The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-04

! WHO 0HS lOllOW6u Luc pEteCut mihsoi J
party under the lead of Grant on it,
gloomy march to personal. government
and Capitalization over roads fraugh
with wrong and fraud, crime and cor
ruption, violated laws and broken honor
personal shame, dlsgraced cabinet, 4
polluted beach and prostituted Presi.
dency? II Mr.. Schulz will show but a
solitary vote which Mr.. Hayes ever
declined to give for his party, or but q
single word of protest against any oi
the many wrongs committed by
that party, shall consider him right
and myself wrong. but not otherwise.
Four years ago Mr.. Schurz must have
been entirely of my present opinion. Mr.,
Hayes then stepped out Of the Governor
ship and ran for Congress in one OF the
districts OF Cincinnati. The people, how.
ever, little dreamed of his. great destiny,
for they badly defeated him. 1t was q
strong Republican district and most
humiliating defeat. There was, perhaps,
but one consolation for poor Mr.. Hayes;
Carl Schurz, then at the very zenith
OF that fame which, l fear, is
now fast fading, contributed his
powerful share to defeat Gov
ernor Hayes. Is he different to-day
than what he was four years ago2 Hard
ly; vet Mr.. Schurz processes to-day that
Mr.. Hayes is fit TO be President, fit for
the most difficult task of reforming this
government, when four years ago heidid
not think him fit to go to Congress and
contributed TO his defeat. l followed
Mr.. Schurz four years ago. Can L lot
low him now? Can anybody who is not
blind and deaf and dumb, or not without
understanding? Can all the sophlstries
in the world to explain Mr.. Schurzs
changer
WHOM HAYES HAS BEHIND HIM.
Mr.. HAYES Is but the figure head put
up by Conkling, Cameron, Morton " Co.,
TO secure q continuation of their own
power. They certainly have nominated
him; Mey have the undisputed leadership
of the party; they have the absolute con-
duct of the campaign; they will move
heaven and earth To elect him; if he Is
elected it will be mainly through their
efforts. He is now under the greatest
obligation to them for his nomination;
he would then be under still greater
obligation for his election. MIR. Schur%
praises the honesty, the scrLpulous hon
esty, of MIR. Hayes. How can he hesl-
tate single second 10 recognize these
obligations2 How, as an honest man,
hesitate to pay them of? But this Is not
ali. Mr.. Hayes, if elected, will find in
Cameron, ConkIing and Morton not only
the absolute masters of his party but
also the leaders of the majority in the
the Senate, without whose consent he
cannot even form his Cabinet, can make
no appointments, carry no measurcs-in
fact, have no administration at all.
WHAT HAYES MIST DO.
What, then, must most plainly be tho
position of poor Mr.. Hayes? Already
under the heaviest burthen OF obligation
for the past, he is bound to solicit their
Aid for the future. He will have to de-
pend upon them just as much after his
inauguration as before his nomination
and election. If he is an honest man he
Is bound to and belongs to them for what
they have done in the past; If he Is q
prudent man, he douby belongs to them
for what they may do in The future.
This seems clear enough, that as long as
the world exists the creator controls the
created, the superior the inferior. In
the face of all this Mr.. ScLurz pretends
To believe that the election of MIR. Hayes
would insure an entire change of the
present Grant administration, com
plete departure from the lead
ing men and measures and manage
ment of the party. Has Mr.. Hayes given
any reason for so extraordinary an ex-
pecta,ien? MIR. 'Schurz's idea OF reform
certainly means the utter political de-
struction of the "machine" Of Grant, and
Cameron, and Morton, and Conkling,
and Blame. and their hundreds OF thou
sands of otfice-holding or otiice-expecting
followers-in one word, of every "ma-
chine' politician who now abors for MIR.
HAYES. Are they all blind, that they
should go zealously work for their own
destruction?
WHO is THE FELLOW TO RE FooLEDE
Now the question raised by Mr..
Scburz is plain. Somebody must be
fooled. Who is it? Mr.. Schurz, on the
one side, or the hundreds of thousands OF
machine politicians and thieves, from
members of tho Cabinet up, down to
guagers and penitentiary inmates, who
all Justify cry for M. Hayes? l ask
again, who is most likely to be fooled in
this bargain2 Is it possible that Mr..
Schurz cannot see all this himself, or
does he really live IN the pleasant Illusion
that his in fluence over Hayes from out
side the party will be greater than that
of the men who have run it for ten
wears, who dared 10 impesch johnson,
who nominated Grant and iran" him
for seven years, who dared to kick
even Mr.. Schurz out of the party, and
who now have nominated Hayes TO per-
petuste their power2 There is no pos.
sible harmony between the ideas of these
men and the ''machine' and those oi
MIR. Schurz and reform.
scnURZ's ILLOGICAL STANDING PLACE
The conflict seems to me not only ir-
repressible, but utterly irreconciiiab!e.
Yet we find Mr.. Schurz in sudden ALI
snce with these corruptionists, united IN
the common effort TO elect common
candidate. And though this candidate
stands upon platform eulog'zln1g
Grants administration, and though the
whole power of this administration Is
bort upon his election, and though every
enemy Of reform supports him most
heartily, and though his own record Is
that OF the strictest partisan and sup
porter Of the present Grant regime, and
though he owes his nomination to tha!
req,n.c, and would owe his election 10 IL,
Mr.. Schurz still insists that Mr.. Hsyes
would make a great reformer. Mr.,
Schurz is either greatly deceived him
sell, or only seems so to be, to grossly de-
ceive others. In either case, l mus: be
sorry for him, and i'll neither case can
follow him.
scHuRz WITHOUT THE GERMAN FOLLOW
ING.