The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-02-24
THE PRESIDENCY.
Press Comments On the Decision OF the
Electoral C0mmissi0n.

Proos C0mments On the Decision OF the
Electoral Commission.
THE Democrats want to jump the game
because they can't take the eight-spot with
the seven-spot.-GL,be-D Democrat.
The High-Jointers have concluded not
to give the old man even one more chance.
st. Louis journal.
do; can make faces at your little brother"
SO the Democracy, having failed to convince
the Tribunal, are making faces ut Justice
Bradley.-N. Y. Tribune.
Two years hence, those who may think
themselves aggrieved, be they Democrats
or Republicans, can appeal to the people;
but until then all men are Enthusiastically
bound-to accept the result. as we have no
doubt they wiil.-N Y. Herald.
GEN. jim STEEDMAN likens the political
situation unto game Of ''old s!edge.'
He says: 'sThe Democratic party just now
Is like an old fellow who went out West,
fl Lttering himself that he was mighty good
at seven up.' When he got home he told
his friends that he met young sucker
out on the plains, with whom he played
game at $25 corner. Il stood six said
the old man, and the sucker stood five with
the deal, and - me il he didn't jack him.
self out. '''-Udyton Journal.
1T was Mr.. Tilden's party rather than
the other which forced the compromise
upon Congress, aud dictated the dangerous
departure from our ancient precedents;
and il now Mr.. Tilden's friends rebel
against the arbiEfators of their own choice,
and repudiate . bargain OF their own sug-
costing because it does not turn out rs
profitable to them as they expected, their
dishonesty will be condemned with roar
of indignation from the Bay Of Fundy to
the Golden Gate, from the Great Lakes to
the Florida Keys. 1t must be distinctly
understood on every side that the act ap-
pointing the Electoral Commission was an
act to settle the difficulty about the Presi-
dency for coed and all. Any man who re-
volts against its conclusions is to be treated
as public enemy.-N. Y. Tribune.
THESE propositions cover all the disput-
ed points in the case, and their establish
ment leads necessarily to the final conclusion
that the eight Electora! votes of Louisiana
were lawfully cast for Hayes and Wheeler,
and must be counted. No amount OF argu-
ment or demonstration by statute or author.
itative decisions would have served to con-
vince the Democratic Commissioners OF the
Justice of this conclusion. The task Of
Evsrts and his associates has not been to
change their preconceived judgment, butte
convince the Republican members that they
had q clear, strong, and perfectly defensi.
BILE legal position to stand upon in deciding
the Hayes returns to be valtd.-ChicdgO
Tribune Washington Dispatch.
THE country is fairly to be congratulated
and that Mr.. Tilden is not; but the import
ant point Ia not who is to be President, but
how the President is to be chosen. The
method which has succeeded in reaching q
just award In the present instance is mere
makeshift, and clumsy and dangerous
makeshift at the best, but it represents the
consent Of two irreconcilable opp ,nents TO
st HI,os- orhS
to abide by the result, and the honor of the
whole nation is pledged to uphold the deci-
sion of yesterday as well as any future de-
cision which may emanate from the same
trihunal.-St LOUIS Globe Democ rdt.
WITH Brady on the Commishn, the Cor
ners is cleerly NV the opinyuu that 1t is I'M
constooshhel. Sich thing wuz never con-
templstid by the fathers, it wuz never done
afore, and there amt no precedent for it.
The idee Nv hevin compromise in which
the Dimocrisy didn't git more than twice
what they claimed, is suthin new in Amer
ikin history. / don't comprehend 1t. Ell
this commishn wuZ to give Hayes chance,
wat did he want it fur? He he'd 1S5 votes,
and wat is the yOose Nv gOin thro all this
formally, onless the objlck is to hist him?
When play want the keerds properly put
up-ef ! want to make Twin by work Their
amt no yoose in plsyin it at all. 1t wrencht
my moral back to acksede to viOlashun NV
the constooshn when we wuZ to make suthin
by it-but to violate that sacred instrOo-
ment, and then loose the post offises by it.,
is too terrible. The Dimocrisy mite ez
well prepare for war to wunst, and be done
with it. l see nothin else. 1t Is impossi-
BILE that shood live four yeers longer, and
see all the offises filed with Ablishnists,
and we out Nv place, and hev EN- aaunt ther
commisbns in our faces and taunt us with
holdin NV EN- by virchoO Nv commission
wich We urged.-Nasby.
WHILE Democrats Of the swash. buckler
order curse the day their party so uDani-
mously passed the Electoral bill, there has
| Lot been an hour since its passage that the
great mass of the American people have not
found fresh occasion for rejoicing over it.
While their satisfaction would have been
greater il the division in the Commission
already shown and generally expected to be
repeated had been less even, il the gross
and corrupt outrage of the Louisiana Re.
turning Board were in less danger of max.
ing President for the nation, and especial.
| ly if the five Judges agreed in their inter.
probation of the Constitutional questions
submitted, the great mass of both political
parties will heartily accept the final result,
and draw long breath of relief that Pres.
ident has been declared elected with cleal
legal title, and a great peril honorably
averted. Republican.