The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-10-06

only of Grants Administration. MANY OF
these render no service to the country, but
are merely political pensioners on the
treasury, who, in return for the money
they draw, are expected to work for the
perpetuation in power of the corrupt Re.
publican organization. 1t is this immense
army OF placemcn who seek to usurp the
control of our Government, leaving the
| people no voice in the conduct of affairs
IL Is the office-holders who constitute and
manage all Republican nominating con-
ventions it is the officeholders who die
tate the policy of the Administration il
Is the office holders who conduct political
canvasses, and are relied upon to manipu-
late, and, if necessary, to falsify election re-
turns Mr.. Hayes, in opposition to the old
Democratic principle of rotation in office
which has always been held to be the only
| effectual barrier to the creation of an office
holding aristocrcay, proposes to give life
tenure OF office to these men, and thus render
them entirely independent of public opin-
Ion. This will account for the enthusiasm
they manifest for his election. All of these
office-holders, on the occasion of every i'm
portant election, are compelled to contrib
ute money for political purposes, and thus
enormous corruption funds are raised to
use against the people who wish to reform
the Government.
GRANTS RECoNsTRUCToN POLICY.
This has consisted of depriving the peo-
pie of the right of government, inter
ierlng with troops to carry elections for
the Republican party, and nullifyipg the
will OF the people as expressed at the polls
when the verdict was unfavorable to the
rule Of ignorance and corruption. The
public debt of nearly all the reconstructed
States was comparatively small at the end
OF the war; under negro and carpet-bag
rule it was rolled up to an aggregate OF
over One Hundred and Ninety-four Mil
lion Dollars, while the taxation for local
purposes has often amounted practically to
confscation. An immense number of
farms, as well as large tracts of unimproved
lands, have been seized and sold by the
sheriffs to satisfy the insatiate greed of the
plunderers who have represented Grants
Administration in the South, and who have
succeeded in impoverishing the owners of
vast portions of the most productive terri
tory in America, thus running the best
market for Northern manufactures that
there is in the world. The present policy
of Grant and the men who are managing
the campaign for Hayes is to rckindle the
sectional animosities which are dying out
both North and South; to incite race dis.
turbances, disorganize labor, and put those
of the Southern people who have redeemed
themselves from the rule of the carpet
baggers back into territorial condition
where they will be helpless to protect
themselves from utter ruin. OF course the
success of this policy would be disastrous
to the financial interest of the whole coun-
try; but the office-holders who control the
Republican party, and who would control
Hayes be should be elected, care nothing for
that. 1t is their own interest they are
looking after, and as a prominent Repub-
lican Senator has expressed it, they believe
that there are five years more of good
stealing" yet in the South.
These are few of the most conspicuous
features of that policy which the Cincinna-
ii Convention has officially approved-t
a continuance of these methods of adnis-
tration Gov. Hayes is virtually pledged
Those who like this style of government
cannot do better than to vote for Hayes and
Wheeler.