The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-08-02

the electoral vote of Louisiana for Hayes,
was appointed by the latter United States
Marshal. Surely Mr., Hayes must be ac-
quilted of the charge Of reforming the
party there.
Perhaps it is in Florida that he has inn
proved the civil service. Certainly he
has not proved himself ungrateful to the
scoundrels who stole the electoral vote
of this State. Every one of them was
appointed to some Federal Office. Stearns
the last carpet bag Governor, and a most
notorious villain, received very good
berth on the commission to examine the
land claims at Hot Springs, Arkansas
1t was one of the first appointments Of
Mr. Hayes. McLin, the negro member
of the Florida Returning Board, was
made a Judge Of the Supreme Court Of
New Mexico. The other man who acted
on the Returning Board, as well as the
penitentiary convict who acted as fraud
ulent elector and cast the lS5th vote,
also hold positions in the service of the
United States. So Mr.. Hayes must be
acquitted of the charge of reforming the
civil service there.
Has he improved it in South Carolina?
Scarcely, He appointed to the most i'm
portant position in the State, that of U.
s. District Attorney, one of the most in.
famous carpet-baggers, and one who did
more to accomplish the theft of the elec.
toral vote of this State than anybody
else except Chamberlain.
In Baltimore2 He removed Collec'
tor for whose character Mr., Hayes, to
use his own written language, entertain
ed the highest regard" simply to graft
fy the most corrupt newspaper and ring
in TIE State. In ToledoP He removed
Postmaster Bowling against the most
emphatic protest of the population and
Of nearly every merchant of Toledo,
against The protest Of the Postmas err
General himself-to appoint, well, whoP
A Mr.. Reed. And what were Mr.. Reeds
claims2 They were two fold. He has a
paper in Toledo, and his brother has one
in Cincinnati, Surely no one will hesi'
tate to acquit Mr.. Hayes of the charge Of
reforming the civil service there.
Where has he improved it2 Not in
Cincinnati; not in Chicago; not in Mil
waukee; not in Detroit; for there has been
scarcely any change in these places. And
as there can be no reform or improve
ment without change, Mr.. Hayes must
here, too, be acquitted of the charge
brought against him. | am not aware
that single Federal official has been
changed in the great city of New York,
And in Philadelphia, Mr.. Tuition, who
was originally appointed by Grant him.
self for questionable services at the Bab-
cock trial, is still Collector, and in Boston
the head of the Custom House is still
Collector Simmons, against whose ap-
pointment by Grant the whole press and
the whole Congressional delegation from
Massachusetts, except Ben. Butler, pro-
tested.
Is the reform in our representation
abroad? Washburne is the best of the
lot. He has been removed to give way
to Noyes, who is Of Hayes's state, and is
said to be, by those who know him best,
a man utterly unfit for the position-a
political blatherskite of low tastes, vul-
gar instincts, little ability and still less
character. There is no improvement
here. Pierrepont, however, whose
flunkeyism makes his further stay in
London disgrace to the republic that
he so ridiculously misrepresents, is re-
tanned in the face of the scandalous fact,
conceded by the friends of Mr.. Hayes,
that Pierrepont, during the last canvass,
sent draft of$l00 600 for election purpo-
ses to Mr.. Hayes directly. So there is
no improvement here. Kasson, whose
reputation for private as well as polite
al character, is very bad in his own State
and who could not be reelected in his
own district, is sent as Minister to VII
emma. Certainly no improvement there.
And unless the improvement Of our civil
service is found in the appointment of
Mr.. Hayes's private secretary as Consul
at Frankfort, or Mr.. Hayes's friend Com
Iy, the editor Of the paper in Columbus,
most fuls0me in its pufery of the acting
President, who draws the large salary as
speci j ambassador of the United States
TO the Sandwich Islands, though he stays
in Washington. Mr.. Hayes must be ac-
quilted on this head, too.
Where, then, has he improved it2 The
echo is-where? In Washington? In
his Cabinet? Concedipg all they claim
for the two rhetorical and ornamental
members of the Cabinet, is there much
of an improvement in the Cabinet as a
whole2 Is there an intelligent and un-
preiudiCed political observer who must
not doubt, yea, deny, the political hon.
esty of John Sherman | have never
heard of even a friend of his who would
dare assert that John Sherman was an
honest man. Or Mr.. Mccormick, next
in charge of the Treasury-is this an i'm
provement2 What is the difference be.
tween the civil service under Grant,
when Chandler acted as Chairman of the
National Committee, though member
of the Cabinet, and the civil service un-
der Mr.. HayesP To-day Mr.. Mccormick
is acting member of the Cabinet, and in
charge of the most important department
of the Government. To-day he is also
member secretary and manager of the
National Republican Committee. And
Mr.. Hayes has officially declared that
these two positions are not at all inCom-
patible, and ordered Mr.. Mccormick not
to resign his position on the committee
And this is called civil service reforml
Devens, Key, McCrarv and Thompson
are, ofcourse, mediocrities who dance to
the rhetorical reform whistle Of their
two ornamental as we'll as eloquent asso'
ciates. Now, by the way can it be called
real reform to put country lawyer
from Keokuk, Iowa, at the head of the
War Department, and another country
lawyer from Terre Haute, who never saw
larger boat than those ON the Wabash
river, at the head of the navy. If civil
service reform means the discharge of
most important duties without the least
understanding of them, without the least
experience or fitness, then Mr.. Hayes
has succeeded in efectingit it. If the vir-
tual control of department by Grants
last Postmaster General, while Mr.. Key's
name serves as a fgure-head, and he
himself as secret recruiting agent for
"rebeP enlistments be an improvement,
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