The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
HAYES ANALYzED.

his Career as an Unaccountable Visitation
Of Divine Providence,
Washington Letter to Louisville Courier-Journall
One of the beatitudes which I do not
find in the Bible, but yet has basis of
truth, is this; Blessed are those who
expect nothing, for they shall not be
Disappointed In like fashion 1t may
be asserted: " Blessed is he from whom
nothing is expected; for if he speaks or
acts foolishly the public will take it as
amatter of course, and let him off easy"
Here Mr.. Hayes comes in with his usual
luck. The public expects nothing from
him. It simply accepts him as fact,
disagreeable it may be, but not wholly
uncomfortable. He is regarded by them
much as pious Mussulman is said to
regard December fall of snow, namely,
as "a cold, uncomfortable, unacconnta-
BILE visitation of Divine Providence,
sent for some good purpose to be re-
vealed hereafter People reckon that
Mr.. Hayes cannot do great deal of
harm while there is a Democratic Con-
gress to hold him in check, and as he
is to go out of office in little over
year they are not concerned so much
about him as they are about his sue
cessor in office. The one is nuisance
already gauged; the other great un-
known, with indefinite, mysterious pos
sibiities of evil or of good.
The methods, the surroundings and
the atmosphere, social, religious and
political, by which such man as Hayes
is bred, would reward the study Of
Dickens or Thackeray. There are
thousands of just such persons as he
scattered all through the Northern
States, though it 80 happens that only
one OF this class ever attained the
Presidency. But they have been a
power in public affairs. They have
kept alive such papers as the New York
Tribune and the Cincinnati Gazette
Unlike Grant personally, they yet ex-
erted a large influence upon his ad-
ministration, and probably upon Lin
coins also. The potations of the one
and the smut of the other were not ex-
actly in their line, but they could readi-
ly connive at such trifes when they
had a point to gain. Over all they did
there was an air of unctuous piety that
disarmed criticism and impaired to the
worst political knavery an air of ap.
parent respectability. 1t was, indeed,
an organized hypocrisy, but careful
training had made every actor perfect
and yet carries on the drama to its
contamination. Given certain amount
OF narrow-mindedness and bigotry, sur
face reading and catchwords without re-
Election, religious cant, political malig-
nifty, greed of Office and money, and
you have the materials for fashioning
Rutherford B. Hayes, the Congressman
as he sat in the House of Represents
tiyes, not daring to take part in the de-
bates, accepting as a natural thing the
obscurity that made him simply an item
of the yea and nay list; but yet power
with the many smaller men of his own
party and sect who live and disgrace
Gods beautiful handiwork in ruras
Ohio. A singular conjunction of per.
sonal luck the Republican Convention
evenly balanced by the contentious oi
its great chiefs, gave him the opportuu.
ity to become its candidate, aud subse-
quently the automatic recipient of the
power snatched by the bold villainy oil
its more reckless and audacious leaders
This, and demoralized, cowed- popu.
lace, made such a President possibility
of this nineteenth century.
It is mortifying exhibition, but still
a wholesome one, that the person thus
permitted to attain the high and ex.
alted Office of President should &c
around the country and make silly
speeches. When the people listen to al
this partisan drivel and these platitudei
they should remember that the man be
fore them is Chief Magistrate over 40,
100000 of people, and armed with fa
larger actual power than the Queen o
England or any crowned head in Eu
rope. save the Gear of Russia, and the1
they may ask whose shame it is that ht
fills the chair of Washington.
notice that Mr.. Hayes, anxious to re
establish himself with the Stalwarts,
joins in their raid upon State rights
His wilful perversion of the truth b,
asserting that the doctrine of Stat,
rights and the right of secession ar,
equivalent terms, and held by the sam,
persons, has, I believe, been already ex
posed in your columns. Such psrver
sion and an attempt to deceive woult
disgrace village Radical newspaper O.
store-box orator, and it is doubly dis
graceful in President. In his lat,
speech at Springfield, Mr.. Hayes reit
Grated this falsehood, and went on t.
criticise and object to the expression
State sovereignty" which b,
found on the State House, placet
there long before his visit hat
been announced. He quoted Mr.. Lin
coin to show that "State sovereignty il
not found in the constitution of til,
United States" When Mr.. Haye
stole the Presidency there was just on,
little form that he had to 60 through
which presume he found rather irk
some. He had to swear obedience t.
the constitution of the United States
Now, if he would read this constitution
through, he would probably find that j
recognizes both State and Fedora
rights. Every Judge, every great mai
of the past, the United States Suprem
Court, over and over again, speaking
by the mouths of Democrats and Re
publcans, have recognized State rights
Twill not, however, be SO absurd as t
suppose that the text of the constitn
tion or the decisions of the courts woul
weigh with q man who could delibeI
ately take and keep an Office and 5000
600 of money that he knew did not be
long to him. But even such persol
as he is, hide-bound partisan, Nigh
have some respect for the Republical
platform of 1860, adopted by the con
vention that nominated Abraham Lin
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