| Show DEATH OF EX PRESIDENT HAYES rutherford buregard Bu hayes has baa gobe cone to the silent throng beyond the aortal artal he was the nineteenth president t of f the united states having hold held she of office ylo efrom from march 4 1877 till the date in 1881 he was born in me 0 the town of delaware ohio on the ath me gh of october 1822 being thus in his hie venty first arst year the cause of death was MM neuralgia of the he heart beart and the atour I 1 eleven last evening fir hayes occupied a most moat novel and I 1 it t must have been at times trying position before the people during the tour years of his administration until the idea of changing the three democratic elates of louisiana south Va carolina karolins rolins and florida to the republican column through their respective returning boards was broached he ad acted hie big defeat and had become quite aate resigned to it it was then that VU juliam E F chandler now a senator from ty new hampshire and a few others tooka doks trip south and got everything in working order to overturn the decided democratic majorities in those states byr by deliberately throwing out votes by precincts or parishes on allegations of fraud intimidation etc which was when the counting time onne came by this means samuel stilden JT ilden who had bad the enormous popular majority in the country of and an apparent electoral majority of 33 83 was defeated and Mr Hayes declared elected this proceeding brought the nation up to the verge of a conflict and one would have been precipitated beyond all question had bad mr tilden done as it was proposed he be should do and as we believe be once thought of doing taken the oath of office in new york and gone on to washington with a demand for recognition by congress but wiser counsels prevailed and mr hayes was allowed to serve out his term comparatively u a unmolested molested so for far as the democrats were concerned but occasionally the recipient of unpleasant attention on the part of the republicans mr hayes served with distinction in the union army during the war of the re rebellion beldon which he entered re as a major and came out a brevet major general he was afterwards elected to Cou congress gress for two terms and then chosen governor of ohio for three terms two of them consecutively after the me expiration pi ration of his term as president he settled down quietly at his bis residence in fremont ohio where be has since remained in comparative seclusion it was there that his wife died a few years ago the hayes administration was characterized with cleanness and moderation it developed no strong points and initiated no striking features into the governmental system the president was neither a jackson nor a webster and his cabinet was in places actually weak this being especially the case with the premier william M evarts who though one of the greatest of lawyers possessed but few of the qualities of a statesman being shortsighted and narrow minded in some respects the administration was perhaps the best beat that could have been had in consideration of the southern question the acerbities acerbi ties then existing between the sections being smoothed out and many vexed questions disposed of altogether mr hayes undoubtedly noted acted on every occasion in consonance with the dictates of his conscience and so far as conflicting and embarrassing circumstances would permits permit up unto to the full measure of his ability his last words alone show him to have been a chaste and christian man 1 I am hoing going where lucy is may his hope be now in the fullness of fruition I 1 |
