Year: 1878

and habitual trimming of the Republican
party nave been warped by the effect
Of existing conditions, regarding which we
do not care to particularize, TO such an cx-
tent that it no longer presents its customary
solid front TO them, or its enemies. This
assurance has encouraged them to an out
spoken clearneSs regarding their future de-
signs which they would not have been so
indiscrcet rs TO expose if they were not ox-
altantly hopeful, in fact quito certain, of
carrying the next House. We are by no
means willing to cOncsde this certainty, but
for present purposes we are rcioiced that 1t
exists in the saugune calculations Of the
Opposition, for the simple reason that it has
induced the indiscretion Of which we speak.
We learn from their outspoken cloarness,
then, that they do not intend to await the
advent of the next House, in which they
are 50 certain of continued majority, to
carry out their lOng-chcrished programme
of unscatng President HAYES. To use
their own phrase:


The bouncing process will be begun and
carried into execution during the coming
winter session. The decks will he cleared
and everything be put in readiness for
complete Democratic Administration of
affairs before the Fifth of March, lS7O"


The methods by which this revolutionary
programme is to be carried out have been
carefully arranged, and include:


l. The enactment of law providing for
the meeting of the Forty-sikth Congress on
the 5th of March next, Immediately after
the expiration of the present Congress, so
that the next Senate, with its Democratic
majority, will be able to lend helping
hand in sustaining the Executive, who will
by that time be installed.


II. The adoption of q report from the
POTTER committee regarding the result of
the election of 1876, which will be referred
to the Judiciary Committee, to serve as au
excuse for the recantation of its resolution
declaring the irrefragability of President
HAYES title.


Ill. A declaration that President HAYES
was not legally elected and inaugunted,
and that the offices of President and Vice
President arc vacant by reason of fraud


". The installation of an acting Presi-
dent in the person OF the President pro TEN.
of the Senate or the Speaker of the House.


The details of this programme are the
subject of discussion by the Democratic
leaders and their hangers-On, included among
the latter being certain Washington editors
and correspondents, some Of whom have
prematurely hinted at these results within
the past two months. In fact, it is known
that Mr.. BLACKBuRS, OF Kentucky, mem-
Der of the Democratic campaign committee,
is not at all backward in admitting his
eagerncss to take prominent part in its
execution. He is very emphatic in his de-
nunciation of what he is pleased to term the
cowardice of TILDEN in failing To assert
and maintain his rights in March, 1877, and
is determined, if an opportunity presents it.
self, to rescue" the Government from
its present. "usurping" Administration
That the coming session Of Congress would
furnish that opportunity in the event OF
further Republican defeats this fall, no one
will deny who is aware Of the boldness
with which the extremists Of the Democ
racy has been inspired by the results in tn,
two States above mentioned. They argu,
| that the Administration has very few
friends at its back in any part of the coun
try, and that the Republicans in Congress
| finding themselves in a prospective minority
for two years more, would not make very
strenuous opposition to them. In short
| Al 90 tnIE thott he pa,,,,hl,.,,,.
would not he altogether unwilling tc
replace an Administration which some o
them describe as neither for nor against then
with one that could be relied upon for {
fixed and determined policy Of strict parti
san opposition. The present bare Republi
can majority in the Senate will not, the!
claim, stand in their way materially, 10
they believe that the strength which seated
BUTLER, of South Carolina, in that bod,
can he augmented by two votes-one from
the West and one from the SOuth-the lat
ter being the vote of a Senator whose tern
expires next year, and who has frrqucntl,
declared his preference TO u Democrat
| President over President HAYES, with whom
he has had no relations except Of antagOn
ism since his Inauguration.


OF course there are many points Of argu
ment in tho foregoing statement of mer
facts that are based upon tallaciOus reason
ing, as the whole plot is based upon II Sc
ditions disregard OF law and justice. Bu
the statement is nevertheless a true one
The Grcasers are not dead yet, They are a
eager to MeXicauze the country to-day a
they were before they were frightened int
an abandonment oil theirassaults against Tia
Title by the admOnishing protests Of tn
people, Their fright then was occasionc'
by well-grounded fear Of their repudiatiol
and defeat by the people IN the present cam
paigns; but W. the campaigns progress they
return to the plOttings they were forced h
abandon with renewed determination +
carry them out as soon as the elections shal
have passed. and especially if the results 0
the elections are favorable to them. Nothiul