The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07

Evarts made his marked and distinguished
failure secretary of state, most people
thought he was an able man. You know
Greeley, Weed and Seward used to use him
and showed him forward Very few of the
people had ever met him, and certainly few
of the politicians knew of his inordinate
vanity and positive weakness He had no
business capacity, none whatever. You no
tice now and then commercial reports from
coDsuls abroad. Well, they have always
been made just as they are now, but no
secretary ever had the cheek to ask tele-
/ grapher to send them as news before Evarts
began 1t. Evarts does this so as to keep him.
self before the people. After while some
scribbler, at Mr.. Evarts' suggestion, will call
attention to how much Mr.. Evarts is doing
for commerce. etc. and it will be copied and
read all over the country. So you can see
one of his methods of advertising himself.
He is more of political fraud than Schurz
and more dangerous because he is more
ignorant Of politics. He is Hayes evil
/ genius Never saw him? Well, he
looks like an antique just out OF the
frame of one of the pictures in Belmont's
gallery. His nose and chin meet. His
hands are long and fingers claw like. He's
as yellow as saffron. He don't walk-there
amt enough of him to walk-he glidesa
He'd clean the whole company at a cake
walk, and he acts and man9uvers in politics
| like old Hecate, the head devil among the
witches in Macbeth Bob Ingersoll closed
him up once. I'll tell you how it was: The
/ Illinois delegation in congress. at the request
/ of Evarts, recommended Robert g. 1nger-
soil for the Berlin mission. They telegraph
ed IDgersoll to come TO Washington. He
came; waited four days; Evarts gave no
sign. Ingersoll, with Senator 0glesby, called
at the state department. one morning. He
said: Mr.. Secretary, l understand, at your
request, the Illinois delegation named
me for the mission to Germany Yes,
yes said Evarts. L am considering your
name What? shrieked Ingersoll, you,
d you, you have the impudence to tell
me that such thing as you are considering
my name! withdraw any suggestion of
my name. When get so low as to permit
you TO consider my name for an Office I'll
let you know. Good morning, SIR
FUNNY, BUT NO JOKE.
Let me tell you something funny. You
will never hear it, perhaps, but as l tell you.
Evarts is running for president. Damn it.
don't explode. Stop laughing. It's so. 1
know it. He says so. II be was running
for dog catcher at High Bridge he couldn't
get vote.
do know Stoughton, that went out min
lister TO Russia-he of the white head? Yes
Don't know that he had any claims, either
by service or character, for such place?
! Well, do. He gave S., 600 toward putting
Hayes in. Yes sir, in hard Rockaloone.
You know Brady, the third assistant post
master general, at Washington? Well, sir
before he was assistant postmaster general
he packed his vallse with greenbacks and
went to Florida for his health. Got there
! just before the canvassing board began to
work, and Did he buy anybody? L don't
know, but he didn't bring any money back
with him. He was sent down by the repub-
licaus. When Hayes got IN. although Tyner,
| first assistant, was from Indiana, Morton and
the boys had Brady put in from Indiana as
third assistant postmaster general. Evarts
got Stoughton his place because, | suppose
! Stoughton's place Joins Evarts', at Windsor,
! Connecticut.
"Schurz? l heard an ex-governor, a re-
| publican, of course, call him the other day:
That id Dutch tramp Schurz is simply
fraud. God Almighty never put such
| leering, disagreeable insinuating face on
man as he has on him without intending it
as a lighthouse or warning to keep off. He
Is such transparent fraud and hollow re-
former that when he is ali found out he will
leave politics aud JOIN Justin Schwab In
handling beer mugs and waste his eloquence
amidst bser mill zephyrs on berry buns
/ He Is the rediscovery of Hayes. No person
| but Hayes would have resurrected him. He
handles Hayes very adriotly. He is so hum
BILE, but he always has friend, such pure
man, and if necessary can find hundred.
The German empire is so large and has 80
many noble emigrants in America whose
patriotism must be seen to- Schurz is
devilish shrewd fellow. / call to mind how
the president made an appointment in
SchurZs department, an important one.
Schurz kept still, went to the senate and de-
| feated the confirmation. Hayes never pre-
sumed again. Williamson, the commission
er of the general land Office, a year before
| Schurz dreamed of it got up the timber land
business. Schurz came in as secretary and
claimed the credit of the en-
tire thing. He now claims to be the
man who is cleaning out the Indian ring. Of
course this Is a fraud also. J. Q A. Smith
was Indian commissioner when Schurz came
in. He wanted him out Hayes begged
him to let him stay, as he was his friend.
There was not a charge against him. He
was decent honest man. but SchurZ, ma
/ chine reformer, had to reform somebody at
once, anybody but himself Che knows what
an awful job this would be, so don't touch
| it,, so he began on Smith. Hayes begged
for his old friend but Schurz's Dutch was up,
and he carried Smiths scalp at his belt. 1t
was a humiliating piece of business for
Smith and worse for Hayes, as it showed the
rest of the cabinet how to handle him.
When Schurz gets out OF Hayes cabinet he
Will either go to keeping acommunistic beer
/ shop, edit German newspaper or compile
statistics for the German side OF Ayers al
manac- Poor? Not by long sight. He's
got cool 500 900 salted down in his strong
/ UOA. IlOW ulu TIC BcI ~. WOili NC iOu6
headed fellow, very economical, personally.
He's always been well paid for his eloquent
efforts in behalf of the cause What? Yes,
sir; the dew drops of eloquence you have
heard from his sweet German accent cost,
on an average, about 800 for each and every
dose. Republican committees had to have
him, his Influence was hell on the Dutch
Then again he has been political reformer,
! never been withoutan Office or place of some
kind since Mr.. Lincoln was weak enough to
give him an Office in 1861.
THE sTAY.AT HOME AND THE OLD WING.
'Devens? Oh, he's pretty good sort of
fellow personally. You notice that Hayes
carries him around with him more than any
other member of the cabinet; we'll, he has
no family TO cucumber him and so little to
do in his Office. There have been three or
four noticeably weak men in tie attorney
generals Office within the past % years, but
he is the poorest lawyer we haye ever had
there, and in political matters he has mig
| sion' he continually talks about the peo-