Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-05-28
HAYES TITLE TO THE PRESIDENCY

New York NAV 25 - BeeChers Christian
ZION, criticizing the reopening of the ques-
non of the Presidents title and its affects on
business, says: "All we need now to promote
e.. business revival is that the executive bust
.,gss minds of the community should see be-
ore them reasonable prospect of non-inter-
renee on the part of Congress in matters af-
Getting the commercial interests OF the land
/ is hardly conceivable that the man upon
Nhon the prosperity of the country depends
IA be humbugged into supporting party
- ich is doing its very worst to unsettle civil
lNlirs for two or three years to come. May
..a there will be return tidal wave next Fall
5ha, will to some extent change the complex
ion of affairs.
The Independent insists that 'the real pur-
.r,sa of the managers of the Potter movement
is, ii possible, to invalidate the title by which
President Hayes holds office, and to get things
raly for his displacement by some sort of
ramp Il etdt through the action of Congress,
should both Houses of the next Congress be
Democratic. This is the game, ane this the
,rizo to be won This is what Tilden has at
lclrt, and that constitutes the peril of the
rrNyement, and at the same time furnishes
noet urgent reason why the people should see
T., IT, that the next House of Representatives
she'll not be Democratic. There Is not the
taintest hope of displacing President Hayes
through judicial proceedings conducted under
nc forms of law. The thing must be dOne,i
Il .,il, by action of Congress, and If so done 1t
would be revolution, and what that revolu
ricn would involve no one can tell.
With reference to the standpoint taken by
he Christian Union, that Is t" say, the COM
mercal one, candor compels the statement
hat we cannot see as much therefrom as that
rather emotional publication seems to recog-
uize Massachusetts, hob nobs with Gordon,
Lamar & Company, and is as ready now to
offer IN obsequious suhserviency to the pom
pou5 magnates of the Lost Cause as she used
10 he in executing the Fugitive Slave Law.
And it is all for busineSS-the business which
Is promised to Boston and Lawrence and Lynn
and Lowell by the cotton and sugar growers
of til. "Solid South Commerce has no more
morals or sentiments than the thermometer;
,.l.d rs to its sensitivelcss, there was just as
much reason for it to be apprehenslve III 1876
as there is now Put the Democracy in full
power, and the Nation will as surely be made
to pay for the slaves manumitted by the war
for the Union as there will be a struggle for
the continued supremacy of that party. Still,
if commerce can be scared into doing some
thing to protect its own interests, the result
may ~ a good one.
And now as to Hayess title:-We believe
that John Shermans letter referring to the
Louisiana election tells the truth. We believe
that that State not only gave its electoral vote
to Hayes and Wheeler, but that, by much
more decided expression and a much larger
majority, it elected Packard to the Governor
ship and chose Republican Legislature. But
we also believe that Hayes was a party to
bargain whereby Packard was sacrificed for
Nichols and the Republican majority in the
Legislature was annihiated. SO that if any
body has done anything to invalidate the cleo
tora} vote of that State it is Hayes himself. |
For if he carried Louisiana, certainly Packard |
Yves elected Governor, and the Republicans
were entitled to a ma iority of the seats in the
Legislature. But true as all this is, the De
nocracy, being party to the corrupt bargain
made and entered into at Wormley's Restaur-
ant, nave no Tl8nJ 10 llNduuate Jn6 contract. |
As to Hayes being deceived by the South
srn Democracy, and as to his being hurt or
letonished at their readiness to cast cloud |
upon his title, it is all bosh. He was and is, |
for making terms of safety for himself with |
any party or faction who will serve him best
Just now, being frightened for his own sake, |
md finding that the rebels and copperheads |
ire more than willing to tear him down, he is
'cady to fling himself in the arms of the Rad
Gals and abandon, with ridiculous precipi-
ancy his prosperous nonsense of Civil Ser
ice Reform, Federal abstinence from local
politics, The Era of Good Feeling and all,
Why, even the Mrs r. B. Hayes temperance
society have hauled down their name, having
aught the mistress of the White House toy
nc with the seductive wine cup. The fact is,
nobody can trust Hayes and even Hayes him
elf has found it out, at last All this is
nothing new. The MORNING APPEAL discov-
red it more than year ago, and so declared.
rs to title, if the President were anything
'ut another Belshazzar he would see nothing
n these assaults of the Democracy to cause
lm any alarm. AS it is, his haste to rein
orce himself with the Radicals, in and out of
Congress-, illustrates his nervous anxiety lest
e be broken of an office which himself is
lean- spirited enough to regard as something ,
Hold mob hNrA h c,,.bE s Il, |