Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-03-07
The Final Decree.


there is no longer room to question
the absolute power Of the cabal at
Washington headed by Chandler,
Morton & Co. After the country, in
GLIDING nearly every Republican press,
had accepted the fact Of Tilden's cleo
ton, orders were issued from head
quarters that certain States, which had
been conceded to the majority candi-
date, must be claimed for Hayes, In
slant obedience followed, and an in
lerlocutory decree in his favor was
entered. When Senator Edmunds,
after binding the public eye by moving
to take testimony applicable to the
Louisiana case, got up the scheme OF
tn. Electoral Commission, '!to get the
Republican cause out situation
which was absolute death to it" Gas
his published letter 10 one OF his con-
stituents clearly States), Congress was
induced to adopt the plan, and the
predetermined decree vas then sub
slantially affirmed.
When the Commission, weighed
down by emineutly non-par'lsan Judge
Bradley, entered on its work, aud the
friends Of the majority candidate offer
ed to prove that decision Of the Re
turning Board Of Florida was based
On fraud and that one of the declared
Hayes electors vas ineligible, the
grand Oetagon decided that proof of
fraud and ineiigibiity were matters
aliunHc, and that the decree already
entered came from \ tribunal superior
TO the Commission which no human
power had the right to disturb, and
must therefore be affirmed. The
same was promptly done. Wien the
report went to the Senate, and an ct
fort was made to reverse the action Of
the commission, that body decided
thas the decree Of the Immortal eight
must stand. It still stands and sticks.
! When, in the Louisiana case, evidence
was offered TO show that its Return
ing Board was unconstitutional and its
acts yoid-that when it entered its
decree the Board was not constituted
as the law establishing it required, it
being then composed of four persons
OF one political party instead Of five Of
different parties-that the decree OF
the same Board was based Oh frauds,
torgeries and perlnres, and upon a
witul reiusa. to canvass more than
10000 votes cast, and the wrongful
rejection Of 1900 that were cast
and that certain electors, oldaincd rs
such by this Board, he'd Offices of trust
and profit, and were constitntionally
disqualified from voting in the Elec
toral College The same eight non
partisan Commissioners entered their
deere, to .,hG otOGtv hs2iereU" hlof "GGte!
purpose Of ovcrtnrning the judgment
of that august tribunal, even though
one OF the eight lad spread upon the
historic page lis opinion in an official
report that tie acts Of the same Board,
in a former case, we're "albitrary, un-
just and illegal" and were upheld by
Interference Of the National Govern
,nent." That decree also stands. -
The Senate WAS asked to reverse it,
No, said that body what James Madi-
son Wells and his colleagues dccreed
should be done, the eight to seven
have decided shall be done, and what
the combined wisdom of two such
exalted tribunals have determined to
be irrevocahle wc enter our decree
shall forever so remain. 1t remains.
TO follow up the DEGREES in the
other contested cases would be weari-
some. They are all in the same line.
BY force of mere technicality, 20
twisted as pUIposely to count in Hayes
at all events, the people have been de-
prlyed Of President OF their own
choice, the electora! votes oftwo States
have been reversed, justice has been
dethroned, equity has been defeated,
fraud has achieved Il triumph, dis
obedience of law has been encourag.
ed, and numerous intractions Of the
Constitutions have beer allowed to
succeed Let the decree be entered
accordingly. Furthermore, let Messrs
Morton, Chandler & Co. be decreed
the leadership i'll the incoming Adj
ministra;ion, to the end that, under
their regime, "reform within the party
may be inaugurated at nee Bos
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