Talk:Rutherford B. Hayes/Archive 2

EB1911 article available in Wikisource
Could someone add to the External links section?
 * Why do you think that that source is better than the others? Racepacket (talk) 12:31, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Comments on rewrite
In general, the rewrite is a great improvement. Racepacket (talk) 12:24, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * A key point is that the Democrats appointed Davis to the Senate in the hope of influencing his vote on the Commission and were surprized when he resigned from both the Supreme Court and the Commission prior to the completion of its work.
 * The sentence, " All of his efforts were in vain, however; Hayes failed to convince the South to accept the Reconstruction amendments and failed to convince Congress to appropriate funds to enforce them." is an over-statement and focuses too much on the Reconstruction amendments. I think that it might be better to say that Hayes' efforts to promote acceptance by the South of racial equality failed.
 * You can add a discussion of Hayes' relationship with William McKinley.
 * Please see my comments on the breath of the article above.


 * Thanks for the quick feedback. I elaborated on Davis's situation.  I'm reluctant to add too much more about the machinations of 1876-77 for fear of making the section too lengthy, but that detail does shed some light on what went on.  I also toned down that civil rights sentence a bit along the lines of your suggested language and added some about McKinley, but to be honest, the biographers don't mention him much outside of the war and Hayes's post-presidency.  Coemgenus 00:51, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, we can note their repeated interconnection as military and political cohorts and leave it at that.
 * Can you add something about the Presidential Library? It was precedent setting.  Racepacket (talk) 21:52, 30 November 2010 (UTC)