Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
THE oTTUMwA COURIER
WEDNESDAY McRSrse, Dro. %, 1876.
HAvEs Va. r,Ipew.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. %, 1876.
HAYES W.. rlLDEM.
1t IL peculiarly fortunate at
this time of unusual political excite
mcnt, that We have gentleman as
President elect, who, in such an ex-
tracrdinary degree, commands the
univcral respect of the whole people,as
does Rutherford B. Hayes. In the very
prime Of life, possessed Of all his men,
tai and physical powers in their full
and mature force. cultivated and
strengthened by large and varied ex-
pcricncc, seconded by as faultless
record for high morality and for pure,
unseltish patriotism as ever graced
the life of any American, there rests
with everybody the utmost confidence
in his ability and his inflexible pur-
pose to stand by the right. From the
very beginning of the use of his name
for the Presidency, the modest, quiet
demeanor of the man, won for him
universal respect. When nominated
this same characteristic marked his
conduct, and his letter of acceptance
was never certainly excelled by that
cfany other candidate for the presi-
dcncy in the history of the nation. All
through the campaign he quietly at
tended to his duties as Governor,
leaving to the people of the country
the largest and most complete liberty
so far as any act of his was concerned,
to express their choice.
He never used any money or polit-
ical machinery to obtain the nomina-
ton, and he organized no bureau to
run the campaign but, standing aloof
from all political machinery in the
contest, he, in the most unostentatious
quiet manner, looked on as q digni-
fed spectator of the fierce political
battle. During his whole political
life, in his candidature and in the per-
Torrance of his official duties as the
solicitor Of the great city of Cincin-
natl, his two terms in Congress, his
three terms as Governor Of Ohio, and
lastly,h candidacy for the Presiden-
cy, he has made no foolish speeches.
He has not said or done one thing
upon which his enemies have been en-.
abled to lay their hands to his disad.
vantage. He is literally man with.
out mistakes.
Again, as an ardent patriot at thu
very beginning of the rebellion, 8
most gallant and able soldier, he &C
quilted himself in such manner as t.
make his military record not only alb
solutely unassailable, but glorious
imperishable record, without a single
stain such record as furnishes on,
of the most unselfishly, patriotic ca
reers that made glorious the Ameri
can name in the dark days of the re
bellion.
Gov. Hayes opponent furnishes
most marked contrast in his record
First, he was at the opening of tn
rebellion, and indeed some month
preceding it, a pronounced secession
list. lie continued to be such al
through the war, and furnished al
and comfort to traitors, by assistin
in sending broadcast through tn
land copperhead documents, and b
word of mouth discountenancing
severe terms the war for the Uniol
His record is not clear from that da
to the present that his views hav
even undergone change. His pull
lie life as an officer is confined to on
term as Governor of New York, an
that has been marked by the mo-
cunning and disreputable NEAR
to put himself successfully o
the course for presidential honor
He has been incontrovertibly prove
to have defrauded the government {
large sums by avoiding the paymer
of his income tax. He has becom
immensely rich by the most disrepu
able transactions in railroad wreck
ing. His record in this respect is ia
more infamous than those who wei
implicated beyond question in IL
Credit Mobilier scheme, and, indce
Tilden has been shown to have bee
the legal author, in part of TIL
scheme. Various other most disre]
utable monied transactions have bee
brought home to him.
As preparatory to his candidac,
he had himself pulled at so niue
per line, like patent medicin
In democratic journals, and fina
ly bought the st. Louis conventions
scoresof democratic papers themselvs
declared and proved. During tn
campaign he conducted politics
bureau with scores of clerks. Siuc
the election Duke Gwin, Tilden
personal friend,a partner with him
his secession and coppernead view
and now one of his intimate adviser
at New York, from bosom con
partnership with Tilden, set up ii
fraud through Senator Kelley, {
his dispatch shows. to cheat Hay,
out of an electoral vote in Oregon
In fine, confessedly and plainl
Hayes stands before the people oftt
nation and the civilized world, as Il
most honorable of gentlemen through
out his whole life, while the very r
verse has marked the career of Ii
den.
ABE HEw1TT, who is issuing b
aDr0nuncidneentOs declaring Tide