Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-03-31
The Hayes Administration Fail
ure Assured,
A Democratic Senate and House tcM Pre-
cent Fraud The NeIt Time.

LAUGHLIN addressed, by invitation, the Demo
Gratis Of the Fifth District Of New York. w
republish that portion OF his remarks which
treats on national affairs
Fellop Citizens-The last time | had tho
pleasure of meeting and addressing Won We
were in the midst of the recent exciting Presi.
dental campaign. And what a campaign il
was 1t seemed that every Republican poiti.
clan in the land, with few honorable excep.
tons, was suffering with the hydrophobia in
It's worst form. The Republican newspapers
had, if possible, a worse attack Of the disease
than the politicians. Figurativey they were
all flaming at the mouth At the head of the
yelping pack was that edifyiug Christian
howler-Mr. Bob lngersOl, Of Illinois, who,
during the rare intervals between the exercise
of his trade Of OlaSpheming the a mighty aud
his weak imitation Of Tom Paine in expcctora-
ting filthy epithotS against the Apostles OF
Christ, had found time at the bidding Of bis
masters to treat US To few exhibitions Of bill
lincSgate and some choice specimens Of llooSier
Glackguardism, which lie applied to the Demo-
cratic party and It's leaders. And again last
night this hired atheist made another speech
in New York. lit prophet Of the new dispen-
Sation! The reviler Of all things sacred is the
man Of all others 10 represent the Republican
party at this day When he is tired Of praiS-
ing thieves he will no doubt relieve the monot-
ony by splitting upon the bible and shouting
in his choice aboriginal slang that Heaven is a
myth and religion and morality are but the
veriest absurdities aud shams. Are yon not
glad, my fellow citizens, that the drunken orgy
Of the campaign is over? Were ever the food
gates Of calumny aud SANDER lifted SO high be-
fore? Were ever since the great FOOD 50 many
lies told in the same space Of time before p
And was ever such rebuke given to the liaJS
as the American people adm mustered to them
vt tue ballrt-boX in Novcu Der? y majority
Of one million white men then answered Tor the
Democratic faith that was in them and after
delucting the negro vUte-the coruheld con-
tingent Of t c RcpublicauS-a clear majority
over all Of 260,0 goo American voters remained
on the side Of the Democratic party ant they
remain there still All your Returning Boards
and Electoral Commissions cannot change the
fact that 2G0, 900 majority Of all the voters IN
the United StateS-and that, too, on the fullest
vote ever caSt-are arrayed to-day on the side
Of the Democratic party. Arrayed there 10y no
attraction Of spollS; arrayed there 10y no oily
Electricians in quest If office, ike William NJ.
EvariS 10y no drill SergeantS and whpperS-in,
Ike John Sherman and Jack Chandler, with
a bread and butter army Of 100, 900 Uilice-hol-
ders fighting for dear life to hold on to their
places arrayed there, on the contrary, by the
irresistible attraction which leads all true men
who think the same things of the Republic to
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fair dealing for the preservation Of free govern
meut and tor the overthrow Of robbers aud
And now we hear, fellow citizens, that the
President who owes his Office to fraud is turn
ing his back on the ringeaders in the great
crime by which he has chiefly proiited. II is
said when Benedict Arnold went 10 England
after the revolutionary war, with his pocket
full Of tie bribe money for which he had tried
to sell his country, the decent people in that
country AL cut his acquaintance and drove
him from tleir society For the remnant OF
his miserable days he Skulked about alone SOL
itary in the midst Of thousands, Stunned as
moral lepcr, and abhorcd by the very men who
hal bought lin for filthy lucre. When Dir.
Hayes sent his Cabine, nominations TO the Sem
ate the other day for confirmation, did be not
treat his friends in that body very much in the
same way as the English treated the traitor
Arnold? Did lie not pass them coldly ly on
the Other side, as If lie iustiuctively elt that
they were not respectlble--that they bad
somehow lost their standing in society-that
they smeled Of Returning Boards, and were
to be avoided? Why such Cab |
net as he selected fellow citizens, is the grim
nest practical JOKE ever played on an expect |
ant and sUbserlicut Senate. Blaine lshed !
himself into white heat Of impoteut rage |
over il. Simon Cameron gratifed the country |
By rcSiCLing his seat aud taking some hun |
lred and fifty pounds, avoirdupois weight, Of /.
downright rascality out Of the Senate frcver. /
Even EImuuds, the accident Of fortune, who /
irst got into the Senate Nv the death Of his pre-
ieccss'r, and by the appointment of an Oh
'cure Governor, and not 10y the choice of the |
people or their representatives, even EdmundS, |
whose name Is linked with that bill Of aboui-
latjous-the Electoral aw-vhich dragged up
he drowning Hayes by the hair Of his head
slmunlS, who stocked the cards and did more
han anybody else 20 count the defeated can-
iidate into the PrcSidency-eyen poor, tricky,
llarter-Ses>i0nS ElmundS, was snubbed and
Guored by the man who owed his own eleva-
ion 10 the NermontcTS abasemeut, | think
.imuniS, when he was pncticing law up in
he rural districts Of the Green Mountain State
20 .1ud a very intelligent gentleman from that
tate told me the other day that he never was
card of before his appointment 10 the United
states Senate except as a seconl-rate county
QUIT pettil0sgerl-l think he must have given
loie attention at that time to a study of
loyIe than TO the principles Of Blackstone aud
iT1tluS. When tricks are trumps, will lay
~ wager every time on Elmuuds against
be field. Fathers Of hopeful sons need not
eSpair Of their oil,priug's chances in this
1uutry hereafter Elmuuds has practiced
accessibility the rule laid down in The verses
an old poem which Randolph Tucker quo
d the other day in Congress with great point
" Hence. If you have q son would advise,
Lest his fair prospects in the state you spoil
II you would have him in the State to rise,
Instead Of Grotius, let him study lloylel
And II he show
turn for petty tricks. indulge the bent,
dexterouS cut may rule some great event,
And a stocked pack may make a President"
But that Clbinct-,he Hayes CaJiuet-there
Is been nothing ike 10 it since Lord Chat
.m's disastrous Third Ministry, to which il !
airs a striking resemblance. In reading Ed :
uhd BurSes famous description of poor =
iataam attempt 10 reconcile autipathies by +,
ingi0g into lis Ministry men of the m, st
'posiie political opinion and training some n
whom had never seen each other till thew +
81 around the council board. have been for h
)ly minded Of Its peculiar application to d
Is diversified IlaYes Cabinet Change Chat e,