The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-19
or Gen. Hayes Those Who Knew
Him Speak in Kindest
Terms.
Ills Reputation Spotless, the Most
Precious Boon That Mortal
Times Afford.
Proper Recognition Of the Sad Event Is
Taken by tho President, Cabinet
s4 and Congress.


which the following executive order was
drafted and adopted:
10 the people Of the United States: The
death Of rutherford B. Hayes, who was
president of the United States from March
h. 1877, to March 4. 1881. AT his homo in
Fremont, o., at IL p. m. yesterday, WAS an
event the announcement OF which will be
received with very general and very sincere
sorrow. His public service extended over
many years and over wide range of Off
cial duty. He was patriotic citizen, a
lover OF the flag and our free institutions
an industrious and conscientious civil off.
Ger; soldier Of dauntlsss courage. a loyal
comrade and friend. q sympathetic and
helpful neighbor, and the honored head Of
happy christian homo. He has steadily
grown in public esteem and the impartial
historian will not fail to recognize the con-
scisntiousness manliness and courage that
20 strongly characterized his whole career.
AS an expression of sort ow, il is ordered
that the executive mansion and executive
departments at Washington be draped in
mourning and tho flags thereon be placed
at half mast for period of thirty days.
and on the day of the funeral all public
business shall be suspended and military
and naval honors, under tho orders of the
secretaries of war and navy, be ordered on
that day. (siQned)
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
BY the president:
J. w. FOSTER, Secretary Of State.
Secretaries Charles Foster, Noble, Rusk
and Postmaster General Wanamnksr will
go TO fremont to represent the president.
Ths navy department. designated Captain
Howell and Commanders Dickens and
Houston to represent it at the funeral,
Attorney General Miller called the atten
tlon OF the supreme court to the death of
the ex-president and court adjourned.
Senator Sherman was perhaps more init
mately associated with Ex. President Hayes
than any other senator, and as a member of
his cabinet was officially associated with
his administration. He was deeply moved
and after the senate adjourned, at his mo-
a. any one can know another. He was al
ways affair and just friend and foe, and
sometimes failed to say no when il would
have been better for him to have done 80,
because of his disposition to obliRe every
one. The south should feel profoundly
grateful to him. for with infinite courage
he extended to the white men of that sec
tion An opportunity to reorRanizs their
states at time whom tqey had been bitterly
unjust to him. The death of Hayes comes
to me like a sudden blow, but I believe he
was as we'll prepared for death as human
nature will permit any OF US to be-"
Senator Brice spoke very feelingly of
Hayes, whom he knew we'll II will. at the
proper time" said he, ''pay my tribute to
the worth of Mr.. Hayes as a man, citizen
and public official. As democrat l ortiz
cized with much hate and great feeling the
conduct and course of affairs by which he
became president. but tho warmth and
kind!iness fairness and tenderness of the
ex-president were such that have never
been able to feel any sense of resentment
against him individually. can now see
that his administration as president soft
ened the asperities growing out of the civil
war and led to that perfect union the bless
ings of which We are now enjoying"
The death of Ex-President Hayes was
received quietly by members of the house.
Members of the Ohio delegation, nearly
every ono OF whom was personally ac-
auainted with the ex-presidont, spoke
kindly of him. In speaking the sentiment
of the democrats of Ohio towards Hayes.
"Ihe democrats of Ohio always regarded
him as a conscientious man. patriotic and
devoted to the interest of his state and
country" Representative DugRn. demo-
crat, said Hayes WAS popular in Ohio.
The democrats never blamed him person.
ally for tho result in 1876. He did no more
than Tilden. They both permitted their
respective party friends to work the matter
out. He was popular man, a patriot in
war. and patriot in peace, and loved the
whole union.'