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ONLY DISPUTED ELECTION
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A NEW EPOCH
1822—0ct. 2, birth of Rutherford
B. Hayes at Delaware, O.
1852—Married Lucy Ware Webb,
1861—Major in Ohio Volunteers.
1864— Brigadier General.
1865.67—Member of Congress.
1867.71—Governor of Ohio,
1876—June ' 15, # nominated for
President by Republican
National Convention at
Cincinnati.
1877-Jan. 30, electoral commis-
sion appointed March 2,
Hayes declared elected.
March 8, inaugurated
19th Percsident, aged 54.
Pe
HE tidal wave which swept down |
the Republicans in the congres- |
sional elections of 1874 still was run- |
ning so strongly -in the eampaign
1876 that Rutherford B. Hayes himself
never was confident of his
Nor was ghe country surprised to read
in the headlines the morning
tion that Tilden, the Democratic
date, had won the
The Republican
ters in New York
early ele ction
of |
K|KUCCEeNS,
after elec- |
candl-
race,
national headquna
she pi
Repub- i
up
uf
ican campad
=r to bed
resigned to def i
Tilden
the returns,
co 106 for
was
Rutherford B. Hayes.
af 25h KH
Both the
ocrats clain
Re publ
1 to have carried Louisi-
‘arolina and Florida, and
states two sets of returns!
to Washington. Who should
them? The Constitu-
tion provides merely that the president
of the senate shall, in the presence of
the senate and house, the certi-
ficates, “and the votes shall then be
counted.”
But when
votes, who
ana, South (
from those
were sent
decide between
open
there are two sets of
shall say which shall be
counted? “The president of the sen]
ate,” answered the Republicans
cause the president of the
a Republican.
the Democrats,
houses was Democratic,
Com
the
cou
he
senate was
The two houses.” said
because one of the
promise was necessary to
government from chaos and
ntry from another Civil war. The
bitter dispute was left to 15 men, one-
third of whom were senators and an-
other third were representatives,
equally divided between the parties. |
To guarantee a calm, judicial decision
the remaining third were justices of |
the Supreme court.
the commission pro<|
ceeded to decide every essential ques |
tion in favor of Hayes by a strict party |
vote of 8 to 7. Alas, the partisan!
zeal of that feverish hour burned just
as fiercely beneath the gowns of the
justices as under the frock coats of |
the legislators. }
The Judgment of the comission
was without force in law until adopted
by the two opposing houses, and some
disappointed Democrats in jhe house |
balked at ratifying the decision against |
Tilden. But representatives of Hayes |
whispered to certain southern Demo-
crats in a secret conference at Worm.
ley's hotel that if they would let the
Republicans have the presidency, the
Republican president would let them
have their own state governments, The
bargain having been struck, it was
kept. After a turbulent night session
of the house the result of the election
was declared at four o'clock in the
morning of March 2, 1877, just 56 hours
before the Inauguration,
For three months Hayes himself had
been alternating from day to day be
tween expectation of success and de-
feat. Even when he started for Wash-
ington on March 1 he waw still so un-
cortain that he frankly told the peo
ple of Columbus in his parting speech
that he mighr pe back with them and
in the governor's chalr again in less
gave
the |
Novertheless,
than a week.
1877-—~April, President Hayes
withdrew Federal troops
from Southern State cap-
itals.
*Banished alcoholic liquors
from the White House,
June and July, ordered
out Federal troops in the
great railway strike,
1878-—Vetoed Silver bill, which
was pacsed over his veto,
1879-—8pecie payments resumed.
1893-—Jan, 17, death of Hayes
at Fremont, O, aged 70,
serves his
serves his
With those
sacrificed himself
tion reunite
the
hest
best.”
party
country
and his administra.
North and South, to
civil service and to regen
Republican party.
80 coldly,
go about
he remained
of most
underestimated
un
{o
cleanse
th
6 t
erate the
So qui-
undramatically
those great
the
mi
etly,
he
that
term
80
all
to of his
' A
Crstooc,
end
one the sund
presidents,
hating
Demo
y
leaders
i the
him as an
apost arn rots de
{1
He
sm ————
One of the bullaings (horticulture
‘
Endeavor
to Perfect Method of Uti-
zing Straw
an
WHRRGYD
the
thronged
nd soon the
aivzed rt
ASantie
response to t
money” 1
were for
£8 5
repealing
¢ resumption
the currency
coinage.
resisted such a
not his veto of the
overridden he would hs
country from taking the
the road that it to the
free silver in 1500,
All this independence cost
the support of the political time serv.
