Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-03-14
"A PRESIDENT WITH
OUT A PARTY.
The Way a Hayes Paper Goes
Back on Him.
1t Says a Majority Of Republican
Senators Want to See TiIden Put
Hayes Out

publican paper The truth is that il
is an extremely rebel. While the
reader goes through the following
editorial from late Times his admir-
alton for the avowed "independent'
editor will be appreciated by keep
ing in mind that said editor uroeC
everything Hayes has done. Hayes
has done everything that paper has
advocated. For so doing see how il
rewards him
Never before in the history of the
government did a national admins.
tration occupy the precarious posi-
ton 10 which we find President
Hayes. Other Presidents have been
weak, some have been apostates, and
unpopular governments have not
been uncommon during the last half
century; but Hayes is the first Ex-
ecutive who has ever presented the
singular spectacle of utterly friend
less and apparently hopeless admin
istration. Tyler had a party, Fill
more had party and johnson had
q party, but Hayes has none. And
he has made himself powerless by
his own imbecility or faithlessness.
He had taught the nation to trust
BIN. His honest deliverances made
in the campaign were received with
the usual latitude that is accorded to
candidates for popular favor, but
when he had reached the prize of the
Presidency, and then made himself
instant in and out of season to affirm
his campaign pledges by the most
unequivocal utteranees, the nation
closed its eyes to his plotted title
and accepted him as the apostle of
civil regeneration and lasting peace.
His cabinet was convincing proof to
the world that he had taken a bold,
patriotic departure in favor of the
right, and that the ornamental
pledges of his party in conventions
and on the stump, were to be zeal
ously fulfilled. 1t cost him much of
the favor Of those who had by AFRO
CANT and corrupt leadership, brought
Republlcanism to actual defeat, but
he appeared to have counted the loss
and rested bis faith in the integrity
and considerate judgment of the
American people. 1t was step that
when once taken, could not be re-
traced save in hopeless dishonor, land
the country was inspired with re-
newed hopes of honest government.
And now year has passed undor
the administration that promised SO
much and that started 40 we'll In the
race. and it is without friends, bereft
of power, stripped of respect and
commands only the contempt of men
of every political belief. Little by
little, like the dropping water that
wears the stone away, the old time
spoilers have entered its councils
and moulded its actions, until they
are al last masters of what they
themselves reject with undisguised
contempt. The intelligent observer
of political events cannot fail TO see
the inevitable drift of all parties to-
ward the President. The Democrats
of both branches of Congress have
been driven from even the SEM
blance of sY mpathy with his general
policy; the Democratic press has un-
loosed its restraints and fiays him as
pretender; the Republican press
has ceased to defend or apologize for
his acts the lndedendent press no
longer ventures to sustain him since
he no longer sustains himself, and if
there is Republican Senator, Con-
gresham or politician of note who
avows his devotion to the President
he is unknown to the country. The
| men who first covered before The
omnipotence of his honest faith,
when pr ed by honest works, and
who have since led him into tangled
byways to plunge him into diahonor
are now not only his foes but they
are to-day the chief inspiration OF
the effort that looks to the dethrone.
ment of Hayes from the Presidential
chair by revolutionary proceedings
1t is this grave truth that now
commands the attention of the coun-
try and the world. While Hayes
was faithful TO himself, the threats
Of his overthrow were but the mut-
terings OF extremists who wsre with
out power in all organizations, and
had he bravely revolutionized his
policy and accepted the counsels
and sympathy of the polluted lead,
ers of the party,he would have com.
manded respect, or support at least
from one Of the great political pow
ers of the nation but he first of
Tended the leaders who had forced
him into the Presidency at incaIcul.
able cost, and then turned from him
the hopes and faith of those who
would gladly have sustained him in
all that is right. The sequel ia now
visible to all, and It is so logical hat
mono can dispute tie lesson. tex.
hibits President not only without
party but almost literally without
a friend and the peril of the stua.
ton is IN the unmistakabie tendsncy
of the Republican leaders tohave
him deposed from the Presidential
chair and Samue! J. Tilden installed
as Chief Magistrate. True, the am
IS revolutionary but who is to STA .
revolution when mono object toits
fruits The Democrats would bs
powerless to accomplish it even i
they had the numerical strength !,
both branches of Congress, if thort
were any way to confront them If
the work, but it is now an omen 40
oret that majority of the Republi
can Senators and Cungressmer
would gladly see the President do
posed and Mr.. Tilden inaugnrated
if it can be done with the faintes
color of regularity. They regarr
Hayes as having made this bad tit
ie stencil in the nostriIs of tbos,
who were forgetfuI of law and ius
tioe 10 having him declared elected
and they believe that Republicaniam
must die of dry rot under his rule
while it could be rallied for success
in 1880 if Mr.. Tilden had half q term
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