Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-10-10

I Distlpics, much marvcling on these
things, for he talked not us one having
authority, but as one of tho Scribos.n
IA YES AS A UPAS TREE.
Leave all hope behind, ye who en-.
ter here" were the words which
Dantc's gloomy Imagination read, writ.
ten over the dark rocky portals of the
internal regions, 1t might apply
equity as well TO all who eutcr into
official relations with Mr., Rutherford
b. Hayes. That statesman appears to
be like the electric fish that numbs
and paralyzes all who come into con.
tact with him, whether as friend or foe.
Enemies who attack him, however
bold, brilliant or powerful, somehow or
other come out OF the fight sick, dis.
comftted and defeated, and trail their
enieebled limbs homo to their constitu.
encies to die, Friends that flock TO his
seryice-and there be many who love
oflice-seem TO suffer instant blight.
Fair regulations become tainted great
talents prostituted vast energies tor
pid and dead, 1t is because Mr.. Ruth
erford b. Hayes is FRAUD. Let us
glance back at the facts, First in his
service, after his defeat by Samuel ].
Tllden, was z. Chandler, who with
Grant, Taft and Cameron, inaugurated
the count-in Force. Tho idea at that
time was to throw out without ccre.
mony tho Tilden electoral votes in the
bayonet States, constitute Mr.. Ferry a
Returning Board of one, and put in
Mr.. Hayes with Force. For this the
army was assembled in Washington,
and military telegraphs sent up from
the White House TO barracks. This
plan had to be abandoned, for Ameri-
cans were not quite ripe for such high.
handed outrage. But where now arc
Chandler, Taft, Cameron, Wells, Pitlsin,
Packard, Chamberlain, and all the rest
of the conspirators who sought to aid
Ir. Hayes by FoRoE Force being
abandoned, or rather kept in the back.
ground, next came the conspiracy of
FRAUD. Edmunds and Hoar were its
leaders, the authors of the Electoral
Commission bill These men were
strong for evil, because they were
thought to be honorable and upright.
Had Morton or Garfield originated the
measure it would have been suspected.
These men sold their regulations for
the benefit of Mr.. Hayes. What are
they now Then came the organiza.
ton of the Commission. Morton, Gar
field and Judge Bradley, above all
others, stepped themselves in ITS in.
fanny. Where are they now2 Where
are all the men that blackened their
names in history in order to put Hayes
into the Executive Chair by FRAUD ?
Why the first thing that Hayes did
when he got in, was TO play virtuous
and turn his back upon the men who
had served him with base deeds. lie
kicked down the dirty ladder by which
he had climbed into the back window
of the White House, and left Chandler.
Taft, Morton, Garfield, Hoar, Edmunds,
and the rest groveling beneath in i'm.
potent wrath. And so they pass away
out of the respect and influence which
they once enjoyed. But Morton, Conk.
ling and Blaine were not thus to be
tossed contemptnously aside. They
arose like lions TO the assault. But
some how or other, in u little while,
they were in the dust suing for pardon.
Some deadly blight fell upon their
genius and their courage. Like the
knights of old who fought the dragons,
they fell not victims to claws or fangs,
or fire.breathing nostrils, but tainted,
stihed by the intolerable breath of the
monster. They all went homo to die.
The spasmodic struggles they are
making still TO live are their death
agonies. But il blight, torpor and
death fall upon the abandoned servants
and open enemies of Mr. Hayes, what
happens to those who seek TO live un-
der his baletul shadow How fair did
Mr.. Evarts stand before he became the
conscientious agent and spokesman Of
FRAUD and took his fee in Cabinet
position How fair did Carl Schnrz
stand before he knowingly and shame
lessly took q Cabinet position of
FRAUD ; and now all the hypocrisies
of his political life are beng torn away
leaving him naked to public contemptY
How fair did Stanley Matthews stand
Yet by his devotion to Hayes he lost
the respect and confidence of his own
party, and is to-day fallen man. Let
the reader tell over to himself the list
of all who have served Hayes, and he
will find that those who served him
best are now most bankrupt of respect,
usefulness or influence. II is because
he is FRAUD "Leave all hope be.
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