The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-03
KELLOGG.
HIS INFLUENCE All THE WHITE HOUSE
AND HOW HE SECURED KT.

AND HOW HE SECURED ET.
Hayes Gives Kellogg the Louisiana Pa
tronage i'm Return for KeiRogg's Sub
ornation of Perjury Before the Potter
Committee,
Especial Correspondence of the Democrat
New YORK, July %, 1878.
I saw III stray newspaper the other day
the inquiry
"DID KELLOGG INsTIGATE THE INvESTIGA-
TION
in order to get q corner on the adrninistra-
tion?" This inquiry has more pertinence
than anybody unfamiliar with the situation
would suppose. It Is, in fact one OF those
propositions which begin by supposing an
absurdlty, in order the more foretbly to de-
duee subsequent fact. Thus 1t is, Of course,
the rankest absurdity to suppose that Kel
logg instigated the investigation, but it Is the
solemnest sort Of fact that he has obtained d
commanding corner on the administration.
1t is not my intention to criticise Kellogg In
these premises. He has done nothing more
nor less than any shrewd, shifty politician,
with an eye single to the main chance and
no conscience to speak Of, would have done
under the same circumstances. The only
point In the affair of any public value what
soever, Is the fresh illustration it adds to the
already interminable catalogue Of illustra-
tions Of the miserable weakness and the con-
temptible cowardice of Hayes.
1t will be remembered that when Hayes in
augurated his programme Of Reform" and
during the early stages of its prosecution,
there was absolutely no man In public life,
Republican Or Democrat nigger, carpet-bag-
ger, scalawag or old line Whig, whose infu-
once was less or whose ill-favor greater at
the White House than this same Kellogg. In
fact, during those halcyon days when War
moth was recognized at the Mais0n Blanche
as the 'real leader of Louisiana Republican
ism" and George Sheridan was looked upon
as the belly OF that organism whereof War
moth constituted the brains and Stanley M at
thews did the leg-Work, Kellogg was regard
ed by the self-complacent Mr.. Hayes as
man who ought to consider himself suf-
ticiently lucky to be in the Senate instead of
in jail, and hence not in a position to COM
mand the patronage Of o reform administra-
tion. In those days, haicyon as aforesaid
Hayes based his Judgment of men upon their
self-adyertised ability to "organize the nu-
cleus Of o new party In Louisiana" and as
L.
moth In the art Of advertising himself, it was
most natural thai Hayes should have re-
garded him--as he did-as the natural
leader Of the Reform party in the Southwest
By and by the subject of investigation began
to be agitated, and then 1t was observed that
WARMoTHs INFLUENCE AT THE WHITE
HOUSE
had changed. The new Reform party, which
was WarfnOths strong point. had suddenly
been superseded in Importance by the party
which had control of the subject of investf-
CATION, and the man Hayes was looking for
was the man who advertised himself capable
Of controlling votes i'll the House. OF course
he found such man this time in the Demo-
cratic delegation from Louisiana. However,
the influence Of the man who could control
votes in the House on the subject Of the in
vestigation was short-lved, because the vote
was taken before Hayes had time to consider
recommendations, and, consequently no ap-
pointments were made under this head.
The investigation began and then the man
Hayes wanted to have come and see him on
THE SUBJECT OF PATRONAGE,
was the man who advertised himself as able
to control testimony. Here We have the
three epochs Of Hayesism, Beginning with
"Reform," T." 1t ends with the use Of patronage
as bribe to suborn perjury! And yet it
stands as s. fact on record that year ago
to-day great many honest men Of ordinari-
ly sound Judgment, really imagined there
was such thing as strength Of purpose and
force Of character in the poor, miserable,
tlabby apology for man and burlesque on q
statesman who tenants the White House.
Well, it seems that under the last named
reauisition Of the fraudulet President, Kel-
logg filled the bill. He hadn't been able to
meet the requirements OF @ Reform leader
like Warmoth, and hence could not get in
under the programme of resurrecting the old
Whig party. He wasn't renowned for his i1-
fiupncp in nnm0nrDtio airfIag and tbpTnfDrn
was OF no use to Hayes as nanipulator Of
votes In the House to prevent investigation.
But when it came to controlling witnesses -
Or, rather, to the herding Of the cattle who
had done the dirty work Of stealing the vote
OF Louisiana to count Hayes in, then
KELLOGG WAS IN DEMAND.
Thus it happened that the man who, three
months before, had been as q worm Of the
dust in the estimation Of the fjabby Hayes,
suddenly grew to the proportions of q states
man and became invested with senatorial in
fluence. Behold the fruits! Albert Leonard
Marks in the Collectors office of Internal
Revenue and Badger in the Postoffice. I am
not criticising these appointments. That of
Leonard is above criticism, judging by the
standard Of Louisiana Repubicanism; that
OF Badger is respectable, while as for Marks,
he is probably an Improvement upon his pre-
decessor. But the point I am making Is that
every one OF these appointments, so far as
Hayes Is concerned in them, comes, to my GER
tain knowledge, under the head OF
sUBORNATION OF PERJURY;
because every one Of them was made for the
purpose of silencing certain witnesses who
would otherwise have been dangerous; and
also for the purpose Of gaining the assistance
Of Kellogg in controlling the testimony Of the
human cattle aforesaid. Under such circum-
stances | think it perfectly just and fair to
say that the intent In what Hayes would call
his mind, in making those appointments, was
to suborn perjury through them directly or
indirectly. But even as Warmoth failed to
resurre"t the old Whig party and as John
Sherman's particular Democratic friend
slipped up as to the control Of votes In the
House against the investigation, so Kellogg
appears to have fallen short as
COLLECTOR OF TESTIMONY.
SO far as have read the report, he has not
been entirely able to control his own, not TO
mention the balance. Marks indeed seems
to have sworn like hired man before the
Subcommittee, but he made no impression up
in this end Of the country, and on the whole
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