The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-24

out fail. Once o6sained, your recogni
ton Will be- ample and generous.
Very respectfully, your obedIept serv
ant ID. j. II. A. JEwETT,
Secretary.
Supervisor of Regisfration, Parish Of As
sssmptson, Loxisiana.
They we're not content with q regis
trasion of the actual voters, 50 that q fai
expression Of public opinion might be Oh
tanned. Their purpose was TO secure n,
election of Hayes and Wheeler at al
hazards, by fair means or foul. To thl
end they made Up registration lists OF th'
living and the dead; Of men Who wer'
not then and never had been citizens o.
Louisiana. They even swelled the reg
istrstion of colored voters 10 the number
/ of nearly twenty thousand more than re-
sided in the state.
Money and troops were used, fraud:
were prscticed, and the unbridled pas
sions Of bad men had full sway. Nothing
was left undone to consunmste the un.
holy purpose those wicked conspirstors
had engaged to accomplish. The cleo
ton cane and passed. and to their utter
| horror the face of the returns in the
hands O. Republican officials showed that
the Tilden and Hendricks electors had
been appointed by msiorities ranging
from six TO nine thousand.
On the 7th, 9Th and 9th of November
it was apparent to every one that the
Democratic candidates had been trl-
umphsnly elected. The country had
been thoroughly csnvassed, and the con-
test had been characterized BY more
earnestuess and bitterness than had ever
been witnessed before. The people set
tied down into quiet and repose, satisfied
then as they always had been heretofore
with the popular choice, and awaited the
insug urstion of the successful candidates.
But this reposs was Of short duration.
Party leaders and political schemers
commenced plotting TO defeat the popu-
lar will, and by the most
shameful and disreputsble msnipu.
lations to induct the defeated
candidate into the Chief Executive Office
of this government.
They foresaw that it their party failed
then it would be failure for all time;
that it would go Town to ob.iyion's
grave, never again to be resurrected.
In their desperation and as last resort
they proclaimed that Louisiana and
Florida had appointed Hayes and Wheel
er electors, and at once began the work
of producing that result, in the face OF
existing fscts which would have caused
most men to shrink from such an under
taking as immoral and dishonest.
The election returns of Louisiana
went into the hands of the returning
board showing on their face a msjority
of nearly 5000 for the Tilden electors.
They came from the hands Of that board
showing q majority of nearly 1900 for
the Hayes electors. What brought
about this change? Can any honor
able man doubt that it was the result
of fraud, forgery, and perjury By it
Rutherford b. Hayes is to be made Pres
ident of the United States. Contemplate
the Chief Magistrate of this great coun-
try-successor 10 Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson, and Lincoln-holding title 10
that exalted position though fraud, and
through fraud alone.
One word as TO the personnel OF the
Returning Board OF Louisiana which
threw out 1900 votes 10 that State tor
no other reason than TO man ufsciure q
majority tor the Hayes electors, an ire
sponsible board created by an usuping
Legislature and made self-perpetustirg
Tor party purposes. We saw the MEM
bers of that board arraigned at the bar
of this House Tor contempt. 1t may
we'll be doubted whether any tribunal or
other body Of officials in this or any other
country can be pointed out OF whom
more that is bad and less that is good can
be truthfully said.
Wells, Anderson and Kenner, g trio
who will live in history a. the most
nsuseating testers OF Republican corrup-
tion-a perpetual sorrow and humilia-
ton to every American pstriot-WeIis, g
defau1er 10 his State, man without
character for truth and verscity, who
has covered himself all over with infsmy
by bis conduct as member OF that
board; Anderson, without character for
in Integrity, branded by g special commit
tee OF this house with having detrauied
his State while serving her in repre-
sentative capacity; kenner, OF whom II
were superhuous TO say more than that
he was indicted for larceny and secured
dismissal Of the prosecution after I'D.
hitting his guilt, when he wss promptly
made a member of the returning board
This trio and the negro Cassnave, whose
d, Gle ignorance and stupidity peculiar
ly lit him Tor the position of an instru-