEbli-
can party. They claim that the South
ern policy ana the attempt at civil ser
vice reform constitute an ultraism not
to be recognized for an instant as any
thing but subversive of party strength
and party success. At the same time
the Cincinnati platform of 1876, enunci-
ated by politicians as the embodiment of
party promises and party tenets, was
accepted by the people and the candi-
date for the Presidency as an honest ex-
preston of sentiments and of promises
for reforms. We hold that the Presi-
dent has adhered to the pledge of that
paper, and that the hue and cry against
him emanates from men who have I'M
dertaken to play confidence game upon
the public, and if there has been or is
Reputation Ii whole or in part of the
platform it is by the very persons who
are warning against the Administration
for performing, according to the best of
Individual judgments, the very agree
ments to which the delegates of the poll
ticians were parties of the first, and the
people themselves the party of the
second part.
But even admitting as true the charge
that the President has DETECTED from a
Republican perpendicular, and that
Messrs. Conkling, Blaine, ct ais. are
right in their antagonism to his admis-
trative policy, then what is to be under
stood by the efforts they are making to
break up the Cabinet by the expulsion
of its principal members. If Evarts.
Schurz and Key are crowded out of theil
Secretaryships, is the public to under
stand that this purpose, which seems to
be the aim of the politicians referred to,
is in accordance with any party text OF
creed? Has the President erred against
the Republican platform in making
these gentlemen his advisers Does
their retention form part of the indict
ment upon which the malcontents are
disposed to try the President? If Mr..
| Hayes Cabinet is the evil which is
sought to be remedied as bit of politi-
cal treason, then we suppose he may be
| acquitted of the charges of wrong doing
in restoring peace to the South, and OF
attempting the publication of the civil
service as prescribed by the party plat
form. Yet if such is the fact, then If
may be proper to inquire in what way
the personal hates Conkling, Blaine ct
ais. are part and parcel of the Republi-
can Party, unless those gentlemen con-
stitute that party. We promised for
this week an elucidation of the difficulty
between the President and his antag-
onists, and the air is full of rumors that
the former is to be driven to submission
to the dictates of the dominant faction
in the Senate or forced to an isolation
that will make him more Democratic
than Republican in his surroundings.
In all these maneuvers the people have
not had a word to say, because it has
not been permitted. The Senators who
are prosecuting the war are not directly
from the voting classes, nor, we may
add, ave they in sympathy with, OF
speaking for, them. The struggle is be-
| tween men whose elevation has made
| them arrogant, and q man who, higher
in position, is fresh from the masses and
believes that he works and acts for the
best interests of the nation in attempt
ing a liberal performance of the duties
outlined by the platform upon which he
was elected. His prosecution has be-
come persecution; but if he is crowded
out of line and forced to run the gaunt-
let of the Senate, it is the duty of those
who support his measures at home to
remember and to relegate to private
life those who act the part of Senatorial
inquisitors. If the President represents
the people let them stand up and fight
for him as long as he is in the right
and let them oppose these men who car
| ry malevolent personal hates into the
management of national affairs.