Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-31

sand the Legislature by over 40 majority,
which the previous year had been republi-
can by 35 majority.
In Massachusetts,, where the new policy
was most Extensively thrust down the t&roats
Hayes, who gave him 42,0tO majority over
Tilden, over 10000 refused to vote for Gov
ernor Rice in 1877, and the majority against
him was /. $50, and it was only by the sup.
port and money Of the organized rumsellers
of the state, and over 10000 democratic
votes procured by rum influence, that he
secured his election by a plurality, and the
state was saved from the fate of Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
Look, however, at the result where the
new policy was repudiated.
In Iowa, Hayes had 59,22S plurality, and
in 1877 the republicans had 51,S23 plural
ity.
In New York Tilden had 32,742 majority,
and in 1877 the democrats had only 1924
majority, although the new policy men pro-
NOTED the democratic side by indifference
and by procuring the new administration to
make or announce many injudlcious remov.
ais of federal officers for the Mle purpose Of
irritating and humillating Senator Conkling
and his friends. =.
These, then, are the facts before us. y \
Silence is a crime; acquiescene and mac
ton are political death. Can the republi.
can party, Of heroic achievements, be bound
to an administration which ls not q free
agent, but is bound by a bargain to Gen
erals John B. Gordon, L. Q. G. Lamar,
Wade Hampton, and the southern demo-
Gratis now in high Office only through the
blood of murdered republicans? Does not
every voter in the land know that Hayes
| and Packard were elected simultaneously,
and held by the SAME title, and that when
Hayes abandoned and trampled down Pack
ard he put an irremoval stain upon his own
title. The republican party has lived long
and survived many assaults and many trea-
sons, only because it has been a party found
ed upon high principles, animated by lofty
sentiment, courageously acting up to noble
convictions. If it now disgraces its record,
and Endorses or fails to repudiate the Hayes
surrender, its voters will leave it by thous-
ands; its days are numbered; it will die a
deserved and an u%nhonored death.
But such is not to be its fate, at least not
with the consent of the republicans of New
Hampshire. In t%wenty-seven elections since
ACoc, tueN nave successfully UdIltcu iOA a
deal republican principles. They sent out
Gordon and Lamar on the battlefield.
ate generals came to teach the men Of the
Granite state their pc itical duties, they
were followed back to Washington by news
of the republican majority largely increased
by their h~arangues. They will receive a
similar greeting in March. 1878. but it will
not result from indorsing a presidential
policy which has surrendered to them the
federal patronage of Georgia and Mississippi
and has forgiven the murders of hundreds
of their fellow citizens, committed that they
miget rise to political power, bargain with
the agents of a republican president, and do
inmate in the white house; and when that
policy has been repudiated by
the republican party of the nation; when
the north has again been reused to the dan
gers of a solid south and rebel rule, which
it vainly attempted to avert by the election
Of Rutherford B Hayes; when it shall have
again resumed the work planned, but no,
accomplished, by the Cincinnati convention
of 1876, of securing to every American
citizen complete liberty and exact equality
in the exercise of all civil, political, and
public rights" by means Of a "chief execu'
tive whose courage and fidelity shall moi
falter till these results are placed beyond
dispute or recalr'-(so that William Lloyd
Garrison and Wendell Phillips can can.
vass Georgia and Mississippi, and colored
citizens vote there, as freely as Gordon anc
Lamar can canvass New Hampshire anc
democrats vote there(-then. and then only
will there be national paciGcation' ant
"enduring peace,' and the mission of tn,
republican party will be completed.
w. E. CHANDLER.
A CHARGE ENIED
Chicago, Dec. 2s.-Washington dispatch
es this morning contained a charge mad.
by VIM. E. Chandler in his letter attacking
the administration, that, while other mem
we'd rewards from the president in the shap
of offices, patronage, ETC., Judge G. B. Law
renee Of this city was rewarded by tn
withdrawal of the prosecution Of Jak,
Rehm for whiskey frauds. Judge Lawrepc
being interviewed to-day characterized th
charge, so far as he was concerned, as utter
!. ly absurd. The case was dismissed, b
!. said, solely OF the testimony and on repre-
sensations of government counsel. He ha,
presented the case to the attorney genera
and Secretary Sherman, sfter his return
from New Orleans, aud by them it was re
fcrred to the local officials here. but he ha'
never mentioned Rehm's name to Presiden
!, Hayes. 1t is proper to state that the Who'll
responsibility of the dismissal of the suit
rests with the United States judges her
and that their action was based on the reE
RESERVATIONS of counsel for Rehm and 70
the government and on decisions in simila
cases at St. Louis, made during the admin
istration of President Grant, which were il