The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-08
Civil-Sary7ce Reform.

Loot ,,ook e. was announced that Colonel
GEORGE II. BUTLER, nephe" oi "''.''"
R.F. BuTlER, OF Massachusetts M" pe."
Amounted to an Office in the far "eS'. Inv
announcement appeared 10 be S'ra,se
commentary upon the professions ""''"
Mr. HAYES had made as to his desire 70 IT,
form the civil service Of the country, bcr-
rEr being VIGOROUSLY man OF as oao eu'-
ractcr as his infamous uncle. The ncphe"
had been recommended by Senator DORSEY,
~ Artonsas. SUNSET Cox, OF New York, ana
others. We suspect that Cox was bulldozed
into writing letter which did not express
his real wishes. DORSEY belongs to the south
ern Republican party. However, the recon-
mcndations were generally held TO DC q
mere blind. The power behind them was
supnosed to be the growing and threaten
ing BEAST, whose name Is infamous through
ont the civilized world. and OF whom 1t was
guessed the President might stand IN awe
The press that knew the nephew exposed
his character to the country at once; and,
ms il now appears, to the President; Tor the
news comes that Colonel GEORGE Ii. But
1Es has been removed from the office to
which he was appointed last week.
AGAIN has Mr.. HAYES entitled himself
20 the thanks Of every good patriot,
and again has he shown that he is 4 man
OF his own head--that lie is in fact, us
in name, President OF the United states.
BEAST BuTrEH, OLIVER Z. MORTON, ZACH
CHANDLER. and the rest Of the most unscru.
pulous and unprincipled OF the Radica
leaders. were the real rulers OF the country
when GRANT was nominally President
GRANT took good care, first, OF his own rcia
tives and connexions. and, secondly, OF tho
pets of the vile partisans whom we have
named above. Remember how SIMMONS
was by GRANT made collector OF customs al
Boston in spite of the protests OF all the
most influential merchants and business
men in the Republican party IN that city
because BEAST Butler desired and had ask
ed for his appointment, and then think OF
HAYES s~remoya of BUFFERS nephew I'm,
der the circumstances we have detailed, ano
YOU will he able to realize how much the
country has gained by the substitution OF
HAYEs's policy for Grantism.
AS in his treatment OF South Carolina and
Louisiana the President acted upon the true
principles OF the Constitution, and proved
himself to be more than Il mere partisan,
and thereby earned the piauditS OF the peo'
plc, so in this instance he has acted upon
the correct theory rs to what the civil ser
vice OF the country ought TO be, and has
lost sight OF mere party and personal con-
siderations. 1t will not do to say that he
has done only his duty. II Il man is not to
be praised when he does his duty he ought
never to be praised. GRANTS duty was the
same as IIAYEs's, but he could not see what
duty required, or else would not follow
where duty led. HAYES could just as easily
have quoted South Carolina by the use 81
the army as GRANT did during his admins
traton. That be did not do SO is to his
credit. So as TO civil-service reform. II he
does his duty let everybody praise him for
it. 1t has been so many years since the
country has had President who knew his
duty and performed it that all true patriots
may we'll afford to unite in lauding Mr..
HAYES if he shall continue to pursue the
path OF duty.