The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-02-09
Sale of the Presidency.

The editor of the Tribune is an old ac-
uuaintance If Wells, the forger aud presi-
DENTAL aucrioneer. He changed his oI,in
ions, or, to speak more accurately, has
lately been expressing very different
opinion of this ''cninent citiseu' from
that cont lined in his book "a fter the War;
but the disclosures Of Wells confcdcrates,
Kenncr and Littlefield, seem to remind! the
editor that it will not do to he ranked
among his friends, and lie now cpnfcsses,
with some If s, however, that the old ras
cal is at his old tricks again. The Trtenne
in n recent issue says:
.'The returning board case grows darker
and Carker, either for ex-governor Wells,
or Tire men who may bc conspiiine agHinst
hirr The clerk who before refused to
answer questions now confesscs, or pre-
tends to confess, the whole story. HIS tes
.iBionU more than cOrrO60Tufes al EtGt has
been already dtruiged If 1T is true, Gen
Sheridan d id not tall half the trail, about
Ex-Governor Wells if it is false it is All
amazingly complicated case OF PERJURY.
But has Mr.. Wells nothing AT all to say?'
Certainly, II fulse, this is an amazingly
complicated case Of perjury" But it is
simply impossible that fal>ehoOd could be
sustained 10y such an amazing number of
cpIiirmatory facts
General Sheridan was certainly right in
saying, when Wells and his associates
were attempting Ia make way with the
lrvee fund, 'Ihat lic WAS dishonest himself
and had no. one honest friend Certainly
The editor of the Tribune himself was
iigh. hen he said that Wells was utterly
iathless and betrayed in tuIn every one
ho trusted HIM. Certainly Mcs>rs. " heel
er, Iloar and Frye were right hen, hav-
ing convicted Wells of perjury in swearing
to facts not only shown tn lie false, but
facts Of which hc could know nothing.
the time they were supposed To- have trans
pired, they rc-insiafed in "flice u Louisiana
senator hoin Wells had turned oiiI on l'is
own false affidavit aloEe: and certainly
Lujlefield Is light when, with the oI inai
rapeis before him shaving the eras,ires
ana false figures. he sweaIs that it was by
Wells mtieI lie forgery was committed
For What other purlnee could Wells have
refused 10 put Il Democrat "n the board,
rs the law required, or I" all"w "a Demo
cratic clerk to attend it's si,tings, or have
refused the opportunity +" the Committee OF
Congress to examine the papers. but I" af
ford himself the opportunity I" commit such
forgcries AID ~ prevent their detect ION?
Nor is it any less certain tsiat having Of
fercd to sell the vote of the state ~ tie
Democrats, who refused to bny, he has
sold il 10 their opponents. Every man
who urhulds the I,nwer OF Wells to make
III IL biSthlSls ION 81 iHt Slhtt, wiz lhti bt-
fore or after the act, becomes u party To i.
This is Just Ahat the Radicals do. They
assert the power of the returning bbaId I"
dispose of the state ar their discretion, and
claim HE presidency, because in tine xrr-
else of his discretion, and to enable him to
sell the state to them. lac has thrown ont
u Democratic ma jofl:y "i S.UO votes. No
intellig. ut man viii believe that such
man would throw out this majority for
Ii Ia tain hat has Iil,s
right 20 throw out this ma j"rity il. in effect,
to ma imam his power to -. II. aud sanctions
the ac, OF setting up the office for sale to
tie highest bidder.