The daily gazette., 1879-06-17
FIRST EDITION.
THE NATION WANTS REST!

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The Legislative, Army and Judicial
Appropriation bills will all reach the
Executive during the present week; and
throughout the entire country, North
and South, East and West, outside of
agitators and demagogues, there is but
one sentiment as to the duty of the Pres
ident. There is not section ora line
in one of the general appropriation bills
that would justify veto; and if there
shall be strife in politics and unrest in
business circles, President Hayes and
his advisers must answer for it TO a
country that has one supreme desire for
rest.
The Republican leaders who are CO.
ercing the President into antagonism
with Congress on senseless bubbles,
should turn back but few months and
note with what ear1estness and unani-
nifty the Independent press and the con-
siderate people of all sections and par
ties, condemned the coercive policy and
revolutionary tendencies of the Demo-
cratic majority. That majority has been
conserved by the omnipotence of enlight-
ened public opinion, to yield all its ar
rogance to the wisely asserted preroga-
tives of the Executive; and now, when
that majority advances to meet the
President in the just spirit of his de-
mands, the country is threatened with
| fresh entanglements and discord to
| crafty the hatrcds, .jealousies and ambi-
| ton ofa revolutionary cabal of Senate
rial dictators. There is not principle
| involved in the three general appropria-
| ton bills soon to be considered by the
| President, that was not commended by
\ the administration and the Republican
| leaders i'm both Senate and House at the
| opening of the present session, and what
excuse is now to be offered suffering
nation for obstructing Democratic mea
| sures which have been framed in strict
accord with original Republican de
nlands?
The Democrats are not entitled to- es
pecial credit for being now in the right
for they had to be kicked and culled from
post to pillar to make them right; bu
being now in the right, is it best fo
either Republicanism or for the country
for the President and his party to make
Democratic follies respectable and com
pei the people to kick and cuff Republi
canism back within the lines OF patriot
ism and peace? Senator Blaine SHOULD
look out over distempered Maine, ant
answer whether he can risk battle be
fore his people in September on the is
sues of bayonet elections, of summary
knock-downs and arrests by Deputy
Marshals and Supervisors and bipartisan
jurors of the least intelligent and respon
sible type in the Federal Courts. Secre
tary Sherman should cast his eyes owe
Ohio, now trembling in the political bal
ance, and dispassionately decide whethe
he can risk battle for his political exist
ence on issues which he and all his asso
ciates have declared to be issues of tn
past, aud which can be revived now onl
by impairing or destroying the trust an
prosperity given to the country by sue
cessful resumption.
Both these great leaders would do wei
to remember that their States have lon
had free schools and newspapers, an
that they will intelligently decide fo
themselves who have embarrassed tn
government by the failure of appropria
tions and the prolonged session of Cor
| prpSs,