The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-07
THE PRESS ON THE THEFT.
Newspaper Comments ON the Usarpa-
tion of tine Presidency by Hr. Hayes.
dayton Democrat !

j TERsELY STATED.
dayton Democrat.l
4 The infamous conspiracy to force HAYES
sinto the presidency at all hazards and al A
$cost, it would seem, has been finally accom-
fplished.
THE BEGINNING OF THE STRUGGLE.
Utica Observer
This is not the end bat the beginning
flong and bitter struggle for the restoration
sof constitutional liberty opens before US.
IThe authors of the iniquity are to be treated
las public enemies. The pretender is to be
Sdealt with as pretender, not as a president
Ito the end of his term.
sLUR PROM FRIEND.
ICincinnati Commercially
President-elect Hayes and party received
,the news of the completion of the count at a
very early hour yesterday morning in the
vicinity of Harrisburg. The news was prob
ABLY welcome to all, but especially to the
gentlemen and ladies of the party who had
mot provided themselves, as the prudent
chief did, with return tickets to Columbus.
s-a a SOFT PROMISE OF SUPPORT
nr Washington Sentinel.l
President Hayes will have the support of
the Washington Sentinel against the ma
|chinations Of Zach Chandler. Morton. Sar-
gent and consorts; against the swindles and
'rascalities of all rings-that of Washington
|in particular; against corruption and mol
ieasance in and out of Office; and against all
and every rascal, carpet-bagger and swindler
who has. under the auspices of the republi-
can party, maltreated and trodden down the
people Of the south.
THR REVOLUTION ACCOMPLISHED.
IChicago Tmes.l
The programme of revolution is aceomp-
!lished. For the first time in the history of
America, an elective monarch has been ap-
pointed by open, monstrous fradd upon the
mode of election. For the frst
time since this pretentious republic came
into existence a candidate for the executive
office who failed to receive the appreciation
|of even a plurality of the body political,
|has been set up in that Office by the con-
'trivance and intrigue and reasonable dis
obedience OF law OF e revolutionary minor
'ity.4 rHo mcEi 7eftn
THE STEAL In THE HIGHT OF RHETORIC.
fo--oN tChicago Intsr-Ocean.l
In spite of cloud here and there, Presi-
dent Hayes will assume the duties OF the
presidential of!ce at most auspicious time.
The experience OF both his predecessors has
,been stormy one, and his own path to the
Executive chair has been over a rugged and
difficult road, but the top of the mountain
Ihas been reached and the outlook is by no
means discouraging. Lincoln was the presi-
dent born of agitation; Grant the president
born of revolution; Hayes the president of
what we hope may prove the era of restora-
Ition.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Correspondence Courier-Journal.l
Suppose those democrats of the lower
house who were endeavoring to prevent the
of the electoral count had sue
|ceeded in their efforts, what then! Why,
then, Morton would have been elected pre-
siding officer of the senate; Fields bill for a
'new election would not have become a law;
Morton would have stepped in as acting
president, and would probably have re-
mained in until the two houses could have
agreed on a law for a new election, which
might have been never; Packard and Cham
|berlain would have been sustained and the
devil wo7ld have been to play generally.
Our PRIVILEGE TO WAIT.
Nashville Union.l
1t was then granted the democracy-the
Ipeople-the uncorrupt, with garments uD-
|defiled, without stain OF dishonOr in can
Ivass where they have been overwhelmed by
fraud, but not besmirched by it, 10 wait,
with honest indignation, not with that insO=
lent anger that burns itself out, but that
steady determination, which can bide its
Time until the wrong is made right, and the
dark places give up their frauds and their
shadows 9it away to deeper and darker
places before the dawning light. To fail OF
Success is not the greatest calamity; loss
|of honor were worse To win a triumph is
not the highest good; it is better to deserve
lit
THE FIRST THIEF.
lCincinnau Enquirer.l
Rutherford B. Hayes is the first man in
bur history to take the presidency by 10
Itoriously spurious title. Mr.. Hayes will be-
come president de facto, not president dc jurs
| He will take the executive department OF
THE government under a title no better than
that of Mr.. Stearns to the goyernorship of
FLORIDA. for il is identical with it, and Mr..
|Stearns has been kicked out of Office by the
IhIghest courts of his own state, composed of
bis own party. He will hold the presidency
| by a title the same with that by which Mr.
Packard holds the governorship of Louisiana;
and the expiring administration has not
! Riared recognize the validity of that title.
KxcUsIsG THE STEAL
IUhicago Tribune.l
The case on its merits, turned on Louis.
+iana Had the commission been authorized
Ito scrutinize the popular vote of Louisiana,
ft would have been months before decision
3could have been reached, and the COM
mission would have defeated the purpose for
(which it was created, since a new election
would have been necessary. As it is, the
5question of the preponderance OF fraud in
that state is necessarily an open one, with
THE advantage on the republican side, that
4 the Hayes electoral vote was awarded by the
returning board according to law, after purg-
hing the popular votes of the fraud that had
dbeen committed but il can not in any case
fbe maintained that Hayes's title to the pres
Idency is deficient in any essential.
The Girls of fSummeryille-
The girls Of Summerville, South Carolina
i who are described as "the incest prettiest,
richest sunniest and merriest that ever