American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-27

responsible for the misconduct of those
| Admin STATIONS, and that ali would he
changed when the reforming Republi-
cans came into power. The stalwarts
were defeated in the Republican Ma
tional Convention of 1876 by the nomi-
hatioii$ of Hayes: Hayes was beaten
at the polls by Tildei, but Hayes was
nevertheless ihauguratcd rs President.
What happened after March 4, 1877?
The bayonets we're withdrawn from the
Southern States. That price Mr.. Hayes
was compelled to pay for Il ratification
of the action of the Electoral Commits
sion which fraudulently counted in the
Hayes Electors and fraudulently counted
out the Tilden Electors by vote of
eight Commissioners to seven, General
Garfield being one of the eight. A
majority of the heads of the depart
ments appointed by President Hayes
were as hostile to President Grant and
his Administration as the latter had
been to the Administration of Andrew
Johnson. Under President Hayes all
the executive departments displayed
persistent ill-will toward Grant and the
stalwarts. MIR. Conkling and his friends
were bitterly prescribed. The Hayes
Administration put the ship of state
thoroughly on the half breed track, so
far as that could be done by the Execu-
tive. The out come is partly to be seen
in the Star-route frauds and in the
frauds which have beet1 already I'M
covered in the Treasury Department.
Already two Republican Journals in
this city, now under the control of two
prominent members of the Administra-
ton of Hayes, have loudly commended
the Garfield Administration for what it
has done in the way of exposing the
frauds perpetrated under Mr. Hayes
and in the way of reforming the OK
ecutive Offices
In the Republican National Conveii-
ton of 1880 the stalwarts rallied to
their flag SOC members, but by COM
bination of the friends of all the half
breed candidates on General Garfield
he was finally nominated and, i'm ac-
cordance with the practice of Rcpub-
lean National Conventions ever since
1864, political enemy of the candi-
date for the first officS was nominated
for the second place on the ticket i'll
the person of General Arthur, in order
to make sure of s'the spoils.'' The
half-breeds having intentionally put
stalwart-an opponent of General Gar
field and supporter of Mr.. Conkling
on the ticket in order to get the
goodwill of the stalwart "workers."
now since the. election, denounce Gen
eral Arthur because, in the SUBSEQUENT
faction struggles inside of the Repub-
lican party. he has acted as a stalwart
and with the stalwarts and against
the halt breeds. The theory on which
Republican National Conventions, ever
since Lincoln's second nomination,
have constructed their tickets, has been
that the Vice-President was to be ex-
pected to antagonize the President.
Andrew johnson was hostile to Lin
coin just as Arthur is hostile to Gar
field. A really honest half breed Re-
publican Convention in 1880. really in
spirea by principles and not by mere
greed for the spOls, would have
insisted that the candidate for Vice
President should be half-breed and a
friend of General Garfield, and not a
stalwart and friend of Conkling like
General Arthur. Party trading and dis
honesty at Chicago in 1880 produced
their natural consequences of party
troubles in 1881. These party troubles
were intensified by the Indignation of
the stalwarts at the breaking of the
pledges of General Garfield made during
the campaign at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
conference, and by the fact that the
stalwarts had chiefly provided the funds
which were used to carry Indiana, as
General Arthur SO emphatically adj
mitted at the Dorsey dinner I'm
mediately after the Cabinet of the new
President had been announced the
public was startled by an exposure of
certain things done by Mr.. Window in
connection with the wrecking OF the
Northern Pacific Railway and tor the
benefit of holders of certain "old
proprietary shares,' Mr.. Window hav-
ing been appointed Secretary of the
Treasury and having ostentatiously
posed before the country as kind
of ST. George bent on Staying the
Dragon of railway monopoly" what
ever in practical affairs railway mo-
nopoly," may mean. The Senate was
convened in an extra session. Both
President Garfield, leading the half
breeds. and Mr.. Conkling, leading
the stalwarts, made haste to |
curry favor with the Repudiationist
Malone. and coalition was finally |
made with that Senator on a basis |
of '.spoils." the terms being that Mr. |
should vote to give the COM
mittees of the Senate into the control1
of the Republicans, and that the united
stalwart and half-breed Republican vote
should make Mahone's friend Riddle
berger ScTEedut-stG ATl1S OF Inc senate.
Malone executed his part of this i'm
moral and disgraceful bargain, but the
Democratic Senators prevented the
execution of the other part of the
agreement into which Republican Sena-
tors had entered in order to divide the
power and the spoils of the Senate be-
tween themselves and the Virginia
A number of offices and
a great deal of small patronage rest in
the hands of the Sergeant-at-Arms of
the Senate. He is the chief fountain of
the salary spoils of that body, and the
members of the Senate were
willing to empower Riddleberger to
make general removals and to appoint
Or hire new men in place of old and
servants of the public if
Malone would only vote to give ma
jOrity of the Senate committees to the
The country has not for
gotten the general feeling of shame
with which decent men of all parties
heard of certain basket of lowers sent
from the White House and placed on
The desk of Malone after he consented
to enter into this trade for the spoils
Of the Senate. And what shall be
said of the removal by the Admin
stration of such public officers rs
Merritt and Phillips which SO quickly
followed? Can any one pretend that
Chandler and Robertson were nominat-
ed for any other reason than rs part of
I plan to gather up the "spoils' into
he hands of the half breeds? How can
hose nominations or n great part of
he removals which followed be recon-
,ilcd with the utterances of General Gar
ield in favor of Civil-servicc ReformP
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