The daily gazette., 1880-11-09
From the New York Sun.
THE TRUTH ABOUT MR.. HAYES'S
ADMINISTRATION.


What object is there now in telling
anything but the truth about Mr.. r.
b. Hayes, who goes back to Ohio in
four months 2 No Republican poli~
tician has anything to expect of him.
in the wake of the party can hope tor
nothing further from him IN the way
of civil service reform. His record in
office is made up already. His day is
| over. From this time until March 4,
1881, he will attract very small share
OF the public attention and his de-
psrture from the White House will be
an event remarkable only because it
purges the place of tenant who has
occupied it for four years without IT,
| tie.
Yet once in while we find in our
republican contemporaries paragraphs
like the following 4:
/ 'lf the administration of President
Hayes had not been clean and upright,
If it had not managed the finances
well, if it had not condu cted our for
I eign affairs with ability, if it had not
maintained the laws with vigor, the
Republican party would have gone
down at the polls before a storm of
popular Indignation. In reckoning the
forces which won the battle, no state
ment will he complete which does not
place in the forefront the wisdom and
patriotism and the integrity of the ad-
ministration of Rutherford B. Hayes.
That is taken from the Utica Her
aid, a newspaper edited by Mr.. Ellis
H. Roberts. The Washington oorres-
pondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial writes in the same strain
"Friends of the Presid ent say but
for his clear and honest administra-
tion in every branch of public affairs,
which gave the Republican party re-
spectability once more, that party
could not have succeeded, and they
claim, with much show of reason, that
the party is more indebted to r. B.
Hayes for it's triumph than any one
man."
This sort Of talk passes current SIM
ply because nobody takes the trouble
to contradict it. The facts are acces-
sible.
Under Mr.. Hayes, corruption in the
Post Onice Department has reached a
degree of audacity unknown since the
days of Cresswell. For the greater
part of his fraudulent term Mr.. Hayes
maintained at the head of the Post
Office an incompetent, an ex-rebel
General, whose presence there was the
direct result of the scandalous political
bargain by which Hayes himself came
into power. Key was the fgurehead; /;
Tyner welded the political influence
of the department; while Brady and
his crew had full swing in the finan-
cial management of affairs. They
have not neglected their opportunities
Jobbers outside the walls of the gener.
al Post Office have combined and con-
) spired with dishonest officials inside,
and the people have been plundered o1
millions of dollars.
The star route system, and the loose
ness of the laws governing contracts foI
that service afforded the Ring all the
chance they wanted. Under pretense OF
"expt ditiug service" the cost of running
eignty-six star routes was increased il
eighteen months from $613 900 to S., ,2i0,
504. Tho increase for expedition, mean
while, on all the other star routes in III,
United States, more than ten Thousand
ii number, did not amount to $4,000
Favored contractors and dishonest Off
cials have profited under Hayes as thel
did not profit in the worst days of Grant
, ism. The star route scandals have grown
more Hagrant each year under Hayes
, and the spoils TO be divided larger. Th,
/, report submitted last month by Brad,
SHOWS thaG lot tne year enulne d June oo
1880, the expenditure on star routes wa
million dollars in excess of that for tn
| year previous, and a million and a hal
| in excess of the estimates. Brady an
a his Ring have been Investigated b
Congress. The facts have all bee
brought out, and the evidence Is on rec
ord. The guilty ones escaped punish
5 ment only through the treachery G
: Democrats in the Senate and House c
Representatives. Brady and the Rim
have been exposed aud denounced b
the New York Times and other homes
e Republican newspapers. Mr.. Hayes ha
never raised = hand to prevent or sGo
q the scandal.
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