The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-01-29
Information Given.
The Holton Recorder, speaking of the Chief

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"abuse" of the Hayes administration, says:
With the exception of his act Withdrawing the
troops from the Southern States allowing the people
down there give test to the country of the good
faith of their pledges of good behavior, which act
was heartily endorsed by Senator Morton and many
other great and wise men of this country, including
General Grant will the Troy Chief refer to the doings
of this administration which entities TO be denounc
ed in the manner that paper seems 70 take SO much
delight int Now. if the Chief fails TO point out the
nefarous acts. will claim the privilege OF giving
another 81 900 opinion that Mr. Hayes has gwen ths
country good administration.
We are surprised at She Recorders asking for
such information; but We shall give it, and we
claim that our statements are all facts.
First, that business of "allowipg the people
own there to give test to the country OF the
good faith of their pledges of good behavior"
as the Recorder mildly puts it, was an act of
heartless treschery sufficient to damn the Hayes
Administration in the estimation of all true Re-
publicans, from the very start While the cleo
tiou was in doubt, he aud his friends piteously
called upon the Republicans of South Carolina,
Louisiana aud Florida to stand firm, for Gods
sake. They did stand firm, at the peril of their
lives, ard resisting temptations that would have
raised them from poverty to wealth. When It
was thought Tilden would win, Hayes remarked
that he cared nothing for himself, but his heart
bled when be thought of the fate that awaited
the poor colored people of the South. By the
Southern Republ leans standing firm, Hayes
went in. His very first act was to betray those
Southern Republicans who stood firm. Hs rec
ognized she Democratic Governor of Louisiana,
although the Republican candidate had been
elected at the same ballot at which the Hayes
Electors ad, and by considerably larger ma
jority. That legally elected Governor called
upon him for aid to execute the laws, and the
Constitution he had sworn to support required
him to give it. But he recognized the Democrat
who was not elected, and thereby set the seal Of
fraud upon his own election. 1t has been clear
ly proven that Republican members of the
Louisiana Legislature were deceived threat
ened into acknowledging the Democratic Gov
ernor, to give an excuse for this recognition,
and that this was done by Hayes own special
agents, sent there for that purpose. 1t was q
bargain aud sale, by which Hayes was to be
permitted to rest undisturbed in his Office, as
the price of betray ing the Southern Republi-
cans.
A Democratic Committee of Congress decided
that South Carolina had gone Republican. Yet
that State was abandoned, and the Republican
Governor forced to fee the State. A Republican
United States Senator from that State was oust-
ed from his seat, and u Democrat given the
place, by Republican United States Senate,
the controlling votes having been given by
Hayes particular friends, as his special request
This has been clearly proven. One of them was
Stanley Matthew'S who had been elected Sena-
tor at Hayes earnest request, as payment for
his share in the Louisiana conspiracy; and an
other was Southern Senator, who was after
wards rewarded by Hayes with an Office. John
Sherman, the leading agent in the Louisiana
bargain and sale, was made Cabinet officer,
Not only did Hayes abandon the Southern Re-
pubcans, but he appointed Democratic Mar
shals in the South, on the recommendation of
Wade Hampton, and Senators Gordon and Hill,
TINS turning the abandoned Republicans COM
pletely into the clutches of their enemies who
have ever since been prosecuting them for stand
ing firm. Hayes heart bled for the poor color
ed people of the South /; but from the day of his
Inauguration, those colored people have been
completely disfrancbised, and practically in
slavery. This exodus now going on, in which
Southern negroes prefer an untried and uncon-
genial climate, and starvation and suffering, in
pItlcTcuCc 10 u lOuSCE EcououCc III tuo ooutu,
speaks language that cannot be misinterpret-
ed. And the worst of it is, Hayes has not tried,
in single instance, to protect the Southern
Republicans.
In forming his Cabinet, Hayes selected for
majority of the places, men who had been for
years using their influence and energies to de-
feat the Republican party. Key was q Demo-
ocrat and Rebel while Evarts, Schurz and
Devens had labored harder to defeat the Repub-
lican party than they ever did to promote its
success.
When Hayes came into Office, he undertook to
inaugurate what he called "Civil Service Re-
FORM" He made it crime for public Office or
to labor for the success of the party that placed
him in power. But his chief efforts were direct
cd to one State, and to break down tatesman
who always labored for Republican success, and
but for whom he would never have reached the
Presidency. Civil Service Reform was used
in the puerile attempt to break down Senator
Conkling in New York. A. B. Cornell was turn
cd out of Office for belonging to the Republican
State Central Committee, aud calling Conven-
tion to order. Yet the man who was appoi nted
in bis place, was delegate in State Conven-
tion, and voted for that same Cornell for Gov
ernor, but has remained unmolested Daring
last Falls campaign, President Hayes himself,
and nearly every member of his Cabinet, were
off in various parts of the North, making
political speeches. and very actively engaged in
politics. This was done in violation of the Pres
ident's Civil Service order. That order still 70
mains unrecalled and unrescinded. Hayes has not
the manhood and honesty to recall the order, I'D
say it was q mistake; but, while permitting it
to remain, he and bis whole batch Of ofice-hold.
ers openly violate it.
These are some Of the reasons why Hayes is q
traitor to his party, and q canting bypocrite.
By his own acts, he stamps his own election as
fraudulent, yet holds on to the fraud. He is
sues orders, and Furnishes the friends of true
Republican Statesmen for violating them, yet
violates them himself and permits his select set
to do it, with impunity. If the Recorder cannot |
gainsay these statements, it may at least scatter
them to the four winds by pronouncing Mr.. |
Hayes Christian gentleman.
Is THIS A BooMf-A large Blaine Club has |
been formed at Columbus Ohio, and majority |
Of prominent Republicans interviewed in Gov. |