Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-29
SOME OF THE COMING TRIALS OF
RUTHERFORD THE GOOD.

Unfortunately for the elect and Sinless,
there are many wicked and deprayed people
in this variegated world. Even the guileless
man who has invented an Era of Cancellation
and under whose domestic policy wine no
longer tempts the innocent young 1edglings
of diplomacy who are the ornaments of
state dinners, has fallen under the unkind
suspicious of the captious and the scornful,
The New York Times which is too sophisti-
Gated not to be in sympathy with selfish
interests and worldly aims, gives vent to the
suspicion that the President may have COM
promised himself with the Texas Pacific
Railroad Scheme. That organ of the I'M
regenerate takes it upon itself to lecture Mr.
Hayes upon his duty We find that paper
audaciously expressing itself as follows
We repeat that, for the Presidents own
sake. we trust that these stories do him
injustice. They convey too distinctly the
idea of bargaining and buying to be recon
cable with the purity of the Administration,
or the position which its chief should occupy
in public estimation. There would probably
he no inclination to entertain any suspicion
upon the subject if certain corroborative
indications were not fresh in the public mem
CRY The personal friends who were most
active i'll his behalf during the excitement
which attended the labors of the Electoral
Commission happen to have been III every
instance known advocates of the Texas Pacific
scheme. The Southern Senators and mem
bers with whom these gentlemen held con
tdcntIal intercourse are as conSpicuously
identified with that scheme and with the
efforts to fasten it upon the Treasury. The
coincidence may have been accidental, but,
st any rate, it was suggestive. AS between
Mr.. Matthews and Mr. Lamar for example,
it indicates a bond of sympathy whose ramiti-
cations are further exeuplihed by the record
of the convention over which the Ohio Senator
presided, and in whose proceedings the present
Secretary Of the Navy played prominent
part. These condolences, though multiplied
many times, might not necessarily compromise
the President MIR. Matthews may not be
his conscience keeper, and Mr.. Lamar is
not a very ardent friend. But
human nature is apt to put an un9enerOus
construction upon alliances of politicians who
have certain things in common, and who con-
trive, while promoting them, to advance other
interests, IN regard to which their connection
is not distinct. Thus, at the present juncture,
nothing worse could befall the the President
than to be suspected OF being Influenced in
the slightest degree by any possible under
standing between Mr.. Matthews and friends
on one side. and Mr.. Lamar and friends on
the other, with the Texas Pacific job, and the |
minor jobs connected with it, as the basis Of
the agreement, wholly or in part
Further on, the Times goes so far as to say |
hat The faith reposed in the personal |
integrity of the President Will not suffice to
counterfeit the distrust with which these
1lans for enriching the South at the expense
If the nation are regarded throughout the
North, 1t Will strike the gentle reader of
he MORNING APPEAL that this is rather
ugh horse from which to address the Presi-
lent. There seems to be hint at Wornley's
Underlying the tone of the Times. Here is re
ealed something Of the selfshneas of sections.
he Times does not want the Texas Pacific
Railroad. The MORNING APPEAL does want
built and hopes it will be built, and
entures to bid Rutherford to live up to so
much of his bargain with Lamar and Com
any as viii cause that project to be helped
long. Let the wicked be put to shame