Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-22

for nearly g week before 1t confirmed the nominations. TO the disgust of ''practic- al politicians' he threw away d high class foreign mission on q man like James Russell AoWelE ''h dashed literary Teller" as Senator Cameron said, and he enraged Roscoe Conkling by fiineing the political machine Of that irhperious sen
 ator out of the federal offices in New
 York city. He would also have made a start toward the removal Of the Civil
 Service from politics and spoils-snongering
 had not both parties combined in con
 gress to thwart his every effort In that
 direction.
 Hayes boiiest challenge to the republi-
 can politicians was his abandonnlent Of their 12-year struggle to reconstruct the
 Southern states from Washington. Ever
 Since congress had seized the control of
 reconstruction from Iaincoln's lifeless hand. the entire proceeding had been a tragic failure. creating an orgy of cor l ruptton and violence In the South and | demoralizing the politics of the whole
 country
 It was an attempt, So common in this
 country, to solve by mere political meth | ods a problem that was not at all po- 1 litical. The fatuous politicians at wash. ington gave the balot to the negro in the expectation Of setting up republican
 states in the south, but they did not give
 a cent of money to educate him to read the balfott and to see that 1t was counted The gravely invested him with equal civil rights at law, but they left hin economically unequal and a dependent or the whites When he asked for "lt acres and a mule" they only laughed al him. Yet it was the only thing he nedet 1 first of all -. and surely he had earned it by his 25o years Of unrequitet toil.'
 Inevitably the educated and propertiet class %resteG the government from tn, hands of an flliterate ad penniless race ii state after states. When Hayes came iI
 there were only two republican state gov ernments remaining in the south. and h. promptly withdrew the federal bsyonet that were proppiHg up those feeble sur vivors in SoAth Carolina and Eouisi . ana. Thereupon they coIIafsed in al hour, gnd their imported governors hur [ riedly, packed their carpet bags and re [ turned North by the next train.
 ? Hayes had merely completed the re | construction of the Southern states o
 Lincolns plan. Unfortunately it was 10
 late to make it the same healing meas ure that the great erhancipator had de , SiShed IL lo oe. ror untiiHtted neSfo SUI frage had been thrust into the Constitu | tion, contrary to Loncofn's advice, wit the evil result that a solid south con Ii tinues to plague the Nation.
 v Hayes came to the presidency in th : depths of an industrial prostration. whe = wandering bands of tramps thronged th 8 highways of the land. and soon the fir : great railway strike paralyzed transpoi 1 tation between the Atlantic and th N Mississippi. In response to the populs cry for more money both parties congress for repealing or. modifying Il > resumption act and for inflating the cu e rency with greenbacks on silver coinag
 The president firmly resisted such su 2 render. Had not his veto of the silly, z bill been overridden he would have save = the country from taking the first Step !