The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-10
a DOGS, INFLUENCE
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special corresponds mt to the Chi
| cago Chronicle from Fremont. Ohio.
| says: This is the story of a dog az d
! the influence he may exercise in de-
! Gliding the contest over a pOStoffice in
| Ohio. The incident occurred some years
! ago in Fremont, the residence Of ex-
President Rutherford b. Hayes. and,
! though the case got into the courts
! then, no one dreamed that it would ever
! revive to the embarrassment of the ad-
| ministration at Washington.
| After the retirement of President
Hayes the family settled down to the
old life at Fremont. and a participant
| in that was a dog of ordinary blood and
dimensions which could not even boast
a pedigree. This dog took considerable
interest in the general life of the town
and did what he could to increase the
! excitement of the daily routine. After
| Washington things seemed a little dun
! to him i'll Fremont. There was a lack
| of activity about all things that moved,
and his interest in Fremont and her
people induced him to try to remedy
this by stirring up people as they pass
| ed the Hayes residence, whether afoot
| or in carriages.
One day he pounced out from behind
| a hedge at the heels of horse attached
to carriage in which a woman was
sole occupnt. The horse became I'M
manageable, ran away and upset the
| carriage The woman was tossed out
upon the street and severely injured
and the carriage was wrecked. and the
horse itself ruined.
| Up to this time the eccentricities of
the Hayes dog had amused the people of
Fremont who felt that the distinction
conferred by the citizenship of the eX
| president more than compensated for
the canine nuisance. No one had dared
to enter an objection to the daily hab-
its of the dog. BIT now things chang
ed. There was one citizen of Fremont
who would rather see justice done than
be chased by the Hayes dog. This was
D. B. Love. a young attorney, and he
took up the case of the injured woman
and madea demand on the Hayes family
for damages. and because they would
neither pay what was asked nor kill the
dog he brought suit and recovered a
judgment in court.
| About this time the Hayeses were too
busily occupied with things connected
with the marriage Of Miss Fanny Hayes
to give much attention to judges, juries
or judgments. and Mr.. Love found it
necessary to levy execution, which he
did The Hayes house. when the con-
stable arrived, was more beautiful than
ever on the inside because of the many
wedding presents which had come from
public men everywhere to Miss Fanny
as testimonials of regard for her father
and his family. The constable easily
found more than was necessary to sat
isfy the judgment and performed his
unpleasant duty as quickly as possible,
but so hastily as to neglect to draw the
proper distinction in regard to the pos
session of articles attached. and so
carried away some of Miss Fanny's pre-
sents, and among them valuable urn
which had been sent by William Nc
kinley, then governor of Ohio.
But these tritles We're soon adjusted
and the claim for damages fully salts
fed. After about three months of
| heart endangering excitement the viii
lage of Fremont resumed its normal
life and the Hayes dog his daily amuse-
| ments.
Years rolled by and many changes
have taken place. William Mckinley
is president of the United States: Webb
Hayes who represented the family in
the old litigation, has become a major
of volunteers by appointment of Presi-
| dent Mckinley, and D. c. Love is now
an applicant for the postmastership of
| Fremont, the term of the incumbent
having expired a few days ago, but by
no act of the Hayes dog, now gathered
to his fathers.
But the acts of dogs as we'll as of
men live after them, and that dog dead
Is likely 10 nave more TO 40 WIN the
Fremont postoftice than a majority
of the people of Fremont living. For
the personal embitterments growing
out of the suit brought by Mr.. Love
have not subsidized, and Major Hayes
still feels the indignity visited upon his
family, though his family sympathies
and personal prejudices do not appear
in the Individual protests which he has
filed with the president against the ap
pointment of Mr.. Love. But of course
the attitude of the parties in the pres
ent case attracts public attention, and
people will talk and think and the mis-
chief caused by this dog is recalled and
everybody is wondering whether the
president will punish Mr.. Love in the
interest of the Hayes family. If he
does turn down Mr.. Loves application
it will be taken as a certain evidence
that he cared more for the urn which
the constable carried away than any
one at the time thought. 1t will also
stand as a vindication of the Hayes
dog and a virtual reversal Of the judg
ment of the Fremont courts, for if the
dog of the eX-president, which has lived
in Washington. has not a right to bark
at the heels of pedestrians or of horses
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