#rutherford b. hayes

[deadpresidents]

"It is said Gen. Garfield will restore wine and liquor to the White House. I hope this is a mistake. I am no fanatic on the subject. I do not sympathise with the methods of the ultra temperance people. I believe that the cause of temperance will be most surely promoted by moral, religious, and educational influences and by the influence of example. I would not use the force of law as an agency for temperance reform. If laws on the subject are enacted let them be for the security of the community -- to protect the public from nuisances and crime. Let the temperance reformer keep to the text influence, argument, persuasion example.

When we came here we banished liquor from the house: 1. Because it was right, wise and necessary 2. Because it was due to the large support given me by the sincere friends of the Temperance reform. 3. Because I believed that it would strengthen the Republican party by detaching from the political temperance party many good people who would join the Republican party, and would save to the Republican party many who would otherwise leave it to join the Temperance party.

If Gen. Garfield rejects the practice I have inaugurated, he will offend thousands, and drive them into the hands of the Temperance demagogues. He will lose the confidence of thousands of good citizens and gain no strength in any quarter. His course will be taken as evidence that he lacks the grit to face fashionable ridicule. Nothing hurts a man more than a general belief that he lacks the 'courage of his convictions.'"

-- President Rutherford B. Hayes, who had (in)famously banned liquor from the White House during his Administration, leading to his wife and First Lady earning the nickname of "Lemonade Lucy", on reports that his successor, President-elect James Garfield would serve alcohol in the Executive Mansion after his Inauguration, personal diary entry, January 16, 1881.

President Garfield only served 199 days as President -- and 79 of those days were spent desperately battling for his life after being shot. But Garfield did lift the ban of alcoholic beverages during his brief tenure in the White House, likely making meetings and parties a lot less "dry" than those of the Hayes Administration.

[tompoose]

On this very happy President's Day 2024, I hope that we can all take a minute to remember Rutherford B. Hayes' elderly yet beautiful eyes.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Paraguay and Rutherford B. Hayes

Because @fictionadventurer requested it, so I'll try my best, although I'm no historian and not a Paraguayan, so if there is some inaccuracy it is completely unintentional and I'll gladly welcome corrections!

South America, 1864. Blancos and colorados* in Uruguay are once again at war. The Colorados, diplomatically supported by the Empire of Brazil, had raised against the Blanco government, and had advanced north and put siege to the city of Paysandú. Paraguay, an ally to the Blancos, declared that any Brazilian or Argentinian invasion of Uruguay in support of the Colorados would be seen as an attack on the stability of the region. Brazil ignored this warning, and it intervened, causing the fall of Paysandú and defeat of the Blanco side. Brazil had a particularly vested interest as a Blanco government in Uruguay would have provided an opening to the sea for Paraguayan products (which was also against the interests of the British Crown, as Paraguay was rapidly gearing towards industrialization. This has been more or less accepted in recent decades as one of the underhanded causes of the war).

Paraguay invaded both Brazil and Argentina in an attempt to A) force Brazil to retreat from Uruguay B) Cross Argentina (neutral until that point) with troops to reinforce the Blanco defense, as permission was denied to them by the Argentinian government. This prompted an alliance between Argentina, Uruguay (now in Colorado hands), and Brazil against Paraguay. The war lasted till 1870, half a million people died -making it the bloodiest war in the History of South America-, counting between 50% and 85% of the Paraguayan population -specially the overwhelming majority of it's male population of reproductive age- and it is because of that considered nowadays a war of extermination, a genocide.**

At the end of the war, Brazil and Argentina appropriated chunks of the Paraguayan territory; on the Argentinian side, it was basically the totality of the Paraguayan Chaco. Negotiations between the two countries went back and forth for years, until in 1976 they agreed to appeal to the president of the US (at the time, Rutherford B. Hayes) to arbiter between the two (as there were no international courts they could go to). Hayes accepted, received the claims from the two countries, and failed in favor of Paraguay by the end of 1878.

Because of this, Hayes is remembered fondly in Paraguay, and a whole departamento (one of the 17 administrative regions of Paraguay) is named Presidente Hayes after him, and so is its capital city, Villa Hayes. There's also a soccer club named after him.

