The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-06-28
ON HAYES.
Southern Policy and Appointment
of Postmaster General Key.
Just How They Came About and for
What Purpose.

| fHon Joe Pulitzer, Of 81, Louis in N, Y, Tlmes.l
Let be remembered-and Inow speak
from personal knowledge-that in the
last days of February the leaders Of the
Republican party in Washington, and es'
peCially the confidential friends and re-
presentatives Of Mr. Hayes, were eagerly
anxious to make that bargain, as 1t was
clear the Southern members could law
fully prevent the completion oithe count
and it was Colonel Burke, the Chairman
of the Democratic Committee Of Louisi'
ana, who in the very first hour after the
decision of the Electoral Commission on
Louisiana was known, and when the de-
moralization OF the House seemed utterly
hopeless, first suggested to me the pos
sibility of such bargain, and subsequent
ly succeeded in completing it in working
with Messrs. Sherman, Matthews, and
Foster, as the most direct and trustworthy
representative of Hayes,
So that when Republicans abuse the
Surrender of President Hayes" they
should remember that but for that bar
gain he would have had nothing to sur.
render, and they would have no such ad-
ministlation as his; and when Democrats
praise they should remember that there
is great deal of difference whether stolen
property is returned voluntarily and
without reward, or only after the arrest
of the thief or the capture ofthe property
by the police Packard and Chamber
lain represented stolen property, and
Hayes did not surrender them until
after he had in advance poCketed the
Presidency as a reward and when there
was absolutely no other course left. For
even Mr.. Morton has at last publicly ac-
knowledged it to have been inevitable"
and the New York Tribune admitted the
same thing in the following lines:
"There was no other course open to the
President which offered practical solu-
ton of existing difficulties than that
which he has taken. Over and over again
it has been shown that the thing done
was not only wise and statesmanlike, but
the only thing that could be done law
fully. Finding upon careful examination
of the facts that there was no such con-
dition of things in South Carolina and
Louisiana as under the Constitution war.
ranted Federal interference, thePresiient
simply ordered interference to cease.
That is all there is of the new Southern
policy"
THAT is ALL"
The appointment of Mr. Key was not
de nominated in the bond or bargain. In
this, at least, Mr., Hayes acted from his
own free will, influenced only by his chief
adviser, Stanley 1t has never
yet been published that originally Brown
the ex Governor of Tennessee, and Vice
President of the Texas Pacific, was Of
fered this place. Mr.. Brown, however,
declined, and recommended Mr. Key,
whom, by the way, he had appointed
Senator of the United States to fill va
canCy. Now, why was Mr.. Key really
taken into the CabinetP On account of
his administrative ability or special fit-
ness? Hardly for Mr.. Key had never
held position requiring the administra-
tive capacity Of a village grocer. On ac-
count of his services to Mr.. Hayes per-
sonally, or the political party had elected
him? Hardly; of Mr.. Key had been a
fighting rebel, an active Democrat, had
stumped and voted against Hayes, and
only few weeks before his appointment
to the Cabinet, in his carefully prepared
last speech to the United States Senate,
be emphatically declared Mr.. Tilden to
be the President-elect. On account of
Lis general talents or ability2 Hardly;
for Mr., Key had no representative posi-
ton outside OF his own State, and very
little even there. Why, then, was he ap-
pointed? Let Mr.. Key answer the ques-
ton himself. Here is letter of his, no.
minally written to his brother, but in
tended for the whole South:
ITO give the President the power to
carry out his Southern policy it is impor-
tant that he have majority in both
Houses favorable to his Administration.
Whether he shall have this majority de-
pends upon the Southern Democrats. If
they oppose the Administration, elect
Northern Democrat, such as Randall or
Sayler, to the Speakership, and ally
themselves with the disafected Republi-
cans to fight the Administration, he will
be compelled to use his official patronage in
such oUGy as to give him strength IN his Oo0n
party; whereas, should Southern Demo-
Gratis wisely extend him asupport, he will
be able to deal his patronage to them
literally"
Can there be anything more plain ?
Mr.. Key was appointed as bribe, and to
the end that he might himself bribe
Southern Democrats over to the Repub.
liCan party. The letter above is the open
shameless avowal of the shameless de-
sign. No more degrading and dishonor-
able letter was ever written by any men,
Der of Grants Cabinet. Yet this act of
self-debasement is publicly shared by the
whole Cabinet and Mr.. Hayes himself.
There is no question whatever that Mr..
Keys letter represents the Southern po-
icy of Mr.. Hayes and his Administration.
And this is called civil service reform
An Administration created by fraud and
bargain, openly proClaiming its design to
continue by bribery and corruption.
The open support by Mr.. Hayes Of
great public improvement jobs in the
South forms another part Of the pro-
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