I would ask him why he called in federal troops to end the Great Railroad Strike of 1877

(I'm not an American, but it seems unconstitutional / illegal to me to use the army to end a strike)

"Hayes' most controversial domestic act – apart from ending Reconstruction – came with his response to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, in which employees of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walked off the job and were joined across the country by thousands of workers in their own and sympathetic industries. When the labor disputes exploded into riots in several cities, Hayes called in federal troops, who, for the first time in U.S. history, fired on the striking workers, killing more than 70."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes#Domestic_policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Harpers_8_11_1877_6th_Regiment_Fighting_Baltimore.jpg/300px-Harpers_8_11_1877_6th_Regiment_Fighting_Baltimore.jpg
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes#Domestic_policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike


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