Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-21
THE JunKEr1Na rRAup

THE JUNKETING FRAUD
There ia not a more complete politica
nonenity in human form in the United
States to-day than Rutherford B. Hayes. BE
is politically dead. Personally man of
good impulses, perhaps, he has failed to
make even mediocrity respectable. Too
weak aud vaccillatipg to resist the great
wrong perpetrated on the people by act OF
reckless politicians, he made himself party
to The frsud, and will live in history as the
only man who, for one hundred years OF the
nations existence, was go weak, or else 30
wickedIy ambitious as to faint the Office OF
President with q national crime.
People were disposed to be charitable.
Their veneration for the office. for the illus
trious names with which it is indellibly as
scciated In the public memory, the political
partisianship OF the electoral commission,
the danger of revolution, the patriotic pro
LESSONS of Hayes himself inclined many
Democrats to dissooiate the man and the
crime. What followed? No sooner was
partially pacifed the country by his extrava-
CANT promises of reconciliation, than he con
doned the fraud in South Carolina
and Florida and Louisiana. He took
the penitentiary conyicts, Anderson, Wells &
Co, by the hand, and rewarded their crimes
with the public offices. He had already
made John Sherman, the eeneralissimo of
his visiting state smen at New Orleans, secre-
tary of the treasury, hnd stored away in the
departments, in the Senate. in the Indian
service, and in every rat hole in United
States custom houses, all the corrupt tools
who had aided IA his usurpaticn of the Pres
idency over the will and votes of the people.
Is it possible that such record can pass the
fiery ordeal OF impartial history?
1t Is very true, that the whisky ring frauds,
the Washington pavement jobs, the Credit
Mobilier scandal, the Beiknsp populations,
the rotten hulk speculations in the navy, the
robberies of Southern States, and other null
ttudinous scoundreIisms, distinguished the
Republican party prior to the advent of his
Fraudulent Excellency, but hiss he not con-
doned all these by taking the guilty to hls
bosom? By what word, by what act has he
condemned thems 1t is true,that the frauds
OF the State returning boards put him
into Office, but did he not receive
the olen goods, and has not his
party reaped the benefit of the theft2
The administration of Hayes is total
failure. What has it accomplished What
illustrious policy devised7 What wise
legislation enacted? What great nation
al measures adopted ? God has blessed the
land with bountiful hsryests, and Democrat
ic economy in government expenditures has
ushered in an era OF national prosperity.
Had there been failure of crops, continued
depression OF business owing thereto, had
the Democrats not checked the financial con-
traction, the national discomfort would have
broken forth, in all probability, beyond con-
troll, and been followed by consequences too
fearful to contemplate.
The administration of Hayes has been q
failure in every departmental our foreign
relations, as confessed by Evarts, who abuses
his own party for it, in the management of
the Indians as the disturbed frontiers prove,
in every way and e,erywhere-a fail
ure. The navy ia another name for rotten
huiks and straw bonds end swindlirg COR
tracts. The government has been run as O
ueighbothood singing society, or as tea
party CT ancient DANES. The administration
will be distinguished in the annals OF the
country for the junkstjng visits of its chief
and his assistants to agricultural fairs, and
by the introduction Of the custom of no wine
in the entertainment Of the representatives
of foreign powers at stats dinners.
It is crueI. bat finally the question must
be asked: WHIST has become OF civil service
reform All the incumbents of the federal
officss from the poor clerk in the department,
10 the minister OF stats are taxed for election
expenses. Carl Sohurz has been to Indians
to deliver his steraoyped speech in favor OF
gold for the foreign bondholdsrs, John
Sherman continues to defy himself and the
Sherman family for Gods mercies to the
country, Evarts 10 about to deluge the earth
with words again, and "our
Attorney General Dsyens'' will
most likely be introduced to still further
illustrate the complete success of Hayes in
divorcing the civil servios from party poll
tics; and to crown this sparkling history, the
Republican party has nominated Arthur, the
ex-collector of New York, whom Hayes pu.
out of Office for dishonesty. to be Vice Pres
ident OF the United States.
Well may the Democratic party point
from this siokening record to its unfurled
banner borne by that honest gentleman
against whose name no suspicion was eyar
breathed, the gallant chieftan whose patri-
otism is proclaimed by all the battle fields
Of the war, q statesman whose chart ia the
constitution of his country, man without
fear and without reproach-W Winfield s.
Hancock, tbs next President Of the United
States.
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