The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-20
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HAYES VISITORS.

| The Men who are ON the Top In
washingfon-rheW Republican,
and Ex.RebeIs are Received al tu.
white House.
Washington Letter in n. y. Times. Rep
a year ago, just after Rutherford Il
Hayes, the Republican candidate for the
Presidency. had been installed In the
White House, two old campalgners, one
of them rebel General OF Cavalry,
whose name is familiar in al parts OF the
country, aud the other citizen of New
York, who had won distinction while
| comm snding a brigade in the Union
Army, met in the bar room OF q leading
Lo:el. They have been friends since the
war, but that evening the face OF the
rebel General did not wear It's usual
genial smile, and TO his friends hearty
greeting he only replied: No, not 10.
nigh, General. l can't drink. You
iello Ss have whipped US again, and l
am gong into mourning" Last week
these two gentlemen met again, and this
time it WAS with bright smile, which
hardly concealed the lurking malice,
howe ser, that the confederate slapped
the Unron II an on the shoulder, exclaim
ing, "dalIo old boy! Have you come
over TO sac your freSldent2' Hardly, =
was the quiet reply
=Oh!tyou mi BIT ss WELL continued
- on u, laughing. You know the
bottom rail is on top again, and, II you
ike, Il introduce you"
This incident, which is only one OF a
d, zen similar ones Tat might be related,
4ptly illustrates not only the political
situation, but also the feeling of public
men in Washington. The old Union
soldiers, the Republican straightouts,
who fought through the heat and dust of
tho day, who gave their blood for the
cru, g, and who loved II as their life, are
chilled by the shadow OF the W hlte
House. They claim that they are lot
welcomed BY the man who wss placed IN
power by their votes, and they do not
EEL at home in the capital. Whether or
not this feeling lie justified by any action
of the President need not now be dis
cussed, but that many prominent Re-
publiCsrs have found, and still continue
TO find, great difficulty in being admit
ted 70 bis Excel.ency there can be no
doubt. Nor is this Ill. Whist they most
complain OF is that they are excluded 10
make way for leaders OF the Democracy,
tor men who :ew y ears ago were strain
ing every nerve to make sblpwreck the
,uon Of which Mr.. Hayes is now the
hosd. A few DAYS ago | wen. to the
White House wit gentleman who for
ears past has been prominent III the
councils Of the Republican party IN New
York. He came to Washington to ask
no favors and To grind no axes. lie
simply wanted TO zee the city, and, being
ne OF those who had gvest tsIth IN the
-ood lnten ions of the Administration,
ne wanted TO see and pay mis- respects to
tho President, ne sent in his card, ex
pecting Gnd intending 10 wait his turn
ior an Interview. lie was not prepared
however, Tor what followed. For hall
an hour he sat patiently, and during O
| second half hour murmured lot; when
| he had been seated one hour and q nall
| in the ante. room, however, and there
was still no sign that he was to be sd'
mitted, he quietly shook the dust OF the
White House from off his feet and went
his way. During the time that was thus
wasted by that s.aunch Old Re publican, 8
man noted for his fidelity 10 the Unlon
and strict integrity to every walk of HE
| counted seven ex-rebels who were I'D
mitted to the Republican President a.
most without announcement. They
were on familiar terms with his Excel
ency's household, and seemed to thor
oughly conciliated Of course, 1t Is a
very good thing toakeep them ia that
condition, and perhaps 1t is very wrong
for the old Republican to be indignant
because he was pushed out of the way
TO make room for them. He forgot,
doubtless, that the Executive Mansion is
now conducted on strictly Christian prin-
ciples and that 'tbere lie more JOY IN
heaven over one sinner that repenteth
than over ninety and nine just persons
who need no repentance" Or it may be
that, like great many other worldly
minded people, he doubted the pFoies-
SONS of the gentlemen who have recent
IL been taken into the fold.