The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-03
THE HON. DON KEY.
THE FIRM OF SHERMAN, EvARTs AND
sCHURZ, DEALERS IN REFORM.
The Mobile Municipal Elections.

New YORK, August %, 1877.
| Dull as this summer Is, IL has it's gayeties.
Among them probably should say chief are
| the speeches of our excellent and wsl-meaIl-
ing old friend tho Hon. David M. Key, more
famillarly known as Dave Key, and, by the
| wholly irreverent. sometimes termed
| DON KEY. -
It should be observed, tst. That tho Hon.
David delivers his speeches on the wing, as
1t were; 3D. that he fires them off ut flocks of
New Englanders; and Sd, that, having the
Southern policy lying heavy on his stomach.
some of his tttterances are marked by that pc
euliar incoherence which frequently happens
Immediately after dinner. II any man i'm
agines that the above suggestion refers TO
post prandial fumes Of wne shoot him on the
eight spot: for s not Key travelling with the
only strictly temperance Administration we
have had for eight years
NO, IT is NOT WINE
1t is. as | said. the Southern policy which
lies heavy on the stomach Of Key, derangng
his digestion and thus impairing the lucidity
Of his intellectual processes. You must re-
member that Key is the embodiment of the
Southern policy in the flesh He is. In fact,
the sample whom Mr.. Hayes selected to ex-
hibit North as an instance Of the efficacy of
| his policy of concliation Now it happens
that New England is the especial region
where skepticism doth most prevail touching
the genuineness of that acceptance of the
situation which is based upon the old flag
and u postoflice. Accordingly Key feels the
necessity of the situation. and makes special
effort to exploit the depth and abidingness Of
his "coneiiation" There Is no harm in it.
Neither is there harm in Key. He is simply
q sincere, earnest child of nature from East
Tennessee; by all odds too sincere and earn
est for u Cabinet which contains three such
intimate acquaintance Of Satan as John
Sherman, Evarts and Carl Sehurz.
| You observe that Key is the net result Of q
peculiar situation. Hayes had determined,
past all remonstrance to "have q representa-
tive Southern man In his Cabinet Matthews
and Foster had fixed that beyond the arts of
John sherman to revoke. The original de-
sign of Hayes was to call to his side two
Southern men-real representative men OF
the Southern people. His favorites were
| JOSEPH u. JOHNSTON AND JOHN q. BROWN,
and for the sake Of strength of character and
force Of mind In his councils, more's the pity
he didn't get them. But tho Radical opera
tors who had Hayes in tow in the early days
Of his administration did not want any South
ern men Of force and ability in the Cabinet
John Sherman, Evarts and Carl Schurz, to
whom Cabinet places had been bartered
months before the election, determined that
Hayes should not be brought in contact with
any such Southern Influences as mon of the
stamp Of Johnston and Brown would have
exerted in Cabinet positions. AS 1t was,
they felt that they had him in their hands
and they knew that the influence of two such
strong minded healthy-thinking Southern
Democrats as the two have named would
soon open Mr. Hayes eyes to the hollowness
of their pretensions. According to the pro-
gramme Of the now celebrated
FIRM or SHERMAN, EvARTs & SCHURz.
Hayes was to merely hold the succession to
| the Presidency in trust for whichever one Of
the two senior partners might appear most
available in 1880.
Thus the firm wanted to SO engineer Hayes
whim about having a Southern representa-
ton in his Cabinet that 1t might result in the
selection Of figurehead sufficiently promi-
nent to honor the whm without being forci-
BILE enough to joopardizc their designs. Aided
by the advice of Joe Medil, they pitched
upon Key. And now the country begins to
discover how perfectly he fills the bill l
must be permitted in view Of these facts, to
exhort my friends, the able Southern editors,
not to tear their hair nor rend therlinen over
| the speeches Of Key. The obnoxious words
'erring brethren wore undoubtedly nomi-
mated in the bond. The Hon. David, when he
| junkets about New England weeping copi-
| ously over the wickedness of the cause which
he helped in his feeble way to lose, is simply
| earning his wages as an employe Of the ccle-
brated firm OF Sherman, Evarts * SchurZ. He
cannot possibly do any harm. He may, on the
other hand, do some good; for that his posi-
tion will serve to show how illogical was that
conception of policy which involved an at
tempt to make respectable a Cabinet in which
seats had already been promised to the sew
cral members Of the above firm.
Speaking Of Key as
A CHILD OF NATURE
from East Tennessee, reminds me of q re-
mark of poor Jim Nye, anent Andy John
son, in the days when A. j. having failed to
capture the Democratic party, had begun to
let the party capture him:
"By the gods!" exclaimed Nye, 81 there
may be honest d-n fools in East Tennessee,
and there may be smart d--n scoundrels.
We've tried an experiment with the latter;
now, if we ever get a chance, let's see how
the former would work" Perhaps Hayes is
acting on the profane suggestion of the un-
fortunate Senator from Nevada
This brings me to the point Of surveying
IL l.
were told, was to make the lamb and the lion
lie down together, and
THE NIGGER TO LEAD THEMy
has amounted to: simply the withdrawal Of
the Federal army Of occupation from the two
conquered provinces of Louisiana and South
Carolina. Nothing more; and this because it
was military necessity. AS for the rest,
it is now notorious that Hayes is completely
enmeshed in the spiders web OF Sher-
man, Evarts and Schurz, who, under