Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-01-17

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w.. isaa.ls ~ slac.s.!x nasass, 49, a
those States. ltwas believed by Cband
Ter and Cameron that they could en-.
trench themselves behind the legal re-
turns and thus declare Hayes elected,
hence the organs, big and little, full
price and half price, were tuned to
shrek for tho law, and 10 denounco all
ms revolutonists who dared TO question
the broad seal Of the sovereign States OF
Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina
With one accord they became clamor.
Gus Tor the letter of the law, and for
the sanctity Of the seal Of the Exceu.
tive Of Commonwealth. 1t mattered
not that the popular vote in at least
two of the three States was in direct
opposition to the returns made and
certified TO the country there was
but one answer from the New York
Times down TO the Press aud Bulletin
il is so denominated in the law, and
what is legal must bo right and accept.
cd. In answer to all suggestions that
fraud vitiatcd whatsoever It's deadly
poison touched, tho organs would cry
only the more vchcmently that the
legal return ard the certificate OF the
Governor could not be appealed from
to u ribald and licentious press nor to
a disloyal Congress. They had such
contempt for anything but the lawful
returns as the lawful return boards
should compute and the lawful Cover
nors certify them under the seals of
their respective States, that they
wouldn't no much as publish the vote
of u single county in any of the dspu.
ted States, until the Kelloggs ant
the Stearns and the Cbambcrlans
and the army had full opportu-
nifty to revise them and decide how the
people should have voted. The vote
Of Florida, South Carolina and Lou.
isiana, as actually received by Repub-
lican election boards in every precinct,
and certified by Republican county
boards in every county, has yet to be
given to the readers Of any Of the or.
gans which have so violently clamorcd
Tor obedience to the laws. Even the
New York Times, once great news
paper, has so utterly ignored the truth
touching the elections in the disputed
States, that il has ceased 10 be quoted
by any but the worst class OF mendi'
cant organs, and has ceased to be crcdi
ted as faithful chronicler of current
} events. The Tribune did better, al
though il did badly enough in falling
up against all It's better attributes o.
the past, while the Press and the Bulie
I'm echoed the orders Of the leaders and
played the average organ with tire
less fidelity. They all demanded ODE
diencc TO the lawful returns. Such
returns were invested with sanctity
by the Kelloggs and their kind thai
none dare look upon them even with
, suspicion, and Hayes was declared tC
: be the Prcsidcnt-elcct, because the lc
gal returns and the sacred seals o
Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina
, 10 proclaimed him. II was sport iol
the organs to hunt the tiger. They
were exhilerated in the chase for they
, saw the end, as they believed, wher
, their prey must be an easy captive
But at last the tiger hunts the organs
r and they tumble pellmcll over them
: selves and each other It's no longer
SPORT its tho play of death, and they
| shlvcr over their own follics as they
| shrick that they won't stand being
. scratched when they intend to hunt
instead Of being hunted They hac
| gone wooling, and they went stant
/ being sheared. What they for montl
I said was law--yea, avcrred il day af
ter day, and swore to il with each re
turning sun--thcy now Insist isn't law
: unless II is made exclusively their law
to be applied only to their own side q
/ the case. They didn't dream, Will,
they were weaving the network o.
fraud about themselves and teaching
, the country to bow to il in the name ol
the law, that thrc were other State,
! than those whore the palmetto thrive.
! and where the pelican dwelt and wher,
} the waters of the sunny gulf wash the
sharp peninsula. They looked only
: upon tho valicnt carpet-baggers, and
on them stakcd their hopes for Hayc,
and the crumbs which might fall from
his official table, and never turned tc
tho iar.of slopes of the Pacific wilder
| ness, where rolls the Oregon. They
, had forgotten that there are other re
turn boards than those fashioned by
the ballot-thief OF the South, and that
accidents could happen, with a little
effort, to plunge whole army Of car
, pet bag adventures and their pitabl,
organ defenders in the slough of dos
pair. Governor Grover and his Secre
tary of State happen to be a return
board also, made so by the laws o
their State. "'rhe Secretary OF State
shall prepare two lists of the names
| of electors elected and aflix the seal oI
the State TO the same; such lists shall
be signed by the Governor and Secre
tary.' SO says the Oregon statute
And Governor Grover and his Secrc
tary have done so. They have certi
! fled and sealed the result and by all
the laws of the organs, taught daily
and hourly, while the last moon was
: filling and emptying her horns, nc
clamor about fraud and no proianc
voice of Congress shall deny that which