The New York herald., 1878-03-08
New Hampshire Publicly Rebukes
the President.
WHAT DOES 1T MEAN ?
Voting To Be Left to the Demo
Gratis Next Tuesday.
CHARGES OF TREASON


bombshell which boon thrown into the republican
camp to-day II IL has the following which Is attrib
used to IT, the chances OF Mr. Prescotrs re election
arc decidedly SLIM 1t Is headed ''Old Guard Republic
CAM and has for a motto, 'sTmes Change, and Mon
Change with Them but Principles Never" There are
nvc long Of more than average width, printed
in minion or BREWER. IL will be placed In the hands
oil nearly every republican in the state. II Is under
sioou to reaction on account OF the deieat OF
Simmons 10 whose interest ex Governors Straw and
Smyth wont to Washington. They wanted to place the
President right before tho party In New Hampshire
and countoract the effects of Chsndler's letters Tho
defeat o simmons ail those men loose, and they
arc determined to slaughter tho party, and SO snub
Mr.. Hayes
MAINTAIN PRINCIPLE.
It begins by Affirming Tn tho republican party
founded as party Of principles, and such IL has
won many victories Its principles were settled
and we'll defined in tho lato Presidential con-
test, ard the triumph thcn attained was the
triumph OF tho fundamental ideas or the republican
party. President hayes was put forward as the
representative OF those ideas, and, after sharp and
acrimonious contest, In which the now discarded
watohword OF the party played no unimportant part.
he was elected. Pledged to support the party who
made him Chief Executive, he has de-
serted his party principles; deserted the
by courage and patrousm he was placed IN tho
OF the rank and hie of the party and some of lis
formal able leaders from republican principles TO hs
Adherence 70 principle succeeded in the past-to
those principles Will be worse than political
PRESIDENT AND PoLIcY OBJECTIONABLE.
We cannot ipdorse man nor policy that has sur
rendered States OF THIS Union into the hands OF
the democracy; that has removed from office Union
men to replace them with rebels IN the South that
has called into the Cabinet as bosom friend and
adviser rebel general wbo during tho late rebellion,
aided bringing tho tho sons oil New Hamp.
shire who were fghting bravey 10 save the Union
and that has said 10 The rebel whites at Al,
,anta who were crowded around him cheering
vociierousy, with no dlscrsd to you ana ." spsoa.
Yet infatuated with some strange desire 10 uproot tho
old principles, we nd tho convention adopting these
words OF the resolutions IN platform intended
Ter republican support
I'VE welcome and approve his president HayesD patriotic
to %c. esuay KEEP S wa '
honest republican national adninistraton."'
Tho paper then quotes the position OF Mr.. 0. G.
Moore, Of the Nashua Telegraph, ''an outand-out
Hayes man. i" and adds:-
sWith these ideas no came Concord delegate.
He fought Tor hem as member OF the COMMITTEES on
Resolutions, and lett the Convention 10 the exultant
spirit oil victor.
TINE TO SPEAK OUT.
ssME Moore had prayed 20 DO delivered from all
tenn porizng ana cowardy counsels, and he returned
20 Nashua TO work with the zeal OF whose pfin-
ciples had been triumphant And that our discom-
hiure might be moro complete the resolutions wero
hailed everywhere outside Inc State by the Hayes ana
ln0ependent
tory themselves amt tho principles they Worship
Hero follow quotations from the NEW YORK HERALD
and other papers showing that iney regarded the
resolution quoted open aud square Endorsement
of the Presidents Southern policy. After charging
that while ''tho republican party has ever been y
party tolerate fullest discussion regard its
action, now see criticism hushed into silence by
tho subservlency OF some OF Its leaders" proceeds
"a second Aaron is invoking to the alteration OF
gilded gods, and our votes are asked 10 su STAN
ircacbery and ingratitude before which the nhdety
nj 4 mn
ths leprosy cured by the httng rebuke OF defeat
on Tuesday next will be SAID that the republicans OF
New Hampshire unanimously
efforts TO keep faith with the people and secure to the
republican national administration.
sWhat say the old leaders of the republican party
fruits OF ilegitimatc aud oulldozcd victory from
the hungry NOUNS OF those cormorants whose
to the Union and lis cause drove them from power
and kept them IN political fasting?"
Next follows some of the poin ed sentences
from W. L. Chanders attack on the President, TO.
gcther with criticisms from tho .ate Senator Ben
Wade Mr. Cameron, Of Pennsylvania; Senator Ingals,
OF Kansas; ex-Congressman ellis, OF New York; and
this paragraph
principle irretnevable defeatO Guard ReJiica,s
In strange contrast is the timo serving, cowardy
and treachcrous affirmation of our platform.
Similar CRITICISMS are taken from anti-hayes repub.
lican papers, and then tho document proceeds TO ar
raign Governor Prescott Tor his action in appointing
Judges smith and Clark, whose action
steal," as It termed by the republicans In 1875,
was made watch word Of reproach Interlarded with
many quotations from the republican press tho
following paragraphs
"Wbat, then, Is our duty II We do not indorse the
policy OF hayes7 II we turn national 10 State
Affairs met by the same lreachery. In 1875
every republican thus State and in the country
vas aroused 10 tho feeling Of by
Inc action OF governor elected by fraud corrup-
tioD, WHO, with tho aid OF n tiuc-serving court,
whose judges, regardless OF law, aided and abeued
doi,a al md d,ofp
thousands OF republicans. The honest men Of the
State unite arose against this gross outrage,
hurled out OF power tho Executive and his
advisers mantied with shame, and removed from
Now Hampshire the stain OF shame-a corrupt and
tratorous Court We fought that ampaign princi-
Pile; We won because we were In the right, and sound
Of rejoicing went up from the lips aud hearts of
publicans everywhere The press and the people
were united in condemnug the senate steal Inc
Senate steal was our battle cry, and for two cam
paigns 1t was an earnest OF the condemnation Of the
republicans OF New Hampshire oil fraud and In
iquitv. On this platform Mr.. Prescott stands
sQuarely, announcing himself us pleased with the
platform no republican OF the Ola Guard can
consistently rest Believing In the integrity and abii
Prescott places them upon the Supreme Bench; be-
hevipg in the dishonesty and weakness OF both OF
these men you and clamored Tor and secured thor
removal. Our duty then the less than in
years gone by. True republicans have never been
friends TO treason nor supported him that has be-
trayed their trust Tho Hayes OF today will meet the
same rcbuke at the hands OF tho Ola Guard as tho
Johnson Of the past. 'Unswerving ndelity TO the
principles We know 10 be right has long
been watchword, and though betrayed by
. recfeant President or wounded at inc hands
OF ungratefui Chief Magistrate of the state
thoso principles remain the same. Betrayed by
Governor OF choice silence at the polls VIII be
. warning to the republican official everywhere that
10 thwart the VIII OF the people Is 10 fall INTO nerited
disgrace and sure 10 receive httng rebuke."
Tue concluding portion OF the circular Is devoted TO
arragnipg Hayes for q dozen Of mis- appointments to
his Cabinet aud other positions and IL closes fol-
lows:-''Do republicans OF New Hampshire welcome
ana approve such appointments as these? Do they
WELCOME and approve the intimacy OF such rebels
the Gordons Lainars, Hills and Buffers the White
House, the cold neglect with which tried and true
republicans like ConkIing, Edmunds, Blanc and
Ingalls are treatedf Your votes will show II the
publican party standing on Hayes platform Is sue
Cessiul on Tuesday next"
TAMMANY GENERAL COMMITTEE.