The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-12
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
A8 He is Described by One of His Ohio
Neigh6Ors.

Who is this great man who is to reform
his own party by shaking off the rogues
who handicap it, the very men who bring
him forward and laud his excellence?
Well, my friends, there is not much
known, and the little is not encouraging.
We, of Ohio, know him to be an amiable,
inoffensive gentleman, belonging to a
class from which we select executors,
guardians, and sometimes county COM
missioners. Laughter He never OBJ
tained an Office that was not thrust upon
him; he never held an Office in which
he got beyond it's merest routine. He
came out of the late war with a record
that one has to sea CHI for to find-ag cd
soldier enough, but not the pumed Hen
ry of Navarro his friends now claim. He
came from Congress without the utter
ance of a sentence, the Introduction of a
single measure, while his votes are the
votes of trained partisan helping
the party on in all its erroneous legisla-
tiOn, extravaganza and fraud. He is a
good man, of course he is, for he lacks
enough force of character to be bad. He
is one ofthose masculine negatives, crea-
ted by wise Providence to fill churches.
and lead pious women and children from
the sinful ways of earth to the happiness
of heaven. We thank God for the mas
culine negatives, Tut we do not select
them to throttle corruption in its strong
places, yea, verify in our own household.
If elected President, Mr.. Hayes will
make James G. Blaine Secretary of State.
He rendered that distinguished Congress
sional railroad broker that place in a tel
egram ten minutes after nomination. He
will make 0 P Morton, or creature of
that corrupt man, Secretary of the Treas
ury. He will call Simon Cameron. or
son of Simon, to his Cabinet, and so Sc
lectlng his advisers, continue the corrup-
ton. He will make a model of an in
augural address, and his annual messages
will be good enough for republication
by the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion. But his party will pay no more at
tention to his advice than it has to the
same sort of political exhortations from
President Grant. Like the man who
nailed the Lords prayer 10 the head of
his bed, and rapping with his knuckles
every night, cried out, "Them's my SEN
timents, Lord" these gentlemen will
continue in their iniquity all the same.
Laughter and applause.
The cry of reform is as hollow and
false as the pretended claim to resump.
ton. Had there been any honest intent
on the part of these leaders, there was
man before the Cincinnati Convention,
who, if nominated, would have controll-
ed the sympathy and commanded the
support of the people. refer to the late
Secretary Of the Treasury, Mr.. Bristow.
A coarse, able, and brave man, he saw
his opportunity, and took up reform as a
lawyer takes a case, or surgeon a can.
Ger. He tracked corruption, as many ,
others did, to the door.sill of the White
House, but, unlike others, he boldly en-
tered, and, while indicting the Presidents
confidential friends and boon compsn-
ions, was the first to make the soldier
President tremble. But the convention
ofreformers did not tonch the reformer.
They preferred the mild Hayes, and pos
5essing him, they are happy. Gen. A. s.
Piaa, at Macdcheek, Ohio, Sept. lS.