Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-11
THE OHIO ELECTION.

was the crystalization of vast mass of cpl
thets and abusive sentences hurled against the
Administration of President Grant by very
considerable body of malcontents whose motto
was 'anything to beat Grant" These peo-
pie, banded by common feeling of
meanness and malignity were drawn together
at Cincinnati in 1872, and there they held
convention and nominated Horace Greeley for
the Presidency. The man who performed the
part of chairman of that convention was STAN
ley Matthews. He now occupies the conspicu-
GUS place of first friend and chief adviser of
the President. In other words, Mr.. Hayes
has made his bed with the so-called Liberal
Republicans His confdants and closest allies
are the men who made themselves notorious
by leading revolt against the Republican
party which, if it had been successful, would
have checked reconstruction half way put
Horace Greeley in the Presidential Office and
returned the South into the hands of the reb-
els nearly five years ago. Just at this present,
time there is political campaign in motion
in Ohio The Democracy have ticket in the
field and so, also, have the Republicans. The
machinery of the Republican party is all in
the hands of this same Stanley Matthews, ct
al. The faithful Republicans assigned
back seat. They who withstood the burden
and heat of the day are invited, now, to take
their political cue from the men who attempted
to demolish the party in 1872. Hayes is in
full alliance with these insurgents. He con-
suits with them and permits them to use him
and his Office to put sights upon the men who
stood by Grant when all the soreheads and
good many of the rebels and a certain proper
ton of the copperheads were in alliance
against him and tried to disgrace and humili-
ate him and his party, And now Mr.. Hayes
with his wife and his sons and his rebel Post
master General, Key, have gone to Ohio to
try and make it sustain ''my policy" The
question is, Will the Buckeye State. by elect
ing Mr.. Matthew's man, West, endorse Mr.
Hayes's policy and preferences7 We do not
believe it will. We do not hope it will. If
Mr.. Hayes is right there is need of Re-
publican party. The kind of Republican
party he and his advisers and associates be-
lieve in is merely sickly plagiarism Of the
Democratic party. We prefer the real thing
to the imitation. Hayesism is diluted Democ-
racy. 1t is watery adulteration of Andy
Johnsonism, 1t is merely promulgated and
authoritative malignity, sugar coated. We
would rather see the Republican party perish
than become the convenient tool of such men
as Hayes, Schurz and Matthews. We do not
believe in putting the Republican sick man
out to the tender mercies of any such a nurse
as Carl Schurz. We know that Ohio is a very
uncertain State. We know that it is made
up of very strange elements and swayed by
very singular and oftentimes quite unexpected
influences. But if human tendencies and
passions are not very different in Ohio from
what they are elsewhere, the Democracy will
find an easy way to a most decisive victory.
1t is almost too much to be hoped for, but
singing rebuke to Hayes and his hypocracies .
and impertinent demeanor toward the Repub- .
hcan party is a consummation devoutly to be
wished. The Sun, taking view of the field
says: {
Thousands of old-fashioned Republicans are
indignant that this man who obtained his
false title by the aid of Packard, who received '
a larger vote than Hayes by the Returning c
Board count, should have kicked away the a
ladder by which he was able to enter the
White House with forged keys.
They hold that if Hayes has any right or t
claim to the Executive office, Packard has a
better right and claim to the Governorship of n
Louisiana. Therefore, to discard him was an 9
act of base treachery which will not be for \
given. The same rule necessarily applies to e.
Chamberlain. There is another class of &C tt
tive Republicans who are disguised with the n
false pretenses of the Fraudulent Administra-
ton, which, after providing the best places :,
for the most conspicuous agents of Hayes in q
Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida sets a
up a civil service sham for others who worked h
zealously for the cause and did no cheating
Point is given to their resentment by the
fact that Hayes personally solicited and paid T
large sums OF money to promote his own cleo 6,
ton, and that he endorsed drafts for tens of l.
thousands of dollars, knowing them to be the
of officeholders, contractors and 20
jobbers, made with view to his future favor &C
They hold up John Sherman as the example {.
Of trader in politics lifted to the highest po- -
sition because he aided in concentrating the f
great iniquity and was instrumental in raising 20
he pool by which Ohio was corruptly saved l,
It the Presidential aud State elections They II,
efer to Mr.. Evarts as the rewarded defender a.
If the successful iniquity, who became Secre- y
airy of State for no other reason. They ar -