Year: 1877




The republican party bears a close
resemblance TO the illfated war steam
er Huron. Nothing was further from
the thoughts of her officers than that
they were sailing to their doom. Just
as little did the republican majority of
the Senate suspect that they weresmOv-
iag toward terrible and fatal wreck
when they ventured to put themselves
in opposition to President Hayes at an
early stage of this extra session. The
republican party,li like tine Huron, found
cred In the night. The all night session
of Monday-Tuesday was such a lifting
and dashing Of the republican ship in
a violent political surf as puts both
vessel and crew In the same hopeless


condition whick overlook the doomed
Huron on Friday night. Ii it were
a mere parliamentary struggle with
the democrats the republican party


might survive, even if it should be
brought into a minoritv in the Senate.


But it is, in truth, as much war up
on President Hayes as a contest with


the democratic party. According TO


an inspired authority, IA house divid-


ed against itself cannot stand" and


when the republican party having lost


control of the House and being reduc-
ed to q slight majority in the Senate,


is insane enough to waste the feeble


remnant Of its strength in quarrel


with the republican President, it is in


bad way. The aashl0g Of the Senate


against the executive Is like the pound


ing of the Huron upon q lee shore,


which quickly beat her to pieces aud


made her an utter wreck.


4 1t will not do to overlook the fact


thatthis 10 really an assault uponPresi-


dent Hayes. The democratic Senators


and their allies are fighting his battle.


His withdrawal of the federal troops


from South Carolina and Louisiana


WAS an Endorsement by him of tho


legal validity of the Hampton govern


ment in the one and of the Nichols


government in the other-an lndorse-


ment not only of the Governors but OF


thesupporting Legislatures. Mr. Hayes


recognition of the democratic Leglsla-
, lures of South Carolina and Louisiana
WAS a concession of their legal right
to elect federal Senators. 1t is too


clear for argument that il Mr.. Hayes


was right in accepting those Legisla-
lures as legal the Senators chosen by
J them have an incontestable title to
their seats. Opposition to their ad-
, mission is an emphatic condemnation
of the action of President laet spring.
The republican Senators have
! thrown OF all disguise ON this subject
The report on Kellogg's case, submit
: ted yesterday afternoon, puts his title
on q ground which implies q strong
rebuke to President Hayes. The Ian
guage of the committee is 80 unreserV-


ed as to fall little short of an insult to
. the President. The committee charges
: that after the Kellogg Legislature had
. been lawfully elected IAN overwhelm-
l ing array of armed force was used to
: crush out The lawful State government
; of Louisiana" The implication from
a this LANGUAGE is clear that President
t Hayes was an accomplfce in crushing
= out the lawful State government. II
4 Dir. Hayes was right iu recognizing
a the democratic Legislatures nothing
. could be more unassailable than this
: title of the Senators chosen by those
q Legislatures. The republican Sena-
j. tors, by denying their title and attemp
. ting to shut them out, are waging q


more determined war on the Presiden
than they are against the democratic
u party. The republican party is to'
4 far gone to survive such an intestine
Iquarrel within its own ranks.


The appearance of republican unity


against the President which lie main
Itsined in the Senate is Fictitious ant
. . false. 1t does not represent the senti
u ment of the republican party in tn,
= country. Had the rank and file of the
. = party been left to their own free i'm
- pulses they would have supported tn,
> Southern policy of the President
: The opposition is the work OF falls,
y leaders, not of the republican masset
: This quarrel at Washington is, there
!, fore, certain to divide and disintegrat