The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-12
HAYES A. 4 KNOW-NOTHING.
Adopted CinzNs.

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From me New Yorker StaatAHeitung.
Those Republicans who hsse displayed
real devotion to reform, or II not that,
have at any rate been coquettlng with
reform efforts, and who are known TO
many MS Schurz Republicans, have been
irving since Hayes nomination to
nortray him as an innocent who has
no conception of the sinuous ways of the
politicians; while ut the same time they
insist that the politicians will find
in him a 1degptiess and immovs.
BILE sdss'ssry wSsasver they attempt
to Lpn counter NO his reform
progfamme. That theseNwo diverse con-
ceplions of character dNd not well har
mSnize; that man WHO was not thor
o1ghiv acquainted with the ways of pol
iticisns 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 into contact
with them; this self contradiction IN the
nature Of their candidate rs depicted by
them. the Schurz Republicans have not
succeeded in explaining. Now, however,
To settle LDt 4lcsbiOh NiAN g NSNDSi ~
turns out THAT Hayes is not in the least
the innoca :, honest being that his sup
porters have tried TO make him NJ pear.
His conduct III the matter of the Amcrl-
can Alliance proves, on the contrary,
that he Is the master OF very respects-
bic amount of political duplic'ty and CHI
csnery.
When it first became Known that
HAYES had beer Endorsed as Presiden-
tisl candidate by the American Alliance,
and had been made an honorary men,
Der of this secret organization, and that
hs had gwen his thanks for the honor
and for the support, and had expressed
his sympathy with the purposes and ten
denotes OF the Alliance, he denied pub
liclv 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
word as to the main question, /. c, rs to
the relation in which Hayes did stand
toward the Alliance 1t now turns out
that it is true Hayes never wrote letter
to the Alliance himself, but It also turns
out
/. That on the 9th of July, in the Goa
,inental hotel at Philadelph'. ne re-
ceived n dcputa,ion from the \.llance,
consisting Of Mr.. Lamb, Of ONro; Perry,
of Newark, New lr'>A; Na'burtnn, OF
Hartford, Coauecuc =; h.mUal and
TYLER, Of New York, and Black, OF "enn-
sylvania, who informed him of his nomi
II ,tion. whereupon he thanked the depu-
t4tion. and accepted the nomination.
2. That on the 9th of July, in Column
bus. HAYES received q deputation from
the Alliance, consisting of Messrs. Will |
,,sm T. Black. of Pennsylvania, Lemuel |
TYLER, of New York, C. Ii. Smith Of
Connecticut, and Perry, of Newark, n.
j who rendered him copy OF tae reso
lutions adopted at Philadelphia on the
9Th of July, by the Grand Council of the |
Alliance, a copy of the constitution and
bylaws of the order, the form of the oath |
of membership, and the certificate of
his election as honorary member. |
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 prevl-
ously nominated him. The following !
day it seems either to have occurred 10 |
him, or had been cudgeled into his head |
by Others. that he must be cautious in |
the declaration of bis sentiments to the |
Alliance, and thus it came that instead |
of writing himself, he had his secretary, |
MIR. Lee, inform the Alliance that he |
felt greatly Aattered by these marks OF
their confidence, and that he would later !
place himself in communication with the
order in relation to its work for the cam
paign, particularly in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, in which States
for urgent reasons, he relies especially
upon the assistance of Alliance.
The publication OF this letter is sew
ere blow to the Republican party, AMI /.
the organs ofthst party will deceive no.
body if they try to act as though they |
thought it of no Importance. The Eren-
qqg Post, for instance, will ind l.selt bad
" mistaken in its Ostenslble expectation !
that the letter will be di$avowed. 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 Mr.. Lee, Hayes |
secretary, as certainly as our brother of |
the Post wrote the article in which he !
pretends - doubt'the genuineness OF the |
letter. Ard this letter WAS not made |
public sooner simply because those who |
revealed 1t did not ge. it sooner into |
their possession, and not later because it |
was necessary TO bring ii in season to the |
knowledge OF the voters. who teNt Tues |
day are to sit in judgment upon Hayes |
sad Tilden. The Post does not yet uu-
derstand this, but it will soon learn to
understand II.
We will at once acknowledge TO the
Ecs,aiaq Post, and those who side with
it, and who seem at present to be IN
yery 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, Tor the
simple reason that the overwhelming
majority of them had before that de.
clared decidedly against him. The
affair 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
SC weak as to lay for the support of secret |
orderi that was organized TO prescribe |.
them. Those remaining voters. how /
ever, were in any event only few; the .
Germans, as body, are filled with Il
conviction of the necessity OF defeating /
the Republican party as condition pre- |