The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-22
0lr New York Letter.
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Dealers Business.

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find him a much greater man than
they had any idea of; and the Dem
ocracy are gnashing their teeth at
the splendid success that has at
tended his efforts to clio what he
promised in his letter of accept.
ance and inaugural address. The
Republicans knew that Gov. Hayes
was well-meaning man, who meant
what he said; but Grant had failed
to make any reform in the line of
civil service, they had no idea that
it was possible to do it. The DEM
ocracy believed that all his talk
was Of the election order, that
nothing would come of it, and that
they would have "broken promises"
as elcctionecring capital. Both are
disappointed. Hayes promised re-
form, and he is carrying it out.
The easy going, wcll-meaning man"
has developed into an iron-handed,
strong-willsd, intelligent man, who
knows what he wants and proposes
to do it. In his hands civ;l-scrvice
reform is an accomplished fact.
The office seekers who did not be-
lcve he was in earnest are coming
back in droves, their carpet bags
lightencd by the exact weight Of
the recommendations they took with
them. They have all met with the
same answer: "The incumbent is a
good, capable man, and the good of
the service does not demand Il
change" "But my services in the
campaign?' "They go for nothing
whatever. Every citizen did what
he could to elect the man of his
choice. We recognize nothing of
the sort, and shall not. Good SER
vice is what we want. Good morn
ing And so the applicant who
has made politics business and is
in politics for purely business rea-
sons goes away sorrewing to his
member Of Congress. Up starts
the Hon. Mr.. Blank, with blood in
his eye, and he demands the ap-
pointmcnt of his friend. The same
impcrturbable politeness and the
same Roman firmness meets him.
"Thcre will be no changes made for
party reasons. If the present in
cumbent is unfit for the place, show
it, and we will put a better man in,
and your recommendation will have
its weight. But there will be no
change except for cause" And
the Congressman storms and raves,
but it all amounts to nothing. Cool,
sclf-posscsscd, the President sits,
paying no heed to the storming and
raving. Why is President Hayes
in a position to do this? Learn
and apply the same to your local
politics, and get good government
all around. This is the secret-he
don't owe anybody any favor for
his nomination or election. lie
never asked for the nomination, he
never asked for the election, and
he is complicated with nobody.
Consequently he has no friends to
reward or enemies to punish. lie
is President because the people
wanted him to be. lie can afford
to do as he thinks best, for he is in
no ones hands. There are no rings
or cliqucs controlling him, and all
the efforts to organize them have
been failures. Rutherford b. Hayes,
not a clique using his name, is tho
President. lie is an honest man,
and a man of will. What more can
we want in . President? AS it
stands now there is no Democratic
party in New York, except in the
grog-shops and gambling hclls.
The respectable Democracy are CIV
ing the administration a hearty
support, for after all, business is of
more importance than politics in a
business community. The era Of
good feeling is at hand.
The contest Of the Vanderbilt
will, has ended in smoke. All OBJ
jections are withdrawn, and the
will was duly probated, Tuesday.
The friends of Vim. ii. say that he
made no compromise with the 9TH
er children, but their friends say he
did. 1t is rum0rsd that he prom
ised if they would let the will 60
through without opposition, that
he would give them million each,
and that, rather than wash the fam
lily linen in public, this was acccd-
ed to. This ends it.
Anthony Comstock, in the en-
ploy of the Postoffica Department,
has made a raid upon the lottery
dealers, and has arrested thirty of
them. The extent Of this business
is little understood. There are
over thousand firms in this city,
whose business is selling policies in
lotteries, of which the poor dupes
who send their money know rs lit
tie as they do of Senegambia.
With the exception of two or three,
these frauds represent no drawings
they simply pocket the money
sent them. They advertise draw
ing for the benefit of a school in
kentucky, or Nevada, or hospital
in Washington, in which capital
prizes of S250,000 and other prizes
running down to 800 are promised
to the holders Of tho "lucky" tick
cts. Where it will pay they do
send few dollars, say fifty, just
cnouoh to inNamc the poor dune,