*The National or "Blanco" party and the Colorado party are the traditional founding parties of Uruguay. They are very difficult to align in terms of the political compass as usually understood in the Anglosphere, as they have/had a wide range of political orientations within them (for example, the Colorado party had a Catholic wing and an extremely anti-clerical wing, the Blanco party had a large landowner side and a side that pushed for redistribution of land, etc, etc). In a very gross simplification, the Colorado Party was the "civilization" party, urban, europeizing, economically conservative and socially liberal, whereas the Blanco Party was a rural party, economically liberal and socially conservative. The Blancos had a habit of getting up in arms every few years, as they found their political rights being ignored or curtailed by the ruling Colorados. To mention the main ones, The Great War (1839-1850), Revolution of the Spears (1970-1872), the Revolution of 1897, and The Revolution of 1904.

** as a side "fun" note, Uruguay returned war trophies to Paraguay in 1885, and forgave it the money sanctions against it. It took Argentina till 1954 to return their war trophies, and Brazil has yet to return anything.

[lone-wolf-nergiganos]

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[elegantzombielite]

"He serves his party best who serves the country best."

Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (4th October 1822-1893)

[dontcallittimetravel]

On This Day: The first telephone was installed in the white house under Rutherford B. Hayes, but it wasn't used for phone sex until Warren G. Harding

[t-s-n-s-s-a-g-turnip]

today was so Rutherford B. Hayes coded

[asyoulikeitnow]

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (4 Oct 1822-1893)

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[covergirlnay]

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[deadpresidents]

President Rutherford B. Hayes (far right), First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes, and their party visiting Yosemite -- which was still ten years away from becoming a National Park -- on October 21, 1880. President Hayes was not only the first President in American history to visit the West Coast of the United States while in office, but he was the first incumbent President to travel west of Salt Lake City and only the second to travel west of the Rocky Mountains (his immediate predecessor, Ulysses S. Grant had visited Utah in 1875).

The President's "Great Western Tour", which lasted from August 26-November 6, 1880 took the Presidential party through Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming Territory, Utah Territory, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington Territory, Arizona Territory, New Mexico Territory, Colorado, and Kansas en route to the Hayes family home, "Spiegel Grove" in Fremont, Ohio in time for Hayes to cast his ballot for fellow Ohioan James Garfield to be his successor.

[lightdancer1]

Wrapped up the first in the sequence of Presidential biographies I'm reading:

President Hayes has a bad reputation in the eyes of history. This book, written by a sympathizer, has a difficult task. It elects to meet it with the same approach as Andrew Robert's Churchill biography. That is to say soft-handing the failure and the scale of it. The further irony is depending on your look at it, Hayes was also one of the great successes of the Presidency. He took power in the wake of war and an election that even at the most generous was the prototype of the 2000 election as a blatant fraud indulged by on high.

In the course of an election marked by the collapse of rule of law in the South and the Railway Strike of 1877, he faced the gravest crisis since Abraham Lincoln. In the event of that crisis he did reunite the states, forging the basis of the Gilded Age consensus. In that process in turn he also took steps to civil service reform, mitigated a dispute in favor of Paraguay (which is the one part of the world adoring him, as a result of it) and presided over the Republican Party's first, awkward steps into the conservative party of big business more than the party of Lincoln.

The problem in the eyes of the future is that what was success in the 1870s sowed up disasters that continue to echo into the present. Perhaps it's not fair, in the eyes of the author, to judge Rutherford Hayes by the standards of 2023. The same lawlessness he conciliated has overtaken his party and is a clear and existential threat to the United States as it is. So too goddamned bad for his fucking reputation, then.

For all that, as a biography at a technical level, 10/10.

For historical veracity, 6/10.

[wise-writer-girl]

The lynching was so surprising i literally searched it up, what the fuck is the US-

[msachillelaurosfunnels]

I drew the US Presidents ⁉️⁉️

Constructive criticism is not allowed ⁉️⁉️(Because I only draw for fun lol, not mad or anything tho)

I couldn't tag anymore presidents 💔💔

[elegantzombielite]

"The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth."

Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (4th October 1822-1893)