An American history . ORY politics and denounced the administration as excessivelycorrupt.^ 687. The Election of 1876. The effect of the Fifth Ave-nue Conference was seen in the Republican national con-vention. Ail the enemies of Blaine combined to securethe nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes, governor of Ohio,a moderate politician pledged to the reform of the civilservice. His nomination, however, did not satisfy all themembers of the conference. The two leaders parted com-pany. Though Schurz decided toremain with the Republicans andsupport Hayes, Adams went overto the Democrats and supportedt
An American history . ORY politics and denounced the administration as excessivelycorrupt.^ 687. The Election of 1876. The effect of the Fifth Ave-nue Conference was seen in the Republican national con-vention. Ail the enemies of Blaine combined to securethe nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes, governor of Ohio,a moderate politician pledged to the reform of the civilservice. His nomination, however, did not satisfy all themembers of the conference. The two leaders parted com-pany. Though Schurz decided toremain with the Republicans andsupport Hayes, Adams went overto the Democrats and supportedtheir candidate, Samuel J. Tilden,of New York, a fearless man of highcharacter who had made a greatname fighting ofiicial corruption inNew York City.^ By this time, eight of the recon-structed states had thrown off therule of the carpetbaggers, andthese with a number of states inthe North and West supportedTilden, giving him an electoral vote of 184. The remainingstates, except three, were carried by Hayes who received. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES * Several notorious scandals had contributed to form a general impressionthat the public service was honeycombed with fraud. It was proved that a cor-poration known as the Credit Mobilier had bribed members of Congress to votefor bills favoring its interests. The secretary of war, W. W. Belknap, was im-peached for fraud and narrowly missed being convicted. On the other hand,the secretary of the treasury, B. M. Bristow of Kentucky, showed himself anable and uncompromising reformer by hunting down and bringing to punish-ment the members of the Whisky Ring — a secret association of distillers andfederal officers that was extensively defrauding the government. Bristow wasthe first choice of the liberal Republicans for President. * He broke up the infamous Tweed Ring, a conspiracy of corru[it ix)liti-cians which robbed the city, through fraudulent contracts, of some $100,000, head of it was sent to the penitentiary. RECONSTRUCTION 489 from
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