Year: 1876

nation, or by the few smaller fellows


who, while less honest in purpose, are


equally incapable of advancing argu-


ments in support of their cause.


But the effects of this revelation ex-


tend far beyond the foreigu-born cii-


zens of the country. A large part OF


the native American population knows


we'll for how much it is indebted to i'm


migration; and either from interested


motives or from motives that are purer


and better, is decidedly opposed to


any such an organization as the Ameri-


can Alliance, as we'll as to all proscrip-


tive combinations and all religious in


tolerance. Then, too-and this is a
point in which too much prominence


cannot be given-Hayes's behavior in
this whole affair shows how very weak
and pitiable is his character as politi-
clan. If he had come forward when
his relations with the Alliance first be-
gan to be talked about, and had said,
in extenuation: ct did not understand
distinctly the character of this secret
order, and it was indiscreet in me to
have anything to do with it; / shall
have no further dealing with it, and
sever all connection with it," in that
event, it would have been possible to
overlook the matter, and Hayes would
have stood before the public at least as
an honest man. But the way in which
he sought to escape from his embar-
rassment through the letters addressed
by his secretary to the publisher of the
Cincinnati TolksblaH, endeavoring at
one and the same time to satisfy the
foreign-born citizens and to preserve
undisturbed his pleasant relations with
the Alliance, proves him to be q politi-
col trickster, and must open the eyes
of those who Heretofore had not learned
his real character, and had not seen in
their true light his pitiable efforts to
curry favor alike with the Schurz Re-
publicans, the machine Republicans
and particularly with the administra-
ton. Perhaps even Carl Schurz will
now see things in better light. Or
does he wait for the publication of
Hayes's letter to Grant, in which Hayes
assures our President that in his letter
of acceptance he did not mean to CEN
sure Grant or his Administration? Or
for the publication of the correspon-
dence between Hayes and Chandler,
in which those gentlemen make merry
over his simple notions and childlike
confidence?


But whatever Carl Schurz may do,
he can now, less than ever, mislead
either foreign-born native citizens
as to their duty, to their country, or as
to what they may expect from Hayes or
the Republican party. The discovery
of Hayes's connection with the Ameri-
can Alliance will not only influence the
comparatively small number of foreign
born citizens who had not yet come to
any determination or were inclined to
vote for Hayes to go over to Tilden, or,
in any event, not to vote for Hayes, but
this will be the case also with many
native citizens, who are not disposed to
encourage political or religious pros
cription, or who recognize that man
who. being unmasked, stands unvealed
as such an unprincipled hypocrite and
time-server cannot be expected as Pres
ident to assume a firm and courageous
attitude and particularly turn daunt-
less front to the corruptionists of his
own party. To this extent the un-
masking of Hayes's real relations with
the American Alliance is very impor-
tant contribution to the campaign, and
one for which we may well be CRATE
full; and the Republican politicians
and newspapers, who now think they
can belittle the Importance of this re-
velation, will very soon discover that
their endeavors are futile.