The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-02
THE rNGRATITUDE OF HAYES.

They say John A. Logan has become dis
gusted with Hayes and his administration,
and has accepted service under the Russian
car in his advance on the festive Turk.
Logan made fair fighter, and may win
fame and renown in the Russian army. But
to think of the manner in which Hayes is
going back on the very men who helped him
into the presidency is simply disgusting.
He never could have reached the presidency
if Morton, Blaine, Logan, Zach Chand-
Ter and others had deserted him in dis
movements toward the presidency. Blaine
is so angry at the manner in which he has
been treated that.he is reported as mad as a
bull" almost requiring confinement in a
straight jacket or within the walls of an IN
sane asylum to keep him within proper
bounds. Wendell Phillips roundly de-
-nounces Hayes and his administration.
Packard and Chamber ain have written
scathing letters to the Ohio pretender. now
seated in Mr.. Tilden's chair at Washington,
broadly charging that their claims to the
governorship of their respective states are
better than his own claims, and that
if they have no rights as governors
he has none as president; that he has de-
serted them basely and ungratefully when
they were largely instrumental in arranging
the returning board machinery which in its
workings placed him in the chair he now
occupies Zach Chandler left Washington
in disgust, and, it is now reported, met the
old cabinet at Don Cameron's, in Harris
burg, Penn, for the purpose of having a
meeting of the mutually disguised" and
laying the foundation for broad and system
attic opposition TO the pretender and his adj
ministration.
Old Simon Cameron, one Of the old wheel
horses of radicalism, so soon as the tendency
of the pretender's policy dawned upon him,
said: "Well, it beats hell" resigned his
seat in the United States senate and,
thoroughly disguised, sought retirement in
the kingdom that he had ruled for many
years-his own dear Pennsylvania. Morton
only keeps quiet that he may reward his
party friends with the post offices, pension
agencies and other fat pickings that are
a1oat. Hayes of course is glad to keep him
quiet at so small a cost-and so, for the pres
ent, the Indiana senator and the Ohio pre-
tender can sleep peacefully and quietly under
the same blanket. Thus we see the very
men who have aided the pretender into the
presidency are the very men toward whom
he is displaying the utmost ingratitude the
contemplation of which sends Logan to the
service of Russia, Blaine almost to the verge
of insanity, Zach Chandler into schemes of
retributive revenge, old Simon Cameron
into Punishment, and our own Morton into
the soothing refuge of post offices and pen
sion agencies. We do not pity these distin-
guished "counters-in" of pretenders to pres
idencies and vice presidencies. Hayes had
a record which ought to have warned them
that he was not trustworthy and not reliable
as to his promises. He had broken two al
ready-one that he would not be a candi-
dare against Mr.. Taft for the governorship of
Ohio, and one that he would never accept
the presidency if there was any doubt as to
his title, or, to use his own language, "if
tainted with fraud" The old adage that
honor dwells among thieves is at fault In
the greatest theft of the century we find the
chiefs and ringleaders untrue to each other,
and falling out among themselves when they
come to division of the swag.