The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-17
Is HAYES A FRAUD!

clcClcu. Ills Tlenl manu- man anu C'po|'NHN'
keeper, John Sherman, was dispatched tc
New Orleans, certainly not without his
knowledge and advice, to aid the returning
board to hedge about and perfect the mon
strous fraud that alone secured his election
and i, was certainly not without The knowl
edge and consent of Hayes that John Sher
man degraded himself below any pretended
statesmen of modern times by writing that stu
pendously mendacioas report wnltewashing
the vlllanous acts and the characters Of the
scoundre Wells and his confederate knaveS
of the Louisiana returning board.
With blotches innumerable like these on
his character, Hayes starts out IN his pres
dental career as rcformcr-frst, In the mat
ter of civil service, and secondly, in the mat
ter of cancellation towards, the south
His pretcnsi6hs of civil service reform are
humbug on the face Of them. They consist
solely in keeping at bay and thus avoiding
the nuisance of u helter.skelter rush for office
by announcing that he will make very few
removals and new appointments except for
cause. This he can do for the most dema
gog.cal reasons, from the fact that all the
present incumbenIs were ardent supporters OF
his election and were more heavily taxed
than any other class to bear the expenses OF
the campaign Of fraud. Doubtless Zach
Chandler was fully authorized to promise
continuance in Office to the present corrupt
brood as a quid pro quo for submitting TO his
merclcss phlebotomy
But bigger fraud is Hayes's pretended
course of Cancellation towards the south To
begin with, his appointment of Key is shall.
low and transparent dodge. No one pre-.
tends that 1t means that Hayes intends to
shape his policy in accordance with that of
democracy, for that would insolve such
treachery to his own party as none but man
of infinitely more courage than he Is credited
with would dare to undertake. 1t can only
mean, therefore, that he expects Key to for
sake his own principles and take part in an
intrigue to disrupt his own party; and the
action of Key in the senate for month ante.
cedent to his appointment shows that he was
designedly shaping his course exactly in tn at
direction. Six months more will serve to un.
cloak him, when he will stand out IN his
true character, like Stanton, Dix, Belknap
and other democrats that were seduced by
previous administrations, all of whom turned
out the most Incorporate and violent haters
of their former party associates of any IN the
cabinet.
But a still more transparent and contcmp.
tible dodge Is the pretense of wish to re.
cognze the rights Of the honest majority III
South Carolina and Louisiana by installing
Hampton and Nichols as governors. The
very simplest means to accomplish that OBJ.
ject are IN Hayes's hands All he needs to do
IS to withdraw the military from those states,
where they were placed by Grant and are
now kept by Hayess order without the shad
ow Of legal authority. But instead of adopt
ing these SIMPLE and rightful means, Hayes
first gets Stanley Matthews to enter into a
negotiation with Chamberlain
and Packard to sell out their goyernorships
for some fat Office of Hayess appointment
hesitaiing to accept this disre-
putable proposal, and Packard rejecting it
with indigr alton and scorn, Hayes has moth.
ing else to propose but new election in
those states-an election for which there is no
legal warrant anywhere, and an election
which he proposes to have run by officers ap.
pointed by Chamberlain and Packard them.
selves, supervised by lieutenants, corporals
and marshals Of his own appointments
piece of packed and put-upjob election ma
chlnery by the side of which even the infa-
nous Florida and Louisiana returning boards
are the pink of honesty and recitudc
This is Hayes IN his Wanted character Of
a civil service reformer and pacifcator of
the South The whole business is such dia.
phonous frauc and humbug that il will only
serve in the future to give the more cmpha.
sls to the title Hayes has already doubly
earned. that of Ilis-Fraudulency.
=. S. Yesterdays Washington dispatches
assert positively that Hayes has given assur.
ances to the southern democrats, that as soon
as the senate adjours he will issue the orders
Withdrawing the troops from the support OF
Chamberlain and Packard He defers the
order until after the adjournment of the
senate, to prevent combinations against him
and row in that boGy. The cabinet mem
bcrs, however, profess To be wholly ignorant
of any such pledges or purpose on the part
of Hayes. Looks like more fraud
Again yesterdays dispatches say Packard
IS arming 1000 republicans in New Orleans
to NEE, the White League on the withdrawal
of the troops and swears he will not leave
the state house except through rivers of bull
lood, This looks like an incipent conspiracy
to- get up row in New Orleans to afford a
stronger pretext than the present for military
\ howl of disappointment ascends from
the legal fraternity of New York. The Van