Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-15
EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL,
SUNDAY, JULY Is, 1877.
.TOP ri WHINING.

VentiOUS III (atIlDFuih ato feooi'h'e
that Tilden and Hendricks were fairly
elected, and that Hayes has fraudulent
possession of the reigns OF Govern
ment. Now what is the use Of this
whining? Was not the Electoral Com
mission more the work Of Democrats
than of Republicans? Did not the DEM
ocrats in Congress almost to a man
support the scheme, saying in elo-
auent terms that it was the only saliva
ton Of the country; and did not the
chief opposition to the plan come from
the Republican side of the house? On
the face of things the Republicans had
the best show Of success 'cithout the
Commission. Every stickler for States
rights ought to have known that there
was no such a thing as going behind
the Electoral certificates Of a sovereign
State. The war knocked into a cooked
hat the doctrine Of States rights
in the sense that a State may secede
from the Union, but that was all.
There are hundreds of other rights re-
served to the States which the Courts
never fail to uphold. The manner of
appointing Presidential electors is
among these latter reserved rights.
The laws of Louisiana and South Caro-
lima lodged the power of certifying up
the vote for President in Returning
Boards. These Boards were agains:
us, and the vote of these States were
declared for Hayes. We think he was
Justly entitled to South Carolina.
Wace Hampton was elected only by a
majority OF about 400, and he ran a
long way ahead of his ticket. That
there was crookedness in Louisiana,
however, no one can deny. On the
face of the returns Tilden & Hendricks
carried the State by 10000. But under
the law the Returning Board had full
power to purge the returns, if intimid-
alton or bulldosing were shown. and
this they did. This gave the Republi-
cans the best of the fight, for the Ore
gon case cut no figure whatever. We
believe that Tilden & Hendricks were
swindled out Of the vote of Louisiana,
but it was the fault of the law and a dis
honest Returning Board, and not of the
Republican party, as a party. There
are hundreds Of thousands of Repub-
licaps all over the country who sim
cerely believe that there was violence
and intimidation and bulldosing prac
iiced by Democrats at the polls in Lou
isiana, and that the Returning Board,
in pruning down the returns to a point
that would give the State to Hayes,
did the fair and honest thing. And
herein was presented the great danger
1T a conflict; both sides being honest
in their respective opinions. And SO
we drift around again to the conclu-
sion given above, namely: that at the
time the electoral compromise was pro-
posed in Congress the Republicans
occupied the vantage ground. AS the
lamented GARRISON would say, 'they
had US by q few" on the face Of mat
ters, but we proposed to throw the dice
with them, and they reluctantly ac-
copied our proposition. No matter il
they did thimble-rig us by electing the
venerable Davis TO the Senate from H.
linois, apd getting in Judge Brady,
with eight spots on all sides, as the
next oldest man on the Supreme
Bench, we ought not to grumble
about 1t all through the next four
years. Our leading Democratic mem
bers in Congress overlooked with elo-
quence and patriotism in pronouncing
the Electoral bill the biggast and
wisest and most beautiful thing ever
devised by mortal man. Democrats
everywhere re-echoed these senti-
ments. We would wager that nine
teen.twentieths Of these same CalIfor
mia Democrats at that time Endorsed
the Electoral Commission. If so, and
there can be no doubt of it, it comes in
bad grace to growl now. And then
again, haven't we got Hayes, and isn't
he . good enough Home Ruler to sat-
isfy tho most ultra Democrat, from the
st. Croix to the Rio Grande, and from
Plymouth Rock I O Puget Soundf
GENERAL HOWARD has at last met
the hostiles, and made a fight which
resulted as near as we can figure it
out, in . drawn battle. Eleven SOL
diers were killed and twsnty-four
wounded. Tho Indians lost thirteen
killed. Full official particulars Of the
engagement will be found in our
Coast dispatches.
SPEAKING Of MIR. Hayes Southern
policy, this is what ex-Postmaster
General Jewell says: at may be said
that it is not q policy-it Is . necessity.
Bayonets will do to stand On awhile,
but you can't sit on them rs q perma-
nent thing"