Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1877 — Hayes to Bice. [ARTICLE]

Hayes to Bice.

The Boston Journal prints the following congratulatory greeting from President Hayes to Gov. Bice : Executive Mansion, ) Washington, Nov. 7. ) My Deab Goveknoe : It is a great satisfaction to be able to congratulate you on the gratifying result in Massachusetts. lam glad of it on general reasons, on your account and on my own. Your personal popularity had no doubt much to do with it. It is an example of what the Republicans can do when they unite, in spite of the blunders of the President. Sincerely, R. B. Hayes. Gov. R. H. Rice, Boston. The name of Senator Morton’s family was originally Throckmorton, and their ancestry is traced to the Earl of Throckmorton in the rejgn of Queen Elizabeth. The Senator’s father dropped the first syllable of his surname, and his son adhered to the example.