The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-25
OUR WASHING TON Letter.
A Sad History Of the Campaign and Of
the Count.
Hayes Realizes the Desperate Situation
I'm Which he In Placed.
Something About His Probable southtrn
Policy.
Especial Correspondence N. o. Denoerst.1

folly OF the Democracy, joined to the raEssiity oil
the National Returning Board, have done their
work, and that tho result will be- the inauguration.
Of Mr.. Hayes on tho 9Th OF March. No Other possi-
bilisy IL entertained here, md the Democrats
have already resolved TO make tho
-s. HEST OF had BARGAIN,
which all nov e6needo to bo the proper deGni-
ton of the compromi3o which . o ends the cleo.
tofal bill. This conpromteo uBy not have been
III itself q bad batgain, but ii has boon made go
by circumstances beyond The control Of those
who entered into ii in ood faith. IL IA not my
purpose 10 discuss, ut length, the perf9y Of m Ii
who. 1iae IBdmunds aud Hoar. obtainod tho Rs.
sent Of Dsnaoorats 10 ,he Tribunal sch me by
pledges OF fair destng, aBd thon, AZ soon as the
bill was INV nad tho compromise iEre.
voehble, lreeeeded to ptrvttt its proyi iona TO
the moas unworthy ends Of parbasanship. /
merely mako passing ree9rd of tho fact aud
leave tho eflice Ct proper discussion TO history,
at Tho hands OF wbich these men may confidently
count upon ample justice, tempered, probably,
with very little mercy and not much of pity.
II Ia the province OF the correspondent to re-
cord facts. and. whether the facts ars pleasing TO
him or not, he must purvey them with equal
fidelity. The patriotic correspondent OF an
honest newspaper has found bnt few
pleasing faeta to record iii the l#st eight
years but drearv es has been the desert Of de-
pravity presented 10 bis view, the whole range OF
what is currently called Grant, M presents, or
has presented no fact distasef ful ~ that which
must now be stated In tho words Hayes, ths
defeated candidate,
HAS BEEN COUNTED Is."
II behooyes ue, th,refgre, to survey the APP
parent consequences CT this contamination. Mr..
Hayes will be induclod into effiee In about two
weeks from this writing, and, il he lives
and Ia not impeached, will be, to oil intenss and
purposes, President Of tho United Ftates for four
years. 80 much FIR the fuality OF the eampsign
that began last June. The case may bs summtd
up about AZ follows
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY,
with Credit Mobilier, and The destrict ring, q
Jayne and ganbo1n, and tho whisky ring, and
Beknap, and hounand other iesser tingn aad
lesser thieves weighing 1t dowp, went 10 tuein.
natl and nominated for Presidept Tho on'y man 1t
could find available who had nsver dot o any thing
for which he could 10 Immediately indicted,
Then the Republican party was defeated by a
po ausr ms jor ty Of over tbreo kuudt Cd Thousand
In tho fetal vote. ata of over seven hundred
thousand In the white vote Of Tho country; was
bsattn by clear majority IL tLirty.sovan In lhe
electoral colt 20. 1hon the H. publican turned
upon is own defeat, wroBted three States and
nineteen electoral votes from tho
VERY TEETH tF THE vIcroRg;
won by fraud what it dared not SEIZE by fJree
dcbauchtd for all lime tho rame CT our Supreme
Court made q jest aid laughing stock Of the
ballot-box exalted successful fraud int respect
ability; hurled honest endeavor ipto dsreputa,
and by vote Of
EIGHT TO SEVEN,
in packed or purchased tribunal, coarted in q
defeated candidate by an electoral siority of ono
In college CT 800 vo es!
And now the question revo!ves in some OF the
best minds here~-Ie there any use trying to over-
come such party By faie means? It Ia not for
me to attempt an answer to such question. /
hope your readers will survey my succitct pre-
sentation OF the case and answer the question !
have suggested according 10 their own faith In
human ture and their own confidence in
THE pERpETr1TY OF our INSTITUTIONS.
learn from sources whose authority cannot bo
questioned that Mr.. Hayes fully realizes the diff
CutteS vi LIE pbsbtOu HEi blhG WIlGl ne
received Mortoa's exultant telegram announo ng
that the tribunal had refused to hear evidence in
the Louisiana case, ana would arbitrarily count
the vote Of that State for him, he expressed no
satisfaction but shook his head and remarked
that it would have pleased him better had the
knot been united instOad of being cut. And I
have been permitted to read certain recent con-
ids ntial communications from bis hand, which
leave no doubt as TO his realization Of the desper-
ate situation In which the action of his party has
placed him. IL fact, I feel at liberty to give q
brief resume Of the v,ew which Mr. Hayes near.
est friends say he takes OF the situation: He has
oil the time believed that he was entitled to the
electoral votes Of Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina, and he has also believed that but for
what he calls fraud in New York and intimidation
in Mississippi he would have carried those states
too. He has been fair enough to admit that per
haps there was as much
FRAUD IN PHILADELPHIA
in his favor as there was against him in New
York, and has been heard to lament that 1t
seemed impossible to conduct an election with
out more or less Of fraud, particularly
in the gre.t centres Of population. But he re-
CARDS that sort OF thing as necessary evil inci-
dent to poor human nature and dismisses the
SUBJECT with the philosophy that the re-. ults must
be accepted while the methods may be ignored.
He realizes, and, in his confidential communi-
cations to his friends. makes secret of it, tn at
he Will enter the White House with the prepon-
derance Of public sentiment inclining 10 the
view that
HE HAS NO RIGHT THERE.
He does not exactly put it upon the footing Of
usurpation for he holds that he ia an instrument
in the ha ds Of fate, and he feels wsrra nted in
accepting destiny which he regards as having
been thrust up1n him. Now, be it un aerstood
that / am simil purveying facts for the sake Of
Their interest TO the general publio, and not be-
cause they are either interesting Or edifsing to