Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-12
THE DAY OF .RETRIBUTION.


every indication that those four worthless who
made up the Louisiana Returning Board are
likely at last to be called to account. 1t the
instance Of the Attorney General Of Louisiana,
information has been filed against j. Madison
Wells, T. c. Anderson, Louis NJ. kermer and
G.. Casanova, charging them with issuing false
and counterfeit election returns, and with al
tering the official record of the State. Caplases
were issued, and all four have been arrestedand
held in So, 900 bail. The penalty Tor the
crime charged against them is a term not ex-
ceeding FIVE years IN the penlfentlary. The
movement against the Returning Board is
creating quite futter in political circles
about Washington. Our dispatches will be
found interesting on this point Wells and
Anderson, who gave the electoral vote to
HAYES, boast that the President dare not 60
back on them that is to say, that II they are
convicted, he viii promptly pardon them, 1t
is among the possibilities, however, that Gov.
Nichols may be the functlonary that they viii
have to deal with. But there was good
deal of horse-swapping in the whole Of that
Louisiana business, and it is as likely as hot
that Governor Nichols is also pledged to stand
between them and the penitentlary.
So says our outspoken contemporary, the
Eureka Sentinel What is intimated with re-
gard TO Nichols and his promises ought to be
true, if the Worlnley Treaty were not one
sided affair altogether. 1t is barely possible
that it was Let US review some Of the facts
of the case The Electoral Commission bill
had passed Then came the Illinois Senate
rial election. The Legislature of that State
gave the prize to Mr. Justice Davis. 1t looked
like the result of bargain made by John Lo
gan. So we thought it, at the time. Butwe
are inclined to believe it an act Of Providence,
tho we must confess that Providence sell
dom works that way. Well, this made Brad
ley's selection as the odd man, a sure thing.
That, in the eyes Of all close students Of hu-
man actions, determined the case. If any
body on the Commission would vote their
politics it was the Judges. There WAS no
doubt of that. Why7 Simply because Judge
lifted above the filthy pool says to himself,
Qike q man who has cast himself into the arms
of Mother Church and who no longer pre-
sumes to think for himself in religious mat
ters), "well, all can do, being 'out of poll
tics is to act with the representatives OF my
party" Furthermore the judges say TO them
friends will say we are corrupt; while if we
vote with our side none but our enemies will
bring that accusation against US. They
reason this way because they are human. |
And they are right. Nobody but born trail
tor hunts for the law to beat his own side. |
Well, the cute fellows who represented Tilden |
Tor not Tilden-he was a mere narker-but !
the Southern Confederacy), were adroit card
players. They knew that the only way to
"save stakes" was by q bluff. So they got up
some bellowings about war, knowing in the
very hearts of en- that Grant held tight every
possible avenue leading toward armed revolu-
ton Then they looked at Hayegs portrait,
then read his letter of acceptance, then dotted
down the circumstance of Evarts eleventh
hour rigmarole in New York; then looked at
Hayes's best friend, Stanley Mathews, They
remembered that Mathews was the Chairman
If the Horace Greeley convention Of 1872,
and they said to themselves, let's try for a
comp. So they got up that meeting at
" Ormley's Northumberland Frank Here
ord and all the S0utherners who live in any !
always board and God knows
hey found Mathews and Foster only too will
ng TO sell out everything in this world in or
Ter that Hayes might be permitted to take
us seat in peace. Permitted There weren't 6
blister plasters enough in all the country to I
rawn any county or township, much less a
state, into rebellion. The terms of the Elec- 4
oral Bill-w hich WAS mean, useless and I'M 5
concession itself-were too c
lain and unmistakable for any party to re- h
udiate. But Matthews, as he shew by his s
ction in 1872 didn't want any better thing than Il
chance to destroy the Republican Party. 1t L
sd committed the objectionable sin. 1t had a
OF put him in Office So he went apart with CT
ne good Doolittle and wept No, We have fc
20 much respect for Levy's card playing Sc
We know Levy, personally for a;
first rate fellow if he was rebel Colonel nj
} think he would compromise his friend u1- 81
the softness of the game de- st
anded no compromises.
OF the finding of child that was distress !,