Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-03-02
THE END.
OREGON GIVEN TO HAYES-ATTEMPTs AT
Observation-Disclosures TO BE 1NAU-
GURATED NEXT SUNDAY.


&C., &C., &C.
The Electoral Commission practically
ended 1t work on Friday last by counting
all the three Oregon Electors for Hayes.
This closes the contest to all intents and
purposes, save to a few politicians VINO are
looking to the effect al home and voting
for obstructive motions, so as to delay the
count beyond the 4th of March. AS all this
is the merest bosh, we can count Oh HIS
Fraudulency r. B. Hayes being inaugural
ed next Monday with the usual ceremonies
and ali other tour years OF consplrators
rules. Fortunately there is a Democratic
House of representatives which will Keep
them in check. In the meantime we HAD
as we'll look to the future:
WHAT GOV. HENDRICKS SAYS.
A New York -sHerald' correspondent
interviewed Gov. Hendricks at lndlah"-
polls last Saturday with the following
result:
Correspondence suppose. now ina
OREGON has been decided for Hayes, tlieri
is nothing more to hoDe for
Gov. Hendricks.-No, there is nothing
more for The Commas to pass upon.
Observation-Disclosures, l suppose, lik'
the rest OF us. you give it up as a defeat.
Gov. Hendricks (hesitalingly and in a
thoughtful manner. For the present. yes.
Ccrrespondent.-Do you think the House
is bound to abide by the decision OF the
Commission?
Gov. Hendricks.-Only by having voted
for the law. Tie House could if it chose
place the whole matter as it was before the
creation of the Commission.
Correspondent.-The Democrats are
greatly lncenSed over what they deem the
strictly party rulings of the Commission.
Gov. Hendricks livery decidedly 1.-The
Commission having gone according to the
law, the result will be the election OF
hayes. 1 do not think that they acted ac-
cording to the spirit of the law. Their
decision will not be satisfactory, to the
country, and the longer this people think
upon it the more it will he condemned.
Correspondent.-Many Democrats are
now abusing their congressman and saying
tbey were imbeciles for voting for the
Commission.
GOV. Hendricks.-Yes; but it is because
they don't comprehend the difficulties
which would have arisen had the question
not been so decided. The Senate would
have elected Hayes, and the House would
have elected Tilden; both would have been
ina%ugurated. Hayes would have had the
support of the army, the o~fice-holders and
leaving Tilden nothing to fight with, had
a fight been deemed advisable.
Correspondence hear a great deal of
talk among the Democrats about not
voting again.
Gov. Memberships is the first result,
of course. of disappointment. They will
all come around agalu. The Democrats
have been gaining very rapidly of late
years; when l was excited by about LOO
majority four years ago, l was the only
Democrat elected north of the line. This
year we carried the State by about 5000,
and the country by an increased popular
majority. The popular expression you
speak of shows that the action of the Com
mission is universally condemned and it
will react destructively upon the Republic
can party.
= Observation-Disclosures has worked
hard for this triumph.
Gov. Hendricks.-Yes; Morton thinks
success is everything but this last effort
will only result in his defeat two years
from now. He is a man of wonderful vigor,
and despite his affection can do more work
thar all of them; but after all his career
has not been as successful as those OF his
confreres. Cameron could always hold
PENNSYLVANIA and Logan Illinois, and Ohio
has generally been held for the Republl-
cans, but we have taken Indiana away from
Morton again and again. He will be de-
feated again two years from noW. II e
middle OF no administration is always its
weakest period. The offices will have been
parcelled out by that time, and where on.
expeclant is satisfied five will be disap-
pointed. Hayes will not be able to set
aside the claims Of Morton, Chandler.
Cameron and the rest of that junta, and
therefore will nave to retain a majority OF
the present otfice-holders. This, OF course,
will produce wide dissatisfaction within
the party ranks.
Currespondent.-What do you think of
the pacific policy it is reported that Hayes
Will adopt toward the south?
Gov. Hennricks.-The statement that
Hayes will recognize the Nichols govern
ment in Louisiana is absurd. He could
not do it without stultifying the methods
! to which he will owe his place. To recoe-
nize Nichols would be to say that Packard
| was not elected by the votes in Louisiana,
and yet that he himself (Hayes) was.
HEWITT ON THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION.
MIR. Hewitt IN. ~ .gain returned to
the charge which he had made OF Sal urday
against the good faith of Mr.. Hoar, of
Massachusetts, for acting and voting in
Ullc ElCCtOIdl NVulullSSlOu dU VdlldllC0 WILL
his speech in the House, and said that that
gentleman in his attempt to answer the
charge on Saturday had seized the mantle
of Webster and tried reversing the usual
p~rocess) to exc out the fox's skin with the
lions hide. But even the mantle uf Web
Ster was not broad enough to cover detec-
ton, Misrepresentation and fraud. He
cited the various propositions and votes in
the commission, showing that MI. Hoar
had uniformly voted against the admission
of evidence to show fraud on the part Of
the Louisiana Returning Board, and he
asked whether that Quoting Hoar's words)
was Justice and righteousness" He
(Hoar) had voted in the Louisiana case
that the Commission had nc judicial power.
and in the case of Oregon he voted that the
Commission had power to take evidence;
that the seal of the State was or was not
the authentic seal, and as to whether
Watts held a commission from the United
States. But when there was an allegation
of fraud, then he had voted that there was
no power to prevent that fraud.
. FOOLISH SPEECH.
Gov. Hayes being serenaded at his old
home in Fremont, Ohio, Friday night,
stepped forward and said. among other
foolish things this one
LII tuo eVcuI VI LILY lcAldlIluS dLuOuK you
for the next two or three years | will at
tend the next annual pioneers meeting
and bring a bundle of letters and notes If
a kind which I am constantly receiving,
containing %curiously drawn sketches of
knives, daggers and revolvers. But l have
not lost much sleep from any of them yet.
One. Of the most amusing was received
this week. 1t was a knife about two feet
long, with one edge hacked like a saw, pro-
badly for saving the bones, and the other
side for cutting the flesh. This was wrap
ped in several thickness of paper, and in
side was a note. as follows 'sThis is the
knife with which the editor of the "Capi-
tal'' was to assassinate you as you went
from the White House to the Capitol. It
was taken from his pants leg while he Was
asleep," Well. friends. I think 1 have