The daily gazette., 1877-12-18
BURN 1T IN THE MEMORY.
THE GREAT FRAUD NEVER TO BI
FORGOTTEN, AND SURE TO Bl

PUNISHED.
From an interview with the Hon. Henry
B. Payne in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Your idea is to keep the memory of
the Electoral fraud continually before
the minds and eyes of the people ?"
"Yes, l would burn it in their memory
SO that it could never be effaced. 1
would keep it perpetually before the
youth of this country, so that it should
never be lost sight of, but live as con-
tinual warning against the repetition OF
such an outrage"
SIN one of your speeches last summer
you took the ground, didn't you, that the
record of the Senate declaring Hayes to
be lawfully elected should be expung-
ed ?"
Eyes, that was in my speech at San
dusky City. alluded to the famous ex-
pungenent resolutions of Mr.. Benton
that were pessed by the Senate. In 1888,
Henry Clay had offered series of reso-
lutions in the United States Senate
charging General Jackson with violating
the Constitution in removing the deposits
| from the United States Bank. 1t was
passed by party vote, the Wings being
in the ascend ency at the time. rhe ball
was set in motion, and the subject was
agitated everywhere by the press, by the
lpublic speakers, by the State and county
conventions all over the country, until
four years after the record had been
made, the majority in the Senate had
changed to the Democratic side, and the
Clerk was ordered to draw heavy black
lines around it and to write 'EXpunged
by order of the Senate across its face.
Using this incident as an illustration,
expressed the wish, and the belief, too
that before the 4th of March, 1881
, the two Houses of Congress shonld Or
der the expunging of the lying record
made four years BEFORE that Mr.. Hayes
! had been elected President of the United
i States, and the Clerk should be required
to write across the face of that record
, 'Expunged by order of the American
! people, That is what you allude to,an'
: have faith that it will yet be done."
"Well, you were one of the actors il
that drama, Mr.. Payne. Now tell me
), didn't some of the Republicans realiz
that the fraud they were committin
would sooner or later come back To We
them ?"
j. "a few of them did, perhaps, but ia
A the greater part were SO elated over tn
!, success of the scheme that they lost sigh
of all future respo visibility for it. re
e member the morning after the Florid
e vote was decided by the Commission
II Garfield and Edmunds, and one or tw
If others, were, with myself, standing o
t. the floor, talking over what had take
10 place. Garfield was particularly please
with the turn affairs had taken, and rub
:, bing his hands, badgered me on the dis
!" appointment felt. l made some repl
to the effect that he would probably liy
e. to feel greater disappointment thanI the
rs felt because of the. .thing-that SO great
IL wrong as had been committed woul
es bring its own punishment-that no part
N cou Id afford to perpetuate its power b
such means. Edmunds looked grav
20 and shortly after, as we walked ava
4 said, you may be right; it remains to |
le seen whether it is triumph for oil
q party?" But the most of them didn
- - look beyond the temporary success tn
Is they had achieved by the aid of the
~ fraud"