The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-04-05


yention of the Implacablss to embar-
rass the Administrations and Southern
policy of President Hayes was the
charge that completion of the Eiec-
toral count had been secured by means
of a formal compact made between
Stanley Matthews and Charles Foster,
of Ohio. as authorized representatives
| Of Mr.. Hayes, and John Young Brown
and Gen. Gordon on the part of the
conservative and honorable men from
the South who insisted that the Flee
toral bill should be carried out in good
faith This story was reflection up
on the Southern conservatives as well
as upon President Hayes, and it was
so intended. Certain newspaper or
gans Of the Imp!acables went 50 far rs
to assert that the compact had been
formally submitted to the President
elect. and that he had Endorsed his APP
proval thereon, and this was made the
pretext for the further charge that the
Presidency had been disposed of by
bargain and sale very much a. il
would have been had Tilden obtained
the office through the purchased vote
of the bogus Elector, Cronin. This
was the story, manufactured out Of
whole cloth, a. the result proves, and
tltr..f al 10 tina aritrip.1 lna.,-
ments could be produced al any time
to substantiate it.
The simultaneous statements OF John
Young Brown on the one side. and
Charles Foster on the other, and the
production of the only letters that
passed, show how malicious the in
vention was. There was nothing in
the nature OF a compact or agreement.
President Hayes was not informed of
either the interviews or the letters,
and neither Mr.. Matthews nor Mr.
Foster prefessed to represent him in
the matter. There was no mystery
about the transaction, but, OH the con-
trary, what had been written was in
trusted To Gen. Gordon and Mr.. Brown.
with the privilege OF using it Us they
deemed best There was no need for
concealment, since the letter contained
nothing more-indeed, something less
than Mr.. Foster had already said
openly in the House of Representatives.
All there was to il was An expression
of the belief entertained by Messrs
Mathews aud Foster, and founded up
on their intimate personal knowledge
of President Hayes character, career
and views, that he would inaugurate
such a policy as would result in Civ
ing the people of South Carolina and
Louisiana the right to control their
own affairs in their own way. The |
reason why Mr.. Brown and the other |
conservatives wanted some such as
surance was to show theirirreconcilable
that there was not even |
the excuse ola probable continuance |
Of the Grant policy of intervention to
justify breaking faith in the agree
ment to count the Electoral vote.
Now that it is fully demonstrated
that the Southern conservatives were
not bribed with promises to vote as
their honor and faith demanded of
them, and that President Hayes did
not commit the error of making
pledges in order to secure the Office to
which the Commission adjudged he
was entitled, there is no reason to be-
lieve that either the Southern conser-
nor Mr.. Hayes friends,
Messrs. Matthews and Foster, will be
in the opinion they
formed of him. He has not yet swer-
we'd from the policy foreshadowed in
his public utterances; and he is prob
ably carrying it forward as rapidly as
he ever expected to, if not SO rapidly
a. some impatient and imprudent
men desire. Chicago Tribune.