Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-20
WHOLENO 2.3I2.

D him and McLin for their service
es on the board of canVassers. 4 McI.fl
II gives the following account Of ~
IF interview he had with COwgill:
;. Question. Dr. oowgiIl was a inembos I
G the retaining board s.-f,rl fs...a
{ { q. You may state what DR.. Cowgirl 1t,
u to you, II anything, In references % II. Hnr
e a. Dr. Cowgirl told nae that he was re
r cetvei very kindly by the President an,
!, given free admission 10 the White House a
. all times, and that he had expressed himsel
[ as being under great obligations 10 him nnt
4 70 me IN the vass, and that he felt 10
only under political obligations Int parSO
} nal obligations, that he would certainly pn,
l at an eariy day.
/. 'bikn NJ. l'is uini 'f fruI1
Anu again 'fif 1rf 1goa
Q. what did Mr.. Cowgirl say in regard tc
, any any appointment that he should receive
Z A. He told me that he had been prom.
ised an auditoEship IN the Treasury. -.
e. Vas he appointed to that place -.
q. Was heappointed 70 any position IN
der the Federal Government 49,
heard that he was appointed 10 an agcney
accept It. 49,.
II seems that Mr.. Hayes fully rec
ognized the valuable services OF
Cowgirl and McLin, and promised
at very early day to discharge the
obligation he was under to them.
As we have. seen, he made McIlin
supreme judge Of New Mexico and
promised Cowgirl an auditOrshipin In
the Treasury. This for some reason
could not be done and in lieu there
of he was appointed a special agent
of the Treasury Department.. This
position requiring him to be from
home a great deal, Cowgirl declined
TO aecept.it, and retired to his or
ange grove on the classic banks Of
the St. Johns river, where in the
enjoyment of his OtiatDa cum digIJi-
tate he can contemplate with quiet
pride and satisfaction the extra0rdi-
nary career of the man to whose ell
ovation to the Presidency he con-
tributed so much. -rrsi-st
Mr.. Noyes, confidential friend
and neighbor of Mr.. Hayes, was
not forgotten by the latter when be
took his seat In the Presidential
chair. Noyes was appointed min
lister to France on q salary of $l7 800
per annum. ra sfn
General Lew Wallace, another in
innate friend of Mr.. Hayes, who,
as has been seen, went to Florida
and was most active In his efforts to
assure the returning board that
Hayes would take care of them,
was appointed by Mr.. Hayes gov
ernOr of New Mexico on a salary Of
81, 900 per annum. ft-tnaI.rf
Mr.. John a. KassOn, another
wandering statesman who felt a
-. a. s.tH al.
this time, was rewarded by Mr..
Hayes with the position OF minis
ter to Austria on a salary of $4,000
per annum. But not only were
Stearns, and McLin, and Cowgirl,
and Noyes, and Wallace and Kas-
son, the star actors i'm the farce of
counting Florida for Hayes, all re.
warded by the master for whose
benefit they performed, but the
great apostle of eivil-serHice reform
did not forget to suitably reward
even the scene-shifters aud candle
snuffers of the play. a.
j. w. Howell was employed in
the Office of the clerk OF Baker
county, from which a set Of false re-
turns were counted for Hayes.
Howell boasted that lie was the
cause of Hayes's election by the
part he took In this fraudulent tran
sactiOn. Mr.. Howell is collector OF
the port at Fernandina, Florida, on
a salary of $500 per annum, besides
fees and commissions. l. ..
Richard III. Black and Thomas Ill.
Vance, two cOlOred men, ofiiciated
at the election in Alachua county,
-
as clerk. They added 70. the poll
list, after the election, two hundred
and nineteen fictitious names and
the same number of Republican
votes. Thomas II. Vance nestles
in the Sixth Auditors office on "A
salary of $1,000 per annlum, and
Richard III. Black finds an asylum
on like salary IN the custom-house
at Philadelphia.
l.. G.. Dennis, the chairman of the
Republican committee OF Alachua
county, was the man who inspired
and instigated the manipulatiOns Of
the returns by Black and Vance.
Dennis was given a position In the
Treasury Department, hat the place
not being equal, as he thought, to
the value of his seryicts, he clam
ored for a larger rewaFc and lost
what he had, aud thereby added a
modern illustration to Ore ancient
fable of the dog that Cpdertook TO
cross a stream with a hele i'm his
mouth.
One Joseph Barnes was an inspec-
tor of election in Leon County. He
1t was who procured u LOT of republic
snlv 20 hn rnwtW In
small type and on very tliin paper.
These peculiar ballots were known
by the suggestive name of "little
jokers." Barnes boasted that he
smuggled seventy-threo Of these re-
publican ballots into the ;,ox. After
the democratic party cafnainto pow
er in Florida, Mr.. Joseph Barnes
came to the conclusion that they
might not properly appreciate his
"littIe iokes," and he therefore
wended his way to Washington 20
Join the band of civil-service re-
formers under Mr.. Hayes. The
humorous author of the 'little iok-
ers" now smiles serenely in the
Treasury Department cn salary Of
81 900 per annum. He II supposed
to be happy in the enjoyment of his
salary and in the pleasing reelection
that he is one Of the good 'Jokes"
that Mr.. Hayes has got off on the
subject Of civil-service relorn1.
James Bell lived iii Jefferson
County, Florida. Heseems TO have
been a straightforward performer In
the many-sided game OF fraud that
gave florida and the Presidency to
Mr.. Hayes. Bell was an inspector
OF election at some preeinets in that
county. After the close Of the elt,c-
ton, the inspectors tied up the tick
cts in packages and laid them out
on a counter. Bell distracted one
of the bundles from the pile and
slipped in its place another bundle
Of similar appearance, containing
one hundred Republican ballots.
Bell was entirely too good a subject
of civiI-seryice reform 10 escape the
keen eye ofits great expounder, and
he found a dwelling place in the Inc
terror Department on u salary of 81 =
200 per annum. / could mention
other instancesintheS State Of Florida
illustrative OF the industry and at
tentiUn TO details on the part OF Mr..
Hayes in his search Of rare speci-
mems with which TO enrich his civil
service-reform cabinet ofcuriositiea.
But let these suffice. nr
now turn to the State,Of Iouisi-
ana, for so long the Canaan OF the
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