Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1881 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

It appears that Hayes has been in the habit of drawing his salary monthly in advance, in order to have the use of the monev, and the matter has been kept secret until recently, when somebody at the treasury gave it away. Mr. Hayes was very angry when he found his weakness had been exposed, and has been hunting up the person who told on him with a view to bouncing him out. Whereupon a Washington paper remarks? “And this is the civil-service reformer! This is the man who has prated long and loudly for the need oi greater purity and stricter compliance with the laws in all the departments. This is the psalm-singer who affects the societv of godly men, and whose sycophantic admirers laud him for the * purity’ of his administration. This, in short, is R. B. Hayes.” The same.— Peck's Sun. It is hardly worth while to call an honorable Senator to account for words spoken on the stump, otherwise Butler, of South Carolina, is on the right track in attacking Conkling for his malignant, outrageous and gratuitous attack upon that State with reference to the census enumeration. Conkling was echoed by the whole partisan press, which was joyous in the mere excuse for firing the Northern heart with the cry that the South was endeavoring to falsify the record in order improperly to increase its representation in Congress. The Superintendent of the Census deprecated any statements of the kind, but his word, which, in ordinary times, would have been received with some regard, was brushed aside and the cry of fraud passed from stump to stump. Since the No vember election it has been found that the enumeration was wholly correct, a special recount having been made to ascertain. The best-provided man in this country just now appears to be Ulysses S. Grant. He starts wittf an admitted income of from $7,000.t0 SIO,OOO, which is enough to keep a moderately-temperate man in toothpicks. Then comes Gen. John A. with his bill to retire Mr. Grant with the full pay of a General; and backing the illustrious “sprout” of Illinois is the Assembly thereof, “instructing the Senators from Illinois and requesting its Representatives ” to go and get that General’s pay for Grant, and no mistake. Comes then the more tangible Philadelphia cash subscription of a round SIOO,000, which will pay import duty on cigars, while the George Jones fund of $250,000 may be employed in the purchase cf those very few meals which the hospitality, the gratitude, and the Ijondevouring instincts of the American people permit him personally to arrange for at his own pecuniary cost. Then there are those Arabian stallions, the gift of the Sultan of Turkey. They are better than a Leadville mine as a source of income. People ambitious to cross their stock with the famous strain are also willing to pay roundly for the chance, and so it happens that the receipts from that source are sufficient to pay the limited amount of transportation for which the General has personally to provide. Altogether, it can’t be said that he’s suffering.— Chicago Times. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, having been aske dby a committee cf Howard University graduates to contribute his mite toward the sum now raised to procure a painting of President Hayes, to be placed alongside of those of the Adamses, replied very savagely to the applicant: “ I decline to join in such a subscription.” He goes on to say: “lam notwilling to do anything that may be designed or construed as a compliment to Mr. Hayes, or that may recognize his tenure to the Executive office at Washington as anything other than an event of dishonor. He was not chosen President. He was defeated in the elections, and then a band of conspirators, Mr. Hayes himself conspiring and contriving with them, setting aside the constitution and the laws, and making use of forgery, perjury and false counting, secured for a time possession of the Presidency to which another man had been elected, and, when he got possession of it, his most sedulous care was to repay with offices and emoluments those authorized managers and agents of the conspiracy to whom he had been chi', fly indebted for its infamous success. Sooner than honorably commemorate such an event, or do public homage to such a man, I beg you, gentlemen, with your own hands first to destroy the portraits of John Adams and John Quincy Adams in Memorial Hall, and then raze to the ground the hall itself. ”

The story that Gen. Garfield had promised to select the Pennsylvania member of the Cabinet from one of three names furnished by Senator Don Cameron is denied by the Lancaster New Era, which says it is able to produce the best sort of evidence to the contrary. This implies that Gen. Garfield has written a letter to somebody on the subject, and the somebody is understood to be Mr. Barker, “the original Garfield man.” The removal of Rutan from the post of Collector at Pittsburgh was one of Hayes’ parting kicks at Cameron, who, by the way, made Hayes by suppressing the Blaine vote of Pennsylvania ; but it is not believed that poor Hayes would have thought of giving the kick just at. this time without some prompting from Mentor. The treaty of Mentor having been negotiated liy Don Cameron, it was surmised for a while that his footing with the new administration would be better than that of some of the other leaders of the Grant forces. It is unfortunate for him that the members of the Pennsylvania Legislature should be undeceived in the very pinch of a struggle for the maintenance of his dynasty. It is Mr. Blaine’s turn now. He has the power to revenge a long list of wrongs ; and if he does not remember 1876 and 1880 it will be a | marvel. The Republicans of Pennsylvania were in both those years heavily for Blaine ; but the Camerons had decreed that he should never receive the votes of the State, and he never did.