Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-08
AND THE DEMOCRACY.

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HAYES AND THE DEMOCRACY.
As matter OF fact. a great majority OF
Democrats stand by the President.
His Southern policy is just what they
have been contending for for years.
and they like 1t. They also like his
appointment of Democrats to Office.
But right here their admiration and
allegiance cease. There is no a Dem
ocrat In all the land who believes
Hayes was honestly elected to the
Presidency; there is not one Of them
who does not know that the whole
Southern policy was the result of a
trade with Gordon, Hill and Lamar.
But this part of the programme they
are disposed to wink at; first, because
They believe the policy, in the abstract,
. right; secondly, because it is chiefly
turkey for Democrats and buzzard for
Republicans. 1t is difficult for Demo-
Gratis to find cause of quarrel in the
Presidents Southern policy. The re-
suits are good, and we, in common
with the Democratic party, indorse.
heartily, those results. But some OF
us, rising above mere partisan advan
tage, may very properly take
issue with the manne in which 1.-THE
policy" was inaugurated; also, we may
with justice abhor the man who while
vocifsrating reform, h~esitates not to re-
ward with responsible positions Of
public trust the identical Returning
Board scoundrels who swindled us
out of the Presidency. This is a por-
ton of Mr.. Hayes policy which does
not 90 down with us, and inasmuch as
1t IL sufficient to establish him as a pre-
tender, we cannot grow overly enthu.
siastic about the man in any sense. So
much from u Democratic standpoint.
There is me newspaper in Nevada, and
but one, that stands by the Republican
party as represented by the Republic
an majority in the Senate of the United
States. That paper is the Morning Ap.
peal, published at Carson by MIR.
Henry r. Meighels. Two thirds CT
the Republicans of Eastern Nevada,
we think, are anti. Hayes, and as they
are without an organ. they will thank
us for the publication (withoutindor,e.
men,) of the following stirring para
graph from Mr.. Meighels' able pen. 1t
shows how a true.blue Republican can
talk of the situations:
The Presidential telegram dispatch
ers have been very busy during the
vacation in narrating to the country
how, when Congress meets again there
will he a solid front of Democratic SEN.
ators standing by Hayes and against
Conkling, Howe. Edmunds, Hamtin,
Blaine, Wadleigh, Jones, Cameron,
Anthony, Ferris, Window, Sargent
and the rest of the strong and loyal
guard who constitute the seven eighths
majority of the Republican side Of the
Eeiiste. Will any Grant Republican of
1879 confess that he relishes such a sup
port of a Republican President as this?
Is 1t SAT- >factory 10 any Hayes r.
publican to know that the Presidents
must conspicuous champions upon the
fioor of the Senate are Stanley Mat
thews, who was President Of the Gree
ley Convention IN 1872, and Major
General Gordon OF the military service
of the late "S"uthern Contederacyf'
Doesn't it rasp tive throat of the Re
pnblicans of "a and '6S to sing peans
to a ina who IS attempting TO humili
ate Roscoe Conkling at the beliest Of
Carl Schurz and giurify Ben Hill At the
exp of James q. Blaine? Do the
true Republicans of Nevada relish q
policy which flaunts the flag of the
Lost fuse in the face of the venerable
Hainlin, and prefers Lucius Cmrtins
Lamar to John p. Jones? II Hayes
policy Is right. then was Thaddens Ste
VEINS u hereto and Andrew Johnson a
martyr; then va Doolittle a sain and
the s4inted Nyea very devil OF misrul-?
Tn! for the golden %eloquence of the
good Grey Eagle to rebuke AS with a
tongue Of fire the decentralization and
apathy OF the times; and Oh! for the
cutting wit and keen sarcasm Of that
lamented statesman to blast and wither
the hypocrisy and treason of the rom
sort OF rebels. copperhe4ds and d lily
varde IS who now occupies the While
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