The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-09-01
THE PRESIDENT COMING.


!, Bishop Of Eureka, who declared in the
!. Republican State Convention at Carson,
that he wished he had died before he
voted for him, is expected to pass here
!. next Monday on his way to California.
Though Mr.. Hayes was not elected in
;, the manner prescribed by the Constitu-
!. tion of the United. States, he has in
!. .some respects made good President.
lie intended to do. better than he has
! done, and attempted toreform the Civil
! Service, by prohibiting officials who are
. paid salaries by the whole people for
, performing specific duties, from devo-
! ting their time to- partisan purposes. In
shis he was thwarted by the politicians,
!, who disregarded his orders and violated
bis Civil Service rules, which, although
yet In force. are. not now, and never
have been respected. Knowing that he
ls "a good, weak man" who has not the
rerve to. enforce his rules, the members
Of his Cabinet laugh at them and earn
j. their salaries by travelling around the
country, at the expense of the peo-
Gre, in palace cars, making political
speeches. The Commissioner of Inter-
mai Revenue, Green B. Raum, spent
.. weeks in Illinois before the, Chicago
!. Convention electioneering for General
Grant, and presided over the Repnb-
Gcan Convention of that State, and
ruled as, directed by John A. Logan
and the, other Grant managers. 1t was
animated for while that Mr.. Hayes
!, gould. not overlook. so glaring viola
tion of his Civil Service rules, and that
Raum would be officially decapitated;
but the good, weak President suffered
the transgresslon to pass unnoticed, and
: now there is not an official in the coun-
try who pays the slightest attention to
his Civil Service orders.
!. But President Hayes is inconsistent
as well as weak. On the 18th day of
/. january. 1875 he removed Chester A.
;, Arthur, Collector of Customs at the
!. port Of New York, giving as a reason
!. therefor, that:
s'You (Arthurj have made the Gus
tom-house. a,center political misman-
.agement; and with a deep sense of my
obligations under the Constitution, l
regard it as my plain duty to suspend
you, in. order that the Office may be
!, honestly administered.
Now he advocates the election Of
Arthur, whom he had to remove from
,the, Custom House, that the Office might
Do honestly administered, to the office Of
Vice President of the. United States,
proving that, like the Virginia Enter
prise, in the case Of Sharon, he will
support anybody, who calls himself a.
Republican, no matter how dishonest or
incompetent.th person may be, for any
office. He also showed how inconsist-
emit a President could be, by not recog-
nizing Packard as Governor of Louis
lana, although Packard, according to
the Returning Board count, received a
thousand more votes than the highest
Elector ON the Republican ticket, and
it took the votes Of those Electors as
well as that of Mr.. Bishop Of. Eureka,
to givc.him majority of one for Presi-
dent over Tilden.
!. The course of Mr.. Hayes on the Sill
yer and Chinese bills do not commend
), him very warmly to the people of this
coast. He vetoed both, though the Sill
yer bill was passed over his veto. lie
admitted that the Chinese restriction
bill was constitutional, and in this re-
spect agreed with the ablest constitu-
tional lawyers in the Senate, yet vetoed
Il against the wishes Of the majority Of
the representatives of the people in
both houses of. Congress.
There is no particular reason why the
people of this coast should get excited
ever the arrival of r. B. Hayes, except
.that he occupies the Presidential Chair
by virtue of the decision of an uncon-
stitutional commission, not by the will