The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-02-23
The CrO,cninD I'ifanay.

The unparalleled fraud of Wells and his
three confederalcs on the Louisiana Re-
turning Board, in DISTINGUISHING nine
thousand legal Tilden voters at the last
Presidential election i'll that State, was
ratified on Friday last by. the packed E'ec..
toral Commission of fifteen, elected or
chosen. as was supposed, to ascertain the
true and honest vote of the people at the
last November election. On that day .he
Commission formally decided that the
,jght votes of Louisiana should be cast for
HAYES and Wheeler. This conclusion was
reached by the same party vote OF eight to
seren which consigned the vote of Florida
to the Republican column. But this de-
cisiun of the Commission in the Louisiana
case is even more sweeping than that rem
dered in the Florida contest, for it not
ONLY excludes all evidence of the villainies
Of the Returning Roaid, and refuses to go
behind them, but declares that the Board
was legally constituted under the laws of
that State, and even decided not to allow
evidence or inquiry into the eligibility of
any of the Hayes electors. To say that
this decision has shocked the whole coun-
try and utterly astounded the best men of
both parties is only to express what has
been made manifest in every quarter.
When the Florida case was before the
Commission, Judge Bradley, one OF She
three Republican Justices of the Supreme
Court, voted, and by his casting vote de-
oil hot tIa t,;h ii
dence as to the eligibility of Humphreys,
one OF the Hayes electors in that State.
After an investigation into the matter. it
was ruled, correctly as we believe, tha.
Humphreys was not disqualified But
when it was offered before the Commission
last Friday. by the counsel Of the Demo
Gratis, 20 show by clear and convincing
testimony that tro of the Louisiana
Hayes electors, Brewster and Levisee, we've
not eligible under the well known provision
of the constitution, this same Judge Brad
ley went back on his record in the case of
Humphreys aud by his vote decided that
no evidence whatever should be received in
regard to the Louisiana electors. This
decision makes Hayes the next President
OF tho United States in bold and unblush-
ing defiance of the overwhelming vote of
the American people. We will not speak
of Oregon. as Bradley will fully meet the
case of Watts, the admitted ineligible
elector from that State and will be true to
his partisan and baok-handed vote, by
which he sanctified the Louisiana fraud.
IL Bradley could swallow, as he did, the
Louisiana Returning Board, his judicial
stomach will not gulp at Watts Of Oregon.
The count of the electoral vote after dis
posing Of Louisiana will. as we have said.
cheat the people out of Tildcn. their choice
for President, and inaugurate Hayes.
Is there no remedy for this fragrant
| wrong? We say there is none, and that
the decision is final and conclusive of the
whole question. Such is the action of the
commission virtually appointed by Demo.
cratic votes in both branches of Congress
| honestly as they thought at the time, but
which has proven to be vain, merely keep
ing :he promise to the ear only to break i:
to the hope. This is the end, and il that
we need say on the subject for The present
ut least. 1t is enough, as our readers,
without expecting us TO go into further
details, will To THEN SORROW and auazement
| fully understand.