The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-02-23
WASHINGTON.
The Work Of the Commission.
Able Argument in The Oregon Case


position TO Cronin certificate No. 9, com
mencing with the denial that they had as
serted IN the Florida case that the CertiR
cate was final and conclusive, and sale
they had undertaken to draw n line o
demarCation between the State and Fed
eral authority, which took the matter uT
after il had left the State. They also
undertook 10 draw q line between The
things and proofs, between the certificate
and the thing certified, to show that the
certificate was but shadow, the
thing certified being the substance, and
that where the certificate did not show
the thing certified truly, it could be cor.
fecled. II was asupprise he said, to find
that their adversaries had not only
taken their position on the Florida and
Louisiana cases, but had gone behind il
AID accepted the dogma which they had
improperly ascribed to the side with
which he was identified. lie maintained
that they stood to-day on the ground they
occupied in the beginning, and which had
been hallowed by the decision OF this tri.
hnnaI, viz: That certificate based on
the returns was conclusive evidence OF
election. In the Florida case the
offers to so behind the returns were
numerous, and the offers grew stronger
and larger as the certainty was obtained
that they would not he called on to make
them good, and great deal Of patriotic
Indignation was INDUCED in at the alleged
countenancing Of fraud and wrong. MIR.
Matthews read an extract from the
decision Of Justice Field, in the
case Of Bradley vs.. Fisher. in which
the tendency to complaint By the party
defeated is shown as going on from com.
plant to charges oi improper motives.
He entered his protest against the hollow
pretentions to morality that had been
made the substratum Of complaint in this
case. Cronin had been mounted on pc
deatal for public admiration by his in.
ventor as model OF purity and honesty
ol elections, and there was no offer TO
prove that he was paid $4,000, under the
Pretense OF expenses to Washington; there
was no offer to prove the contents OF the
supposed hieroglyphic characters that
could not be read; there was no offer Of
proof that this was the result Of deep
,'on,i" ,"U ,."''''' !" "'''"' '"e VIII oil the
f'VWH WHn. ,;t-.,ur
Wiz. ',I I IWe eu iio'l'v! !ettfreu 70
W.. ".DS'et anu noFceS!er '"St hlSn' ne dld
and show the correspondence botween
GramCrcy Park, New York, and Salem,
nas o.,;faoto e osIHnsI tsIi '''"t 'i,e "oTer'
nor S cIr',e"ie ie.i 10 Tue ground when
~ "aN aLo"n ~, ''at NV ~" Hl oregon re,
i"lle" '""' 'i!c Eo'es LOT e,ec'ors shOuld
VI S'''"' 'e'e''eu' re'uThel anu canvass
eu sne same Us ioF nhem9ers OF congress,
!. anu II. 'I'e c.t'e S' ile'i'nerS ol congress
II '" "S maui Tue uI''! OF 'Le sec y oil state
!" u. s"iHHSS !"e NoteS ana n, mere lhe stat"'
iin[y iy directions SnuS, me statute IN re-,
tI''o,I tI 10 'Ile l-'e''9'S luF'ner provided
!IlH' t"e secretary Oh state should certify
t~o iISt5 showing VINO received me high
est llllipeT 1 o. r' vo'es' ana tnere the can
N,nnI H"ss emteui ne 5 Co"Stlsui'oh I anu laws
ss%eI s'',;a III Ill., recoI" I. ;tSa' anu consll-
aI 'o nneof ne Le"!t ~ ,S ~. 'it % eie:,lo,i 'hey
.Lo uau T naaHe tIoo. tm " 'Te 'ninS l'seI'' moi
smI s, PLY; " '.ie i .'i."s, '"t 'ne Nctl'"' ana
uU'tLn'a, ',n" ti,n e1uat vi vi. eS,lvaSS! S! tha'
t"so Tno L,o ~ SHt S,n,n 81 VI 1He "t"te' lhves'
H., ii sISa e "sa'e Vi 'ne rem EHHN anu IL
''s; "' e was mere proof mere
i.om % a"J vtIHelee ,:i' ei'F 10 pe Ia
"uJ SL I am UV' oIaS IT, az ~ 'ot'ronteu py PROOF,
G"vorUor ~ Wos -, ao'aL, ," - oeI ti!calc Of 'hG
Loro 49, +, srha,;,W,ps , ,UsTH t. ~ VI introduced
rns ";,no,i 'T,r''"'c L, NV t"t Ine '"hNass; II
simniv nS n,tcs,;r NV '?ecpe'"t! ,';tu oil STATE
convnssor oi tLn r,,o, "'''''T, ~ "'" 'ot ~ Il
of tho Co,omiss;nu 'O'ro ,s. na' possession
di.cLor9e Ihe J",;o, ""G 80 .ot ,L 'SSent'"' % 10
rontorJsJ II wos ~ n wo,I .o,,iol M o'"ve' ne
Iaw ,Lo, ,Lo oor,;r"n,n ~ ~ '.ieu .i II"''I'e oi
0ro1"n ia ii no, 49, nnnt". VI ''ie ,ioNSthor "l
nj tho ImiteJ Stoto. V ~ ~ n.oo, ~ Sme @ Saa'u'es
ibe certiGcote LoJ Loor aSS,I 81 ';"pPo9c
govo tho eIoc,ion ~ SIoT "'toL,neG' EuI' !.
