The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-11
THE HAYES ADMINISTRATION.

New York Tribune: NO republican
has cause to bow his head for shame as
he reviews the work of the fifth Repub-
lican Administration. President Hayes,
whose term of office expired on the 4th,
will never be named in the history of the
Nation as one of its least useful or Ca
pable chief magistrates. AS time rolls
on, the wisdom and general excellence
of his administration will be more fully
and widely recognized. Its purity, its
fidelity upon all questions affecting the
public faith or the financial prosperity
of the country; its freedom from ostenta-
tion, demagogism or political trickery,
and the unparalleled progress that it has
helped the country to make in commerce,
industry and wealth, will never be for
gotten.
President Hayes came to the Office
under circumstances of extraordinary
difficulty and embarrassment. Through
out his term many of his best efforts
have been hampered or thwarted by the
savage partisan spirit which the contro-
versy of 1876 engendered. That he has
been able to do great things for the
country, in spite of all this, will ever be
remembered to his credit Nor has his
path been smoothed by entire harmony
within the ranks of his political associ-
atcs. His course, not always wise in
its methods, has been responsible
for part of the antagonism
-,l;o6 ,aan,, DrOuotnanf Rapuh
licans have shown, but they
will hardly look back upon
their part of the controversy with un-
mixed satisfaction or pride. Because of
these differences with political associates,
even while he was confronted by Demo-
cratic congress, President Hayes has
been unable to accomplish much that he
desired. His messages have been full of
valuable, honorable recommendations,
and the country would certainly be even
more prosperous, honOred and powerful
than it Is if hese recommendations had
been more frequently regarded. The
marvel is that so much good has been
accomplished, both for the country and
for the Republican party, by president
so hampered by his circumstances.
The brilliant feature of this admins
tration has been its financial manage.
ment. The smoke of the conflict still
hangs too closely about us TO permit
that estimate which will become the
calm verdict of impartial history. How
much this administration has done to
uphold the public courage and sense of
duty during years of great industrial
and commercial trial; how much to
promote u clear understanding of the
question upon which the honor and
prosperity of the country depended;
how much TO defeat dangerous measures
IN congress; how much TO make re-
sumption and refunding completely
successful, probably the most careful
historian will never discover.
The administration has also been sim
gularly clean and pure. Scandal has
rarely found food about the executive de-
partments within the past four years, and
the worst foes of President Hayes have
been constrained to acknowledge his
honesty and fidelity. In some depart
ments errors have been committed, which
have been freely criticised. But hos
tile congress, with eager desire to find a
fault, has searched every corner of the
public service. distorting much, imagin-
ing much, and classifying some, and yet
there is left at the end of four years not
stain upon the integrity of the admin
istration. 1t has sometimes erred, but it
has been clean and honest.
Thanks are due from the country and
from the Republican party to the presi-
dent who has done so much for both.
He goes out of Office with the respect of
all decent foes, and with the honor and
gratitude of all sincere Republicans.
The consciousness that his part in the
history Of the Great Republic has not
been an unwnFthy one will, we trust,
give happiness To long life Of useful
ness yet before him.