Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-25
THE PRESIDENT.

President Hayes, ike his predecess'
ors, is the subject Of criticism. While
Lincoln and Grant were basely and cru
ely abused by their political enemies,
Hayes is as badly abused by those he
should count on as being his friends.
The enmity against the President is
strongest among the several presidential
aspiIants whom his nomination shelved,
and among a large number of Republi-
can politicians whose claims for service
and preferment have not been recogniz-
cd by the present administration. Among
the first are Conkling and Blaine, each
smart, ugly and revengeful among the
latter class are thousands that expected
to get some stanchion around the public
crib. They are all Grabbed, and their
howl is as terrible when it breaks forth
OH the still air as the unearthly sound
of thousand corralled mules.
The President is far too honest for the
present generation of politicians whom
he stepped on to the political platform
laid down by the Cincinnati convention,
he accepted that as the basis of his par
tvs policy. and in accordance with his
own opinions, accepted it as his creed
and policy. When he became president
he undertook to carry out the principles
Of that creed, and so far as most are able
to discover, has carried them out as far
as it is possible, under surrounding cir
cumstances
His policy has been honest, consistent
and just; but it is up hill business for
him to effect reform in any department
of the government, when a part of his
own party, and some part of the other
party. are striving to defeat his meas
ures. He has sought by Cancellation to
allay the excitement at the South. He
has treated that section of the country
as though it were composed of honest
patriotic citizens, who deserved the best
good of the nation. Because they have
taken advantage of his clemency, anG
have done, and are doing wrong, it il
not the Presidents fault, and the fna
result will be that they, not he, will
suffer.
The President has tried to effect tina
much-talked-of and much-desired object
termed civil service reform, but that il
not popular at all with those who are
the self.constituted managers of the Pc
litical machine. They desire that kline
of reform" which shall "reform" them
selves and their friends into government
service and government offices. Tn
ideal civil service reform knows nobody
friends except the friends of the coun
Vry, ana tha Kaopins an sorvloo ana pro
motion of such faithful and capable oil
ficers and employees as have merited goo
treatment from the government.
President Hayes may not, in all cas-
es, conform to this rule, but, as
whole, his effort in this direction ha
been far in advance of that of any pres
ident in modern times.
The records show that the present &C
ministration is conducted on more ecC
nomical basis than the last two or tire
administrations, and this is due tol til
Presidents policy. His excellent cal
met is composed of men who al
each trying to cut down expenditure
while they are endeavoring to so admit
lister the affairs of their departments I;
to make them more effective.
Besides this the President and b
wife have set an excellent example
reform in their simple, temperate, r
tiOnal habits of living. They have.d dol
away with some of the foolish custom
that have been in vogue in and abo
the capital. They have set excelle
temperance and religious examples thu
have made their home in the Viii
House the home of frugality, virtue, he
pitality and Christianity.
On the whole, whatever may ha
been the mistakes of the administrator
1t must be acknowledged that for go
intentions. honesty and justice it meri
the appreciation of every citizen of t
country.