The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-07
HAYEs's INAUGURAL.

in substance as follows: Fellow Citizens
Called upon by four perjured radical thieves
who managed the Louisiana returning
board, and eight equally infamous creatures
who constituted a majority of the late
radical deadfall commission, gotten up
for the purpose of making me presi-
dent of the United States in defiance of the
will of the people, 1 feel the weight of
the glorious crime resting upon me, but
with the aid Of his excellency the devil,
who has never deserted the radical cause,
and the fidelity of the friendship OF Morton,
who has outlived his legs, hope to be
worthy of the confidence of loyal conspIra-
tors generally. Fellow citizens, it becomes
me in this august moment, after having
taken the oath of Office, which did not kill
me, to acknowledge my obligations
to the perjured patriots and thieving devo-
otees of liberty, and to announce briefly my
policy as the crime cursed chief magistrate
of a degraded country and swindled people.
Recognizing the necessity of money in
bringing about civil service reform, il will
be my pleasure to see that the most accom-
plished thieves of my party are placed
where they can do the most good
for the present and future well
fare of my party. The radical
party under my illustrious bride taking pre-
decessor, honestly earned the title of the
great thief party of the country and of the
century In this regard 1 shall use my con-
stitutional prerogative to prevent any back
ward movement. 1t is possible some
old thieves may be turned out of Office.
When such is the case l desire
that my patriotic countrymen shall under
stand it is for the purpose of putting
some thief ia Office who has hitherto been
overlooked by my illustrious bride taking
predecessor. Fellow citizens, / regard it
as my duty in this, my first official
| announcement to recommend the Louis
| lana returning board machinery as
the best calculated to preserve the suprem-
acy of the radical party. 1t has more lives
| than cat, and can manufacture per-
| juries faster than Colorado grass
hopper can lay eggs. L express the hope
that the model will be closely and critically
examined, and that my friends and the
friends of the devil will see to it that similar
machines are established in all the states
where our constitution loving party holds
sway.
Fellow citizens, L desire in my first official
announcement to acknowledge my obliga-
| tons to the radical electoral dead
| fall commission. Without it truth
would have prevailed. With it
the sacredness of perjury has been main
tanned The sublime purpose of fraud has
been carried out, and 1 am glad to assure
you, my countrymen, that all hell rejoices.
Il should be derelict, my fellow citizens, if
were to omit to mention my obligations to
the profound corruption and rottenness
of the supreme court. 1t has furnished
us, in the hour of peril, three judges
whose depravity will compare favorably
with anything hell has produced since its
corner stones were laid. For elegant and
polished scoundrelism, Judge Bradley wears
| the horns, and is entitled to the largest
measure of hell deserving panegyric. l de-
sire to say that no perjury was too big or too
horny for him to swallow and digest; no
fraud. no matter what its proportions, was
too colossal for him to approve. AS patri-
otto damned scoundrel, he is entitled
to your confidence. and it is my pleasure to
recommend that my patriotic thieving off,
cials at once commence laying away a GER
tain portion of their swag to build Judge Ju-
das Bradley monument.
"Fellow citizens. next to Morton, Bradley
| and that eminent statesman and patriot ].
Madison Wells who has accomplished so
much in utilizing fraud for my elevation to
the eminently damning position of
crime cursed president of the
\ Louisiana returning board, made up of
perjured thieves and gutter vagabonds,
desire to ask your patriotic attention to
that elegant specimen OF feminine patriot
ism, Eliza Pinkston, of Ouachita parish,
Louisiana, whom my damphool co-laborer,
Murat Halstead, immortalized. Eliza is
prostitute-black as hell-but Murat Hal
stead took to her; he praised her, and went
into business with her, and Murat is
patriot or parrot-anythin in fact,
to help the cause of radicalism.
l shall regard it as a duty and privilege to
recognize the great services this buzz-saw
representative of perjury has done for you,
for me, for our party and the cause of
fraud, and shall hold myself in readiness to
exhaust my power as the president of the
| glorious thief, fraud and perjury party to
see that such angelic specimens of the mud
sills of my party as Eliza are taken care of
from the public crib.
Fellow citizens, | now enter upon the
duties of AN Office to which have been ex
allied by'fraud and perjury, returning board
and deadfa4commission scoundrelism. I'm
der such circumstances, 1 feel profound sat
isfaction. Fifty thousand year is enough