ers and the applause of the partisan
press. These united in denouncing
and ridiculing him as a renegade In
politics and as a sniveling hypocrite
in private life,
The White House
the first time under
the president was
liver
firmly
first step on
toed
P00
“went
the
dry”
Haye#',
up to
held cons
pe
Lucy Webb Hayes,
tempt as a man too stingy to stand
treat and too weak to resist a domi-
neering wife,
Hayes found the North and Scuth
divided and he left them more nearly
reunited than they had been in a
generation. He found the national
currency paper and he left it gold
and silver. He found the prosperity
of the country at dead low tide and
he left it at high tide,
ft fell to Hayes to ring down the
curtain on the epoch of the Civil
war and to usher in another epoch,
The volces of the past cried out
against him, but in his complete re
tirement from politics he lived to hear
the volees of the new time give a
more favorable and a more just ver
diet on his administration,
(Copyright. “220. wv James Morgan)
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With New Combus . and it Has
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Swivel chairs and equipment
Fo
used by Washington's famous desk
drive,
Wearing Gas Helmets to
Foil Bees of Indiana
Vincennes, Ind—Bees, which
lived In the ground until
brought out by recent rains in
many cases have completely
halted plowing for whes® in
sectione of Knox county. Ace
cording to the farmers, bees are
more numerons. this year be
cause of the long dry season
and the plentiful supply of red
clover, Some farmers are foil
ing the bees hy wearing gas
masks, which were brought back
from France by thelr song who
were In the service,
Prize Pig Rides in Plane,
Lincoln, Neb.—An airplane, piloted
by E. V. Gardiner, carrying the prize
pig. Corn Husker, of the University of
Nebraska agricultural college, left here
for Milwaukee Wis
General Hsu Says it Is edo]
Restored to China.
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| Equal Commercial Opportunities Will
! Be Given to All Foreign
Nations.
Urga. Mongolia "Mongolia, restor
ed as nn integral part of the Chinese
republic,
elgn nations,” said Gen. Hea Shu-chen,
commander of China's frontier defense
forces in Mongolia.
It was Gen, Hsu Shu-chen's army of
1010 that occupied Urga and pnt an
end to the political power of the Bud.
dhist priests whose leader, termed "the |
living God,” then ruled Mongolia as
an autonoiions state,
“All Mongolin-Russien treaties.
granting special privileges to Russians
of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. where
“
Materials of Paper
Money Widespread
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there
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Cun pa-
ad together
nter
or
world, Part
linen rags
ilk comes
Both
ents
federal
Rio
municipal governn
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LH
are i
liortage of
action lieve the s
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ch
houses
in
as
the ities a hill
for a
for
work
of
been introduced providing
af 250.000.0000
dept
he netruction of houses for
cour
ding
the
the municipal
sted provi
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houses built
from the
all workers’
nest two years be free
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hill the
municipal admin
various
whergver na
unicipaliy ground
It intended that the
he sold to heads of work
payment being spread
of twenty ir
bill provides for the con
huge apartment
The federal con
proposes
under the
’ ¢
fat ! 3
SHY houses In
a 0
ite of the capital
or un owned
available in
houses shall
familis
peri
the
of
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x,
wi
i Yeurs,
oBYer a
addition,
two
kitchens
the
with common
installations
respectively,
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as he
in Mongolin, have been
continued “Little Hen”
is still
becanse Kolchak's
Siberian city,
Chinese trhops
decided.”
wf Russia. and that Russians taking
thelr political aflilia.
tions, subject only to Chinese law.
would eventually be withdrawn from
Mongolian border.
A patent hms been granted for a
«rand on which a wrist watch cab be
hung to serve a8 a clock.
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| Lift Right Off Without Pain
Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little
‘Freezone” on an aching corn, instantly
that corn stops hurting, then shortly
you lift it right off with fingers. Truly!
Your 4 rugg ist selis a tiny bottle of
“Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to
remove every hard corn, corn, or
corn between the toes, and the calluses,
without soreness or irritation.
soft
Conaiderate,
age fi
even
Joh n,
pleasant
self
ve, had
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amused, wh
mother
The evening
ing any particular
who, in desperation
his mother
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wore
and snl
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“DANDERINE”
Coming Out:
Stops Hair
s Beauty.
Doubles Its
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BOCHEE'S SYRUP
A Harmiess Soothing, Healing
for Coughs and Colds
Here is
bronchit
cially
old r
Remedy
colds,
iw. 1} at Irritation. and espe-
for ur
‘3s
at has been
in
is for the
Its merits have
and and
could be more potent
It gives the §
with weak and inflamed lungs a good
night's rest, free from coughing, with
ensy expectoration in the morning.
Try bottle, accept no substitute.
Por sale by sll druggists and dealers
io medicine everywhere —Adv,
{lized world
last "ats
stood tl
surely no
or convincing
four
is test
Tost
sears
of
time use,
ations
aliens
one
A Way Around.
ife—Degr, give
for a poor, deserving
wants to go te church,
hasn't clothes enough to go
Husband Certainly, We
some charity with our means.
i= this deserving woman?
Wife-—It's me.
Catarrls Con Be Cured
Catarrh is a Jocal disease greatly influ.
shced by constitutional conditions. It
therefore recuires constitutional treat.
ment, HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
is taken Iinternaliy aan€ acts through
Blood or the Mucous Surfaces ef
the System BALL'S CATARRE
MEDICINE cestroys the foundation of
the disease, £vas the patient strength by
Ww
money
who
can you me sone
woman
but who
in?
must do
Who
poor,
nature in doing its work.
All Druggists, Circulars free.
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How to Learn.
“Kay, old man.” sald a friend to a golf
“what is the best way to learn
to play golf?
“Well,” repiled the other man, “take
a couple of doven balls, 8 wheelbar-
ever went to church,” The Globe,
Indigestion produces disagresabls and
sometimes alarming symploms Wright's
fan Vegetables Pills stimulate the dices
provesser to function naturally Adv.
§ inn
Unconsciousty True,
“Mollie met a skin doctor who says
he ean take away wrinkles and make
“1 guest he does it with one of
them newfangled things they calf
wrinkle recariemtors.
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