The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-05
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HAYES, EVlRTS AND SHERMAN.
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this laudable revolution is to be carried
ont. The so.cal!ed independent presses
which upheld Grantism are now incoheri
ent in glorifcation of the wonders the
sham President has brought about IN the
way ofreform. Letters without end are
forcing their way into print from stray
corners where liberals, independents,aud
disgusted patriots have hitherto hidden,
Joining in praise of the things of good re-,
pute begun by the new administration.
Ifthe gushing prints are to be believed, q
new, era has been begun, and the cause
of good government is now on its best
legs, To say nothing Of Hayes himself,
or his probable ulterior motives, let us see
what warrant the land has for accepting
the promise Hayes makes to deal honest
ly with the things thatare not his. Nor
ton LAYS it down as an axiom that q presi-
dent is what his party is; no more, no
less. Is Hayes disproving this? His
cabinet appointments and the method Of
their selection, will give the best clue for
an inteligible answer. Evarts. the pre-
mier, is the central figure of clique Of
feather-headed neophytes in New York,
who were lost in admiration of genius in
finding enough to say to hold jury eight
davs in an adultery trial in which Beech
er was defendant His political instabili-
ty has hitherto deprived him ofthe coun-
tenance of his feQow-citizens in New
York. In 1879, he recognized the scans
dalous msgovernment of his Iarty, but
lacked courage to make open confession.
He denounced Grant as the sum of all
political villainies and imbecilities, and
mis- administration blight upon republi-
canism. In 1875, he found voice to titly
condemn the Kellogg carpet'bag mon
strosity in Louisiana, when popular wrath
was hottest over Sheridan's banditti dis
patch. An old school-fellow and college
mate of Tilden, the two men have gone
hand in hand with each other in gener-
GUS rivalry, professionally, while differ.
ing politically. When Hayes was dis
covered at Cincinnati, his late pleader
and present premier waited until the re-
suit at st. Louis before deciding which
side of the contest he would take. His
adherence of the tendencies of his party
was freely offered in his immediate circle
HAYES he didn't know and didn't mean
to take up arms for. Jealousy of an old
companions better fortune paralyZed his
tongue as to Tilden until the very last
hour of the campaign, when frantic pres.
sure pushed him into the eminent, and at
the moment deadly, breach, for it was
plain even then that Hayes was bound to
be beaten at the polls. 1t was not until
the post-election campaign began that
EVarts opened that extraordinary series
of maneuvers which have been rewarded
by the first place in the cabinet. Long
after the sixth day of December, when
the electoral colleges assembled in the
various States, he had been heard to de-
clare that there could be no successful op-
position made against Tilden's election.
That election had been an accomplished
fact, and the rufian clamors of the car
pet-baggers, fortified by tons of affldavits
couldn't alter the result. He was, as
Grant himself declares, ready to take Til
den's case before the Commission, and
expected to do it until the last moment,
when, as it is strongly limited, office and
honor as we'll as money were held out by
Hayes and not by Tilden. He won his
case and now reaps the spoil-but can he
be really accepted as an exponent of that
pure political stream which is to flow
through the land, of which Hayes is the
well-spring? Shaky as Evarts is in the
essentials of an administrator of reform,
John Sherman is still shaker. Twenty
years ago this selfish and calculating poll
tician went to Washington poor man in
the strictest sense of the term. He was
moor in the very chances which make |
men rich. His kin were poor. Yet, in |
spite of these disadvantages, notwith- |
standing the fact that he has been limit
ed to his congressional salary as legiti- |
mate means as support and prosperity, he |
is rated in Washington as millionaire. |
He has fine estates in that city, fine es- |
tates in Ohio, and is in no disrepute with |
his bankers. Honest men never grow
rich in congress. But ifhe had been per-
sonally above reprosch in his financial
ventures, his conduct since the election
would not recommend him as chief in.
Gtrument in any genuine reform. For 80
soon as Chandler had outlined his plot
for the seizure of the Presidency, it was
FISHERMAN the main details we're intrust-
ed In Louisiana. His insolent disregard
of public decency or official amenity can
not have passed from the public mind.
Sent ostensibly to join partisans of the
1ilden candidates in witnessing and COM
pelling fair count, he was first to throw
off the mask, and i'll Collusion with Stan
lev Matthews, drew up letter to Pal
mer and Trumbull, which will stand to
the end of time as the self-conViction of
consummate political knave. Grant had
been handed dispatch from Hewitt OF
Trumbull, stolen from the wires in trGnsittI
and at the behest of his fellow-partisans
he sent copy to Sherman, Matthews,
Logan and others, to 60 South and wit
ness a "fair count" Sherman in this let
ter 10 the visiting statesmen" carefully
denied the right of Northern men to in
terfere with the internal affairs of SOW
ereign state, even to the extent of look
ing on at the counting of ballots which
were to decide the contest for forty-ive
millions of people.
His shutting, disgraceful apology for
the forged returns, the fictitious afidavits
made out in the custom house, and his
general lack Of fair dealing left very bad
Impression in New 0rleans--an impress
sion which extended TO Washington
when, in defiance of all the precedents
and decorum Of the Senate, he forced up
on the body and in The Record of its de-
bates the grotesquely untruthful report
drawn up BY himself and Garfield as a
chart for Grants guidance. During the
months of uncertainty preceding the for
nation of the commission he was far be-
low caste even in his own party, and the
bitterness with which he opposed the
electoral bill in the Senate revealed his
distrust of the justice of bis cause, since
he feared to submit the facts to compe-
tent tribunal. To select a politician Of
this disreputable sort to fill the place
which Hsyes's friends in Cincinnati
pledged themselves to give to Bristow, is
to burlesque reform. In all the cabinet
material hshed from the depths Of politi
cal obscurity, Grant never succeeded in
getting more slimy thing than he whom
Hayes plants in the treasury as reward
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