The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-14
Efforts TO Capture Indiana for Hayes

There will not be much grief over JEW
ELLIS exodus from office. for while pre-
tending to be in sympathy with reform, no
member of the Cabinet was more subEnis-
sive to the Presidents wishes, or more
ready TO execute his commands, even when
they interfered directly with the manage
ment of his own department. AT one time
he affected to be in accord with Mr.. BRIs-
row, but GRANTS disapproval soon changed
him to an enemy, and he Joined his col
leagues in the cowardly persecution Of the
only man in the Administration whose
public services have reflected the least
credit on IT,.
Boss SHEPHERD, bogus Senator SPENCER
aud other familiars of GRANT, took u dead
~ hatred to JEWELL for some personal
cause ut the start, and they have followed
him up sharply ever since this difference
began. Mr.. MORTON, who wanted an un-
scrupulous tool for Indiana in the coming
| campaign, utilized this hostility, and had
no difficulty in convincing GRANT that to
dismiss the little bob tailed clam Yankee"
as SHEPHERD called him-would be
good thing, especially II he would put one
OF his own "strikers" IN the place.
JAMES N. TYNER, the new Postmaster
General, is only known as a local politician
of Indiana attached TO Mr.. MoRToN's for
tunes, and who, while serving in Congress,
acquired the reputation of being an agent
of the Post Office Ring and other jobbery
in that department, with which he became
connected through his opportunities on
the Post Onlce Committee, and subse-
| quenty on the Appropriations. BLAINE
| placed him there with quick eye to the
| fitness of things and IA thorough knowledge
OF the man. He will, of course, use the
Post Once as partisan machine to help
HAYES in Indiana or rather to give NOR
TON the control OF the State, so that he may
have the first lien on HAYES in the contn-
gency of success. But this is q two-edged
sword. and the people who know MORTON
and TYNER will be apt to look on the ar
rangement with a different eye from these
traders in politics.
The removal of Mr.. PRATT, Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, for protesting against
the Presidents interference with that bu-
reau in dismissing Mr.. YARyAN, is not
likely TO help matters in Indiana, whore
Mr. PRATT is well known and respected
for high character and integrity. He
stands out in contrast with the plunderers
| and spectators who flourish at Washing
ton rs the props of Grantsm, and has con-
Quoted his Office SO as to gain the public
confidence.
There can be no installing the design OF
all these recent movements, beginning
with the BRIsTow rupture aud ending
with the insulting displacement OF Mr..
PRATT. GRANT is determined to make n
record which Will stand out in history as
the most disgraceful that ever this coun-
try experienced. Vindctive at his own
defeat for third term, and desperate in
his purpose to convert the Government
into political engine for the prevention
OF reform, he will stop at no extremity to
satisfy this personal vengeance, while con-
tributing to the election of HAYES GRANT
well knows that the success Of Gov. TIL
DEN would inaugurate radical reform
that would not only sweep away every
vestigo OF the existing corruption, but
would also expose iniquities now hidden
in tho public archives and accounts, by
which the Infamous system has been car
ried on.