The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-27

THERE is newspaper called 1he Nd
ton. The Nation is elaborate, as usual,
N it's analysis of the character OF Gen.
HAYES. 1t says:
"Were the Presidential office now
what the Constitution intended it to be,
we're the administrative machinery in
proper working order, and were the Leg
lslature confined by custom as well as
oy law to Its proper duties, we should
say that Mr.. Hayes was precisely the
Kind of man for which the Presidency
calls. He belongs to a type OF which any
| country may be proud, and which it
should be the aim OF education and leg
| islation in every country to foster as
| that on which free Institutions most Sc
curely rest-the quiet, sober man, who
| does faithfully and without ostentation
whatever his hand gives him to do; in
peace an honest gentleman, In war
| gallant and modest soldier; loving IL
| private station best, but always ready
| IN lawful call to leave it for u public
one. 1t is to this type of, man that the
| Anglo-Saxon race owes most Of its polit-
zeal liberty and prosperity, for it is the
| ype which produced Hampden and
| Washington. 1t will be seen that we do
| not seek to conceal his good points, but
we fear that it is these very points which
make him objectionable at this juncture.
| We fear That he will, II elected, send the
| uation TO sleep again, to wake up once
| more in four or eight years to look for a
| truly good man to save it from the
| whisky thieves and the spectators anu
| obbers and ringsters. This reliance
| ON special providences is the sign, how
ever, not of healthy but of morbid poll
! .Ics; and the truly great man and the
| will hp hp WIN will hriu.f
| about the revolution which will render
| great men unnecessary, and make the
| ype to which Mr.. Hayes belongs sufi-
| sient Tor all the needs of the State.'
| We scarcely know what to make of
oe a terrible state Of ''morbid politics"
indeed that would make candidates S
good points objectionable" at any juno.
Cure. Would the Nation inculcate the
doctrine that we must elect wicked
man in order that we may be the better
Iualified TO resist wickedness and tc
;ontend with the world, the flesh, anG
.he devil, during his administration? Ii
goodness at discount when wickednesi
| 8 to be encountered2 The Nation seem
90 think so. The Nations philosophy, i
It has any, would imply that we mus
slect rogue to catch the rogues.
this be sound doctiine, then Babcocl
and Belknap would form a good ticke
for the Nation. lis it under such "rea
reformers" as those that the Natio
would expect to "bring about the reyo
ution which will render great men un
necessary
The Nation fears that Hayes vii
''send the nation to sleep again" TO
another four or eight years. nap. Thi
idea is about as ambiguous as the Other
Any man who can give quietude to tn
nation will do marvelously well. i
nasn't been able to sleep much for som
years past. A good rest from thieye
and burglars would do the people good
rhe Mutton with q capital N, and tn
nation without capital "n," both seer
10 think HAYES is man enough for thai
But deliver US from the Nations idea
'reformer" who is going to render grea
men superfueus. Such reformer
not the man with whom to trust tn
peoples coupons. We would prefer t
put up with a few great men, than ris
such notable "reformer."