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P. S. The character of our correspondence is gratifying to me,
for it is that of friendship and sincerity for the good of country.
You say no commendation has pleased you as much as mine, if
I understand you, it is because it is the commendation of your old
classmate and friend of opposite politics who retains respect and
confidence in the friend of his youth? I do entertain this and
still have my affection for you strong and stronger as we grow
older, but, Rud, I too am governed by another feeling strong
with me, love for my State and section, for I believe if you are
elected you will be just and a friend to both as well as to the whole
country under the law, promoting good government for all.
(Enclosure: Galveston News Leader, May 11, 1876)
Traits and Requisites for the Right Kind of President
The Hon. Guy M. Bryan lays us under obligation for a really
captivating picture of a living example of fitness for the presi-
dency at this stage of the nation's existence. We are told, with
characteristic felicity of phrase, that the person whose traits are
commended to notice, "has experience and is a statesman of in-
corruptible integrity--besides being a genial and dignified gentle-
man, a scholar, a sound lawyer and patriot; one who, if elected,
would be President for the whole country, and not for a section.
What the South most needs is good local government, and one in
the presidential chair who will do all he can under the constitu-
tions, Federal and State, to promote it. I believe, if elected,
Hayes will do this." It may be a shock to some readers to learn
that the "Hayes" of the above encomium is Rutherford B. Hayes,
Republican Governor of Ohio, who beat Gov. Winm. Allen, Demo-
cratic candidate, in the memorable contest of last fall. It may
also be a shock to some readers to learn from the esteemed author
of the encomium that he does not propose the election to the presi-
dency of the gentleman whose qualifications for the position he
has forcibly denoted. "Although," says Mr. Bryan, "I am and
have been from principle a Democrat, and expect to support and
vote the Democratic ticket at the next presidential election, yet I
hope Governor Hayes will receive the nomination of the Repub-
lican party." Notwithstanding the rather steep antithesis pre-
sented in a foregone opposition, in a given contingency, to a con-
fessedly very worthy man for the presidency, the emphatic tribute
to the merits of a political opponent is at least some relief to the
exasperating monotony of partisan illiberality and ungraciousness.
There is but one circumstance, indeed, to deprive it of the sig-
nificance of a suggestion, or even a prophecy, of the approach of
a halcyon era in politics. We refer to the influence of old ac-286
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