The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-01
HAYES ANALYZED.


AIS Csrcer ~ an Understandable vfsftse don
of Divine Providenee,
Washington Letter to Louisville Courier-Journal.l
One of the beatitudes which do not
find in the Bible, but yet has basis of
truth, is this I; i" 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 fooishly 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 Mussrlman is said to
regard a December fall of snow, namely,
as "a cold, uncomfortable, unaccounta-
BILE visitation OF Divine Providence,
sent for some good purpose to be re-
vealed hereafter People reckon that
Mr.. Hayes cannot do a great deal of
harm while there is a, Democratic Con-
gress to hold. HIM in check, and rs he
is to go out of Office in little over a
year they are not concerned so much
about him as they are about his sue
cessor in office The one is q nuisance
already gagged, the Other, q. great I'M
known, with indefinite, mysterious pos
sibilities Of evn OF of>good.s
\ The methods, the surroundings and
the atmosphere, social, religious and
political, by which such man as Hayes
is bred, would reward the study OF a
Dickens or n Thackeray. There are
thousands of Just such persons Us 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, 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 oonniye at such trifes when they
had point to gain. Over all they did
there was an air Of unctuous pretty that
disarmed criticism and impaired TO the
worst political knavery an an of ap
parent responsibility. 1t was, indeed,
an organized hypocrisy, but careful
training had made every actor perfect
and yet carries on the drama to it's
consummation. Given a certain amount
of narrow mindedness and bigotry, sur
!, face reading and catchwords without re-
Election, religious cant, political mslig-
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 Representa-
tives, 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 yeta power
with the many smaller men of his own
party and sect who live and disgrace
Gods beautiful Jhandiwork in. rural
Ohio. A singular conjunction of per-
sonal luck The Republican Convention
evenly balanced by the contentious of
its great chiefs, gave him the opportun-
ity to become it's candidate, and SUISSE
i. quently the automatic recipient of the,
power snatched by the bold villainy of
its more reckless and audacious leaders.
y This, and demoralized, cowed popu-
lace, made such a President accessibility
of this nineteenth century. 4
} 1t is q notifying exhibition, but still
a wholesome one, that the person thus
permittedto attain the high and ex-
allied office of President 'shonld 90
around the country and make silly
speeches, When the people listen to all
this partisan drivel and these platitudes
they should remember that the man be-
fore them is Chief Magistrate over 49,
100000 of people, and armed with a far
larger actual power than the Queen of
England or any crowned head in Eu-
rope, seve the Gar of Russia, and then
they may ask whose shame 1t is that he
fills, the chair of Washington. .'e't
Inotice that MIR. Hayes, anxious to re-
establish himself with the Stalwarts,"
joins in their raid upon State rights.
His willful peryersion Of the truth by
asserting that the doctrine, of State
rights and the right Of secession are
equivalent terms, and held by the same
persons, has,I believe, been already ex-
posed in your columns. Such perver-
sion and an attempt to deceive would
disgrace village Radical newspaper or
a'store-bexi orator, and it is doubly dis
graceful in President. In his late
speech at Springfield, Mr. Hayes reit-
Grated this falsehood, and went on to
criticise and object to the expression
"State z, Sovereignty 1, which he
found on the State House, placeS
there long before his visit had
been announced. = HeYquoted Mr.. Lin
coin to show that State sovereignty Is
not found in the constitution Of the
United States.sa When Mr.. Hayes
stole the Presidency there was just one
little form that he had to go through
which I presume he found rather irk-
some. He had to swear obedience to
the constitution Of the United States.
Now, If he would read this constitution
through, he would probably find that it
recognizes both State and Federal
rights. Every Judge, every great man
of the past, the United States Supreme
Court, over and over again, speaking
by the mouths of Democrats and Re-
publicsns, have recognized State rights.
l Will not, however, be 30 absurd as to
suppose that the text Of the constit6-
ton OF the decisions ofthe courts would
weigh with Z, man-who could delibcr-
ately take and keep an Office and $780,
O0Olof money that be knew did not Be-
long to him. But even such q person