| Show HAYKS ME1IOEY Mr RUTHERFORD B HATES whilom President Pres-ident of the United States by the grace of an extraconstitutional commission is said to have lost his memory in consequence of i a recent attack of the grip It is a sorry thing to see the mind of any man give way especially when that man occupied so exalted ex-alted I position in the councils of the nation I na-tion as did Mr HATES Still so far as his memory is concerned we opine it is no poorer than it was in the memorable days of 1876 following immediately upon the presidential election I willbe remembered remem-bered that when the returns had all come in i was found tbat SAMUEL J TILDEN the Democratic candidate had been duly chosen the chJef magistrate of the nation No one realized the fact better because no one had more authentic information infor-mation concerning it than the Republican candidato himself So himsel deeply convinced was he of his defeat that on the day after the election he made I speech to his neighbors neigh-bors in which he conceded tho result ad ding that so far as he was individually concerned ho regretted nothing except that I the poor negro was now loft without a friend A day after the redoubtable ZACH CIA DLR announced to a surprised world that whereas Louisiana Florida and South L Carolina would be counted in by a Republican can returning board several 9rd members mem-bers of which subsequently graced 1 the jail RCTHERFOUD B HATES was the coming President Immediately Mr HATES forgot his speech and his honest i I confession and if he ever revived any recollection rec-ollection of either history omIt to record L it For four years he exercised the fUno O 11 I I tions of an office which a set of conspirators j conspira-tors had usurped for him just as if he had j never i known that Mr TILDES was the I rightful claimant to it Yet while the mem j cry i of Mr HATES showed even then j strange i symptoms of utter collapse the j people have never forgotten the episode which made fraud first triumphant in I American history And so with the best wishes for his personal welfare and with j the sincere hope that his failing faculty j may be soon restored to him we are not at i j all surprised at the news |
