Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-18
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO
SAY

The MORNING APPEAL has been subjected
to some criticism for its course toward Pres
ident Hayes and his policy. Somehow, in
our desire to express the objections that are
in US we have fallen short of what we wanted
to express. We guess we have been too
mad" to be clear. But we have found
something which does express what we feel
Strangely enough it is in the Danbury News
1t is from the pen of Goldsmith, of the New
York Herald who corresponds with the News.
Here it is :: % For moment, on my own re-
sponsibiity, without any other backing by
the Danbury News than the editors compi
ment in printing what write, let me say this:
That when Mr.. Hayes became President of
the United States he was made such by the
Republican party, which took great deal of
trouble, and which acquired great odium
therefor. Mr. Hayes was not popularity
elected. He was made President; cooper
ed-up affair In his individuality he had Il
right to rise above all mean and corrupt con-
siderations But Mr.. Hayes Immediately
disregarded everything that Grant has done;
ungenerously snubbed the leader of the Re
publican party, and every lieutenant of that
body, thus giving forth to the world the i'm
preston that he, finding no good in that lead
er and those ieutenants considered them bad
Thus Mr.. Hayes began the fight, and no one
of the angels, Curtis, Bowles, Nordhof, has
said one word for the old regime. The senti-
ment of men who had fought in the old days
when romance and enthusiasm made glory
for the party was brought down to the rule
of three. To be sure England glorifed Grant;
but Hayes dropped him like a hot potato.
And any man who remembered Grant was
spoken to insultingly, and village school-boys
from Ohio were placed in a position of trust,
not because they were known to be any better
than the followers of Grant, but because
they were namby PANTY and new. Mr..
Hayes began to fight by turning a New
Yorker out of the New York custom
house and putting an Ohio man in. He turned
a man out of the Chicago custom-h house and
put an Ohio man in. He sent his local edi-
tor, Comfy, to the Sandwich Islands, and his
nominator, Noyes, to France. He decimated
Ohio in order to find lisping mannikins to fill
offices in the name of Civil-Service Reform.
In every way he disregarded every appoint
ment that had been made by General Grant.
Thus he insulted the great soldier and he
disguised the old enthusiasts of the Repub-
lcan party. He cooed over the rebel yell,
and he had never a word of compliment to
paw to the men who sat down and dug trenches |
at Vicksburg. He spent his time in making |
insipid speeches in which he daily told the
people the condition of the Presidents liver |
the condition of the Postmaster General S kid |
neys, the condition of Mrs. Hayes peripa-
tetic spine. He sucked his BOBBY thumbs
in sight of school girls in pinafores, and made |
a sugar-teat of his Presidential position
Mind, | am not criticising any policy of de
cency towards the South. I have lived there
and known its people, and like them. MIR.
Hayes policy is not new. 1t is the puerile
manner in which he puts it to which object.
He could have satisfied the material prosper
ity of the South without insulting Grant in
the North. If he could not, then the South
ought not to be satisfied 1t is because
Hayes is intellectually small that l object to
his arrogance. As the old gentlemen said
81 don't object to being run over; but the
idea of being run over by pedler.