New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-09

we have had too many dsappolntments to share ms
touching and enthusiastic faith that :" the troubled
waters of sectional strife to be stilled brawl-
ing politicians must take back seats, and every one
Will be well pleased, except the partisan wircprN-
ers." Nevertheless we just as delighted to hear
that the Presidents first act has been 10 secure
Cabinet which will aid him in administering the
Government on broad national principles" But
what means, IN the self-same letter the assertion
that Gen. Sherman Will endeavor 70 improve the OPP
pOrtunity afforded by the personal friendship of the
President toward him and his brother, the Sec
rotary. by reviving an old army measureI
What broad, national principle is involved IN being
personal friend of the President brother TO one
of his Cabinet 1t should not be forgotten that the
trump card of the Reformers is President Hayes's
more than Roman severity toward his friends ana
relatives. They may be endowed with thousand
virtues but all go for nothing against the one crime
of being his friend his or his wiies cousin
He shares the pr6terba mOdesty of Ohio. and we'll
nigh harms the Republic by keeping his own friends
in the background We all know how at the last cleo
ton that shy State hung coyly in the rear and had
to be sweetly forced 10 the polls by outside par
barans to give her faint voice for her own SON. In
like manner. the jubiant Reformers tell MS, Oov'
Hayes refused 10 appoint TO an important once
gentleman Of high character earnestly urged for the
place by nearly all the Republicans of the cty, only
for the reason that the proposed nominee was an
intimate personal friend for many years But before
our admiration of this heroic course has had time 10 he
seriously nitigated by the misgving az to whether
personal friendship is a constitutional disqualified
ton for Office the Refonner cheerfuly records that
"the appointment of Gen. +. c. F. Smith of Cincin-
natl is the Presidents own appointment. When the
Secretary Of the Treasury said the President that
bo 10 70 Ike
President replied that he thought he knew just the
right man, his friend Gen. Smith of Cincinnati" And
while we are vet wrestling with these antaGonlsuc
statements and wondering whether the rejected
nominee will not make a fuss in the family when
he hears of II, forth fares again our dapper ke-
former, and with bland and beautiful unconscious
ness of any discrepancy announces that Alfred l.
Lee the Presidents former private secretary, holds
the position Of Consul-General 10 Frankfort" and
Robert Schuyler Gardiner Of West Virginia who
was major of a regiment which President Hayes
commanded at one time during the war
has received the appointment OF Consui-Ueh-
eral at Melbourne, the salary of winch Is
$500 per annum," and Gen. Noyes, who
made the nomination If Gov. Hayes in the Cincln-
natl Convention. has been appointed Minister to
France" and "the Postmastership Of Baltimore If
to he given to Gen. Z. b. Tyler under whom the
President served during the war = and so Fast they
come. fast they come Faster and faster, Chief,
vassal. page, and groom, Tenant and master; and
still the undismayed RefOrmer opens his mouth and
bravs anew "No NepOtism in the Hayes Admins
tratiOn."
The President looked all Mr.. Stlllwelrs
papers carefully through and then looking HtIlWeH
fun in the face said: Your papers are uueNcepIoh-
able. There Is nothing IN your record when oots
not to show that you are fally qualified ler the
position; but there Is one iusapeTable objection to
f4f of
your wife j. a favOTte cousin of Mrs. Hayes.
Now we must draw the line somewhere be
tween belief and disbelief, and l draw mine at
wife's cousins husbands. Whatever becomes of
Civil Service Reform I openly ayow that do rot
believe one word Of this story! Look az IT, If Presi-
dent HAYES was determined to reject StliweH ire
spective Of his papers, why did he take up Lis
valuable time in carefully looking them al through
As Mrs Sulwell was Mrs Hayes's fayoIite cousin,
are not President Hayes and Mr.. Stillwell on good
enough terms with their own wives 20 enable the
President to know SdiwclFs qualifications without
looking at his papers, and to enable StillweA TO
know the Presidents principles without the expense
and fatigue of journey to Washington to ind
them OUT
In the light even of unassisted reason, TO one Int
resolute Refomcr can believe this story Who
toldltY Ne; the President surely. Even if he could
summon Spartan firmness enough to suppress his
wife's favorite cousins husband, nothing but total
depravity could induce him to proclaim the fact
and thus throw both Mrs. Hayes and Ms. Stllwcl
into a state of mind For Of course, Mrs. stiilweH
would Immediately rise up in her wrath and de-
nand to know why Mrs. Haves's cousiA's husband
was any more dangerous SO tie liberties Of the re-
pubjc than Mrs Uaycss brother Josephs wifcs
husband! OF course S,ilwell Told IT. and OF course
to suit himself. Probably there is no SuiweA. II
There is undoubtedly the President loohed him full
iu the face and said: "StillweH, Won are q humbug
and fraud I have tolerated you bither;o, not be-
cause YOU we're Mrs. Hayes crandmotAers third
cousins brotller-nJaw', stepson, but because you
were Door devil whom Il was unlawful 10 kA
though Of no earthly use alive. Then, however
You were only a domestic eNcre4cence. Hanging
on the verge Of the Government YOU would be
public rae-and-tatter. Here are $50 10 pay yonr
fare TO yancouvers Island and if ever catch You
the White House grounds again | VIII have ecu in
the District Jail in miuutcsP and instantly went
up,etairs like the good family man be is, to consu!t
with his brOther-in-laW's brotley-in-law, Stanley
Matthews, ~ 70 whether the play should begin at
once OF whether they would better rchsarse the
Millennium q little longer before they performed ia
il!
But we have a right TO ask tie rgfouncrs to keep
The peace among their quarcsome inanities just as
strictly a. ii thcy were Lot Ire fruit OF spontaneous
generation. GAIL HAMILTON.
May 49, 1877.
A MEMORIAL BUST or MAXIM FOR CENTRAL
PARK.
With the bust Of Joseph Mazzini. Just east