Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-16

bugs thou sometimes bringeth to the
surface"
THE WEAKNESS OF HAYESlSM.
And now the telegraph tells us that
President Hayes has determined to
change his Southern Policy. What
for? Simply because the conviction of
the Louisiana Returning Board lends
to demonstrate that Mr.. Hayes title to
the Presidency is based upon fraud-
that he was not honestly elected, and
holds the position fraudulently. This
forcible reminder is not pleasing to His
Excellency, and we marvel notthat his
equilibrium is disturbed. But If he is
the great aud good man he is repre-
scented to be, do you believe, gentle
reader, that he should chafe SO visibly
about trifes? And when we come to
reflect that it is the legal tribunals (the
| Courts) of Louisiana that are agitating
his nerves, don't you believe, honestly.
that Rutherford is writing himself
down as a very light weight in thus
| giving vent t his feelings. President
Grant kept troops in the South to sup
press the operations Of the Kuklux and
White Leagues. These organizations
have maintained an unusually peaceful
attitude during the incumbency of Mr..
Hayes. Murder and lawlessness have
seldom been heard of in the South
for the past year. Then why should
President Hayes regret his concilia.
tory policy, and cause it to be pub
lished to the world that he has at last
made up his mind to substitute some
thing else for it? He does not pretend
to claim that terrorism has broken out
afresh in that unhappy region. Neither
does be attempt to show that white
and black loyalists are not accorded
equal and exact justice in every por-
ton of the reconstructed States. Then,
why the necessity for a change of pol
icy? The answer is given at the outset
OF this article. Two or three scoundrels
who altered and forged returns, thereby
elevating Mr.. Hayes to the Presidency,
have been adjudged guilty of the great
crime by the State Courts of Louisi-
ana, and this fact, and this alone, in
terferes with the ~equanimity OF the oc-
cupant of the White House. In retail
alton for the proceedings of a single
tribunal, properly and legally consti-
tuted, acting under the restraints and
forms of law, Mr.. Hayes would re
model a policy. adopting something
harsher in its stead, which concerns
ten millions of people! What puerile
humbuggry to emanate from any re-
spectacle source Civil service re
form was surrendered and abandoned
in the New York Customs cases. The
conviction of Anderson in Louisiana
leads to the abandonment also of the
Southern policy. What then is left of
all that was promised by MIR. Hayes at
the commencement of his administra-
ton? There is much food for refiec
ton in the vacillating of
President Hayes. His repeated sur
tenders and backdowns stamp him as
the weakest man that has yer occu-
pied the Presidential chair. The radi-
cal wing Of the Republican party is to
be congratulated on its success in bring
ing this unreliable Executive finally to
terms. But what is to be said of his
former followers? And, particularly,
what is to be the course of that portion
Of the Democratic and Republican
press which has hitherto so loudly az
plauded his course? Will they blindly
follow him in his grand and lofty tum.
bling into the Radical camp? We are
curious to see the outcome of all this.
The Virginia Chronicle. Carson Tribune,
Reno Gazette, ct al, are entitled to the
floor. The SENTINEL has not the sin
of Hayesism to answer for.