The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-31
The Candidate of False Pretences.


The Republican party. since 1t has fallen
under the control Of its present leaders.
has been n party Of false pretences. Its
record for the past eight years has been
one Of insiucere professions and broken
pledges, and the platform adopted by the
Cincinnati Convention Is so dinmctrically
opposed to the practices of the organiza-
ton that it reads like a satire upon the
misgovernment which has distinguished
GRANTS administration.
Protesting to be in favor Of returning to
a specie basis for currency, the dominant
party has passed an net TO resume specie
payments at given time without making
any provision for carrying it into effect,
but on the contrary, while INDUCING in the
most reckless waste of the public money,
and while the present Republican Senate
has steadily resisted all efforts Of the Dem
ocratic House to procure n retrenchnent
in public expenditures. Under the pre-
tence OF a peace policy, the Indians have
been persistently robbed and wronged, I'M
til at last We have II formidable war upon
our hands, which is likely TO cost the coun-
try Enormously in treasure and lives; the
Government, MS q part OF its peace policy,
having supplied tue hostile Indians win
better aims than are given to the sol
dlers sent TO fight them. Pref ending to
favor II civil service reform, tho patronage
OF the White House has been welded in
the interest of corrupt personal favorites,
and for the worst political ends, to an eX-
tent uuheard of in the previous history II
tho republic, while tried and faithful pub
lie officers have been ANONYMOUSLY driven
out of place for fulfilling their duty IN the
prosecution of criminals who were en-
gagged in depredatlons upon the public
revenues.
But OF all the false prctences which have
characterized the Republican party since
its decentralization has become complete,
there is none more garing than that Of
setting RUrnERFuRD B. HAYES before the
people n candidate for President who is
able and willing to effect the reforms
which the decent portion of the Republic
can party are compelled to admit are i'm
pcrarivcly demanded. No one who knows
HAYES expects anything of the kind OF
him, and il is for this reason that his nom
nation has proved so acceptable to such
men as BILL kEMBLE. EFFIGY SARGENT
Boss SHEPHrup, joins j. PATTERSON, aud
other noted corruptonists, who are still
the most active aud influential leaders OF
the Republican party.
1t is not necessary to go TO Opposition
sources for evidence OF this; witnesses
among those who from partisan mo-
tives now support HAYES, have testified to
his incompetency to fulfil the most i'm
portant of the duties that will devolve
upon the next President. In the address
OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel conference u
description Of weak, harmless man, drawn
| by CARL ScHURz, and intended as II pen
portrait of HAYES, was given rs an ex-
ample Of the kind Of man whom true re-
! formers could not support for President :
and below is still better portrature of
the Republican candidate from the Boston
Advertiser, the leading Republican news
paper of New England. The extract
which we copy appeared in the Advertiser
June 4, 1873 before HAYES had been talked
about for President;
1--WE are not vet IN possession OF full nforma-
! ton concerning the reasons that actttated the
/ ohio Republican Convention TO nominate eX-
Gov. HAYES instead Of Judge TAFT, bat some OF
| them lie on the -utfacc. II was unduostionlhlv
! the work NJ the small managers OF local poti-
! cal Rings, acting IN conjunction with the men
! Of better character but no more tict, VINO insist
that candidate shall he ~ their opinion or If
| No opinion concerning tho merits Of their pii-
waite and particular hobby horses. HAYES they
| knew. lie had been Governor two t,rus,
! and there never was any danger that
! he would institute any reforms to hurt. Ito
| IN a man Of fair ability, gOud-nntured, cor
| rect In his personal habits honest, sound hi
| the Republican faith, but without much forco
| Of Independence. AFTER serving as Governor
| four years, distinguished nv no special bril-
llancy Of administration, he yielded TO Gen.
| MOVES Once since ne has been defeated for
| Congress. Before Judge rAFrs name was
/ brought forward Gen. HAYES nd publicly aud
ms positively as possible declined to be "a candi-
date. hc day before the Convention the Gin.
| cnnnti (id2ftie published an extract from a let
teI written hy Con. HAYES. In whicn he said
| wish you aud my friends 10 know that viii not
! under any circumstances, h0 n candidate against
| Judge AIT for GOYeruOr.' Nevertheless, when
| the Convention met he was n candidate, II Ia
| understood with his.Consent, ana NJ al events
| he imnegin'cly tergraphcd his acceptance Ut
| the nomination."
The accuracy OF this portal, viii bo
recognized by every one who know
HAYES, and is familiar with the history oi
his political career. lie is notorious foi
protesting that he viii not accept ONCE
aud then accepting under circumstance,
that arc not commonly considered honor