Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-31

sand the legislature by over 40 majority,
which the previous year had been republi-
can by So majority.
In Massachusetts,, where the new policy
was most Extensively thrust down the tAroats
of republicans, of the 15O,O63 voters for
Hayes, who gave him 900 majority over
Tilden, over 10000 refused to vote for Gov
ernor Rice in 1877, and the majority against
him was 1886, and it was only by the sup.
port and money of the organized rumsellers
Of the state, and over 10000 democratic
votes procured by rum influence, that he
secured his election by a plurality, and the
state was saved from the fate of Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
Look, however, at the result where the
new policy was repudiated.
In Iowa, Hayes had 59,22S plurality, and
in 1877 the republicans had 5l,S23 plural.
ity.
In New York Tilden had 32,742 majority,
and in 1877 the democrats had only 1924
majority, although the new policy men pro-
NOTED the democratic side by indifference
and by procuring the new administration to
make or announce many injudlcious remov.
ais of federal officers for the Mle purpose Of
Irritating and humillating Senator Conkling
and his friends.
These, then, are the facts before US. y \
Silence is a crime; acquiescene and mac.
ton are political death. Can the republi.
can party, Of heroic achievements, be bound
to an administration which Is not q free
agent, but is bound by a bargain to Gen
erals John B. Gordon, L. @, c. Lamar,
Wade Hampton, and the southern demo-
Gratis now in high office only through the
blood of murdered republicans? Does not
every voter in the land know that Hayes
and Packard were elected simultaneously,
and held by the same title, and that when
Hayes abandoned and trampled down Pack
ard he put an irremoval stain upon his own
title. The republican party has lived long
and survived many assaults and many trea-
sons. only because it has been a party found
ed upon high principles, animated by lofty
sentiment, courageously acting up to noble
convictions. If it now disgraces its record,
and indorses or fails to r~epudiate the Hayes
surrender, its voters will leave it by thous-
ands; its days are numbered; it will die a
deserved and an unhonored death.
But such is not to be its fate, at least not
with the consent Of the republicans of New
Hampshire. In ~twenty-seven elections since
1856, they have successfully battled for ra-
dical republican principles. They sent out
the soldiers Of the state to fight Generals
Gordon and Lamar on the battle field.
When, three years ago, these same confeder-
Granite state their pc itical duties, they
we're followed back to Washington by news
Of the republican majority largely increased
by their %harangues. They will receive a
similar greeting in March. 1878. but it will
not result from indorsing a presidential
policy which has surrendered to them the
federal patronage of Georgia and Mississippi
and has forgiven the murders of hundreds
of their fellow citizens, committed that they
miget rise to political power, bargain with
the agents of a republican president, and do
inmate in the white house; and when that
policy has been repudiated by
the republican party of the nation; when
the north has again been reused to the dan.
gers of a cold south and rebel rule, which
it vainly attempted to avert by the election
of Rutherford B Hayes; when it shall have
again resumed the work planned, but not
accomplished, by the Cincinnati convention
of 1876, of Securing to every American
citizen complete liberty and exact equality
in the exercise of all civil, political, and
public rights" by means of a "chief execu.
tive whose courage and fidelity shall not
falter till these results are placed beyond
dispute or recall'-(so that William Lloyd
Garrison and Wendell Phillips can can
vass Georgia and Mississippi, and colored
citizens vote there, as freely as Gordon and
Lamar can canvass New Hampshire and
democrats vote there)-then, and then only,
will there be national paci6cation' and
enduring peace" and the mission of the
republican party will be completed.
w. E. CHANDLER.
CHARGE DENIED
Chicago, Dec. 2s.-Washipgton dispatch.
es this morning contsined a charge made
by VIM. E. Chandler ia his letter attacking
the administration that. while other mem.
bers of the Louisiana commission had recei
we'd rewards from the president in the shape
of offices, patronage, ETC., Judge c. B. Law
renee Of this city was rewarded by the
withdrawal of the prosecution Of Jake
Rehm for whiskey frauds. Judge Lawrence
being interviewed to-day characterized the
charge, so far as he was concerned, as utter
ly absurd. The case was dismissed, be
said, solely on the testimony and on repre-
sensations of government counsel. He had
presented the case to the attorney genera
and Secretary Sherman, sfter his return
from New Orleans. and by them it was re
fcrred to the local officials here. but he haG
never mentioned Rehm's name to President
Hayes. 1t is proper to state that the whole
responsibility of the dismissal of the suits
rests with the United States judges here
and that their action was based on the rep
RESERVATIONS of counsel for Rehm and fol
the government and on decisions in similar
cases at St. Louis. made during the admin
istration of President Grant, which were ir
some degree taken as presidents.