Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
THENATIONAL RETURNING BOARD.
Spirit OF the Democratic and Independ-.
emf Press.

Spirit OF the Democratic and Independ-.
emit Press.
H Nation, as from one end of the land
to the other, this morning, it reads the
shameful tale, will recoil with inexpressi-
BILE disgust. 1t is the browning outrage of a
series which have no parallelin our history.
The Republican party has resolved 10 steal
the Presidency, and Judge Bradley, Judge
Strong and Judge Miller have submitted
themselves like so many brainless soldiers
to the dictation of Oliver P. Morton. Ar
gument, reason, appeals to their manhood,
patriotic lmplOratlOns were as idle as words
whispered in a gale. The leaders of the Re-
publican party have cast aside all hope in
the future as well as all care for it in their
insane greed for place and gpower.-St.
Louis Times.
II such is to be the outcome Of the long
struggle, it may be we'll for the Republican
party to consider the character Of the title
by which Hayes will attempt to hold the
office of President. Though the Commits
sion will have refused by a majority of one
vote to inquire whether Tilden carried the
the States of Florida and Louisiana, and
whether Hayes electors were counted in by
fraud, there will be before the whole coun-
try such complete and overwhelming proof
Of those facts that o but the most igno-
rant or shameless partisans will even pretend
to dispute them. Ii Hayes enters the
White House, such will be his title to oc-
cupy it. Time will not cure its defects or
change its qualities. Holding under a title
tainted with fraud, he will be known in
history as the Fraudulent President.-N.
7. San.
THE people trusted the Commission be-
cause IL was supposed that such an express
sion of confidence would lead to honorable
conduct. Instead, it has simply ended in
the most Infamous betrayal OF confidence
recorded in history. The act itself was a
despicable trick to decoy Democrats into
trusting to the honor of their opponents.
1t was a device to impose upon men too
honorable to doubt that their opponents
were equally honorable with themselves.
The result proves that the plot has been
only too successful.-Albany Argus.
RUTHERFORD b. HAYES, when he is
counted in, will write his name thus: RI.
B. Hayes, President, pr. Bradley .''-NeU
York San.
WHAT every body wanted to know was,
For whom did Florida and Louisiana vote?
The Commission has declined to say. The
Electoral votes of the two States are given
TO Hayes without the slightest regard to the
recorded verdict Of the popular majority.
Overwhelming proofs of fraud were offer
ed, but the Commission shut its eyes and
refused to even look at them. And so a
gigantic conspiracy is appropriately con-
summated by a gigantic treachery, and the
shameless outrage perpetrated by scoun-
drels in Tallahassee and New Orleans has
been solemply ratified by eight right hon
orable Republican arbitratOrs at Washing
tOn.-St. Louis Republican.
''IF it is accepted as the future law of
these controversies, it leaves the country
>N large without redress or remedy, when
fraud in the local machinery of a Presi-
dental election puts a misinterpretation
its Electoral Vore......lf the effect OF the
TaNd in the State were confined to the State
itse%, the vitality of popular government
might be relied upon TO relieve the State OF
its dishonest government in time. But,
when the Presidency and the Returning
Board are seen to play into each others
hands and perpetuate each other, the dam
ger OF such an arrangement is apparent
Springfield Republican.
EIGHT to seven are to be historic num-
bers; they tell a story OF crime and triumph
which in every line, paragraph and chapter,
As Kellogg would gay, ''beats hell.E An
ambition that would seek, by such depart
ures from all that is honorable and digni-
fed in politics, to mount to places OF pow r,
would shut its eyes to such a saturnalia as
is unveiled in France, and be as willing as
RObespierre to ride on Il popular wave,
though crested with blood and tire.-Indi-
annapolis Sentinel.
IT will be farmore honorable to have been
elected to the Presidency Of the United
States and fail Of inauguration, than to be
~inaugurated President of the United States
without having been elected.
THE Republicans are very particular not
to violate State rights in Florida and Louis
lana. But in Florida they hold that Stearns
is the State, and in Louisiana they regard
the Returning Board as the only sacred
vessel OF State rights. They have long
-,,I~J ALa IicFro rnhiSnd nnnnla ~ tho South
through an oligarchy of carpet-bag thieves.
and they still ignore the old American
maxim that the people are the State
Kansas City Times.
EVERY time it is proposed to 60 behind
the reports of the Returning Boards and
the certificates of the Governors of Florida
and Louisiana. the Republicans cry out,
ooh. that will elect Tilden!' Queer,
isn't it?-N. \. Sun.
OLD ST came in early yesterday morning.
''What is dis dat / heahs bout Flurridy3''
he asked. ''Counted for Hayesn' "Den
dat news is krO6beratid by de later dis
patch?'' eyes. Now, what do you think
Of it?'' ''I'se got de same 'pinion now dat
Use allus had-whenebber yer goes to kOm-
permissin' wild de wickid yer gwine to
come out loser.' ''Then o are not in
favor of the high commissions "NO,
sab; Use bin agin dat from the outstart.
When de whole people OBJ de United States
hab done sot on de case whar wuz de use OBJ
dat fifteen-barriled gram jury a-sottin' on
it de secon' time?'' ''Why, there was a
doubt in the matter after the people got
t~hrough!' "Dar mought a bin
doubt in de minis ob some men,
but dar wurn't none down dis way
'kase didn't all de Dimmicrats kno' dat
Marse Tilden wal 'lecktid?" yes. and
we know tina yet!' ''Den why didn't
dey STAN on dere ham an play de game
out on furst prinserpuls? When dey flung
down dere kyards an call'd for de new
deal dey found dereselbs on er bubble
Gender ferry-bote, yer see hit now!'
Chow is that, old man?' ''W'y, yer
seen desc hyar ferry-botes dat's roun'ed
off de same at bofe ends? Now, when yer
sees one OBJ dem swingin' rOun' in de mid.
die OBJ de stream, / dar yer to be on de eend
dat's gwine to strike de w'aff fust! Dat's
whar dis k~ommishuu's got yer, now; an
mind out dat de publican end OBJ de bote
don't git ter land de soones'.'-AHomtC
Constitution.
IN the great contest now progressing, on
prominent fact stands out in bold relief
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