Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-02-10
BHHRMAN AZ A PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE.


seeking the Presidency are a faithful
index of the character Of the man, and
torshadow with startling accuracy what
would Ice the character OF national all
ministration Of which he were the head.
To follow "long-headed JouN' in his
scheming Tor this positionit is necessary
To begin back in the falland winteroilsI6,
when the corrupt and disgracefil Re
turning Board OF Louisiana began to
quail before the indignation aroused by
their threats Of making false returns
and reversing the legitimate results OF
the election in that State. JOHS SHERMAN
then went to New Orleans as the avowed
personal representative OF K. b. HAYES
aud aided, abetted, counseled and adj
yised the vile methods and Odious trick
cry by which u majority OF near ten
thousand in favor of TILDES was thrown
out and one OF over three thousand
counted up in favor Of HAYES, and
which led the way TO the successful in
auguration OF the most accomplished
piece Of political rlScality this continent
has yet seen.
To make JoHN SHERMAN President IN
1850, it was necessary that Il. b.
HAYES should he counted IN IN 1876.
This is why he went to New Orleans;
this is why after his return he stood up
in the Senate oi the United States and
with unbluShing forehead and hypo-
critical phrase battled Tor the conhrma-
ton and success of the frauds tn which
he had lent the assistance at his cold,
narrow, Italian intellect. HAYES ills
the office ui President, SHERMAN Is his
Secretary oi the Treasury aud IN the
Executive Of the United States We he
hold the most devoted tool at the ONO
statesman, and one ready To prostitute
the civil service OF nation OF fifty
million oi people IN his inter
ests. HAYES enters the White
House and proclaims an era Ut civil
service reform. lie announces that no
officer oi the government, from the
highest To the lowest, should he per
mitted To take part III conventions and
raucusSes, or mcddie IN the intrigucs
of party politics, and the dawn OF Po-
litical millennium Is hcUIldcd. The
GEoEGE WILLIAM CuRrISSES, the KID
gloves and the political carpct-knights,
all over the Republic, discover IN
HAYES and his chief adviser, JonN
SuEguAN, the MoSES and AARON, whom
the fortunes oi the times had selected
tn head us to a land where the tcrglver-
sations ol corrupt officials were To he Il
thing impossible.
But SuGRMAN becomes candidate Tor
the presidency, and suddenly things
arr changed. Il is found that probes
sions at civil service reforms and
the PROMISE oi UrorIAS 10 the
| enthusiasts IL not SuihcIrnt
10 cntwino the wreath of popularity
around the isolated character and cal
culatiug manners oi the MephisJophcics
OF the administration. Some other line
of policy must he given u trial. Ii Is
seen that the Republican party OF the
South consists ol nothing but the
Federal othcehollcrs and the solid
negro vote, which, since the days OF
emancipation, has been accustomed to
rely upon the satellites OF the govern
mcut ior their political instruction and
dictation. Ii is not forgotten that the
South has 2I6 votes IN the Convention.
Forthwith civil service reform Is
abandoned aud passes as COM
plctely from the ideas ut the
Executive Us though it had only
litted through his mind like the part.
ing shadows oi ieyercd, titiul dream.
To-day, according To the New York
Times. the Chicago Tribune, and the 81.
Louis Globe Democrat, the great Rcpubli-
can organs Of the nation, every sincN
and energy OF Presidential patronage Is
being used under the direct personal
management of SHERMAN Ia secure the
control oi the Convention Tor the Sccrc'
tary. The whole office holding element
has been moulded into machine Tor the
nomination oi one man, special Treas
ury agents arr securing the south IN the
interests oi the leading hypocritc in
American politics, aud paid from the
national treasury, arr giving their time
aud abilities tn the concoctlon of
schemes by which the whole colored
vote of the South NAV he driven body,
soul aud baggage into the SIBERIAN
camp. No man has IN our times
so shameleSSly sought an entry to
the White House and by such open, un-
bluShing and uuscrupulous use oi Fed
cral all cndcayorcd to attain his ends as
this pct Of so-callcd immaculate al
ministratiou. In other days the mere
accusation OF such an otiensc would have
destroyed the claims and swept from
consideration the chances OF any seeker
alter the most digniicd position in the
Republic. 1t remains to be seen whether
the great mass OF tue Republican party
Tan be driven like sheep to the shambles
and sold like cattle in the market, at the
will OF officers whose political tenures
depend upon the ability To placate the
financial chief Of the National Govern
ment
The candidacy OF SHERMAN, consider
ell in the light Of his Louisiana history
and his more recent record as daring
able and INSCRIPTIONS politician, point
to still greater element OF danger in
the future.
JouS SREINAN, IS Secretary OF the
I,...,,-,. b,lls thu mrs. al the nation