Gold Hill Daily News

BAKED HIM IN.

The other day the News took the Virginia Chronicle severely to task for its stupidly partisan, narrow-minded and disgraceful advice to the people of that city, calling upon them to ignore President Hayes altogether on the occasion of his coming visit to the Comstock. The reason given by this fossilized Bourbon editor was that Mr. Hayes was not elected President, therefore was occupying that high position fraudulently, and that it would be the proper thing to refuse him any honorable public recognition, but to pass him by with silent contempt. The News said:

Such editorial utterances might not be inappropriate in Cork, the only place in the whole world which refused to honor General Grant, but they certainly do not read well in free, liberal-minded America. Mr. Hayes was decided to be the legally-elected President of these United States, after a struggle which was too closely contested to be agreeable to anybody, and being de facto President, entitles him to all the honors due to the representative of the highest office in the American nation. And as such, President Hayes will be received with high honor and respect when he comes to the Comstock. All who are so narrow-minded and untrue to the country as to attempt to insult its Chief Magistrate in any manner, are not Americans or worthy of a residence among Americans, and should emigrate to China forthwith.

The result was that the editor of the Chronicle immediately took out naturalization papers and, notwithstanding what he had written about the President, he was kindly admitted to citizenship. In other words, he became an American and is today just as much entitled to all the privileges of American citizenship as President Hayes. Now that he has become an American it is to be hoped that his editorial thoughts and ideas will also become naturalized, and that he will see and advocate the propriety of doing honor to the only recognized representative of the high office of President of the United States.