The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-05-26

+ the most cold-blooded buccaneer.
= the world ever knew. While thu
Republican managers were thus
| temporarily providing for Gen
!, Grant, that he. might be used fol
, greater profit in the future, the pcO
pie of this country were made vic
Tins, by the very same agencies, o.
one of the basest outrages ever per-
petrated in any country or in any
state. The defeat of the constitu
tional will OF the people in count
ing in MIR. Hayes, when Mr.. TildeI
was elected President, las not a
parallel in the history of de
cent nations. The basest perfidy
of Mexlcans. sinks into insig-
nificance beside it, and the So
called "Natien" should hang its
head in shane ut its contemplation.
Hayes administration will ever be
known as weak in the extreme. II
was weak, because the stalwarts OF
the Republican party could not dare
become even collateraHy RESPONSE
Bile for its acts; hence it is now dis
covered that the corrupt purposes
for which, The government has
been, used Z, have been shaped by
such men as Brady and Dorsey, and
though the acts of such men be-
came perfectly apparent, eighteen
months ago, the imbecility ofa Hayes
and II Key were inadequate to a sim
pie duty, which plain business man
like Mr.. James could encompass and
execute in less than thirty DAYS.
But it was not our purpose to con-
slider the many disgraceful passages
in.the administration of the govern
ment by Republicans. OF greater
or less moment these bad acts crowd
its political history for the last twen-
ty years, through the war and
through reconstruction, and the ad-
ministration of public affairs in times
of peace, in connection with con-
tracts and the ballot-box, and in the
conduct of the Washington depart
ments, until. their name is legion.
Their historical pages are filled with
acts of treason, and with all manner
of crime-black' characters that de-
note corruption and villainy-and
now the people stand aghast at moth
ing that. develops, for precedent has
already made every perfidy a IA
miliar feature of public events. Co
Cooperative fhieves,i in time, always be-
came the worst of enemies. The stall
warts and an eight to seven court
defrauded the popular will when
Hayes was made President, result
ing in a sequel OF disagreement be-
tween president makers and the
President, destructive to the latter,
and damaging TO the safety of the
former. Theione was lost sight of,
while the others sought to- again as
cend thethrohe .ofpower by making
their willingtool the President. Baf-
fled in their purpose, they withdrew
from the political arena until il be-
came evident that public affairs
were about TO be lost to
them forever, without their inter
Vention. Then it was that
the g presidential nominee of
the Republican party, Mr.. Gar
field, called a council of war
among the chieftains of his party,
and under base stipulations, never
-theless binding, Oonkling and Grant
were assigned to duty in the thick
est of the fight, and a victory was
won for Garfield. The ex-President
OF the United States and ex-candi-
date for the Chicago nomination
was purchased with gold to serve
in a capacity, from which principle,
whether good or bad, had led him
to withdraw. Godlike Conkling's
aid was purchased with promises
of supreme political power within
his own state. The compact was
one of nature that would have been
held inviolable even among the
basest of thieves, butupon such men
as these no compact is binding. 1t
happened that Garfield had also
sold himself to Blaine, ,the stipulation
being the nomination at Chicago.
Mr.. Blaine was bitterly opposed to |
Conklihg, and, when he became
leading member of the cabinet. he |
determined to wound and destroy
GonkIng, and to effect this Garfield
himself was made the agency, |
through which a compact for his |
own nadyancements should be broken
though the letter of the contract |
had been performed by the other
contracting party, "A few. nonsen- 6
sical, Southern, papers remark. that |
it Isl pleasing to see present results
at Washington, as they affect Conk-
ling, because he has, been, the per-
petnA enemy of the South. Do |
theylJ reallyiasthink. that his
withdrawal from the Senate makesl
him powerless, and is This not a
Struggle between two Iuncompremis-
ing enemies of the South. Conklins
has proposed no anti4Soufhern
measure, but what has found a more
than ready response in Mr.. ,Gar-
fields omind.. The one joined the
other in all the prosecutions that
have been praeticediagainst South
ern people, and when Southern infiu-
ences ljoin-one of them against the
other the attitude assumed is trulyI
humiliating. The South has no side in
this war between Conkling and Gar