The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-06
BrOwn's Arr"iGnment of
senator Gordon.
NY Herald

senator Gordon.
Ny. Herald
r-.r since HAYES was declared elected
,l.4t of the United States there has
hitter feud between several Of the
Zinc citizens OF Georgia. y ow ex-GOv-
~ Br0eu charges Senator Gordon and
rE NruHg Brown with selling out IIden
'o'..ti ---+ylug the democratic party tor the
+-D.--.d+ Of Haves and the republicans. There
IA" laeu -uch excitement about Il through
10, IT.. STATE. and the feeling eliminated in
-. letters i'm the newspapers from cN~
ggt,.~u4r Brown and senator Gordon In
2acaragr Browns letter, printed in the Au-
-. sl,a Constitution, May /, lie said
=. +. or,.,-iou- article. lac had charged that
ar.ar wrong was pcrpetrated by this
TT.4gfigu up0u the American people and
..riaEIv on the Democratic party. Coy
.,lla- Tl.deu had been elected by almost a
,e.fJu maiprjIy OF the white vo'crs, and
L5a8 carried "a decided majority OF the
L....r.f College in the popular vote, yet,
~ ,.ra 4f All these uudOubtel facts, he was
rrrrI out. 4 heavy responsibility for
,If. .r.gs.etiou rested upon the shoulders
r. SHINE OF the public men. and at the pro-
T.rr.o5e the people would be apt 10 locate
t.- responsibility where it belonged. This
uar-fAility rested mainly on the shout
I.. .l Hon. john Il. Gordon, U.ited States
-.4rar for Georgia, and The Hon. John
yourg Brown, Representative from Ken
r.,a.ty. / have claimed thaJ they entered
f.f, ii contract or capital understanding
,,Irn Hon Charles Foster aud possibly 9TH
s~. of the Republican leaders TO permit the
r..,,f. I'D rrucced ut time when the dispO-
s,,iou Of She democrats IN tie House to pre-
vent NJ, com pletiun was so strong that theV
,,fsa h wa. seen that the count was pro-
earilng lraululeutly and when a large pro-
norton of the democratic representatives
ll,sr. ready 20 defeat its con summation by
.5Iir1rv motions and parliamentary tactics,
could scare .ly be controlled.
-.u... fhe appsaraucH of these articles a
fstr.r was publ -ncd in reply, purporting to
h. from senator Gordon 30 Colonel Hillups,
in which senator Gordon says he was not "A
r.autHcr of the House. had no vote in the
I{gu-r and no responsibility in the count
t,- I'D, -iaeut; also that he never influenced
the votes of the tillbusterS or those who
,,.rs 8glIu.t them. The charge that he
.i,,r,jnrl or had any understanding with
Fu.Ier or Stanley Matthews is false in every
particular =,
I'm reply To this Ex-Governor Brown said
that hi- charges could he sustained, and lie
Droeccucd to quote from one OF johh Dung
browns published statements ana from
.srb4- letter. included IL the we'll known
correspondence between Matthews, }. \.
Brown ana Gordon. In conclusion the e&-
Governor says:
81 submit the question to every honest,
above quotation from Browns published
,,9trueuts and the letters addressed TO
Rr,,,u and Gordon tlic one signed by Eos
Ter alone aud the other by Foster and the
other by Foster and Matthews, whether
rii.ra is any room for reasonable doubt that
senator Gordon fully understood the whole
negotiations and transaction, ana was a
party to the bargain, contract or unjef-
sanding call il whatever you may, BY
which l. was agreed thai the count should
pr,.rrrl and Hayes should be mau9urated,
,,iI when inauguratcd he should remove the
tr,ol,. from South Carolina and Louisiana.
Otherwise why were Brown and Gordon
di.cg--Iu9 the policy of Hayes adminIetra-
rsoD with Foster before The count WAS COM
u.ptrIy General Gordon cannot escape Dy
alleging chat he said nothing during thc
transaction. It is true Brown does not
grIe-,. r4, language OF Gordon, but he tells
as rqas he outlined what ne intended To say
in Foster to Gordon in advance, and Gordon
said hr would 20 with bin with lHea>ure'
Gordon was present during the Whole con
ver,lgsu. heard it all and doubtless pafticl-
p4t-I ip Ii, as Brown says &c was loliS anu
earnest auJ satisfactory TO his friend Gordon
and himsrlt The duty of "A Senator IN That
case was very plain. When Brown outlined
the statement 10 him which he intended TO
make ID Foster. looking Ia this bargain, he
should, promptly have rejected Ib ana re-
fused to have anything 10 do with the trans
action. IL > could with great proprIetYhaVe
said that the honor of 4 Democratic Seha-
tor OF Georgia would not permit hlm TO con
slider such "A proposition OF bargain anu sale
fora moment Then he could have justly
denied tt1f he made any 'bargaih OF any
SORT of had any understanding OF any char'
actcr' with Foster looking to the freslden
tiai count.
Commenting upon the foregoing con
troyersy, the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
and Coustitutionalist says:
.-rbe fatal mistake was made when the
Democrats in Congress surrendered I'M
right, OF the House by the passage 81 Tn
bin creating the Electoral Commission
But At blame is to be attached - TINS &c
the blame must beshared by the Wh"-s party
and not Saddled upon the Congress mel
alone. Press and people supported tne Oh
believing that it offered an easy solution
existing difficulties. They could not lore
see any more than Congress could toresee
thar ya,tiSanShip would detile the ermine o
she Judge and that fraud would usnrp Tn
place of Justice When the decision OF IN
Commission was rendered no good coui'
come of opposing it. and much harm III? u
have been the result OF such opposition
NOFE by THE CLARION.--OUr Geor
gia cotemporary must not mistake specL
in its own telescope for blot in the sun
The Democratic party, except in so ia
as it was represented by members Q
Congress who passed the bill, never wa
consulted, nor did they endorse or "sup
port" it. In all the broad land ther
were not half a dozen primary meeting
called to consider the question. TAKE
ths Mississippi Legislature, and we vii
venture to say that it did not receive tn
sanction of half Il dozen out of more thar
one hundred Democratic members.