The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-26
Hayes Speeches.

ltcannot be denied that HAYES speeches,
a. he has been travelling through the coun-
try, are Hat and wofully lacking in ideas.
| They show him To be n very COMMONPLACE
man, dull of apprehension and Incapable Of
suggestion. He is glib enough, and self
Possessed enough, but he is manifcstly deli
clcnt In vigor Of intellect, and gricvouslv
afflicted with poverty Of thought. Compare
his brief oif-hand speeches with those Of
LINCOLN and those Of GREELEY, and they
seem mean indeed. Even GRANT frequently
managed, when he spoke To- say something
| that had scnt"ntious force, awkward as
the manner Of expression might bc. But
HAYES talk Is thin and platitudinous
repetitious and shallow. Nothing more
than these speeches is needed To discover
that the Fraudulent occupant OF the White
House Is made Of a stun out of which it is
impossible TO evolve a statesman.
Take As an example of his style Of speak
ing the remarks he made at Brattlcboro
After informing the crowd that the HAYES
family came to that town a hundred years
ago, and that his grandfather was the viii
lage blacksmith, the Fraudulent President
could find nothing better than this TO say:
Every one of the HAYEs family scattered 50 we are
u'i'"sh'u the country AMI have most agreeable rcco
l''u"n' OF Brau'horo thank YOU cordially tor what
YOU have done for there fewer spot. l,arcr Ia me
than tins Ny iather LETT here sixty years aso he At
month, and moved 10 ONO. where was born but nty
Older brother AMI sister wer, born here when boy OF
eleven years. fort, three years aso nr.t came To- I'M,
place on visit To uncle JoHs who then lived in M,
VILLAGE Durns my visit, walked over the very road l,y
which rode tins morning AMI from the very hons
where slept last night The place was beautiful th.n
There have teen many changes since but the bcAuty
'"nuhues ana mas been enhanced hope the beauty
AMI prosperity OF hrguehoro will continue 10 mcre.~
ana hope NAT a.an AMI Often shall hither to
meet YOU
Could anything be flattcr than that? And
what must we think OF man who. in
returning to the home OF his ancestors
guarded by the towering Green mountains
has only such reflections to utter? The ex-
preston, too, is cheap and clumsy showing
small and prosaic mind The speech reads
like schoolboys composition.
But when HAYES tries to be funny. he drops
even lower. When he seeks to say Il thing
gracefully, he bungles still more hopcessly
thus, when at Mr. EvARTs place at Wind
sor' he undertook the introduction of that
gentleman to the crowd there gathered, this
Is the fist he made of IL:
do not intend to say much myself hut to call upon
several gentlemen who are associated vim m. n, ,l
Government whom You will be slai To hear To begin
with shall call upon the gentleman who conducts the
correspondence with foreign Cove rnmcnt. writes
the high sounding words IN the documents to which
have toput my signature II you my name unicr
such documents you must bear IN mind that they were
written by your neighbour hope he l. neghhoriy Will
now Introduce MI EvARTs, the Secretary VI State " the
United States
The reading OF that stun is enough; its
awkwardness and stupidity need no point
ing out We hope Mr.. EyAKrs appreciated
the delicate compliment paid him by the
Fraudulent President he helped to make.
and whom he serves with such imitation
that when he follows HAYES with a speech.
he Is quite as silly as his predecessor
HAYEss patronage Of the suhservicnt
kEi Is also in wrctchod taste and the man
ncr in which he treats him, rs an humble
ponitent, ID naturally offensive to all rood
taste. Nobody, South or North, has
any respect for KEY, who sold his birth
right for mess of pottage- took Of
llce under President whose fraudu-
lent election he had denounced; and the
gusto with which he now eats humble pie Is
fairly nauseatlng. But it is not pleasant TO
So" even KEY treated like stupid school |
boy fresh from the birch