The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-14

The Latest Sensation.
According to the Washington quid naacs
the excitement ran high in thai city over
the announcement that legal proceedings
had been Instituted against the Louisiana
Returning Board at New Orleans. Pres
idcnt Hayes was represented to be in such
q state Of alarm that he was scarcely able
to attend to public business; that he had
made frantic appeals to Senators Gordon
and Lamar to use their influence to stop
the prosecutions; that the Tilden interest
in New York had instigated these pros
ecutions; that Stanley Matthews and John
Sherman were to be indicted as accessories
before the fact; and finally, that Mr.. Hayes
would abdicatC the Presidency should it
appear, on the trial Of the case, thathe had
not received majority Of the electoral
votes legally cast. All these false repre-
sensations Of the newsmongers were sub
sequently cOntradicted Mr.. Tilden had
nothing to do with instigating the legal
proceedings, and Mr.. Hayes had no APP
prehensions as to the result Of the prosecu-
tions, inasmuch as the conviction Of the
Returning Board would not legally invali-
date his title to the Presidency, and he had
not the most remote intention Of abdica-
ting. The naked fact remains, in the midst
Of all this exciting rumOr, that the prose-
cution was instituted in New Orleans, not
by Mr.. Tilden, and will be vigorously con-
Quoted to the end; and it may be safely
assumed that the secret history Of the
manipulation Of the electoral vote of Lou
isiana viii be brought to light, and if con-
yiction follows, Wells, Anderson, Kenner
and Cassenave will find themselves within
the walls of the peuitentiary. Mr.. Hayes
is said to regard the prosecution as VIC
lation Of the pledge made by the Nichols
Legislature, but has no fears for himself,
whatever the result. What right had any
one, it Is answered on the other side, to
give pledges compromising with felons in
50 grave political crime as this2 If the
facts Of the altered votes arc brought to
light on the trial, the moral aspect Of the
case will set the current of public opinion
so strongly against Mr.. Hayes, that, stout
it out and hang on as he may, he will find
his position one Of very great embarrass,
ment, if not absolutely insupportable. He
would have 10 be utterly callous in feeling
and destitute Of all sense Of honor, to re.
tain his hold upon the Presidency after it
had been shown to the satisfaction Of the
public that he had no moral right to it,
whatever.
The Baltimore Sans Washington cor.
respondent, not given to sensational ru.
nors, while explaining that much of the
talk aaoat amongst the quid nunes is base
less, admits that athere is an undoubted
consciousness pervading Administration
circles that the situation is exceedingly
grave, and that sit is within the range Of
possibilities that the outcome may be the
voluntary or the involuntary retirement o.
President Hayes from the White House.
Friends of Mr.. Wheeler" continues the
correspondent, "to whom this suppositior
has been communicated, aver that he il
made Of sterner stuff, and that if Hayes
drops the sceptre he will immediately take
il up without waiting to see what Tilder
will do"
The Eceaiag Bulletin says ;-"We Dc
not believe that the invalidation of Hayes
possession will be consequence likely t.
ensue from the conviction Of Wells ant
Anderson, but VIC do believe that the tria
will set the great election fraud out in The
clear light of day, and for that reason We
wish the cause to so on and the evidence
to be taken.
The N. Y. San insists that there 4 great
uneasincss in the White House. Fresh
evidence will pour additional light on the
whole transaction. "The evidences o.
guilt, ike dregs in violent fermentation
rise to the surface. They disturb the en-
joyments of Hayes in the White House
they threaten the Fraudulent Cabinet; ant
they hold out to Wells aud his fellow
scoundrels the prospect of long term il
the penitentiary."