Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-23

lnStOu mas Deen tnorOuSniy cnnSAsseu ioF
subscriptions to the Republican campaign
fund, as il to illustrate HAYES civil service
order Of juno ~, 1877, which declared that
"No assessment for political purposes on
officers or subordinates should be al
lowed" The methods for raising money
are precisely those which were prac.ised
under Grant. The salaries are all resu-
larry assessed in advance at a fixed per-
centage, to bring a certain amount into
the treasury of the Congressional Com
mittee. Of which that eminent rcformer,
Charles Foster, is now the directing mind.
A collector. who receives five per cent.
on the toll he gathers in, goes around with
a book into all the public offices, takes
down the names Of the subscribers, and at
the close of the month those signatures are
recognized by the disbursing officer as au-
thority to deduct a certain portion of the
regular salary of the CLERKS. Nearly all
the chiefs OF bureaus and divisions, who
draw large pay and perform little service
have set an example to their subordinates
by subscribing more than the sum assessed
on their salaries, in order to make their
loyalty conspicuous.
At first there was a partial resistance to
the assessments, under the delusion that
the civil service order had some meaning,
and that those who obeyed its letter and
spirit would be protected. That error of
Judgment was soon corrected, for it was
discovered that every person who refused
to be assessed was reported, and John
Sherman ordered summary dismissal in
his department and its branches as the
penalty for recusancy. The Sixth Audi
tors Office, which settles the Postoficc
accounts, and is known as the Botany Bay
Of the Treasury, with 300 or more clerks,
was selected as the first point Of attack ;
and after one removal for this cause, the
whole force fell in and even sought to
Hayes gave his name to head the list of
contributors, which of itself was a warn
ing to the whole army Of o~fficsholders that
they were expected to do likewise. But he
has not yet paid In a dollar to the fund.
He is willing enough to see the poor clerks
made to pay, but with fifty thousand a
year and nearly everything free that makes
up the actual cost Of living, he locks his
iron chest and intimates that his name
alone ought to be sufficient, because his
example put tens Of thousands into the
political exchequer that might not have
got there without it.
He has shown himself iu this matter to
be a double fraud /; first, by encouraging
assessments which he had formerly de-
clared should not be allowed Z; secondly, by
lending his namo without making it good
with a money value. The consistency Of
his character has been maintained in this
duplicity. If he had been an honorable
man. even after the crime by which be
reached the Presidency, Hayes would have
seen made good the advances Of money
which Zach Chandler had loaned for his
benefit, after John Sherman and others
failed to redeem their pledges. But he
never lifted a finger to pay what every
gambler, even, would nave regarded as a
debt Of honor, and dismissed it as q trifo
unworthy of attention. He first began by
cheating his opponents, and now he cheats
his friends.
WHAT THE NATIONALS DEMAND.
The Adrocate, published in New York,
is the organ Of the new Greenback or Ma
tional party. 1t is as radical on the ques-
ton of internal improvements as Wendell
Phillips and Lloyd Garrison used to be on
the subject Of slavery. 1t believes the Gov
eminent should put forth an effort in be-
half Of the starving thousands in the Unit
cd States. In this it is not far wrong,
though we may differ with it as to the
mode Of supplying employment to the un-
employed. The Texas Pacific Railroad
demands, and should receive, immediate
aid at the hands of the Government. This
great work alone would provide homes and
employment for one million people now in
enforced idleness in this country. The
Nationals, however, would do things on Q
scale ever grander, In the Advocate of a
late date we find some advice to President
Hayes. That journal wants the President
to call an extra session of Congress when
he shall transmit . message substantially
as follows:
Gentlemen of the Senate and II. R.
Forty millions Of Americans are interested
in a resumption Of business; nobody cares
o nickel about resumption Of specie pay
ments. ! have ordered Secretary Sher.
man to lock up his surplus gold and silver
and stop coming Trade Dollars, because
there is no TRADE. now request you, as
men Of common sense, to follow Ben. But
ler's advice, and increase the army to
100, 900 rank and file. They are wanted
Immediately to SAW THE UNIoN-by WORK
at 16 dollars o month, rations and uni
form. In virtue of my office, as Com
mander-in-Ch l have ordered General
Sherman to conduct the army corps to
Louisiana, and set them to repairing every
levee on the Mississippi, constructing
canals through swamp-lands, whenever
needed, dredging and widening bayous,
and Strengthening Red river between
Shreveport and Alexandria. Gen. Sheri-
dan has orders TO march . second army
corps to the Indian country, md proceed
to lay out a military road, from the Black
Hills to Utah and Oregon. Gen. Hancock
is directed to occupy the Plains, and en-
ploy his army corps in planting trees,
wherever water is scarce, sinking artesian