Watertown Republican

Don Piatt's crazy utterances in his paper of yesterday have received a great deal of attention. He is a prominent journalist, and brother-in-law of Banning. He not only suggests but advises the assassination of Hayes on the day of his inauguration. He appears to have it about as bad and in the same way as Booth had. He has succeeded in making a sensation and making himself popular with the lowest and most brutal element of the party; but it is putting it mildly to say that he has shocked even five out of every six of his own party by the atrocious sentiments to which he has given utterance; and he has certainly taken a fearful leap from the pedestal of a popular journalist to co-habit and plot with the ruffian element of Bourbon Democracy. He also advised hanging to lamp posts a long list of officials here and elsewhere. The contents of his paper aroused the indignation of hundreds in this city who have always had a friendly word for him heretofore.