Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-23
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
PoIical-v vanderbnrs Wul-LOtIery
DeaIers-Buslness.
POLITICAL.


him a much greater man than they
had any idea of, and the Democracy
are gnashing their teeth at the splen-
did success that has attended his ef-
forts to do what he promised in his
letter of acceptance and inaugural
address. The Republicans knew
that Gov. Hayes was a well-mean-
ing man, who meant what he SAID,
but as Grant had failed to make any
reform in the line of civil service,
they had do idea that it was possi-
BILE to do it. The Democracy be
Iieyed that all his talk was of the
ante-election order, that nothing
would come of it, aud that they
would have "broken promises" as
electioneering capital. Both are dis
appointed. Hayes promised reform
and be is carrying it out. The "easy
going, well-meaning man" has de-
veloped into an iron-handed, strong
willed intelligent man, who knows
what be wants and proposes to do It,
In his hands civil-service reform is
an accomplished fact. The office
seekers who did not believe that he
was in earnest are coming back in
droves, their carpet bags ightened
by the exact weight of the recon-
mendations they took with them.
They have all met with the same
answer: "The incumbent is a good,
capable man, snd the good OF the
service does not demand change"
"But my services in the cam
paign?" ''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 a business and is
in politics for purely business rea-
sons goes away sorrowing to his
member of Congress, Up starts the
Hon. Mr.. Blank, with blood in his
eve, and he demands the appoint
ment of his friend. The same i'm
perturbable politeness ana the same
Roman firmness meets him. "There
will be no changes made for party
reasons. If the President incumbent
is unfit for the place, show it, and
we will put a better man in, and
your re commentator 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,
self-possessed, the President sits,
paying no more heed to the storm
ing and raving, than as though it
was the softest zephyr. Oh ye peo-
pie, do you know why President
Hayes is in position to do thisP
Lean and apply the same to your
local politics, and get good govern
ment all around. This is the secret
he don't owe anybody any favor
for his nomination or election. He
never asked for the nomination, he
never asked for the election, and he
is complicated with nobody. Conse-
quently he has no friends to reward
or enemies to punish. He is Presi,
dent because the people wanted him
to be. @@He has no onessto thank, for
he asked no one for his vote or in
fuenee. In short, the office sought
him-not he the Office. He can af-
ford to do as he thinks best, for he
is in no ones hands. There are no
rings or cliques controlling him, and
all the efforts to organize them have
been failures. Rutherford B. Hayes
not a clique using his name, is the
President.
And so there is disappointment.
The Republicans are jubilant and
the Democracy are depressed. "Why
blast it," said one in my hearing
yesterday, ''If be keeps on this way,
for year I shall have to vote for
him myself" eyes," said another,
"and when we have to vote for a
Republican, what becomes of the
Democratic party?" That bothered
them. 1 predict that Gen. Hayes
will so run the administration that
there viii be opposition to him, long
before his four years are out. He
is an honest man, and. man of will.
What more can we want in a Presi-
dent? As it stands now there is no
Democratic party in New York, ex-
cept in the grog-shops and gambling
hells. The respectable Democracy
are giving the administration a
hearty support, for after all, busi-
ness is of more Importance than poll
tics in business community. The
era of good feeling is at hand:
THE VANDERBILT WILL.
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. H., say that he
made no complo omise with the other
children, but the friends of the 9TH
er children say he did. 1t is rumOred
that he promised if they would let
the will go through without opposi-
ton, that he would give them mil
lion apiece, and that. rather than