Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-06-27
THE PRESENT ADMLMSTRA TY0N.

The Administration Of r. d. Hayes pro-
crosses with astonishing speed in the utter
imbecility natural 10 the man. Yet there are
people who modulate their voices 10 almost
sacred tones when his august name is men,
toned. What has been hi: career from the
day after Tildeu's election down TO the pres
ent lime? We catch glimpse Of him in his
study and hear with utter disgust his whine
about the ''poor negroes in the south when
the news broke in upon him that defeat had
crowned his hopes; we see him next quie,
and submissive all through that fearful sus-
pense which lasted from the beginning oil
Congress TO the closing of the nefarous labors
Of the Electoral Commission, ready TO bear
any odum that his masters might win for him
and his party so that he could but clasp the
gilded toy for which his weak soul SO ar
IDENTIFY pinned; we next see him when Louis
lana and South Carolina were declared by bis
own party to have gone Democratic still clasp.
ing in cowardly fear the place that had been
so ignobly awarded to him as part Of the
compromise. The first part Of his official
career-his extensively advertised Southern
Policy, his appointment Of Key, &c. WAS
only prompted by n fear lest something might
be done by which he would be oustod from
his stolen tenement and cast adrift upon the
terrible sen of just and holy indignation.
He cut loose from the Radical ship for awhile
and stood before the world q political off
spring with not enough manliness to entirely
disciafm his 'fgnoiJic birth and mot enough
gratitude 10 reward The pain and travail of the
parentage that brough, him into life.
Before Congress made him secure In his
seat Hayes was the veritable Uriah Heap OF
politics, but as soon rs place WAS fixed how
quick he was to lay aside his cringing bumili-
~ and assembling and hug TO himself the
thought that man so unmanly as himself
might become literally lord and master of the
United States. His first veto cementcd all
broken lies among his friends, and We witness
the entire reconciliation OF the Radical family,
brought about like highwaymen re-unlte after
being separated in an exploit by one of the
outcasts shooting down the man who had cap
tured him in his lawlcssness. So Hayes sep
arated awhile from his brethren, Is cap
tured through his own treachery and regains
fellowship with his companions by dealing
murderous blows TO the people upon whose
liberation he is cheat and iinpostor. lie has
degraded tho most delicate of functions into
an instrument Of wilfull force, welding the
veto like heavy bludgeon with which to
strike and stun the rights Of the people whom
he defes and threatens. He attempts to cajole
the world out of its intelligence by announcing
the huge fallacy that States can only protect
their own elections, losing sight Of the fact thai
there are no national election and that under
the Constitution there is no citizenship of the
United States except through the citizenship
of State. Moreover, he makes the modest
demand Of control over elections 80 that he
can secure TO tho States pure elections under
national auspices. He has paraded in the I'M
becoming role of self.constituted conservntor
Of the American ballot, in connection with
tho same farcical part, too egrcgious to be
natural, he disports himself upon the same
stage and before the same painfully bored au-
diencc in the character Of dictator, threaten
ing what Congress shall support-what the
people must have whether they want it or not.
ASS figure in history he will be remark
able for the faculty of abusing patience, and a
moral coward without one redeeming trai, or
habit. Filled with low cunning he is too
much bastard to rival tho strength of Grants
boldncss or TO be worthy the rebel lead wasted
in his body, he exposes to view under gusc
Of righteousness m expauso of efrrontery only
surpassed by the deed which proclaimed him
chief Of the nation and the natural result of
an honest election.