The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-07
The PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

presidents message, all we have received OF
that document. We we're notified last week
that il had been sent in advance. by mail,
but if so, it has not reached hele yet, and
the synopsis wired us is all we have laid eyes
upon. After the synopsis came to us, the
statement was received from Washington
that as New Orleans had received the mes
SAGE by mail, no further synopsi: would be
sent and we are able 10 give but the
beginning of the message We pre-
sumo. however that this synopsis gives
the salient points of the presidential lucu-
bratious. These we propose briefly
to notice. Almost at the very outset shot is
fred al the south, and an assertion made that
isnot warranted by facts. When Mr. Haycs
penned the charge that in some of the
southern states the right Of suffrage is denied
to certain class of citizens, he either knew
that it was not true, or he was derelict in
duty in not fully informing himself or this
point. The declaration ofrCpublican leaders
and republican newspapers that frauds we're
perpetrated at the election in tie south, does
not make ii so. 1t is part Of the stock in
trade Of these par,i'ans to cry fraud and in
timidation whenever an election takes place
in any of the southern states, and without
proof positively made of the truth of the ac-
clsation, it WAS rot becoming in the
president to prefer so grave and heinous a
charge against the people Of the south in an
official document, = stste paper that be-
comes part of the record in the archives of
the country. The man who fills the position
of chief magistrate of this union Of states is
presumed to be unbiased and unpreiulcel
in all of his official acts and utterances,
knowing not one section Of the country from
another, nor one political party from an
other, and upon the same character of
evidence that the president in his M sssge
charges awlessness and an infamous wrong
upon some of the southern states, he
could charge fraud, and intimidation upon
some of the northern states. There are
multiplitd thousands of people in this coun-
try VINO believe that New York and Indiana
we're fraudulently carried in the late election
for Garfield and Arthur, and that democrats
employed in manufactures in the east we're
bulldozed into voting the republican ticket,
but the president does not alude TO these ac-
cusations in his message. There are Just as
many circumstancessto warrant the people in
the belief of hulldozing and corruption on
The part of the publicans in the north, as
there are to induce the president to accuse
some of thela.e slave-holdiug states Of these
iniquities. Yet in the same breath he
deprecates sectionalism and expresse.
longing for fraternity of feeling through.
out the entire country Now, in the absence
Of any proof that fraudulent practices were
used in some of the late save,holiing state.
with the ballots an1 in the regulations gov
erning the places and manner Of the elections
and in cou ltng the returns, we deny the
charge. We furthermore express the belief
that quite as much corruption and wrong
prevailed in some of the northern states as /.
charged against some of the southern slater
The president also recommends that boil
me senate ana house of representatives be
dlligent in their inquiries into thu
question Of the election and Qualif
cations of its respective members
nd that II it be made to appear
test any certificate of election has beer
rsudulenty obtained, that the party hold
it be not allowed to take his seat. This re
,mmendation coupled with the charge o
aud against some of the southern state:
ooks very much like the president had tslsel
j. upon himself to pave the way for thai
wholesale rejection of southern congressmel
rcct which it is alleged is part of the re
,'ablican programme for the next congress
low can secllonalism ever DO obliteratet
ON the politics Of the couutry when tn,
,'lief executive breaches it in his message
Id urges i. upon the party in power
III there is really mote in TN
'uthern eye ought not the north
n beam to be renewed also
: here is SO little of the presidents mesaag
50 give our readers this morning that i. i
ardly worth while to review it. On the re
rrmation of the civil service the usual stereo
ped suggestions are INDUCED in. Nj
3 ayes ran for precedent on platform
i''edged to civil service reform, and it is jus
to him to say that in the outset of hi
administration he attempted to carry out til
tier ard spirit of that plank of tho plat
rm, but the pressure brought to bear upo
IN IN by the mere politicians of his party, Al
re LEADERS in fact, was so gres
'at he yielded and forebore in hi
'orts. In every canvass civil seryic
AK form enters largely into the protes.a,ior
the republicans Of the good they prom
~ achieve, and II figures largely in the
'stform, but there II ends. The sugpss,o,
:. IN the messsgs.are not at all objectlonabl