The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-04-20
AL3yAfS LUCKY.

Mr.. Hayes was the luckiest candi-
date that ever ran for President. lie
was lucky in being the nominee of a
party which had returning boards, by
which the popular vote could be changed
from one candidate to another, or thrown
out and dispensed with altogether, as
the case required. He was lucky in the
friendship OF Grant and Cameron, in
the prodigality of Jay Gould, and in
the intrigues OF Tom Scott. lie was
lucky in tho warm devotion OF J. Mad
ison Wells, Joe Bradley, John A. G.
Gray, and the Texas Pacific Railroad,
which owns Congressman apd brands
Supreme Court Judges with its brand.
He was lucky in Blaine, who, instead
of sulking in his tents, after he was
cheated out OF the nomination at Gin
cinnati, raised a great corruption fund
among his own friends, and, Haunting
the bloody shirt, swept through Mr..
Hayes's own State, and saved it after
Hayes confessed it was lost. He was
lucky in being the only defeated cantli-
date that was ever inanguratcd Fresi-
dent of the United States.
But Mr.. Hayes is not Il lucky Prcsi-
dent. He has been in office one month,
and in that little space has succeeded in
throwing away the opportunity to do
gracefully the thing which he must
eventually do grndgingly and by sell
fish and silly daIiiancc with Il great
question, lie has managed to alternate
etfectually the blood and brains of his
own party without gaining a corpor,l's
guard from the other. He finds himself
already between two tires--both OF them
hot. Unless he withdraws the troops
from Louisiana, and allows his precious
friends of the Packard Wells; gang to
toppfe over into the pcrdition they
earned in serving him, Congress; will
DO it for him, by abolishinG the army
entirely for the present. If he has no
better use than this for an army, the
country is Of htc opinion that he is
better without one, and the Democratic
House of Representatives will SEQ that
he has none. On the other HAND, Pack
ard kindly informs him that their res
pective %titles--the Fraudulent rresi-
dents and his OWT--rut, on all tours
that is to say, on the four scounCrcls
who composed the Louisiana Return
ing Board; and Chamberlain follows;
with the same capital and una,rswrrahle
argument at Honiine~. The negro pol
iticians rally to their chiefs, and warn
their race OF meaitatcu treason. Gar
riSnn and Phillips sound the loud
alarm, and Blaine and Morton and
Cameron are quietly drawing their
forces to q head. In The mean time,
the. foremost statesman of the tcpuhii-
can party, he who alone is heard witt,
respectful attention by the whuls peg
pie, Keeps unarctHtnncd silence. II is
known that he .recniled from the frauds
Of the Returning Boards, aud the great
or fraud Of the Joe Bradley decisions.
When he speaks, his words may go to
The roots Of things present. and tear mp
the spurious It'll" itself from, IT,: rnunta~
tions offralla ANA perjury.
But Mr.. Hayes will remove the troops.
lie cannot help it,. He might daily,
and rifle, and decker for months, per
iiaps for years, to come; but the APP
proach of Congress admonishc' him to
he i'll haste. The country will owe Mr..
Hayes no thanks for doing that which,
he could not :tvoit:.---N. y. SIN.