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Show THE ADMINISTRATION. A Cheerful Picture of Hayes and His Cabiui't. Ah Photographed by One Who Knows Them. Carrying Out the Llcl'urui Prom isi;s- Revival of tlie Old liit: l'uriy. And Icstriictiou ol' 4jiruu tiatii. Washington, D. C, No. 115 Wilbtrd's Hotel, March 11, 1S77. Editors Ikrahl : Having left my invalid wife at the famous water-cure in Filth aveuuo, where Georgo Francis Train and umcr uiaiiMuisijuu xuiui lumia uit recuperating, I cuue over here yes terday to spcud a month in taking the latitude and departure of this new administration, and with your consent, through the culumus of your valuable journal, I propose to mrniBh my old fellow-citizens of Utah with photographic sketches of all who rally round the Hayes admiuidtra-tion, admiuidtra-tion, together with an accurate and. truthful summary of its plans and purposes. The king is dead ! Grant! and his creatures are driven from public life, leaving a fearful stench behind them. Long live the king ! is th new hue and cry of this grand asyluo. for broken-down politicans, eflete officeholders aud political bummers, bum-mers, of all ages, colors, Bexes and conditions; and just here let me premise pre-mise that I have seen with my own eyes no less than four ex-governors of stats in the uniform of the capitol nniirt. Tn mirh hasps mint, nnli- ticians come at last. It is not to be disguised that the heart of this people was sorely bruised, if not absolutely broteu by the eircumstancos attending the last presidential election, and that the counting iu process sbocked the moral sense of all honest -nd disinterested dis-interested men, ho are neither oflice-eeekera nor oQice-holderg, and that the eflect of these things during the last four months has cast a shade of sadness and of gloom over all the leading spirits of the land; and that even the successful winners in the great game played for tho presidency are aflected thereby. The noise aud clamor, the vulgar excitement, aud the wild bnzzas that welcomed Grant to Washington have not been heard; but the solemn silence, the quiet and auxious sadness that Bellied like clouds on poor Lincoln's inauguration, inaugura-tion, are here to day. Yet from the brief examination which I have given to public matters and public men, it seenis to me as if by the epocial providence provi-dence of God, the nation's calamities of '77, like those of '60, are to be overruled for the nation's good, and that these events are certain to work out a demonstration of that patriotic and beautiful apotbema of Hayes, ' "He who Berves his country best, serves his party most." The first thing that strikes the eye ot the careful observer is that the new administration is a perfect antithesis to the last one, and that whatsoever was done in the name of Grantism will urely be left undone byjlayea and his cabinet, and that the manifold acts that were left undone to tho injury of the body politic by the former for-mer administration are sure to ba done and well done by the present incumbents. Look at tho cabinet! No man therein was a favorite of Grant; nay, each one of them was a subject of his special animosity. Evarts, the first lawyer in America, next to Charle3 O'Conor, was never forgiven by Grant, Chandler, Morton, Logan and that set, because by his masterly legal ability, and his honest patriotism he snatched Andrew Johnson John-son from their infamous attempt to destroy him by judicial aud senatorial corruption. Carl Scburz, too. one of the very ablest statesmen tht vet if most thorough scbolar and perfectly- educated senator in these umted States, a man whose hands and heart are as pure and patriotic as were those of Alexander Hamilton, has always been distinguished by the open hostility and tho unrelenting attacks of the late president and bis coadjutors and followers in maladministration. malad-ministration. Look, too, at Dick Thompson, that gallant old whig who, commencing his political lift? with Tippecanoe and Tyler too. has, during the last twenty years, time and again declined all public honors, offered by Lincota, General T.tyior and others, and during all this time has been the target in Indiana for O. P. Morton and his confederates in political corruption and iniquity, at whom to aim their envenomed shafts. This gallant old whig is called, as it were, from his retirement to aid in the rescue of the ship of state from the perils into which Grant and his crew bad navigated her. Not only was the cabinet manifestly mani-festly selected for their antipathies to the last administration, but it would seem for the purpoae of reviving and regenerating our Bplendid old whig party, and restoring it to its prestinu splendor, when Clay and Caltioun and Watkins. Leo and Webster and Berrien and Choato and Maugum and Metcalfe were its honored leaders and when the pride and glory of its teachings were to live well, '.rork hard and die poor; when no public man soiled his hands or bis conscience con-science with tbe public monies; when cabinet ministers did not sell post-trad erships, nor joiu as confederates confed-erates with whisky thieves in stealing the public monies, ere they reached the treasury of the United States. But not only is the new cabinet auti-Urant auti-Urant and thoroughly whig in its antecedents, but it is a cabinet and a unit in favor of reform in every department de-partment of our government, from its foundation to its cap-stone, aud though tbe labors of cleansing it were ten times greater than those of Hercules, Her-cules, they will ho steadily, thoroughly thor-oughly and finally accomplished. The insolent aud impudent iu tormeddling of senators and members of the house baa already been stayed and will be successfully re sisted by this new cabinet, who will execute the laws and appoint their subordinates, utterly regardless of tho promises made by hackneyed politicians aathe consideration, consider-ation, by which to purchase their seats iu the legislative department of the government. No eenator or representative today to-day has any more influence and power to control the disposition of public patronage than any other respectable re-spectable mau, and the commendation commenda-tion of George Q. Cannon would be worth just aa much as that of Zacli Chandler or John A. Logan. In short, the new president and the new cahinut being all new men aud old wings, are determined that hereafun in all appointments the questions It be decided shall be: is the candidate honest? is bo capable? is he patriotic! and not, has he helped to elect to tlu 1 senate or the house some drunken Bcnalor or thieving representative? Having had a life long acquaintance acquaint-ance with Sherman and Scburz and Evarts aud Thompson and McCrary, and haviog had now an opportunity to ; converse with them, not as an ollico-1 ollico-1 seeker or a party bore, I can fearlessly fear-lessly promise- that this new administration, adminis-tration, begun in national darkness and gloom, will end iu the sunlight of peace and prosperity; that the north and tho south, will onco more ho united in the holy brotherhood of the Union, and that although tho movements move-ments of tho cabinet wiil be slow, full slow, yet that before its caroer is terminated, ter-minated, not ouo public thief either in Utah or the Btates will he left undetected un-detected or unpunished. Grant's beautiful declaration to Bristow, "Lot no guilty man escape," will surely be applied to thoso men, who for the last seven years iu Utah aud elsewhere have kept their hands engaged in picking aud stealing, and their tongues in evil speaking and lying, and hereaftor antipathy l& Mormoniem and polygnmy will uot be accepted by the administration as a valid excuse, for stealioc tbe public lands, ombezzhng moneys in the post-office, post-office, defalcations by United States marshals, or bribery and official villainy vil-lainy oilher on the bench or by United States district attorneys. Moke Axon. SPECIAL NOTICE to Far- ; mere, Sheep Raiders, ditchers, i i and others: Z. U. M. I., of ' this city, is paying lbs high- I eit market price in cash for j Wool and Hides of all kinds. j Wool contracts closed and the j usual advances made on tho ' i same. We have evtry facility 1 for handling these products in 1 j any quantity, and parties will j fiud it (o their interest to con- 1 j suit us before making other arrangements, rartit-s ship-. , , ping their Hides or Wool to 1 us will please mark them Z. 1 i C. M. I., care H. B. Clawaon. ' Depot at the Wagon aud Ma- i chine Yards opp. tho Institu- ' ; tion. H. S. Eldeedge, feH Supt. Just received A fine stock of GUNS, PISTOLS and Ammunition. All kinds of Gunsmith work done. Heusser Bros., Main street. P.O. box 625. al5 |