Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
THE PEOPLES VERDICT
Ora the Decision of the Electoral Tri-
hunaI.

MR.. j. MADISON WELLS would seem
justified in calling himself "a peer'' now.
Springfield Republican.
THUS Hayes sneaks into the Presidency,
under the plea that Congress has no power
to keep him out. He feloniously takes what
does not belong to him, under the wretched
pretense hat the stolen votes can not be
returned to their rightful owner l-AtbGny
Argus.
The seven voted in a way to promote the
great object for which the Commission was
created; the eight voted in a way to make
the Commission utterly useless for the prin-
cipal purpose for which it has any reason
for being in existence at all. The Senator,
the Judge, the Presidential aspirant. the
party that supposes the eyes of the Ameri-
can people can be closed to this vital aspect
of the matter, is making a signal and peril
ous mistake philadelphia Ledger.
IL Dir. Hayes comes in by the Louisiana
vote, he will have q good legal title, but
there is no owe to restrain the people
from going behind the certificates and de-
Gliding that the vote of Louisiana was
stolen: This will place Mr.. Hayes and the
Republican party in a very awkward situa-
ton. We believe it will destroy the party.
Boston Herald.
As for the Democratic Party, since it In
good faith accepted this Tribunal, We do
not see how any bad faith or incompetency
on the part of its accepted agents can re-
lease it from its obligations. We have little
doubt that no calamity could befall a free
country worse than the Inauguration of q
President under a vitiated title. We have
not the slightest doubt that there is one
thing much worse for any political party
than an honorable defsat-and that is, a
dishonorable victory.-Neo York World.
1T is a singular commentary upon our
republican form of government, that the
dQSfinina IF Al ono 0M nf npnnla haUa hoon
allowed to hang trembling in the balance up
on the word Of a wretch who declares that
no matter how the election went, the State
of Louisiana should not ''be governed by
his [Grant'sl paroled prisoners, aided by
the white -livered towards of the North.''-
Mobile Register.
If such a board as that Of Louisiana has
the power to make the President of the
United States constitutionally, the sooner
we cremate that instrument and create a
new one the better. Establish the doctrine
that no power can go behind the returns OF
a board, and the party that controlled the
most available meaus could always elect its
candid Ate. In fact there would be no ne
cesslty of any thing more than a sham cleo
ton, as the boards could regulate the whole
matter in their returns .-IhUadetphiG Her
aid.
THE Democrats have good grounds for
irritation at the purse and decisions OF the
LleciOTdi COumlSSlOD' III was uHUclSboou
IN the outset that this tribunal would gofar
enough behind the certificates to consider
the equities Of the Florida and Louisiana
cases. One of the arguments used in its
favor by Senator Edmunds was that 1t
could consider the disputed questions which
Congress had not the time to examine, and
decide them according to both the law
and the evidence. II is understood that
both Mr.. Hoar and Mr.. McCreery advocated
the bill on the same ground. The Commits
sion was pledged beforehand to give a fair,
honorable, bipartisan consideration To all
the topics involved in this unfortunate
Presidential tangle. The refusal of the
Commission to go behind the certificates
and its decision to accep the Hayes returns
from Florida and Louisiana by n strict party
vote naturally enough provoke the Demo-
Gratis who favored the Commission, and
whose votes carried the bill creating 1t
through Congress in spite of a strong Re-
publican Opposition.-NeB York Graphic
-Republicdn.
Now that the Presidential question is set
tied, we shall have a season of mutual for
givcness and botherly love. The Republi-
cans are just dying TO be forgiven by every
body th,t they have ~swindled. or stolen
from, or lied about. Let us pray !-Spring-
FeId ReDub{ican
THE country has been reviling the mem
bers Of the Louisiana Returning Board as a
set of arrant knaves. They have their equals
on the Electoral Commission, and they will
find q familiar spirit in the White House
when all thism miserable fraud is
ed .-LOuiSUiUe COurler-JOurnGl.
AFTER the monstrous decision in the
Louisiana case, the Republican party and
the repub lie can not exist together st.
LOUIS Times.
ABOUT the odd man of the Elector Com
mis- ,Ion Judge Bradley, Mr.. Bogy, Of
Missouri, in the Senate made the prophecy
that ''his name will go down to history dis
graced and stepped in infamy.' The words
are not too strong to express the deserts of
the man who, being chosen by the voice Of
the nation expressed through its constitu-
tlonal representatives to decide between
law, justice, and honesty on the one hand,
and usurpation, fraud, forgery, and the
sum Of all political villainies embodied in
four Louisiana ~scoundrels and the Admin
''+""tion ring on the other, deliberately
his suffrage to the latter, and refused
to hear the evidence gathered by an
nant people and offered in vindication
Fir outraged rights.-Chicdg0 Times.
who has the canvassers need not care
le votes. This seems TO be the lesson
e Centennial election. -Barlingt0n
tie.
STATE that voted by thousands for Mr..
n; whose Electoral vote was Haunted
arter on the streets like the charms of
those steps lead unto death; whose
were violated by revolution and actual
in open day; whose lesser usurpa-
in past contests have been spurned
the Senate and from the House and
ounced a shame upon civilization !;
G officials from whom the accepted re-
have come must be strangers at the
of the power to be created by their
IS, and henceforth wanderers from the
cations of men-this State has been
. to decide a Presidential contest by d
n that 40 judge dared to even look
, and by 8 declared computation Of the
that even the Returning Board con-
from the country at the cost of impris-
ent.-PhHadelphia Times (Independ-
any think that this decision, so ac-
olished, is in reality a victory for Mr..
IS or for the Republican party, a mis-
is made. Mr.. Hayes's victory and the
Dry OF the R-publican party wOuld have
in a decision declaring that he and it
ed no inquiry into the fairness of his
ton, that he and it courted the fullest
astigation, for all that either wanted or
lid have were truth and justice at the
DIS of the Commission. Yesterdays