Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-11-04
HAYES AS A KNOW-NOTHING.
EFFECTS OF THE FULL EXPOSURE UPON
ADOPTED CITIZENS.

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! Those Republicans who have displayed
> real devotion to reform, or, if not that
have at any rate, been coquetting will
. reform efforts, and who are known tt
many as Schurz Republicans, have beer
trying, since Hayes nomination, te
,, portray him as an innocent who has nc
8 conception of the sinuous ways OF the
politicians, while at the same time, they
insist that the politicians will find in
him dau ntless and immovable adver-
sary whenever they attempt to run coun-
ter to his reform programme. That
these two diverse conceptions of char
acter did not we'll harmonize; that a
man who was not thoroughly acquainted
with the ways of the politicians and
steeled against their demands, would
necessarily play into their hands,
even with the best will to do otherwise,
must be clear to every person that has
had the fortune to come in contact with
them; this self-contradiction in the ma
ture of their candidate as depicted by
them, the Schurz Republicans have not
succeeded in explaining. Now, how
ever, to settle the question beyond a
doubt, it turns out that Hayes is not in
the least degree the innocent, honest
being that his supporters have tried to
make him appear. His conduct in the
matter of the American Alliance proves
on the contrary, that he is the master
of very respectable amount of politi-
cal duplicity and chicanery.
When it first became known that
Hayes had been endorsed as President
tial candidate by the American Alli-
auce, and has been made an honorary
member of this secret organization, and
that he had given his thanks for the
honor and for the support, and had ex-
pressed his sympathy with the purposes
and tendencies of the Alliance, he de-
MED publicly through his Secretary that
he had ever written any letter in which
he had made any such utterances; the
Secretary took good care, however, not
to say O word as to the main question,
I. e., as to the relation in which Hayes
did stand toward the Alliance. It now
turns out that it is true that Hayes
never wrote letter to the Alliance
himself but it also turns out.
1. That on the 5th of July, in the
Continental Hotel at Philadelphia, he
received deputation from the Alli-
ance, consisting of Messrs. Lamb of
Ohio, Perry of Newark, N. j., Warbur-
tou of Hartford, Conn, Kimball and
Tyler of New York, and Black of Penn
sylvania, who informed him of his nom-
nations, whereupon he thanked the de-
putation, and accepted the nomination.
2. That on the 9th of July, in Colum-
bus, Hayes received deputation from
the Alliance, consisting of Messrs. Will
liam T. Black of Pennsylvania, Lemuel
Tyler of New York, G. III. Smith of
Connecticut, and Perry of Newark, N.
J. who rendered him copy of the
resolution adopted at Philadelphia on
the 5th of July by the Grand Council
of the Alliance, a copy of the constitu
ton and bylaws of the order, the form
of the oath of membership, and the GER
tifcate of his election as honorary men,
ber. Hayes accepted the documents,
expressed his thanks and said that he
| would give the deputation his formal
answer in writing. He thus treated the
Alliance up to this point in precisely the
same footing as the party which had
previously nominated him. The fol-
lowing day it seems either toshave oc-
cured to him or been cudgelled into
his head by others, that he must be eau
tious in the declaration of his senti-
ments to the Alliance, and thus it came
that instead of writing himself, he had
his secretary Mr.. Lee, inform the AL
lance, that he felt greatly Aattered by
these marks of their confidence, and he
would later place himself in communica-
ton with the order in relation to its
work for the campaign, particularly in
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut,
in which States for urgent reasons he
relies especially upon the assistance of
the Alliance.
The publication of this letter is Sc
we're blow to the Republican'party, and
the organs of that party will deceive no.
J body if they tried to act as though they
thought it of no importance. The Ecen-
inq Post, for instance, will find itself
badly mistaken in its ostensible expec-
tatiom that the letter will be disa-
vowed. Hayes cannot escape this time
with equivocal excuses and explanations,
| for he cannot deny the letter of his
secretary. The letter is genuine; every
word and every letter was written by
Nj. Lee, Hayes's secretary, as certainly
as our brother of the Post wrote the ar
ticle in which he pretends to doubt the
genuiness of the letter. And this letter
was not made public sooner simply be-
cause those who revealed it did not get
it sooner into their possession, and not
later because it was necessary to bring
it in season to the knowledge Of the vo-
ters, who next Tuesday are to sit in
judgment upon Hayes and Tilton. The
Post does not yet understand this, but
it will soon learn to understand it.
We will at once acknowledge to the
Erening Post, and those who side with
it, and who seem at present to be in a
very muddled state of intelligence, that
the impression made by this letter upon
the adopted citizens of the country, or
at least upon the Germans, will not be
so very disastrous for Hayes for the
simple reason that the overwhelming
majority of them had before that de-
clared decidedly against him. The af-
fair of the Alliance will, of course, lose
him all the remaining votes of the adop-
ted citizens of the country, for there
can be few who will vote for man that
was so weak as to play for the support
of secret order that was organized to
prescribe them. Those remaining vO-
ters, however, were, in any event,
only a few; the Germans, as body,
are filled with a conviction of the neces-
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