The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-12
MORE TROUBLE FOR HAYES.

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receiving the attention of the public.
Last week the Grand Jury of.one of the
State Courts in New Orleans found in
dictments against j. Madison Wells, T.
c. Anderson, Louis NJ. Kenner and G.
Casanave, charging them with having "on
the 4th of December, 1876, falsely and
feloniously altered and published as true
the altered, forged and counterfeited
election returns for Presidential electors
from the parish of Vernon at the election
ofNoyember. last by adding 15S votes to
each of the Hayes electors and deducting
395 from each of the Tilden electors.
Bail has been fixed at $4,000. Cash has
been furnished by Wells and Kenner.
Anderson and Casanave will surrender
themselves and furnish bond" This in
dictment.if if properly pushed will no doubt
reveal to the public the true inwardness
of the rascalities practiced by this Board,
and lay bare the deformity of Mr.. Hayes
title to the Presidency. 1t is therefore
not to be wondered at that the Returning
Board President is worried over these in
dictments. The President thinks, it is
said, that all ofenses of this nature were
condoned by the Foster-Matthews bar
gain, but we imagine he does not realize
the magnitude of the ofense which is
alleged to have been committed, or he
could not imagine itGas condoned by
bargain made by some of his friends.
Does not the President know that a
felony cannot be condoned except by the
punishment of the criminal, and tLat if
Foster and Matthews had made any bar
gain shielding the Board from prosecu-
tion for felony, they could be prosecuted
themselves for compounding felony?
Mr.. Hayes has reason to believe from the
submission of our people to mis- usurpa-
tion that the country is prepared to stand
almost anything. but such barefaced i'm
pudence as saying that such crimes as
this Board are charged with was con-
doned to make him President, and there
fore the perpetrators should not be prose-
cuted, is not calculated to inspire the
country with any high regard for his in
tegrity. Mr.. Hayes received the Presi-
dency; the most precious piece of official
property owned by our people, knowing
that it had been stolen from the persons
chosen by the suffrages of our nation, and
now objects to- the prosecution of the
thieves, who it is alleged stole the Office
for him. He is pretty reformer. and
deserves the support Of all who can
pocket their principles to pay tribute at
the shrine of successful rascality.
1t is generally believed that if the
prosecution is successful in convicting
the members of the Returning Board on
this Indictment, Mr.. Stanley Matthews,
the new administration Senator from
Ohio and John Sherman, Secretary of
the Treasury, in Hayes Cabinet, will be
indicted for subornation of perjury, and
for aiding and abetting fraud. There is
said to be very little doubt of the con-
viction of the Board, for numerous wit
nesses are present to prove the charges,
and the affair is creating the profoundest
anxiety in administration circles.
Wells has written letters to Washing
ton, threatening full exposure unless he
is saved from punishment, and nothing
can be obtained from the prosecuting at
torney as to the course he will pursue,
but it is expected that member of the
returning board will turn States evidence
and divulge the fact that they were adj
vised to pursue the course they did by
some of the visiting statesmen, sent to
New Orleans by President Grant
Should things take this turn Mr.. Hayes
will hardly be enabled to retain the Presi-
dency, and the death knell of Republi-
canism will be sounded at no distant day
The country believes there was fraud,
and that the President knew of it, but il
that belief should be confirmed by q
Judgment of court of justice, the discon-
tent Of the people would assume the pro-
portions of a perfect tornado of wrath to-
wards Republicanism and towards every
Democrat who directly or indirectly
helped to heap such shame upon our re.
public. This trial will be watched by
all with the most intense anxiety.