Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-08-15
pUBLTsHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY BY
EDGAR SNOWDEN.
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST IT, 1878.
la General Buffers late interview. 10 re-

la General Buffers late interview, 10 re-
.ropsc to aa cruairy as to what he thought OF
The present administration. he replied that ne
yudu't sec auy administration. That the
only administration he had seen was Hayes
appeint1ncnt Of fifty-seven men who helped him
to irauduleutly till the highest Office 10 the
government. He has appointed more s'oundrels
to cffice than were ever known in the country
before" General Butler prides himself upon
The fact that though be has been charged with
ali manner of crimes aud vioiousness 90 one has
ever yet accused him Of being fool. Now.
whether this be o matter of justihsble pride or
not, on the part of the General, it is for him,
not US, 10 ssy, but everybody will BIO willing to
concedc it's truth, and for that reason his words,
10 the reply We have quoted, arc worthy, at
least, of passiog remark. Mr.. Hayes has
filled the presidential Office for Dearly year and
half, and yet the most prominent politician
10 the whole country, and one whose sound
sense il universally acknowledged, says that
the only thing be has done 10 all that time that
.ucrits attention is bis appointment to lucrative
Offices Of the men implicated 10 the frau1 BY
which he obtained the position he holds. But
the General has forgotten something. lie has
failed 10 reco'lec; that Mr.. Hayes has done
other things for which the country Will hold
him 10 remembrance besides occupying an office
10 which he was not elected, and paying those
who placed him there With funds taken out ofthe
public treasury. He caused proc|amatlons to be
made soon after bis inauguration that southern
men should Gill southern Offices, and civil
service reform should be established through
out the country, but hardly had the ink on
these procamatiops dried before the people
discovered that what they contained was
sham and de!u:ion, and that his proml-
ses TO their eyes and ears were already broken
TO their hearts. These are the things that all
The peopl. sec in his administration, and for
these they will remember him 80 long as he
aud they shall live. Bat some people. With
better eyes, will also see that during his eigh
teen mouths of Office there have been many &C.
casio1s on which be could have been of great
service to his c,untry, by taking that active TO-
tcrest in its affair, which was not onlg expected
but which it was bis bouuden duty to take, but
that, instead Of oxerting the irh1en,e,
attached not to him personally but
10 lis Office, for the welfare Of the
ratior, he positively refused to do 50, and
without an effort 10 prevent pern!clous legisla-
tioo, cootentcd himself with the poor solace of
beicg able to throw the enIirc blame attached
TO it upon Congress- Such is the President to
inauguratc whom the votes Of three States
were fraudalenty altered, Congress dupcd, the
Supreme Curt dabau:htd, The whole country
cI.s aieG nut ct its fairly elected Ctief Mcgis
rite, ard shame and reproach brought upon
republican institutions. and who, after all, is ls
objectionable to tho party that supported, as to
that which opposed him.