The daily gazette., 1876-07-06
HAYES AND HIS REFOR RuERs.

The supporters of the Cincinnati
| nominations assure us that il Gen
Hayes is elected President of the
United States we shall have an entire
change in the government, a reform
in every department of it, and return
to the honesty and simplicity of the
earlier days. Strange to say, there are
some persons skeptical enough to
doubt these professions; who look upon
them as the mere clap-trap of party to
be forgotten with the last speech of
the campaign. A little consideration
will, We are certain, convince these
people how unreasonable they are, and
how unfair to Gen. Hayes and his
supporters. We need only to look
over the list of the men who are man
aging his canvass to be fully convinc>
ed that the pledges made at Cincin>
natl will be honestly kept. The fol~
lowing are few of the eminent ere,
formers" who are striving to elect
Hayes and purify the government:
James g. Blaine, of Maine. This
gentleman is so anxious to purify the
government that he was himself can.
didate for the nomination atCincinnati.
During eight or ten years in national
! politics, he has accumulated fortune
which is vari0usly estimated at be-
tween five hundred Thousand dollars
and one million and half. In the
early days OF the war he sold Spencer
rifles to the government and made his
first twenty-five thousand dollars that
way. As speaker Of the House of Rep
resentatives he was the friend and
champion of all railroad schemers and
plunderers, particularly of Caldwell,
, of Boston, and of Jay Cooke & Co.
AS soon as Blaine gets better he Will
take the stump for Hayes and reform
| in Maine and Massachusetts.
Schuyler Colfax, formerly vice
President of the United States, is also
for Hayes. He will stump" Indiana
in behalf of the great cause of repub-
lican reform. Mr.. Lincoln once de-
scrihed Schuyler "as little squirrel
who was always carrying nuts to his
own nest" While in Congress there
was not job, great or small, In which
he was not sharer, He was in all
the railroad swindles. He was on
Oakes Ames' credit.mobilier list, and
there is no doubt in the opinion of
those who watched the investigation
that while filling the high office ofVice
President of the United States he com
mitted perinry in his effort to show
his innocence. de used his influence
as speaker of the House to obtain the
stationery contracts for New York
firm, and was paid for that influence.
Colfax is now one of the most enthu-
siastic Hayes men and reformers in
the West.
Columbus Delauo, eX-Secretary of
the Interior, promises Ohio to Hayes
and the reform cause 10y an over
whelming majority, He will be among
the principal speakers in that State.
Mr.. Delano was Mr.. Grants fayorite
cabinet officer, but when democrat
ic house of Representative was elect.
ed he was compelled to turn him out
with a certificate of good character,
because OF his gross corruption in Office
and the dread of Investigation. Dee
lano's administration of the Interior
Department was the most corrupt in
all our history. Under his manage.
! ment the poor Indians were swindjed
out of seventy-fye per cent. of the
moneys Appropriated for them. There
were rings in every office and bureau
Va bhO oCpait duo uO
get justice or fair play in that branch
OF the government who did not pay as
he went. Mr.. Delano stands away up
on the roll of Hayes reformers, and if
Hayes is elected he will probably put
Delano again in the cabinet.
Ex.Attorney General williams prom.
ises that Oregon will give large ma
jority for Hayes and refoIm. He will
take the field for him there as soon as
the campaign opens. Williams is a
strong rcformer. He was Grants frs
choice for chief justice of the United
States, but the Senate had some sense
of decency and propriety left and re-
fused to confirm him. He is the man
who put his hand into the contingent
fund of the Department of Justice and
used it to buy landaulets to cut
figure in Washington society. If
Hayes is elected he will probably make
him attorney general again in the in
terest of reform.
Ex Secretary Belknap is also enthu-
siastic for Hayes, and hopes to see him
elected as the reform candidate. 1t is
not probable, however, that Belknap
can do more than wish Hayes success,
1t Is hardly probable that he can even
vote for him.
BOSS" Shepherd, who has more in>
f1uence with General Grant than all
the members of the cabinet combined,
thinks Hayes is second Lincoln, and
will contribute literally toward his
election in the interest of reform. Ex,
Governor Shepherd is one of the most
distinguished reformers in the country.
He reformed the District of Columbia
to the extent of twenty millions of
Indebtedness, a large portion of which
found its way irto this pockets of the
district ring. If Hayes is elected he
has no doubt his administration will
be fully as pure and as good as that of
Grants. The "Boss" will do all he
can to elect Hayes.
General Benjamin Franklin Butler,
of Massachusetts, is another Hayes re.
former. He will take the field for him
at an early day an advocate his cleo
ton as the only man who can give the
people an honest, pure government. |
Buffers interest in pure government |