The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-19
UNDER WHICH KING, BEzoNIAN7"

We feel like saying to the Republican party
as Hamlet said to the player, leave thy
damnable faces and beginv The New York
| Tribune gave US the other day resumption ae
the only issue the party needed for the fail
campaign; but that frazzIed out before 1t was
two days old, and now that paper Is talking OF
| Southern claims on the strength Of the dis
cussion over the House bill to repay William
and Mary College for property destroyed
during the war.
The New York TTmes Is more cautious, but
1t does say that the bloody shirt can never be
made available again The Southern policy
Ia m accomplished fact, and whatever bar
gaining might be charged in that connection
can only reflect upon the Republican party
itself or Mt least that faction Of it which Is in
the ascendency. The Presidents tivI service
order, however, may be modified. and tho
ninety thousand Republican officials Sar-
gent speaks of turned loose in tho next cam
paign.
With the exception Of Conkling. who sulks
In his tent, aping Achilles, and Howe, who
plays Tbershes to please his humors, the
anti-administrato Republicans have vir-
That this Is so there can be no question, and
there must be q reason for 1t. In selecting
the Republican National Committee the
"stalwarts" were disappointed In every in
stance and have, virtually, no representation
there at all 1t must have been a wondrous
salve. indeed, to cure all the sore-heads Of
the party SO simultaneously, as 1t were
1t Is barely possible that SargeRt's
resolutions, offered In the caucus last
week, may let In some light upon
the matter. Those resolutions recite that
nearly ninety thousand Republican
officials throughout the land understand
themselves to be under orders from the
President to abstain from participation In the
expense and labor Of working up the fall
elections, and, therefore. the President is re-
quested by resolution of the caucus to
" rescind his order forbdding participation
by officials In the executive branch Of the
civil service in meetings. caucuses. conven-
tions and committees of political character"
This is virtual admission that the
party cannot hope for success in the fall
elections without resorting TO the good old
methods that prevailed in the days
of Grant, when these ninety thousand
officials were all active partisans. And
yet the party that thrived by these
methods Is not strong enough to hold
Hayes to account for abogating them. They
abandon their quarrel with him and resort to
There Is to be general cleo
ton in the fall for members OF Congress and
the State Legislatures, which will have sew
eral seats in the Senate to dispose Of, and the
party needs tho aid Of these Federal officials
10 carry the elections. Without this
MD the party has no hope for success, and
hence this expostulation. IT they are mus
tered into active service there Is hope, and
10 secure them the Republican party must
needs forget its issues with Hayes and swal
low his administration ut gup, bitter as the
pill may be-
AZ for Hayes himself, If he yields to the
pressure brought to bear upon him, ne must
10 30 In obedience to party exigency, and
give the lie to all his protestations OF virtue.
Or else admit that the civil service order,
which has been the one striking feature of his
policy, was wrong from the beginning. He
will have hard fight for vindcation within |
ais party. with Conkling against him, and we
shall wait with some curiosity for the out
,ome of it all