The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-09-21
The Republican and Democratic Poll.
cies COntrasted.

Mr., Blaine is not in the habit of pay
ing compliments to the Democratic
party and he never indulges in it at all
when he can avoid it; but sometimes
his exuberant temperament gets the
better of him, and he blurts out the
truth without intending to. In his re-
cent Portland speech, in a rhetorical
crisis, he said: "Why, since Maine was
a State, never from that hour to this in
the sixty-two years that have intervened
has the feeling between the North and
the South been as cordial and fraternal
as it is tonight. -
The eX-Secretary intended this as an
illustration of the benignity of Republic
an craftsmanship; but let us see how
much credit the Republican party is en-
titled to for it.
Mr.. Blaine could not have made the
remark at any day or hour during the
eight years of the Grant Administration.
He could not have made it till after the
beginning of the Hayes Administration.
Whyp Simply because down to the be-
ginning of the Hayes Administration,
the South was under the rule of carpet
baggers (many of them from Mr..
Blaine's own State) and barbarians,
backed by Republican authority at
Washington. Official life in the South
enforced. and supported by the
bayanets.. 1t was a dismal and most
unhappy period, when the SCOTS,
Moseses, Kelloggs. Ameses and P.rck-
ards held sway in the South-when
South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana
were plundered by venal Republican
tGevernors and Legislators; when Leg
| islatures were dispersed by bayonets;
I 5ss.sssfc- -5JaIe Governments wcrc
an almost constant spectacle, and when
disorder, strife and battles between the
whites and blacks kept the whole land
in a state of uneasiness and alarm.
When Mr.. Hayes came into the Execu-
tive Office all this was changed, because
! Southern Senators and Representatives
in Congress plainly told Mr.. Hayes that
he should never enter the White House
till he gave solemn pledge to change
it Mr.. Hayes gave the pledge, and,
let us say to his credit, faithfully kept
it. He abandoned the Republican pol
icy in the South and substituted for it
the policy dictated by the Southern Dem
ocrats, and in an instant all was peace.
Strife and disorder ceased; Legislatures
and Governors chosen by the people
were peacefully inaugurated; fraudu-
lent Governors and carpet-baggers
fled. the antae onism between the races
subsidized; the army was sent about its
business, and fraternal relations be-
tween the North and the South have
been growing stronger from that day to
this. Mr.. Blaine's allusion to these
fraternal relations, so different from the
state of things that prevailed under
Grant, is rather unfortunate for him,
for they were brought about against Mr..
Blaine's vehement protest and opposi-
ton. When Mr.. Hayes abandoned the
Republican policy of army rule that had
been maintained all through the Grant
Administration and adopted the Demo.
cratic policy of local lself-government de-
manded by the Southern Senators anG
Representatives, Mr.. Blaine openly as
sailed the change in the Senate, and de-
nounced the Hayes Administration fol-
making it. He has lived to see the
error of his course, but instead of ad
mitting it, like candid man, he ha;
the efrontery to come forward ant
claim that the benefcent condition now
existing at the South is the fruit of a Re
publican policy!-St. Louis Republican