Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-06
rHs EXTENSION OF THE mAHorE POLICY.


A Washington dispatch says that indi-
g cations are that the Administration be-
g ieves in a policy of putting Federal
" Offices where they will do the most good
" for the party, " and proceeds to state that
the Southern Republican manipulation of
offices is about to be extended in quite
systematic way. The concluding sentences
of the dispatch referred to are very signifi-
can't sit is the purpose of the Republic
a can party to make coalitions wherever
they can to advantage in the approaching
Congressional elections in the South, and
'the Administration favors this plan.
"They expect in this way to offset possible
sc Democratic gains in the North We
regard this as fatally mistaken policy.
1t is not new, and it has not even the faint
merit of doubtfulness. 1t is the identical
plan which the Grant stalwarts tried in the
third and fourth years of the latter's Sec
ond term. And it then resulted in an
almost overwhelming defeat of the Republi.
can party. The idea that possible Demo-
cratic gains in the North may be counter
acted by Republican gains in the South
means neither more nor less than that the
Republican leaders who have reason to
know that their course is becoming more
and more distasteful to the intelligence of
the North, hope to maintain themselves,
and prevent the overthrow of that party
upon which they depend, by enlisting the
aid of the ignorance of the South. They
are in fact willing to barter that support
which signifies intelligent approval of their
policy, for that support which represents
only the unenhghtened docility of ignorant
negroes, drilled and voted by machine
politicians of the worst type. The
"possible Democratic gains at the North
should be read probable Republican
"defeetions," for that is what is i'm
Piled. The men who were repudiated by
the intelligence of the Republican party
when they undertook to parcel out the
South into political satrapies, and to con-
vert the party into mere engine for the
further aggrandizement of an individual,
to the manifest peril of democratic institu-
tiens, and in shameless defiance of the
swarming proofs of incapacity and corrup.
ton which their policy had revealed, have
apparently lost all hopes of winning the
North over to their views, and have there.
fore turned to the South as last resort
And their first exploit, namely, the base
and humiliating Malone bargain, was an
unmistakable indication of the lengths
they are prepared to go in the new direc-
ton. For the sake of securing the adhe.
sion of the negro vote in Virginia they in
that case deliberately Endorsed, and what
is worst gave the party imprimatur to, the
most villainous programme of naked repu.
diation ever yet conceived, and even set
their conscienceless press at work to JUS
tify and approve the infamy. After that
it would be mere proof of mental imbe-
cility to affect any hope that regard for
the honor and credit of the organization
will restrain them from indecencies and
outrages. But their dishonest programme
will fail. They cannot secure in the South
enough votes to constitute set-off to
their losses at the North. The Republican
party will not countenance or condone
their acts, and it will rid itself of their
domination at any cost Whatever.