The Russellville Democrat., 1876-09-07
Hayes Incapable and weak according to Republi-
 can Account.
From the New York Sum-

from tnc NcW l ofk sun.
 The Republican party, slnce it
 has fallen under the control of it's
 present leaders, has been party
 of false pretences. It's record for
 the past eight years has been one
 of insincere professions and bro
 ken pledges, and the platform
 adopted by the Cincinnati Con
 vention is so diametrically oppos-
 ed to the practices of the organi-
 zation that it reads like satire
 upon the misgovernment which
 has distinguished Grants admin
 istration.
 Professing to be in favor of
 returning to specie basis for currency, the dominant party has
 passed an act to resume specie
 payments at a given time with out making any provision for car
 rying it into effect, but, on the contrary, while indulging in the most reckless waste of the public money, and while the present Re publican Senate has steadily re. sisted all efforts of the Democrat lc House to procure a retrench ment ia public expenditures. Under the pretence of peace policy, the Indians have been per sistently robbed and wronged, up- til at last we have a formidable war upon our hands, which is likely to cost the country enor- mously ill treasure and lives; the Government, as part of it's peace policy, having supplied the hostile Indians with better arms than are given the soldiers sent to fight them. Pretending to favor civil service reform, the patronage of the White House has been yielded in the interest of corrupt personal favorites, and for the worst political ends, to ap extent unheard of in the previous history of the republic, while tried and faithful public officers have been ignominiously driven out of place for fulfilling their 1uty in the prosecution of crlmi- nals who were engaged ir depre dations upon the public revenues.
 But of all the false pretences which have characterized the Re publican party slnce it's demoral- ization has become complete there is none more glaring than that of setting Rutherford E. Hayes be- fore the people as candidate for President who is able and wiling to effect the reforms which the decent portion of the Republican party are compelled to admit are imperatively demanded. No one who knows Hayes expects any thing of the kind of him, and it is for this reason that his nominn- tion has proved so acceptable to such men as Bill Kemble, Efligy Sargent, Boss Shepherd, John J. Patterson, ant other noted cor rIptionists, who are still the most active and influential leaders of | the Republican party.
 1t Is not necessary to go to sources for evidence | of this; witnesses among those who from partisan motives now support Hayes, have testified to his incompetency to fulfill the most important of the duties that will devolve upon the next Presi- ient. In the address of the Fifth Avenue Hotel conference a de- scriptlon of a weak, harmless man, irawn by Carl Schurz, and intend ed as pen portrait of Hayes, was given as an example of the kind Df man whom true reformers could not support for President; md below is a still better DOT ,raiture of the Republican candi- late from the Boston Advertiser, .he leading Repu olican newspa- per of New England. The OK ,ract which we copy appeared in he Advertiser June 4, 1875, be ore Hayes had been talked about or President:
 "We are not yet in possession 'f full information concerning the 'casons that actuated the Ohio Republican Convention to nomi latc ex.Gov. Hayes instead of Judge Taft, but some of them lie n the surface. It was unques ionably the work or the small of local political Kings