The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-03-02
The End.

We announced last week as the latest
from the packed and partisan Electoral
Commission, that by the usua! vote of 8 to
Z it had decided that Wells and his infa-
nous colleagues on the Louisiana Return
ing Board had strictly obeyed the law of
tha, State in DISTINGUISHING t,celce thousand
Tilden votes, and by that shameless and
unblushing fraud had transferred the eight
electoral votes Of the State to Hayes by
majority Of about four thousand. After
the endorsement OF this villany the end was
clearly to be seen, and the Commission, as
final and fearful admonition 70 the Dem
ocratic counsel, who represented majority
of EGO 600 of the honest electors Of the
United States who had voted for Samnel j.
Tilden, ought to have had engraved in let
ters of black over the entrance to the Su-
preme Court room the inscription of Dante,
the Italian poet, over the portals of another
but nameless place, "a bandon hope, all We
who enter here" for Bradley, with mind
capacious of such things, had resolved that
the fraudulent election of Hayes should be
it's inexOrable decree, from which there
could be no appeal. In common with the
Democracy OF the whole country we rested
our hopes upon the clear and admitted ma
.iority of 5000 for Tilden in Louisiana, ard
never dreamed that the bold and palpable
fraud of the Returning Board of that State
would be sanctioned, even though it was
shielded by the mere forms of law. This
Electoral Commission, be it remembered,
refused to go behind the certificate of Kel-
logg in :he case of the Louisiana electors
but when Oregon was reached it found no
difficulty i'll getting behind the certificate
of Gov. Grover Of that State in favor of
Cronin, Democratic elector, and decided
that Watts, Hayes elector, who had no
certificate at all, was eligible, and that the
three electoral votes of Oregon should be
counted for Hayes. 1t was done on Satur-
day last. and thus in three separate cases
the partisan majority of this tribunal have
declared generally that an accomplished
fraud is sacred, and in the same three cases
have contradicted themselves in regard TO
the eligibility of electors. South Carolina
was reached on Monday, and as there were
two returns from that State objections were
] 'iiSN '''h "''N op IiO p"pCiS iCiCltcu
to the commission. The question was
! fully argued before the commission, and
on Tuesday the eight votes of the state, by
| the magical figures of 8 to Z, were award
ed to Hayes. There was a weak skirm ish
over one Hayes elector in Vermont, and
one in Wisconsin, but of course they were
! given to Hayes, and then the curtain fell
{ on the last act of this most disgraceful
/ drama. 1t is the grea est triumph of fraud
! in the political history Of this country, and
has fearfuily shocked the honest political
sense of n vast majority Of the American
| people. 1t is enough Ito stir fever in the
! blood of age" and TO cause the bones of
| Andrew Jackson to turn in his coffin. But
I still the honor of the Democratic party, by
/ the votes of its members Of Congress, in
! favor of the bill creating the commission,
/ is committed to it's decision Although it
/ has been villainously deceived and betray-
| ed, i can better afford to suffer a defeat
which brings no dishonor than to incur
the imputatiOn Of acting in bad faith We
are weary and sick Of writing about this
whole disgusting business and for the
present cast it aside as unworthy of further
consideration.