The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1877.
independent Voter" evidently
has confidence in himself. Week af-


independent Voter" evidently
has confidence in himself. Week af-
ter week he plunges on, animated
but with one idea, stimulated but by
single purpose, and that to stir up
strifey and induce people to rebel
against what is now universally rec.
ognized as the lawful government of
OuT entire country. If his ability
was equSl to his malice he naight,
under some circumstances, be con-
sidered dangerous, but so harmless
is his drivel that it only excites no.
tice because of its malignity and
falsehood. If he will preface his
next deliverance with an announce
mon of just how he has voted the
last few years, his audience can esti-
mate it at its proper value. The pro-
fession of Independence" which he
asserts, and the judicial tone which
he assumes in treating of the matters
about which he would have us be-
lieve he is thoroughly informed by
implication and by open assertion
he claims to be non partisan, yet,
through all his articles what word
of censure or remonstrance has he
written in condemnation of the cor
rupt practices of the old or more re-
cent Democratic partisans. He
would have us believe that their rec
ord was without stain, their conduct
without reproach and that he is
moved to his judgment by that calm
Judgment, by that calm habit of mind
that pertains to one wholly without
party affiliations, sympathies or bias.
If no one challenges his assertions or
denies his deductions, then Mr..
Hayes is pretty bad man, but euen
then. it seems to us, that he only
proves that Hayes steps into the
chair of state by a law illegally
passed, but, nevertheless, the Ia,U, and
it would be an all-sufficient reply to
this statement Of the case, that even
IN that respect his conduct was not
nearly 80 criminal as was Mr.. Til
denis in the Oregon and Vermont
business. There, for the first time
In the history Of the country, was an
attempt at purchase and delivery of
a State electoral vote traced to one of
the candidates for the high Office of
President. For, evade, .qualiyfy and
deny as they may, Mr.. Tilden's COM
plicity in that nefarious business, the
fact remains unimpeached that his
nephew, Col. Pelton, was the author
OF the kilograms and the source from
which the money was derived, that
put up that job of iniquity aud fraud
by which the people of Oregon were
to be cheated out of their vote. But,
clear his skirts of all this, it still re-
mains, and cannot be disputed, that
Tilden and his friends did seek to
capture, control and use for his adj
vancement, by any means they
could, the vote of Oregon which was
clearly given to Mr.. Hayes by a ma
jority considerably over one thous-
and. Will independent Voter
pretend that this attempt to capture
Oregon was any less deliberate or
any less violence to law and right
than the worst he alleges was COM
mitted in Louisiana.
Let us have specimen of his fair
ness upon this question, for if this
attempt on Oregon was not right,
would Mr.. Tilden's assumption of
the Presidential chair have been any
less fraud than was Mr.. Hayes up
on his own statement of the LOUISE
ana business =?
But Oregon was not the only State
with which Mr.. Tilden was ready
and willing to transfer. Look at the
transactions connected with Yer
mont, which were covered from in
eipiency to conclusion with an at
tempt to defeat the peoples voice by
frauds as INSCRIPTIONS as they were
brazen. ....
1t appears, then, that, bad as Mr..
Hayes is and has been, the Demo-
cratic party has not been free from
scandal. That it has been willing in
cases named, as we'll as in others, to
defeat the peoples will provided it
could ride into power. When fraud
promised success it was ready to
avail of fraud, and the proof is over
whelming that Mr.. Tilden was the
originator and promoter of schemes
which promised to place him in the
White House in defiance of the law
fully expressed votes of the people
Of the States. Conceding, then, for
sake of the argument, that Mr..
Hayes cause is as weak as this wri-
ter affirms, the matter simply rests
4.