9nI Cron;p n hoJ, " H., E"''"iis"'
mret consnlt Joi;Lo.o,~a ~ F.,'o"S u
rr,Lpr in ,bo CoiIona III ~ ""u no'c ~
on.istcI of ,Lro" I1o om nom,onioJ mIeI'" ~ u!
one conId no, oct -. nv h,S' Io",umTtL "nI 'n"I
oc, of ,Lo nrorNnoniI ' 80 "Tu al" 'liat t'ie
n. tLa w., IL ,I,o M hoJm 1L'" MI: T! y: "eeel'.eu
case had hecr sus,o;3,I Lm 'S ,ro WI" I;; .. 'nc
Of tLr Snnrcmo Cnmr, ., y 9.oan t"v "e1IS'ouS i
card IN What ooWa,;,,',o U"it w. y'eson. m ln re-
con,.nIsI ,Lo, ,rI"n w. " '"."D!, "c
kccm mn III. hoTr |n'' IT, ''E f,, TnJvca was 10
the nrd,cr,iom " L !" i,,t i,o, ',' "E''"eF loF
ME wher !, wo, W 'nv I''t'es.a " 'ne Peo,
ryerv nos.;L;I;, ill., 'o"In' " :h W s'"'u aSa'hs'
mi NO. I:m VI '''L T,,II uIt'ese "o' oeluS
.trnod GLoroii,. a." snp"'" ot con-
;n,"nioI % I''"''!1 'n" tIla' II was
iIai m;',h o. y" 'oTvF az vacancies
n romme,or, , Vt.H, ,.;T,,,, - ,,e governor was
I;,W ,h"n ,s,' VI M'"ual"' " sri aS'uT an cIcc'
nn;r;mg o% luz" n'y nAJnney existed Which Tue re-
FIJI n, Wo,,Lc e,TcrS were empowered 10
ILL.,, M "', ,L:, ,"".tnew' TomDH!e" the propo'
,nnJn '""a m",, 'I1e ine''s.nll!'y OF Mat's
nn ;,oi,'.;iIs s'.''I!' VI 'h"' No'cS cast i0r
ai,o "e ,en!S,' ,oie 'nllu'uale .H were V0In: lie
wLioL % '"i''nru 'isard S"at Tue 'nGUSh decisions
ol;n;iI, .'".s" w., L 'lc c"hIi"a'e VINO was
~ S,"'e, n",,, ""t , wlo received less number
oioc,nJ IT ,J '''S', ','T Int.lSlpIe opponent was
;na,, ''", w. VA" 'ot peeh auop'ed as nm Amer
occnrraI' ,"'Ip' ;,I WIN was, "hen suCn nc case
"Gic" Il 'oi,mrr mo,,n., was entitled entitled 10 the
wns 'L;ao,, L;n '""t'Sr' "1 'nsl'g'n'e oIiIcer
nr,, @ ",?,.'I" 'a,s'T " ny hoOoHy ms ohiGIaI
In ronarJ '"I, Il, 'o"s "S lit nel" 4''.Se' ounce
H%'" w ''e S''''eN"'m'loh "l the
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