The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-14
THE FUTURE OF THE CONsPIRA.
TORS.

The oath of Office is scarcely dry on the
parched lips of the usurper before divisions
spring up in the dens of the conspirators.
1t is not the first time in the records of
crime that blear-eyed and beetle-browed
villains have qusrreled over their swag. and
many dark cavern, where thieves skulked
from light and law, has been discovered,
with bleached ard CHASTITY skeleton evidences
of banquets of blood and festivals of crime.
The conspirstors. while they were plotting
crimes the recital of which will, for hun
dred years to come, chill the marrow in
the bones of honest men, doubtless thought
that the skies would always be serene; that
United States troops would forever girdle
them with bayonets; that Grants smile
would continue to cheer them on in their
work of fraud; that the ties which united
them would never weaken, and that success
would be followed by such division of the
spoils that future opulence and power
would more than atone for any compunc-
tons of conscience the less hardened viii
lisns might feel for the part they had taken
in the damnable plots. Under such in
fiuences frauds assumed more perfect pro-
portions and strength and perjury was made
to wear the mask of truth. South Carolina
fell an easy prey; Florida resisted,
but was soon borne down by troops with
bayonets-and troops armed with perjury, a
more deadly weapon when the right is to be
vanquished-and the noble state was struck
dead, laid out in the conspirators' morgue,
to be claimed for Hayes and buried beside
her dishonored sister, South Carolina. From
Florida the political cutthroats sailed for
Louisiana, and here the fight assumed char
acter that absolutely defes description.
Every line of the record chronicles acts of
matchless villainy. 1t is a confessed laba-
rynth Of fraud, with serpentine pathways of
perjury. meeting. crossing. interlacing from
the central perjury to the uttermost limits
of the scheme. Louisiana was the chosen
battlefield where radical misoreants-from
the horrid csricature of humanity, Eliza
Pinkston, to the kid-gloved representative
OF crime, J. Madison Wells, with his
associates contended against the declared will
of the people. The dem cratic members Of
congress have placed the system of crimes
practiced in Louisiana on record, and in the
address to the American people declare
that
United States marshals swarmed at every
precinct where thought necessary, nnder pre-
tense OF preserving the peace, but in fact to in
timidate voters. Baliot-boxes were stuffed In
the interest of republican candidates. poll
books were falsifed In some instances and
then returned 10 the canvassing board, while
in other case returns, giving democratic ma
joriti s, were withheld from the can
vassers altogether. After returns had
mained in It's exclusive possession, and
while there they were opened with It's consent,
and original papers ab,tractsd and false ones
were opened, the board, with an appearance
OF fairness, permitted persons representing
both parties to be present, but when decision
was made as TO what should ne counted, secret
sessions were held, from which every demo-
crat wss excluded. Although the law consti-
tuting the board required that IL should be
composed Of representatives of both political
parties In counting the votes, II exercised
powers not Conferred by the statute, and in
most fragrant disregard of truth and Justice.
The members of the board changed poll
books 80 that republican officers appeared
TO be chosen when their opponents had In fact
| been elected They forged the names of Off
GERS to certifca es Of election. Thy threw out
votes of pr cincts upon affidavits which they
knew had been fraudulently obtained. In
des-d they themselves ordered falls. am iavits
which they purpprted TO havs been taken in
Urder tat the decision might appear Justified
which they had i'm advance determined to
where there no preliminary 1T tement
from commissioners VI election 10 give them
Jurisdiction.
These crimes not only counted in Hayes.
but as certainly counted in Packard. These
two miscreants stand or fall together-twin
infamies, the Chang and Eng of fraud.
Blaine has mapped out his course in the sem
ate. He demands fair divide. Packard's
mob has cast its votes for kellogg. and this
creature, whose soul is honey -combed with
perjury. whose hands have polluted the bal
lOtbox, whose lips have encouraged
thieves. asks permission to befoul the
seat OF senator. Blaine advocates
his claims and tells Hayes that his right TO q
seat in the senate rests upon the same
rickety structure Of fraud and erjury that
supports his claim 10 the presidential chair.
Present Indications promise good results.
The conspiraiors are ia ling out. The rad
ic~l ritpit Promises to be an arena for the
display of criminauoDs and recrimnations
that will still further open the eyes OF the
American people. and leave number Of
radfcsl rodents dead IN their slime and
venom