The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07
SOME SPICY POLITICS.
Side Lights on the Administration.
The Comments Of Republican Senator
ON Hayes and His cabinet and
Men and Things Generally
at Washington-A Few
Hints for the Pot
ter Committee
A Gloomy
Outlook.

Coming from Boston over the Shore Line
yesterday l fell in with two gentlemen,
prominent in public life one of whom is a
United States senator with a mind of his
own and pretty vigorous methods of ex-
preston. The conversation, in which the
senator bore the leading part. was so spicy
and so significant as showing one shade of
republican sentiment towards the admins
tration that L have thought it worth while
to write down the main points for the
Times.
1.-The republican party has gone out of
business-quit. Perhaps, though, the old
wings of the south will help us out next
time. Yet what's left of the old wings in
the south are democrats, and if you find an
Internally mean old democrat, that
don't stop at anything, you can
say with certainty: old whig once Our
African fellow citizens south are out of the
political business now. Hayes gave them a
leave of absence, until the north wakes up
again in a few years, cusses HAYES, calls the
roll, shakes itself together and makes the
south educate the blacks and let them vote
as they please. OF all the mean acts in the
history of the government this was the most
cowardly. The republican party used the
poor negro to vote into the constitution two
vital amendments, and then turned around,
after he had incurred the mortal enmity of
his late owners in voting the republican
rendered him into a slavery worse than he
was ever in before. Hayes did 1T not any
more than the party. If the party leaders
had any courage or manhood they would
have publicly purged themselves of even a
suspicion of such an act Blaine's the only
man that had the courage to fight. Why,
when the settlement of the electoral count
was going on IN congress the republicans in
the house and senate sat like whipped ours,
and like Evarts, Foster, Matthews and one
or two other unknown men, take democratic
leaders out to WOrmley's, fill their st0machs
and settle the whole thing. One word from
Thaddeus Stevens then would have been as
bolt from Jove. God! how the old man
must rave and storm (f he has sensibility)
up aloft when he sees the rut the splendid
party of action, as he knew it, has fallen
into. Imagine Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus
Stevens and Edwin M. Stanton together up
above looking down at the NANCY crowd
that now has control of the republican party.
What disgust must be within and without.
THE CABINET MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY.
Eyes, the cabinet is a sort of mutual ad-
miratlon society. Hayes has abandoned the
administration into the hands OF the differ
emit members of the cabinet. Each Is jealous
of the other, but seeing their chief is such
mild man and so little given to jar, they fear
to break out Barnum used to soak the food
peace in the cage after every meal. So with
the Hayes cabinet. Hayes soothes them,
and each member is so intent on playing his
place for all there is in it that they are very
careful not to raise suspicion in the mind
of the boss that they are not psalm singers
and loving brothers. 1t must be funny to
see Brother John Sherman tune the lutte and
line the anthem at the usual Sunday even
ing matinee at the white house. Yes,
think the present cabinet will remain until
Hayes leaves. liz he were to change any one
of them, who could he get in the way of a
respectable party man to enter his cabinet?
Certainly no republican of sufficient char
scter with any hope for the future, and no
democrat of standing, because they know
they are to have the government in little
over two years. and not one of their lead
/ ing men would sacrafice his standing
/ by doing such thing Perhaps
/ he could find some old fellow like Key out
| of work in the south, and lost all but his
| honor, sab, by the wah, sah,' who would go
in for the sake of the loaves. Hayes amt a
fool, and he undoubtedly knows the trouble
he would have to fill place IN his cabinet
with decent man. Perhaps this is a reason
why he don't change. / don't think Hayes
will go square over to the democracy. He
has all he can get now. He seems in good
health, and will last twenty years yet. He
| will live longer, perhaps, than Grant, so be
is PLAYING to be beloved of all the people
OF course he will be laughed at by all
| There's a screw loose in him somewhere.
None of the men who know him intimately
understand him. The absurd stories about
Matthews and Foster running him are all
bosh. Didn't the Anderson case convince
you of that? He don't have any intimates
l haven't seen but little of him, and only
officially and at long intervals. He i'm
presses me as a decent sort of a man. |
think he is disappointed. The liars who
fiattered him into his southern policy have
most all disappeared. | believe Hayes
would make square back down if he could,
but he has nobody to help him. The repub-
licans, 50 per cent. Of them, have quit him,
and the democrats laugh at him There's a
little paper published at Washington called
the Star, a sort of court journal They
publish each evening list of persons who
call the president For the last four
months nobody OF any note has been there.
Lamar, Hill, Gordon, all of that company of
conciliators, have shook him. None of the
leading republicans visit him. A lot of po-
litlcal beats and place hunters have taken
the place in calling on the president of the
leaders of his party, who were always well
come with Mr. Lincoln and General Grant.
The situation at Washington is, so far as the
! republicans are concerned, much worse than
Johnson's time. Hayes amt so much to
blame as Evarts, Matthews and the Sherman
bows. Hayes was a country politician of the
ordinary grade, had been governor two or
three times of his state, with nothing to do,
no veto, only the ordinary executive routine
of state. Well, you see. each two years or
so retire a governor in 38 states, so the
place amt much. He didn't know the pub.
lie men of the country. He was simply a
green country horse a course that re-
quired a thoroughbred well trained and
handled. The Shermans and Evarts and
Matthews and poor Charley Foster made a
little pool to handle him. So they did.
They surrounded him, boxed him up, saw
his weak spots, pandered to them; made him
believe he was a second Washington, and
scooped him In. A president never hears
the truth from his fiatterers.
EvARrs AND COLONEL INGERsoLL.
"Evarts? Well he is cussed sight cutel
than you'd think. Don't know how Hayes
got him? Well, I'll tell you. When the
electoral commission counsel was being Sc
lected Evarts turned up in Washing ton
lobbying, most likely. He never would
have been in the case but for one of his little
games. A day or so before the counsel were
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