The Morning herald., 1877-12-24
WARRINGTON LETTER.
From our Special Correspondent ]

Il WASHINGTON, D. c.. Dec. %, 1877.
By some 1t Is said that Mr.. Hayes aban
doned his proposed Southern holiday tri]
because he found that the eordiality will
+ which he had been received in that section
he'd rendered him unpopular in the radica
party, and went to New York in the hope
and expectation of meeting Mr.. Conkling
or Mr.. Conkling's friends, and impressine
on them his continued faithfulness to radi-
cal Republicanism. Dispatches sent from
here last night mention projected social
meeting in New York between Hayes and
Conkling. 1t is notice able that Conklins IS
specipl committed, which, If it is to do any
good, ought to be daily in session, has ad-
journed, and the Senator gone to N. York.
1t is not likely, however, that th ere will be
any such meeting. When Hayes and Ccnk-
ling lie down together, one will be inside Of
the other.
In connection with this now noted politi-
cal quarrel, the merits of the Administra,
tions civil service reform measures are re.
ceiving general attention. Whatever the
comparative merits of Messrs. Arthur, Cor
nell, Prince, and Roosevelt may have been,
and whether or not change was desirable
there, is really important. What is impor.
tant, and what people expected of Mr..
Hayes after his Cabinet was selected, was a
general removal of office holders against
whose administration of their offices COM
plants had been made, and the substitution
of men of tried and acknowledged fitness
and honesty. Nothing OF the kind has been
done. Grant was as good a civil service
reformer, in the matter of filling offices with
proper men, as Hayes is, and Grant was
prodigious failure. In the Treasury, the |
Interior Department, the Post Office De-
pertinent, every well informed man here |
knows that the changes made have been in |
almost every case a damage to the service.
"Bob" Ingersoll, who made himseIfprom-
nent by an eloquent speech nominating
Blaine in the Cincin natl Republican Com
vention, and who declined to be Minister to
Prussia, has settled here in the practice of
the law.
In compliance with numerous requests he
ectured the other night to crowded house.
He made a remarkable impression, and half
The preachers of the city and some who are
not preachers, have since been answering
him. He lectures again in few nights.
The advertisement let alone the thousand
Or so of dollars he is sure to get from each
lecture, is fortune.
Hon. Simon Cameron, though not promi-
nent in national politics since he left the
Senate to make place for his son, does
not mean to be forgotten. He is quoted
Just now as in violent opposition to the ad>
and as believing Hayes to be
'' weak man."
Senator Patterson, of South Carolina, is
sick here. His physicians are
not hopeful of his surviving.
A great deal of unfailness is exhibited in |
the treatment of the case of DR.. Draper,
Just restored to the Navy. In this, as in |
The case of General Runkle, of which have |
before written, there is much to thank Mr.. |
Hayes for. do not know the politics of |
either Runkle or Draper, and do not think
that question ought to be mixed up with
The affairs. The simple truth is that Hayes
found the two men deprived of place, one
in the army and the other in the navy, by |
irregular, and incomplete proceedings.
They had never been legally out of the SER
vice. Very clearly Runkle was not guilty
Whether not Draper, was no business of
Hayes. He had never been tried, but had |
been put out of service and deprived Of |
pay by men who had no more legal right |
to take such action than infant had. There /
are certain well-known legal means of rid>
ding the service of unfit men. In these |
two cases these means were not employed.
Arbitrary men, acting under violent ims
pulses of war times took the law into their 1
OWN hands. Mr.. Hayes simply refused to-
continue that kind of business. He oup' =.
10 be commended for his course by al 49,
abiding citizens. no
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