Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-12
SOMETHING OF THE SITUATION

and it's pretensions, Mr.. George William
Curtis and his associates of the Mutual Ad-
rninistration Society of the metropolis were
making a spectacle of themselves at Cooper's
Institute as the special champions of the Pres
ident's various policies, North and South.
While Hayesism was being tIamp!ed out of
sight, under foot, i'll Ohio, it was Haunted in
the face of the world as the great and efficient
cure-all, in New York These are the most
preposterous of impracticables, these Curtises.
They live in political Utopia and fly in a
passion if live men with politics in their heads
fail to evince readiness to come and people
that flmy realm. Ohio has utterly repudiated
its ex Governor, the present President. The
Republicans of that State found him making
his bed with the Dolly Vardens, and they con-
Guided to let him look to them for his support.
The fgure-head of the fight was Stanley
Matthews. When Sherman resigned to take
a place in the Cabinet it was the Presidents
influence with the Ohio Legislature that pro-
cured Matthew's election. Matthews had
doctored the Wormley business; he had got
the Packard Legislature to break up; he had
restored Louisiana and South Caro-
lima to the rebels and caused the disbanding
of the Republican party in Mississippi,
Georgia and Alabama; he was the chief
wrecker of the Republican party and, as
such, Hayess right hand man. Matthews
manipulated the Republican Convention in
Ohio and he and Garfield got up the plat
form and inhltrated it with Hayes and his
policy, Hayes and his civil service reform,
Hayes and the Era of Good Feeling, Hayes
the Good, Hayes the Beautiful and Hayes
the Heavenly. Look at the result The
Buckeyes have spewed out Hayes and Hayes
ism, Matthews and Matthewsism. Still MIR.
Curtis and his rose-water associates, on the
next day after this tremendous rout of
Hayesism on the very soil where it was born
and reared, got up meeting for its laudation
and bepraisement. It was a feast of funeral
baked meats. Instead of an Endorsement, this |
post-mortem meeting should have spoken its
eulogies Epitaphs and not plaudits were in |
order The comments of the Eastern press
are highly interesting The Hayes organs are
busy trying to invent reasons for the defeat |
of their pretensions and purposes. They are
uncandid, absurd, blind to facts and savagely |
angry They lay the blame on everybody but
the really blameable parties. John Sherman
seems to be the most conspicuous pack horse.
There are, on the other hand, many sharp
comments by the anti-Hayes press. The
Chicago Times, keen, critical, sagacious,
instinctively coming upon the root of things,
says: Doubtless West, Matthews and others
injured the party by their arguments against
the degrading spoils system; for except for
spoils, why should men do the dishonorable
work by which parties triumph? The result
chiefly indicates that while the Presidents
policy will destroy his own party it will have
no abiding good effect on public morals, and
before the middle of the term he will find him
self without supporting majority in either
branch of the national legislature" The
Inter Ocean, staunch, courageous and I'M
wavering in it's Repubicanism regards the ,
the verdict Gas the seal of disapproval placed
by the Republicans on the course of the Ad-
and adds the following terse !
comments "The defeat is bitter, far reaching
and disastrous; but if it opens the eyes of the +,
political wiseacres it may not be wholly use
less. Three great blunders were made in Ohio:
First, indorsing the Southern policy in con- =
vention; second, antagonizng the financial =
feeling of the entire West, and third, the !
Handwriting of the few Republican officials in r
Ohio by indorsing the civil service order :,
These moves put the party in as good shape q
for sound thrashing as party can be. The i
sop thrown to the working men alienated many T
Republicans and was of no avail in securing =,
he working mems cooperation, because too o.
Incomplete and inane. The last hope of 9,
Republican supremacy in the y
United States is now gone. Maine and Iowa h
efused to indorse the Presidents policy and =
'etained their Republican majority, and Ohio II
ndorses, approves, yields, and is lost" Still fe
'urtis pipes his feeble lay and all the lavender
ids beat delicate approval. il
The wool clip in Humboldt County is quite ID
n important interest. The Silver State of IL
Wednesday says: The business of wool ship OF
ing, which we supposed closed a month ago, nj
being revived. Sheep owners are taking u
ew departure and shear in the spring and
III instead of onca q wear az heretOfore r. |