Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-20
~ william K. ROGERS,
WILLIAM W. GooDR1cH, chairman, ,.d8s &c. :


These were the rules he laid down
for the guidance OF his administra-
ton, and for the inf1exible main
tenance of which he pledged all the
constitutional power lodged in his
hands.
No man was to be appointed to
Office from personal considerations
none were to be given Office as a
reward for partisan services; no
Federal office-holder was to take
any part in the management of
caucuses, conventions, or election
campaigns; no office-holder should
be assessed to raise money for party
campaigns; and no man holding
Office under the Government should
be a member of any political club
or association organized to promote
the success of a political party, or
even spend his leisure moments in
such an association. The Federal
officer under his administration was
not only required to do nothing in
aid of any political party, but to
abstain from the very appearance
OF doing so.
Never, perhaps, since Sancho Pan
"a assumed the reins of government
in the Island of Barataria has any
thing been seen like it in moral
tone and political purity. Said San
chO, with the better half of a sand
wich in his mouth and a glass of
lemonade, at his side:
L tell you once again it is my pleasure that
you look well to me and my Dapple in the
article of food for that is the main point
and when the hour comes we will go the
round, as my intention is to clear this island
of all manner of filth and rubbish, especially
vagabonds, idb9rs, and sharpers; for would
have you know, my friends, that your lazy
and idle people in a commonwealth are
like drones in beehive, which devour the
honey that the laboring bees gather. My
design is TO protect the peasants, maintain
the gentry in their privileges, reward virtsle,
and, above all, to have a special regard to
religion and the revere nee due to holy men.
What think you of this, good friends? Do
l say something, or do crack my brains to
no purpose?
The steward replied:
Ny lord governor speaks so well that am
all admiration to hear one devoid of learn
ing. like your worship, utter SO many nota-
your subjects, or those who appointed you.
But every day produces something new in
the world; jests turn into earnest and the
DlOcAS arc DAIs
1t turned out that poor Sancho
had cracked his brains to no pur-
pose. Failing to receive that moral
support from his subjects, which
Mr.. Hayes has found so strikingly
absent in his party, poor Sancho,
disgusted with the cares of state,
resigned his position, mounted his
faithful DappIe, and turned his back
upon Barataria. Here the analogy
between Sancho and Hayes fails.
He will never resign. Titles gained
by fraud are never surrendered by
voluntary resignation.
Mr.. Speaker, the Office of Presi-
dent of the United States is the most
exalted position to which human
ambition can aspire. It has been
filed by men whose memories are
cherished by their countrYnen with
a veneration second only to that
with which they regard the grand
system of government which was
formed by their labors and illus
trated in their lives. Respect for
the position should, in some degree
at least, moderate the censure due
the conduct of an unworthy incum-
bent. But facts must be submitted
to a candid world, and it is the
chief glory of our institutions that
no man can reach position in this
country so lofty as to exempt him
from criticism. Let any fair-minded
man read Mr.. Hayes loud and re-
iterated proclamatiOns of civil-ser-
vice reform, and then take the Blue
Book and scan the names of parties
from Florida and Louisiana-the
two States where the great fraud
was perpetrated-and he will have
an effort 10 restrain smile of con-
tempt, as he measures the distance
between promises and performance,
professions and practice, words and
acts. Let us view for moment the
fragrant bouquet of civil-service re-
form he has gathered from the land
of flowers.
NJ. l.. Stearns was the governor
of Florida at the time the great in
iquity was consummated in that
State. He was the man who, con-
trary to law, withheld from the Til.
den electors the certificates to which
the returns clearly entitled them,
and gave certificates to the Hayes
electors, who, as he well knew, had
not received majority of the votes
of the State. Stearns was defeated
| for governor at the very same
election in which Hayes was held
by the corrupt officials of Florida tC
have carried the State. Stearns
was appointed by Hayes one of tht
commissioners of Hot Springs, a
$40 per day, and is now a bright
and shining light in the armament
/ of civil-service reform.
Samuel B. McLin was one of the
State canvassers that. exercised {
power which everybody knows tht
law of Florida did not confer or
the board. Arbitrarily and with
] ont a decent preteXt for such illepa