Rutherford Hayes actually said...

"Our manufacturing industries are reviving."

"Our public credit has greatly improved, and is perhaps now stronger than ever before."

"It is believed that general prosperity, which has been so long anxiously looked for, is at last within our reach."

"I respectfully urge upon your attention that the Congressional elections, in every district, in a very important sense, are justly a matter of political interest and concern throughout the whole count..."