Year: 1878

the late election, Chairman Of the
National Democratic Committee,
admitted that the fraud which
made Mr.. Hayes President was not
that surreptitious public function
ary's own fraud, but rather the
fraud of the Electoral Commission.
We differ with Mr.. Hewitt to the
extent that we believe Hayes was
an accessory to the fraud after the
fact, and so will be held rightly
guilty and infamous in history.
Having made this concession to
the mere legality of Mr.. Hayes's
title, Mr.. Hewitt, in a debate In
Congress the other day, INDUCED
in the following scathing arraign-
ment of Hayes:


Referring to civil service reform.
he sent to the Clerks desk and had
read the civil service order of Pres.
ident Hayes, and then said that
the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury
had been making speeches in New
Hampshire. He did not propose to
make any comments on that fact.
| No President had ever made such
promises as Mr.. Hayes had. No
President was ever so bound by
every consideration of justice to
keep the pledges he had made. 1t
had been q matter of wonder to
every body on both sides that those
pledges had not been kept. Here
was q President who came into
office, not by the ordinary mode,
but who came rather by the Cesar
ian operation, and he owed it to both
sides-not only to his own side, to
which he had made these pledges,
but to that other and greater party
In the country which had, with a
forbearance and self-control unpar-
alleled in modern times, kept their
faith with him. Has he kept his
faith with the people? Men had
puzzled their brains to explain
why he had not done 1t. 1t was
assuredly not because he wanted to
reward his own party, because he
had trampled his own party under
foot; it was not because lie wanted
to come into the arms of the Dem
ocratic party, because he knew
that while that party sternly did
its duty to humanity, it wanted no
recruits from that direction. He
had said that he would not give
appointments for political reasons
that was to the party that had
nominated and tried to elect him;
and within very narrow limits he
had kept his pledge as to that.
But there had been more than one
campaign carried on in 1876; there
had been the campaign of election
and the campaign OF electoral ac-
tion; and when his appointments
were turned to it would be found
that he had rewarded those who
had secured his counting in to the
high office of President of the
United States. To begin with his
Cabinet, there could be found there
two Secretaries who had been
counsel on the Electoral Commits
sion.


Mr.. Frye (Rep. of Maine-As the
gentleman is making an attack on
the civil service reform of the
President, l hope he will give us,
the friends of his policy, sufficient
time to reply. Loud laughter.


Mr.. Hewitt said he was not max
ing an attack on the civil service
reform of the President, because he
thought he had no civil service
policy. Among his other appoint
ments were those of Wells, Ander-
sou, Casenave and Kenner in Lou
isiana, and of Sterns in Florida.
The President had also broken his
pledge by appointing three person.
al friends s-Mr. Noyes, who had
put Mr.. Hayes in nomination, as
Minister to France; Mr.. Comfy,
who had discovered Mr.. Hayes, as
Minister to the Sandwich Islands,
and Mr.. Lee as Consul to Frank
fort.