Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-02-24
THE CRIME ACCOMPLISHED.
Nusquam tuta hdes.


1t will be seen that we have ceased |
publishing 10 detail the proceedings of
the Electoral Commission. To what
purpose should we do it? What hu-
man being could be interested in
watching the details of process by
which a forgone conclusion OF iniquity
is brought to a successful result under
the forms of law and justice.
Let the sordid work go on: Demo
Gratis have now other work to do.
At present we see two obvious duties
before US, to assign the guilt where 1t
is due. and to consider our future ac /
ton, regarding the fraudulent installa- /
ton of Gov. Hayes as an accomplished |
fact. Who then are the guilty men?
Not Morton and Garfield, they could /
not have achieved such a piece of
knavery for the sufficient reason that
nobody trusted them; not these but
Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, HOar. Men
who came among US with peace and
brotherly love beaming from their
countenances and honor on their lips
those lips so soon to be blistered with
ialsehood-these are the men who
talked Of country and the Constitution
and justice aud law, as something above
the influence of party, and invited the
patriotic of their antagonists to join
them in assigning the office of Presi-
dent to him who on examining the
evidence should be found entitled to
it. These are also the men who
when their treaeherous plan had
been adopted changed their tone
and with all their practiced pettifogging
interposed every device which elabo-
rate cunning could eontrive to shut
out all evidence upon which right
oous Judgment could be given.
Yes, the Morton's and Garfeld's the
Chandler and Cameron are no longer
the black sheep of the party; the
whole party, Senators, Representatives,
judges, are blacker than the blacklist
of them, and blacklist Of all, because
most plausible and impartial when he
was recommending his Commission is
the arch hypocrite and traitor, George
II. Edmunds.
Tie Honorable George F. Edmunds
let the prefix never hereafter be
omitted. It's irony as applied to him
is the fittest brand for him to live and
die with Your Logan's and Morton's
are comparatively endurable people,
gay, bold-faced villains, who cheatyou
openly and laugh in your face, and then
ask you what you are going to do about
1.-THE lagos of the party. Nay, the
Infamous Wells is simply swindler By
profession, selected as a knave to do
knavish work; bet Edmunds, the
Honorable Edmunds, the sanctimOni
Gus and smooth faced hypocrite, is
the Peeksniff of the party; he and his
gang, picked out Of all the statesmen
and all the jurists of the nation as men
who, if any, would give righteous judg-
ment, have constituted a Returning
Board by the side of whose baseness
that of the Louisiana gang is white as
rhe driven snow.
By the Honorable Edmuads we were
led to expect an impartial and frank
and open decision Of the case upon the
evidence, an honorable open state
ment of the whole case, and an equit-
able decision upon it. But what do
we see? \ spectacle which resembles
nothing so much as a Criminal Cour:
In which the defendant has desperate
case against him, but has engaged a
first class counsel to get him off. And
said counsel, with Honorable Edmmls
at its head, who has the ear of the
court, knowing that any production of
evidence is fatal to his client, works
all the intricate machinery of law to
rule it out, and finally gets his client off
by shutting out of court every witness
who eau say anything to bring the
merits of the case before jury.
Morton, therefore, and Logan and
Cameron no longer stand on that bad
cD,iHcHce appropriate to them as to
men whom the better part of the Re
publican party thoughtit necessary to
cut loose from. They are better than
their associates, as being more candid
and outspokeu, and The Honorable
PecEsaiF Edmunds bears off the palm
as the smooth faced, sanctimOnious
william who can
smile and smile and murder while ne
smiles.
1t is wellat least that we know this
We had begun to think that the Republi.
can party was not so bad as it was painted
OH no-they had thrown overheard
Jonas or two and the ship had righteC
and was sailing calamity before tht
wind, but again she has hoisted the
black flag and is known as pirate
craft by all men.
And so let us dismiss the knaves anC
hypocrites from our notice and look t
the next question our future action, or
TO answer the ieering question of thu
successful swindlers, let Us consider
what will we do about it 2
\ satisfactory answer to this ques
ton could only be given, if one coulC
divine what the Republican policy i
20 be for the next four years. And o
shis it is. at present, only known tina
important changes will be made in tn,
Reprblieau programme; that of tn,
pastfouryears has so nearly shipwreck
ed the concern ia spite of Returning
Boards, that bogus Electoral Com
mission had to come to its aid, and tn
tying and stealing instead of being LET
20 subordinates had to be done in per
son by the principals of the tirm-an'
all parties seem to be agreed that
won't do again; but who knows wha