The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-12

uncouth and incapable of just discern
ment or discrimination, or by the few
smaller fellows who, while less honest
in purpose are equally incapable of ad-
vapcing arguments in support of their
cause n 60 a tII
But the effects of this revelation ex-
tend far beyond the foreign born citizens
Of the country. A large portion OF the
native American population knows we'll
for how much it is indebted TO lmmigra-
ton, and either from interested motives
or from motives that are purer and bet
ter. is decidedly opposed to any such an
organization rs the American Alliance,
as well as to all proscriptive combination
and all religious intolerance. Then, too
and this is point to which too much
prominence cannot be giyen-Hayes'
behavior in this whole affair SHOWS
how very weak and pitiable is his char
acter as politician. II he had
come forward when his relations with
the Alliance first began to be talked
about, and said in exLenuation: 81 did
not understand distinctly the character
of this secret order, and i. was indlscreet
to have anything to do with 1t. l shall
have no further dealing with 1t, and sever
all connection with it," In that event, 1t
would have been possible to overlook the
matter, and Hayes would have stood be-
fore the public at least as an honest man,
But the way in which he sought to es-
cape from his embarrassment through
the letters addressed by his secretary to
IS DoJE 10
biatt, endeavoring at one and the same
time to satisfy the foreign-born citizens
and to preserve undisturbed his pleasant
relations with the Alliance, proves him
to be political trickster, and must open
the eyes of those who heretofore had not
learned his real character, and had not
seen IN their true light his pitiable
efforts to curry favor alike with the
Schurz Republicans, the machine Re-
publicans, and particularly WIFE
the Administration. Perhaps even Carl
Schurz will now see things in better
light. Or does he wait for the publica-
ton of Hayes letter to Grant, in which
HAYES assures our President that in his
letter OF acceptance he aid not mean to
censure Grant or his Administration?
Or for the publication of the correspond
ence between Hayes and Chandler, in
which those gentlemen make merry
over his simple notions and chlldlike
oniidenCe?
But whatever Carl Schurz may 10, he
can now, less than ever, mislead either
foreign born or native citizens either rs
to their duty to their country, or as to
what they may expect from Hayes or
the Republican party. The discovery of
Hayes connection with the American
Alliance will not only influence the COM
paratively small number of foreign-born
citizens who had not yet come to any de-
termination or were inclined to vote for
Hayes. to 90 over to TildeR, or, in
any event, not to vote for Hayes; but
this will be the case with many native
citizens who are not disposed to encour.
age political or religious prescription, or
who recognize that a man who be-
ing unmasked stands unvesled rs such
an unprincipled hypocrite and time.
server, cannot be expected rs President
to assume firm and courageous attitude,
and particularly turn dauntless front to
the corruptIonists of his own party. To
this extent the unnasking of Hayes real
relations to the American Alliance is a
very important contribution to the cam
paign, and one for which we may well be
grateful; and the Republican politicians
and newspapers, who now think they
can belittle the Importance of this revels-
ton, will very soon discover that their
endeavors are futile