Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-10
Il CRIMINAL PRESIDENT.

Senator Hill, of Georgia, has written an
other letter on the subject of Hayes title to
the Presidential office, in which he takes oc-
casion to say some hard things about the
President de facto. He says there have been
two Presidents made by crime, johnson and
Hayes. johnson, he says, punished all who
were connected with the crime which made
him President, while Hayes rewarded the in
struments of his illegal election. This SEN
tence sums up the whole situation in a nut
shell, and gives thorough insight into
Hayes character. Conserving to a crime
that by it he might obtain Office, he re-
warded the perpetrators with brazen
openness and disregard of the moral sense
of tho community that is without parallel
in the history of the world. Usurpations of
authority are never pardonable, but on occa-
sions there have been circumstances that
have in measure reconciled the public to
them-occasions when the usurper, aotuated
by sincere desire for the good of the peo-
pie, has swept away abuses of government,
overthrown the oppressors of the poor, pat
ronized and encouraged the arts and
sciences, ant' done all that lay in his power
to advance the interests and promote the
happiness and prosperity of his subjects.
But has Hayes done any of these things?
You may search his record from first to last
and you will find nothing to commend in
aught he has done. His policy has been
weak and vacillating, his only motive being
on, oil oil,
ness prompted him in the first place to con-
sent to the commission of series of crimes
against the people. To prevent the expo
sure of these crimes he rewarded the perpe-
traitors with lucrative Offices that happen to
be within his gift. To conciliate the people
whom he had defrauded of their rights
he threw them sop by permitting the State
government legally elected to take possession
of affairs, and withdrew the menace of a
standing army which his predecessor had
maintained. With great flourish of trum-
pets he announced that the civil service must
be reformed, and issued his famous executive
order No. 1. The first man to violate it was
one of his cabinet officers, and there has
never been the slightest pretence of enforc-
ing it, save in instances in which it might be
useful as an excuse for the removal of some
official obnoxious to MIR. Hayes or one of his
partners in crime. He set himself up in
direct opposition to the will of the people on
the silver question, and, defeated in that, has
devoted his best efforts to fasten more Sc
curely upon the people the burden of the
national bank system. His vanity has i'm
PEELED him to make an exhibition of himself,
and during the past few months he has
placed himself on a par with blooded bulls,
mammoth squashes and prize hogs, thus
lowering the dignity of the Office and reveal
ing to the people his own individual little
ness This latter day usurper has done alb
solutely nothing during his term of Office to
benefit the people, or to inspire respect for
himself. He is the creature of the men who
placed him in Office criminals of the deep
est dye. He dare not say his soul is his
own, and, if he did, he is afflicted with such
narrow comprehension of his duty, and
understands SO little what is needed for the
best interests of the country, that he would
be gross and lamentable failure, even if we
should leave the frauds he has perpetrated
out of the account.