The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-22
A PEREaRlNATINO POSTMASTER.

A PEREGRlNATlNG POSTMASTER
SO long rs Mr. Key kept bin mouth
shut, and his hands busy about the
affairs Of his department At Washington,
people we're in doubt NJ 10 the wisdom
Of Mr. Hayes choice Of q postmaster
aud both he and the awkward bulloon
had tho benefit Of the doubt, The fun
measure Of his exceeding liltlerosa,
however camo TO the surface when he
attempted the rate Of OpoloPiat in New
England, and, u littlo later, that lolown
to tho presidential menogerio on It's
southern tour, Now, we are Of those
who refuse 10 believe that il makes one
particle Of difference to anybody what
antics this postal merryman cuts, oithor
in or out Of the ring but having had
our southern amour proprr sufficiently
wounded, by the little fellow who soon
became greater man than old Grant,
we dread tho future which is to develop
this East Tennessee BOBBY into ogeator
man than old Hayes, IIo is already u
greater ass than anybody, and that
ought to satisfy Il reasonable people
Tho south was very proud Of her rep
rescntatiye in the cabinet of Mr.
Hayes; proud Of the southern policy
inauguatcd by his exoellency, proud
Of the soitonod aspect of things genor-
ally, with regard to our section; but
here comes that plaguoy little postmasN
ter with his lowly apologies and hum,
BILE admissions in New England, and
all our southern fat ia in the fire in a
jihy. Eyarts managed to keep Key
tolorably quiet while the presidential
party tarried in Louisville, but bless
your heart, when Mr. Key felt
his foot press once again the soil of his
own loved Tennessee; when his eyes
again rested upon the lofty SUBMITS of
old Lookout, in whose shades his
proudost military Iourcls were won, and
whose base was once balhod with the
blood Of the future postmaster while
fighting ION the wrong side"-ho hes
came the raging, uncomfortable temp,
est Of enthusiasm, who would not down
ut the bidding of any one, much less
the attcnuated anatomy who moulds
the policy of Mr. Hayes, Poor Eyarls
had never encountered East Tennessee
enthusiasm in situations calculated TO
encourage it's perfect exhibition before
Ho took benefit for once when the
familiar dirt,eating unkempt, uncouth
East Tennessee hoozier stood once more
in the presence Of the man who had led
them into tho confederate service, and
"who loved, and was beloved again"
10y every white and black democrat and
republican man and woman in all East
Tennessee, Eureka u Pluribus Erin,
Unm Go Bragh Who the devil
wouldn't enthuse2 Who wouldn't
shout We of the south were once
upon time disposed to laugh ut the
builoonery of Mr. A. Linkhorn as Bill
Arp dubbed him, hut when Mr.. Key,
Colonel Key we should any, took Mrs
Hayes by the hand and led her before
his East Tennessee constituents, and in
the language and with the manners of
an orrant boor presented her to the
people,i it was the elimination Of stupid
ity and boorshness, and we only won
der that lady of Mrs. Hayes reported
refinement and elegance, would sub.
NIT to it for even moment.
These exhibitions do no credit to any
one interested. On the contrary, they
constitute national disgrace, and if
Mr.. Hayes would extend his personal
acquaintance and popularity by future
visits to the south, we beg he may suffer
his Gagged southern cabinet officer to re-
main at home Hayes and Evarts may
be diverted, nay, even amused, by the
droll antics of Mr.. Key, but the exhibi,
tion cannot TAIL to bo very painful to
the people of the section from which he
halls. lie ought to be muzaled for all
his future Journeys, no matter whether
the hills that dance for JOY at his coming
arelocated in New Hampshire, or in East
Tennessee. 1t don't do the hills any
good, nor the postal service either,
However, it may cause the old conied-
crate comrades of Mr.. Key to blush for
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