Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-03-26
Senator HoWc's Speech.

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ate, yesterday, called up bis rcsoiu'ior aakirS
the President for information relative 10 the
personal character of Judge Whitaker. OF New
Orleans, tho judge Of the curt tnat convicted
Anderson. He said during the past year there
had been seen small but active parties sor'log ]
the republican party setting up the 1aes OF the
President, and pouring fire On all those who
did not rally under it. To tho doctors of this
inouisitiou it seemed to matter not whether
man was republican or democrat-the ques
ton was, Does he support the President?
It panied him that be did not agree with the
Presidents policy but it panied him more that
the President did not agree with his policy
His policy toward the South Was the sam@
policy he would adopt toward the North. lie
demanded for every man equa! rights; that
there be freedom to all to cast ooe vote and no
more, aud that when cL'zen IS elected be
shall be peaoeaby indicted into Office. This
he claimed was the declaration or the ClncIn'
natl convention. >.
When the President selected his Cablcct
they were not all republicans. There was enc
democrat. Still the Individual was so we'll
known and he believed so implicitly Ia tho
moderation of bis opinions, 10 the business OF
bis sentiments, aud the integrity or bis charac
ter that if he could not have advised his scIec-
tion, he could not aud did DOT complain OF II.
He had selected one other, who, although
not q democrat, was yet not republican,; WHO
was equally at home with all parties and 10 all
places. by turns he had been everywhere,
and bad cspouscd and deserted every party,
Ae smoke like go oracle, aod his taciIc speech
could be fitted to The vicsstudeS Of parties as
readily az double faced satin can be tur0cd to
hide the accidents of society. His critiqucs
upon his political associates always gave him
popularity with bis political opponents; and he
resembled the prophets 10 never being Without
honor except where he happened to reside
Iuconstant in everything else, he has been con-
slant to his trade: that Of politics. lie entered
| upon that before be was of aga, and he has
pursued it since without varlableness or shadow
| Of turning.
| His first enterprise was to revoutlonIza the
government under which he was born. That
failed and he fed. He was for short time a
lawyer 10 Wisconsin, but without clients. lie
was minister at Madrid, but did not recon.
struct the diplomacy of the world. He was a
major general. but perverse history refused to
record bis victories. He was newspaper COT.
respondent, aud was not unsuccessful. lie Was
az editor in Detroit, and was not succcssfuE.-
He was transplanted into Missouri, and the
Egeuerous republicans ofthat State bore him into
this Senate. That elevation did not prove fatal
to bin; but his party died, and died, not 10
spite Of him, but because of him, and under
blows which he inflicted.
| Having outraged one party and not yet Ic.
oeived absolution from the other, he denounced
both as machines. Having failed as dealer
10 legitimate politics. he turned his attention to
the contraband article 10 1872 be helped to
lead Horace Greeley aud 3. GraIz Browu to
the Baltimore market, and taught the democ
rscy of that year they should call nothing com
mon or uuclean if it promised ITO beat Grant. "
Tor six years he traduced the republican party,
probably throughout more States, With more
rhetoric, and in more languages than any map
living.
In 1876 he assembled his disciples 10 New
York, and to be sure of good society none We're
admitted but by cards 10 due time the Cn,
cinnati convention stumbled on Rutherford Is.
Hayes. Two weeks later the St. Louis co6ven-
ton. He did not say that the meeting 10 New
| York and the selection Of THIS man as the head
| of the Interior Department had the relation TO
one another of cause and effect. He did not
know which of the two discoveries was first
made.
His Cabinet advisers were his ministerial ad.
yisers, and 10 their selection the President had
| right to exercise his oWo choice. The worst
| that could be said was that the President had
made bad selection.
Ia the selection of his Cabioct officers the
| President had discretion; but 10 the selection
| of the Governor of State he had no dlsccc.
ton. The Presidents sole duty YVES u rccog
| njz, such as the people elected.
When President Hayes was inauguratcd
Packard was Governor Of Louisiana. Sixty
days after that date be ceased to be Governor.
The will of the people Of Louisiana was tram
pied upon. But few such crimes were required
to make republican institutions 90 this side OF
the ocean the byword and Kissing they were on
| the other side
lie then reviewed the proceedings of the
commission sent by the President to New Or
| leans, imparting to them the building up Of the
| Nichols Legislature, and in their report they
said something about the Legislatures which
they had changed, but they did not seem to re-
alize that this would not have any effect 90 the
Governor. This commission spent three weeks
there. lit was to depose q pretended Gov
eruor. they staid too long. Three hours was
enough. If to remove a real Governor, they
did not stay long enough Four years was re-
ouired by the constitution of Louisiana.
Ii was not unnatural or unexpected that the
democrats should manifest heir qualification at
the overthrowing ofrepublcauism 10 that State;
but he had not expected to hear it called the
policy of the President and that republicans
and democrats alike were expected to applaud
it. IF Packard. was Governor Of louisiana, and
asked President Hayes to defend his authority
against domestic violence, it was clearly the
Presidents duty to employ the army, and. il
need be- the navy, to defend him against any
opposing government. The BULL can often
beat the ballot, and even where the majority is
stronger than the minority, the President has
20 right to leave that majority to the chances
of contest. The authority of the United
States, thrown upon the right side Of a contest
in State, often restores order at little cost, and
sometimes without any cost at all. II the
President as advised by Mr.. EVarts, came to
the conclusion that interference in elections in
States ought to be carefully avoided, aud that
the constitutional provisi ons were not framed
with an intent pointing in this direction, he is