American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-19

Tor years directly by
votes and acts, FIR other years by
silence or by speech, but always
Ii, a ;cor,ling to Burke.
be who, without interference, looks
OIL while under his very eyes wrong
and robbery a.e committed, becomes
All ally of the robbers, how much
more guilty OF wrong is he who has
followed the present military party,
under the lead of Grant, On its
gloomy march to personal govern
nent aud Capitalization over roads
fraught with wrong and fraud,
crime and corruption, violated laws,
and broken honor, national shame,
a disgraced Cabinet q polluted
Bench. and q prostitutrd Presi-
dency? II MIR. Schurz will show
but q solitary vote which Mr.. Hayes
ever declined to give for his party,
Or but q single word of protest
against any of the many wrongs
committed by that party, 1 shall
consider him right and myself
wrong. But not otherwise.
Four years ago Mr.. SchuIz must
have been entirely Of my present
opinion. Mr.. Hayes then stepped
out of the GOvernOrship and ran
for Congress i'm one of the districts
of Cincinnati. The people, however
title dreamed of his great destiny,
for they defeated him badly. 1t
was . strong Republican district
and y mot humilisting defeat.
There was, perhaps, but one conso-
l..tion for poor Mr.. Hayes. Carl
Schurz, then at the very zenith OF
that fame which, I fear, is now
fast fading, contributed his power
tut share to defeat him. Is Mr..
Hayes different to-day from what
be was four years ag02 Hardly.
Yet Mr.. Schurz processes to-day
that Mr.. Hayes is fit tO be Presi-
dent, fit for the most difficult task
of reforming this Government,
when four years ago he did not
think him fit to 60 to Congress
I followed Mr.. Schulz four years
ago? can follow him nowf Can
anybody who is not blind, and deaf,
aud dumb, or not without under.
staudingf Can all the sOphistries
in the world explain Mr.. Schurz's
changei
Mr.. Hayes is but the figurrheatl
put up by Cameron, Morton & Go.
TO secure q continuation Of their
power. They certainly have nom
mated INN. They have the undis
puted Leadership of the party.
They have the absolute conduct Of
the compaign. They move heaven
and earth to elect him. II he is
elected, it will be mainly through
their efforts. He is now under the
greatest obligations TO them for his
nomination he would then be I'M
der still greater obligations for his
election. Mr.. SchuTx praises the
honesty, the scrupulOus honesty OF
Mr.. Hayes. How can he then hest
tate q single second to recognize
these obligations How, as an hon
est man, hesitate to pay them Oh
But this 10 not all. Mr.. Hayes il
elected, will find in Cameron, COnk-
ling and Morton not only the absO
lutte masters of his party, but also
the leaders of the majority in the
Senate, without whose consent he
cannot even form his Cabinet, can
make no appointments, carry NO
measures-in fact, have no admin.
istration at all. What then, must
the position of poor Mr.. Hayes
most plainly be Z Already groan-
ing under obligations for the past,
he is b,xnd to solicit their aid for
the future. He sill have to derend
upon them just as much after his In
auguratiOn ~ no had 70 depend
upon them for bis nomination and
election. II he is an honest man
he is bound to them and belongs
to them for what they have done in
the past if he is prudent man,
he dOubly belongs to them for what
they may do in the future. As
long as the world exists, the crea-
tor controls the created, the supe-
rior the inferior.
In the face of all this, Mr.. Schurz
pretenjs to believe tlrat the election
of Mr.. Hayes would insure an en-
tire change from the present Grant
complete depart
ure from the leading men and mea-
sures and management of the party.
Has MIR. Hayes given any reason
for so extraordinary an expecta.
toni MIR. Schurz's idea of reform
means the utter pc litical
destruction of the Smachine," of
Grant ana Cameron, and Morton
and Conkling, and Blaine and their
of thousands Of office-hOld-
ing or Office expecting followers-in
one word. of every "machine" poll
tician. Are they all blind. that
they shOnlG SO zealousiy work for
their own destruction
Now the question raised by Mr..
Schurz is plain. Somebody must be
fooled. Who il it? Mr.. Schurz
OH one side or the hundreds of
thousands of machine politicians
md thieves, from me:ibers of the
Cabinet down to gaugers and peni-
,entiary inmates, who all Justify
,ry for poor Hayes? I ask again.
Who is most likely to be fooled in
his bargainf
Is it possible that Mr.. Schurz
cannot sec all this binselff Or
ioes he really 1--we in the pleasant
Illusion that his influence over
Hayes from outside the party will
,e greater than that of the men who
rave run it for ten years, who dared
o impeach johnson. who nominated