The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-09-30
Out with the Fraud.

Like all hypocrites and canting cheats the
Fraudulent Administration started out In
its career with the loudest professions Of
reform. HAYES was hardly warm in the
scat which the people had voted To TnDEN
before the game Of deception which he and
his concern have played ever since was
started. The publication OF the civil SER
Vice and its elevation to higher moral
plane were the objects most prOfossed by
those chQrlatans. They could not wait for
the natural order OF events and the slow in
struction OF experience, such was their
affected zeal. 1t was announced that EvABrs
md ScHURz were to prepare the rules TO
guide the Administration in its action
which were to be rigidly enforced without
distinction OF persons or politics.
Three times in the first eight months the
most solemn pledges were voluntarily made
that tho abuses which, under GRANT, had
become a stencil In the nostrils Of the pee pie,
should be extirpated. root and branch Here
they are, In the order Of their proclamation A:
March 8, inaugural address:
The officer should be in his tenure long as
lis personal character remained unarnish,d and the
Performance Of his duties satisfactory Appoint
ncnts 10 ONCE not to be made nor expected merely
rs rewards for partisan services nor merely ON The
al, respect 10 the control Of such Appointments
June %, 1877, executive order:
no oficer should be required or permitted 10 take part
IN the management OF political organizations caucuses,
conventions elooa etpavhs No assessment tor pohu'
cal purposes cheers subordinAes should BE- ~.
lowod.n
Dec. g. 1877. first annual message:
81 recognize the public advantage Of making all nomina.
ions as nearly as possible mpetsona IN the OF
lstff. fr.N IA fIN Sc
and those Offices which special training Is OF greatly
Increased value believe such rule as 10 the tenure Of
once should obtain may induce men o proper quah'
cations to apply themselves indusIrousy " tbs task u
becoming pronclenis.
Tho first of these utterances had barely
escaped his lips before HAYES appointed to
beats in his Cabinet JOIN SHERMAN, who
had mainly organized the Fraud in Louis
lana; WM. NJ. EvARTs, its chief champion
before the Electoral Commission; and
GEORGE W. McCRARY, an obiector on the
part Of the House, as rewards for their
services in these capacities.
The Department Of State was the fee Of
Nj. EyARTs, for advocating the most mon
strous crime in American history. Among
lis earliest acts, after the Administration
was organized, was HAYEss letter rec
ommending ANDERSON for n Consulate
IN warm climate" two IL behalf Of Den
MS for special agency Of the Treasury,
and many others Of q similar character
His chic! care seemed to be 10 provide, at
the public expense, for the forgors, per-
iurers ballOt-boX suffers, thieves, and
scoundres who had been in any way instru-
mental in stealing the votes Of Louisiana
md Florida. And the fact Is distinctly
established before the Potter investigation
that every one Of these infamous creatures
Is to-day billeted on tho Treasury, in the
Custom Houses, Post Offices, and public
departments at Washington. Offices Of
honor and trust are thus not only prostl-
tutcd to the bascst uses, and put in tho
hands Of the lowest order Of criminals, but
,.....,., o.a taxed 10 support them Ia
idlcncss and vice.
On the eve Il a most important election
plan Of campaign is regularly organized AT
Washington, and all tho cOrruptng ma
chincry is set in motion, not only with the
Iouniyance, but with the active cooperation
Of every momber OF tho Administration
HAYES headed tho list Of assessments, with
out paying a dime into the campaign fund
but gave his name TO intimidate poor clerks
and needy women into voluntary contribu
lions" Every employee who refused pay
ment was reported, and JoHN SHERMAN Sc
the example of Diminishing the first man
who declined TO be blackmailed, because 1
was forbidden by the executive ordor 0
June 20, 1877.
SHERMAN opened the campaign In Oil