The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-10
THE PRESIDENT.
LEFT WITHOUT PARTY Or FRIENDS
AT THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR
OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL TERN.
The Mistakes Me Has Made. and the
Opportunities He Has L0st-WOw He
Might Have Made Himself str0ng
and Popular President.
Especial Correspondence Of the DemocratI

Might Have Made himself a strong
and Popular President. |
Especial Correspondence Of the Democrat
RtGas HOUSE, !
Washington March 5, 1878. |
The constant iteration add reiteration OF the |
phrase
"PACIFICATION OF THE COUNTRY
by the administration people has at last pro-
voked our political phlologlsts into on ex-
animation Of the terms employed, with view
to something like an exact translation The
result Of these pathological labors has been to
add new formula to the already voluminous
lexicon OF fraud which has been compiled
since The election of 1876. "Paeieation Of the
country" has beep discovered to mean that
the people of several States, after ten years
Of oppression, affront, insult, indignity and
| outrage, shall forget all that they have snf
| fered, foreia all that they Yave been forced
to endure, par5on oil the felons who have
robbed them of everything. from their per
| sonal vauahles to their elective franchise
and then give their undivided support and
| countenance to an administration which,
| holding the Presidency as the proceeds Of the
| last Of an intermnahle series Of robberies, re-
wards the robbers with official position all the
way from the New Orleans Custom House,
through the Russian mission, up to the Sec
| retaryship * the Treasury itself
| And yet Mr.. Hayes and the mixed commits
sion of felons and oharlatans which he calls
his Cabinet affect surprise that this exegesis
Of tho phrase, "Pactication of the country"
Meets with the protests of the people of Lou
isiana and with the contempt and derision Of
the vast mass Of right thinking citizens all
over the country This feeling is wider
spread and deeper seated than 1t APPEARS to
be Those who look only al the surface Of
things see an administration striving to hide
fatal defects in its origin by specions pre-
lenses Of desire to promote the political ill
terests of the country: or, in other words at
tempting TO distract attention from the crime
Of which its existence is the fruit by loud pro-
fessions OF that virtue which properly belongs
to legitimacy of birth. At first the country
contemplated the above described scene with
| what appeared to be the Ca amneSs Uf conf
t|ence, but which close obssrSrs are now dis
covering to have been merely tho apathy of
disgust. and 1t has become apparent that
what seemed to be the aeqnieFSsnce Of she
country in
THE REFORMS PROMISED
by n Fraudulent President and his Cabinet OF
Criminals and Charatans was nothing but n
moody silence on the part of the mass Of the
people while that which seemed to be popu-
lar expression of favor or Of cheer was really
nothing but the noisy yawp OF the SWISS
Guard of ofIce-seekers who sounded The
praises of Hayes and his policies out of one
sfHe Of their mouths in stentorlan accents,
while they whispered their applications for
appointment under their breath out OF the
o This hollow bubble has been pricked and
exploded by the prosecutions of the Return
| ti,fy IGnr nnIf ta II Fup hat
is still such thing as the popular conscience
hefOtnes every day more and more apparent.
The men who ask no office and take no in
terest in the government beyond that Of Il
desire to be protected in person and property,
never took pains to express their opinion
Of the frauto Of Hayes presidency nor
OF the sham OF his reforms. but they seem to
have kept up u thinking. he nen who re-
sisted tho count but who succumbcd to its
, results, paltly because they could find no one
; to give hem leadership. and partly because
there was no means Of organze'l resistance,
have been simply biding their time. While
and who furnished the brute force by
which, the rights Of the people were
, crushed, have become more bitterly
disgusted and more inp'ncnbly hostile to
| Hayes than any other class. Their enmity TO
him is provoked by his professions Of reform
while the disgust Of the others arises partly
from his failure 10 carry out his professions
Thus Hayes begins the second year Of his
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infinitely less favorable than those which at
tended his inaugural, and it is fair to presume
that tho end Of another year Of proportionate
declDe in his fortunes will find him without
the memory Of bis Fraud left to mark his
place in the history Of the country.
His situation was pretty fairly summed up
by old Martin Townsend, Of New York, the
other day in q conversation.
Somebody had remarked that Hayes was
ANOTHER ANDY JOHNSON.
aNo he isn't" said Townsend. Gle is only
half Of Andy johnson. Andy deserted his
own party and joined the other but Hayes
has merely deserted his own without joining
any.
"But Hayes can 90 back to his party any
J time he wants to, said the other.
"No he can't" retorted Townsend. "The
party nearly killed itself making him Presi-
dent, and it wont waste any more Of its
strength trying to make n man Of him r.
That old Townsend. who is one Of the most
accomplished apostles Of Hate now extant
farly expresses the prevailing average Of
sentiment among the machine politicians Of
the Radical party is not 10 be doubted and
the fact that the old man voted for the silver
; bill after Hayes had vetoed it, though voting
against it at aIl stages Of its original pass
age, must be viewed as an act Of O)ure
vengeance upon Hayes Mt the expense
of going against the general sentiment OF his
constituency regarding the bill itself. This
is brief outline Of the situation which con
fronts Mr. Hayes on this fifth day Of March
at the beginning Of his second year: He has
no party at his back and no personal friends
of any account Mt his side. His Cabinet Is as
utterly without influence, partisan or person
al, AS he is. He is confronted and fianked, or
rather surrounded by two forces, one Of which
is animated by hatred Of his person and re-
sentiment against his acts and the other by
contempt for his title and disgust at his
personal weakness. He has, In fact
but one element of strength, and
that is the fact that his enemies are too
jealous of each other to either join hands
against him, or for either to agree to stand
aloof and let the other destroy him. The
time has been when Mr. Hayes could, by 8
bold coup, have made himself one Of the
strongest Presidents that ever sat in the
White House. IT, at the opening Of this
Congress, be had allowed his influence to be
employed to secure