Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-21

PoLITICAL--YANDER wILL--LOT'
Terry DEALERs-BUsINEss
New YORK, March 16, 1871
POLITICAL.

POLITICAL,
The new president is surprise to both
his friends and enemies. The republicans
are astonished to find him much greater
man than they had any idea of and the
democracy are crashing their teeth at the
splendid success that has attended his eff
forts to do what he promised in his letter
of acceptance and inaugural address. The
republicans knew that Gov. Hayes was a
well-meanng man, who meant what he
said but MS Grant had failed to make any
reform in the line of civil service, they had
no idea that it was possible to do it. The
democracy believed that all his talk was of
the ante-electon order, that nothing
would come of it, and that they would
have " broken promises " us electioneering
capital Both are disappointed. Hayes
promised reform and he is carrying it out.
The easy going, welI-meaning man has
developed into an iron-handed, strong
willed, intelligent man, who knows what
he is about and proposes to do it. In his
hands civil-service reform is anaccomplish-
ed fact. The Office seekers who did not be-
leve that he was in earnest are coming
back in droves. their carpet bags lightened
by the exact weight of the recommends
tons they took with them. They have
all met with the same answer: 1.-The in
cumbent is good, capable man, and the
good Of the service does not demand Il
change " but my service in the cam.
paign?' They 90 for nothing what
ever. Every citizen did what he could to
| oI,nt tbn ,nnn IF bip obo;oo NY,
nothing of the sort and shall not. Good
service is what we want. Good morning. "
And SO the applicant who has made
politics business and is in politics for
purely business reasons goes away sorrow
ing to his member of Congress. Up starts
the Hon. Mr. Blank, with blood in his
eye, and he demands the appointment of
his friend. The same imperturable polite
ness and the same Roman firmness meets
him. There will be no changes made
for party reasons. If the present incum-
bent is unfit for the place, Show it, and we
will put better man in, and your recon-
mendaton will have its weight. But
there will be no change except for cause. y
And the Congressman storms and raves,
but it all amounts to nothing. Cool, self
possessed, the president sits, paying no
more heed to the storming and raving,
than as though it was the softest zephyr.
Oh ye people, do you know why President
Hayes is in position to do this? Learn and
apply the same to your local politics. and
get good government all aronnd. 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 compl-
Gated with nobody. Consequently he has
no friends TO reward or enemies to punish.
He is president because the people wanted
him to be. lie has no one to thank, for
he asked no one for his vote or influence.
In short, the office sought him-not he the
office. He can afford to do us he thinks
best, for he is in no ones hands. There
are no rings or cliqucs 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 democra-
cy are depressed. "Why blast it," said
one in my hearing yesterday. eff he keeps
on in this way, for u year | shall have to
vote for him myself" Yes" said anoth-
er, land when we have to vote for IL re-
publican, what becomes of the democratic
party?" That bothered them. | predict
that Sen. Hayes will SO run the admins
tration that there will be opposition to him
long before his four years are out. He is
an honest man. and II man of will What
more can we want in n president? AS il
stands now there is no democratic party in
New York, except in the grog, shops aud
gambling heIls The respectable demo-
cracy are giving the administration +
hearty support, for after all, business is Of
more importance than politics in bust
ness community. The era of good feeling
is at hand.