The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-31
"A GLANCE AT THE P0LI7IALH no.
RIZOM."

The Cleveland Herald, under the new
arrangement an able Republican paper
favors the Hayes administration policy
of peace and good will opposes silver
reconciliation and advocates the one
gold standard, and wishes, evidently, to
cut loose from the Grant rule of hate,
force, fraud and corruption. The FER
aid has an able special correspondent in
New York city, prominent gentleman
of the Press, who, under date of the 2Sth,
thus discourses:
New York, Jan 23.-Conkling, Blaine
& Co., out of the way, the party is GER
tain of future which will be both useful
and successful; with them as leaders it
has no future and no hope. The very
air is full of signs of the truth Of what |
say. Standing as do behind the scenes,
| can give you some of them. To get
their exact bearing let us run back over
a few weeks of political history. Presl'
dent Hayes came into office with the
avowed purpose Of substituting policy
of love for policy Of hate in his treats
ment of the Southern people. He start
ed out with the belief that the way to
prevent a solid South was to make it unN
necessary; that the way to make South
ern Republicans was to make Republl'
canism attractive rather than repulsive
to them. He was student of politics
enough to know that there must be two
parties in the politics of every people,
and that the only thing which held the
South for one party was the simple de-
sire for self preservation engendered by
the uncompromising hostility OF the
Northern Republican party. Mr.. Hayes
was not the only man who held this view.
The closest students of politics agreed
with him entirely, differing only in re-
gard to the length of time which must
elapse before Southern break could be
effected, Every far sighted, patriotic
man in the country agreed with him also
But the partisans and Presidential aspi.
rants didn't. They knew, nobody bet
ter that the policy he had adopted must
inevitably be the policy of the future,
but they hoped for one more national
victory first. They feared that the South
could not be divided before 1880, and
they at once looked about for some pol.
icy which should enable them to win
even against solid South, just once
more. They found it in the financial
question. The attitude of the South
toward initiation and against resumption
furnished an excellent and plausible
foundation upon which to base plea of
sectionalism, If dread of Southern
supremacy could be raised, they saw
they could possibly carry the country by
a union of the North against the South.
The element OF patriotism did not at all
enter into the calculation. TWAS sim.
pie question of winning at any cost. 1t
was the last effort of desperate men for
self preservation. Against its success
were the results of all political expert
ence, and the eternal laws Of justice and
right 1t was bound to fail, and the
shadow of the coming disaster is already
creeping into sight.
All this only shows the division within
the ranks of the Republican party. How
tits possible to harmonic the elements
we cannot understand. Horace Gree>
ley, Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase
and many others were ruthlessly driven
from the party for daring to advocate
the policy of good will, and an aban-
donment Of the rule of hate. In fact, if
these sentiments OF love and true patriot
ism had prevailed in 1861 and before,
there would have been no sectional faN
naticism to involve us in civil war, and
ruin the country with debt, robbery and
corruption. We are glad, however, even
at this late day, to hear Republicans
take up the good old Democratic refrain
of peace and good will between brethren
of the same country. We never permits
ted sectional hate in our political creed ;
and never expect to. No North, no
South, no East, no West, but the entire
Union, one and inseparable, is the true
motto for a true American citizen.