, 1877-02-14

In Noticing the speech In Congress OF
CARR, Of Indiana, In which ho denounced tho
Democrats who Ind voted for tho Arbitration
INV. there Is no danger that the public will
overlook tic disreputable position In which
Cam and those who think with hin, yolun-
tarily placo themselves. This Indiana statos.
man, In Ills frantic utterances, gives express
Zion to tho feelings Of tho disappointed
Democratic ofrice-soekera in tlenouncing tho
Arbitration Commission as tloyico to trick
TiIDEN out Of bis election, and In dcuounc-
ing tho Democrats who voted for It as Inv.
ing, through their ignorance md woakposs,
thrown away tho election OF Democratic
President.
AIr. CAna was one Of somo eighteen or
twenty Democrats who voted against the
bill, but not ono Of them could give NJ hon.
est mud ineligible reason for no doing other
than that If, under the Law, T1LpEv waa not
elected, they might say, "We told you SO y;
"Wo arc not responsible, bccauso wo op-
posed tho wlols thing" II, under the law,
T1LpES should bo declared elected, they ex-
poctctl thoir opposition to be forgotten but
should ho not bo elected thoy cxpcctctl to
ueo tho defeat as ovitlonco Of their superior
wisdom and their greater devotion to tlloir
party. Hut where does this opposition to
tho bill for my such rcaaou leave theso Dem.
ocrats? II they did not want this bill, nor
any other bill of tile kind, what did they
want2 Tho argument Is that lln.l no such
bill boen passed tl,cro would hayo been no
agreement between tho Ifouscs; that tho
business Of counting would hayo ariftel
along until tho day hxel by law, whom tho
House Of Representatives, declaring that no
election had been undo by the Electoral
College, would proceed to elect Mr.. T1LpEx
aud declnro him President, anil, 10 far
na 1t could do SO, commit tue Demo.
cratic party and tho country to tho
support OF his claims. That IL what tho
Democratic oflce-scekcss thinka ought to
layo been tic course adopted, and that iH the
end to which Mr. Cam a,,d Lis associates
who opposed this bill now insist they eutlcay-
ored To tring about. alr. CAna aud states.
men Of his class may purchase tho applause
Of the Hpoils-huutors by this vaunting OF their
own shalne, but Fortunately thcro wcro but
comparatively few even in Congress willing
to place themselves in the sams disgraccfui
record.
This Arbitration law was smcasuro devised
by those who framed 1t to secure a tribunal
as fair aud as impartial as was possible, to
determine which candidate slal been, under
tho Constitution and laws, fairly, aud honest
", and legally elected President. Tlcrp
were those who objected to tho law bccouso
a majority Of the Court wore not oncn aud
pronounced partisan Republicans; they
wanted men whose record gavo oil ".
surance that they would voto to mako
HAYES Pressdcnt, no matter what might
be tho law aud tue facts, Even
in the Republican caucus some Of those who
had participated in framing tho law wero
ss'gnatlzed ~ weakened Republicans, I'm.
1T 10 bo tsusted- On the other hand, there
werc those who maintained That 10 1aw
should bo framed which did not secure a ma.
josity Of tho Court Of pronounced Democrats ;
they wanted no Court unless 1t was known
beforehand Tint it would count T1LpxN in.
Failing to hare tho Inv establish such a
Court, these partisans, who preferrud civil
war with all it's consequences to tho loss OF
their candidate, voted against the bill, 10
their own great discEstlit. Tho Court has
not yet completed It's business, and there is
no uan authorized BY anything it bus said
or done to declare what will be It's Judgment
on any Of the questions now before it. Men
may form opinions, aud gt.ess, mud
predict, but no one In the Court
Or Out OF it has any knowledge
of what it will do. Tue Judicial branch Of
tue Court is composed Of ,uen in whom. tho
country Eeposeg the liuLest confidence in ail