The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-20
LET THE REVOLUTION GO ONT
Mr.. Hayes Intends to Rosist tho Popular
VIII.
WASHINGTON, March 5.
Special TO the Baltimore Sun.


WASHINGTON, March 5.
The President has had consultations
with the members of his Cabinet and
with several leading Republican Senators
and representatives with reference to the
proper political legislation of the new
Congress. As the result of there consul
tations it is announced, on the authority
of member of the Cabinet, that the
President has determined to plant him
self inside the strict party lines; that as
to everything, except the repeal of the
election laws, he will abide by the propo-
sails made by the Republican members of
the House, and will interpose no objec-
ton to bills to repeal the jurors test
oath, &C., and to exclude troops from the
polls. But is is declared that the Presi"
dent will not sign any separate bill which
repeals the Federal election laws, and
that he will veto any appropriation bill
To which such repeating provision may
he attached. The President, it is said,
has determined to meet the issue square
ly and to throw upon the Democrats the
responsibility of Withholding the appro-
priations. The two members of the Cabi
net who have always been regarded as
the most conservative, Secretaries Evarts
and Schurz, are understood to be very
strongly in favor of this course. If the
President pursues this policy one un-
doubted result will be to lengthen the
session of Congress. 1t is certain that in
such action he will meet the hearty ap-
proyal and receive the warm support of
the stalwarts in both the Senate and the
House. One Senator of the stalwart sort
said to your correspondent to-day that if
Hayes would do this it would make
amends for all his past shortcomings, and
it would give the Republican party the
whole North in 1880. Such calculations
are, perhaps, more sanguine than the
circumstances justify. The two great
parties are pretty evenly divided in the
North, and, as politics 60, such an issue
may not, and probably will not, have any
influence of consequence in detaching
voters from one or the other party. The
"starving:out" process is also very ef-
fective method of. operations, and the
mass of Republican officeholders, with
the President himself at Their head,
whose pay is bound up in the appropria-
tions, may become so hungry that they
will be perfectly willing to let the elec-
ton laws 60. 1t is true that the Presi-
dent is said to save at least $4,000 per
annum of his salary, and if this be the
case he will have reserve for himself
which will last till the end of his term of
office. As general thing, contests be-
tween constitutional Executive and the
Legislature are exceedingly apt to end in
the triumph of the latter, as in the very
nature of things the Legislature must
have an immense advantage over the
Executive. For this reason, no matter
how stubborn the President may be, it is
not likely that he can prevent the new
Congress from sooner or later repeating
the election laws. 1t is suspected also
that though the President may feel dis
posed just now to raise the issue with the
Democratic Congress, he may change his
mind before it becomes a bitter contest,
as the fact has always been patent since
his entrance into the White House that
certain Senators and members who did all
they could to elect. him have less inau-
ence with him than other Senators and
members who did all they could to beat
him. 1t is in the power of the President
to embarrass the new Congress, il he is so
disposed, in a much more effective way
than by entering into laws. And he
cannot forget that the class of men who
are urging this course upon him are Of
those who have been the bitter enemies
of his Administration. The great prob
lem which will confront the new Con-
gress will be to provide the absolutely
necessary revenues for the support of the
Government as large deficiencies are in
evitable on account Of the lavish pension
appropriations and the reduction of the
tobacco tax, &c. The President, in his
Message to Congress on its reassembling,
will call attention to this point, and urge
the necessity of making provision TO
meet the exigency. This is the rock
which is dangerous to Democratic sail
ing, and the manner in which the sub
iect is treated may rebound greatly to
the injury of the Democratic party. But
as to the election laws business, all the
experience of politics in this country
will bear out the opinion that, if the
President makes the issue, SO far from its
iniuring Democratic prospects, it will
solidify the party and intensity the de-
yotjon of its adherents.