The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-24

failed to secure the convention, he went
around laying the blame on me and saying
that If had helper him he would have been
enabled 10 get the place. After he had been
elected through the personal endeayors of my
friends, he was pushed into prominence in
congress I because he represented senatorial
but he attributed IL to his own supposed abili-
ties and popularity. He thought himself the
And he never had any gratitude for my kind
ness 10 him, nor any appreciation of the hard
work done by ray friends TO elect him In spite
OF obstacles of his own creation. It's the ma
| ture of the mar. He never would acknowl-
edge that he owed any of his success to me,
4 but when he was beaten by the unpopular.ty
he had himself created he turned round and
laid IL all TO r,y charge. He was beaten by
his back pay record ana his connection with
the broken savings bank, and he was the only
man TO blame for his want of success.
'The back pay business wss a great draw
so strangely about it. When the subject was
under discussion in congress he was continu-
with the money. did not want to talk about
IL, for, of cot se, had decided TO cover IL back
/ into the treasury, and did not see any other
the subject up again and again, evidently, as
/ il seemed, with the hope that I would give
him some encouragement To keep the money.
I Finally, as you know, he put the money in bis
pocket and went to Europe to travel. 1t Gre
ated SO much trouble in his district, however,
that he couldn't keep It there. As soon as he
I returned from Europe he rushed to the office
of the associated press in New York to have it
. IeIe8ldpLtu over country tlat ne lad
returned the money to the tn asury. This sort
of temporiZing naturally displeased his con-
stituents and led 10 his defeat. 1t also seemed
TO emDltter him against me, and his paper has
since been hostile to me, as you know. But IL
doesn't seem to prosper"
do you suppose tue administration gives it
any help for ITS work as an Organe"
| every likely. had heard that Roberts de-
sired a foreign appointment, but L guess he
must nave given that up. He probably has
some pecuniary help from the administration.
Hayes distributes that sort OF favors when
necessary"
HAYES THINKS OF STARTING a NEWSPAPER.
But has the administration any money at
ssPlenty of it, The contractors understand.
furnish IL whenever the pressure is put on
them. know this administration is perfect
~ virtuous, and yet l believe that You and
both would be surprised if we knew how
much money it had at Its command. A gem
tleman residing now in Washington, who,
though democrat, Is nigh IN the confidence
OF the administration, and at the same time
has always expressed himself friendly to
me, told me not long ago that he had been
sent for and consulted by the president as TO
the adyisability of starting first class journal
in New York or at the capital, to support the
administration. The gentleman remarked to
Hayes that IL would cost great deal of mo ey,
but the president at once replied that money
was no object, as all that was wanted would
be furnished at once. Half million could be
supplied, i:desiIed. The gentleman, whose
real reason was that there was no constitu.
ency to support the paper If issued, got out of
the conference as best he could, and the sub
ject was not brought up again. Bat he said to
me, in speaking of the project, that the adj
nIinistration not only could squeeze out
great deal OF money for its friends but that it
was prepared to use 1t without stint. 1t does
this, too, while protesting to be anxious for re-
form in. politics"
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM DEFoRMED.
"There has been, then, no reform under
Hayes not even III the civil service?"
There least OF all. Hayes has distinguished
himself since his Inauguration by making the
worst set of appointments that ever disgraced
the nation. The number of nominees for Of
NO. hnT
serious charges are recorded is formidable, and
there is another long list of charges against
those heretofore rejected or confirmed which
is equally formidable, and Ii would disgust the
people with their president If they could read
the record. 1t viii all come out some time. If
Hayes should send in a message on civil SER
vice reform a list of these select friends and
favorites ofthe president will be published,
and il win make such an astonishing COM
mentary upon the presidents words as would
discOncert more philosophical cabinet than
that in which Evarts and SchurZ figure as re-
Look, for instance, at that man Hilliard,
whom the president has sent as minister to
Brazil. The documents presented 10 the COM
Inlttee show him TO be political adyenturer
whose private character is utterly bad, and yet
with this knowledge his name has been
pressed by the president, aud he has been sent
to the court OF Dom Pedro a monarch who has
been particularly friendly TO us, aud to whom
it ought TO be our pleasure to send
the country could avail itself. Look
at the United States marshaish ps in the
make room for a nephew OF Wade Hampton
on the recommendation of Gordon, demo-
cratic senator. In East Tennessee Mike j.
Waldron nominated last spring and again
at the special SeSSion-his nomination falling
, with both sessions after having been COM
1nissioned last summer, and illegally, too. His
character was really too bad to pass-as the
president found-but one would have sup
posed at the time that this democratic carpet
Dagger was the only eligible man for the place
in the state OF TenneSSee-and perhaps he was,
for the purposes for which he was wanted
might go through the list and show You Scores
OF such inStanceS-where men were nominated
simply because OF political obligation or pres
sure by a friend of the admin istratiou, and al
ways without any regard TO personal fitness
, and character. Yet the president in the mean
, while keeps up such q chatter about reform OF
civil service that the people content to
take the word for the deed and allow them
selves TO be openly hoodwinked. You may
take my word for IL, that this subject will be
thoroughly discussed at no distant day, and
then there will be no escape from the conse-
quenceS for either president or cabinet. There
must be day of reckoning for ali this evil"
GOLDEN SILENCE BETTER THAN SILVER SPEECH.
"AIay ask you, Mr.. Conkling, why you have
not spoken on the silver bill? You know that
fault has been found on this point by the po-
litlcal critics?"
'Let me turn questioner and ask what was
the use of speaking on the subject? Before the
bill came to the senate il was evident that it
would pass by more than a twO-thirds major
ity. IL would be IA mere waste OF ammuDi tlon
to stand up and attempt TO argue against such
an array of votes, and would do nobody any
good. Besides, the New York daiies-tne
Times and others-had precuded the use of all
arguments by their hysterical methods of at
lacking the silver men. They thought they
could carry the day by calling the silver men
lunatics and idiots. and speaking of a great
popular movement as craze. This was no
way to do. The men leading the movement
are neither idiots nor fools. You nor do not
agree with them, and yet We do not believe the
financial world is coming to an end because of
their success. But The New York papers have
raved as If all were lost in that event, and the
silver men have merely smiled and pushed
their forces on. They know-aud we all know
that the great dallies of New York are under
the shadow or Wall street and controlled by its
money bags, and that they have the Idea that
nothing is known about finance outside of
Wall street and its Immediate neigh borh God.
Some OF us know better, and it is certain that
the style of argument msinly used by the OPP
ponents of the silver bill has been of such n
I nature as to strengthen the hands OF the sup
pOTteTS'Of that measure.
"a great deal of opprobrium has been cast
upon senator Jones, of Nevada, for his sup
posed personal interest in the bill. He mas
been called the Silver Croesus and mining
nabob and IL has been given out that he is
largely interested in silver ventures of one
! Tort nrQ no mil laaO