The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-01-06
GAZING IN.

Der, and certainly have yet to ind the name
of the first democrat who doubts that Tllden
was honestly elected, or who would not re
gard the Inauguration OF llayes rs fraud
/. and an outrage On the other hand, the pa
. pers are full of concessions by candid Iepub.
| icans that Tilden has been honestly elected
| and ought to be inaugnrated. Many ol
| these 90 so far as to declare that the success
p of the Chandler conspiracy TO inaugural
HAYES would be such an outrage that they
) would be unwilling longer TO act with a par
,y endorsing such injustice. We proceed 10
give names and extracts, in very few cases,
. out of hundreds we find scattered through
our exchanges of single week.
5 Mr. Stanard, lately member of congress
from Missouri and now President of The Mer
5 charts Exchange of ST. Louis is undisgulsed
!, in his expressions of disgust at the Chandler
, conspiracy to count in HAYES through corrupt
; southern returning boards, and believing
I, Tlden to have been fairly elected, avows
, publicly that he can only be kept from the
/ exercise OF the presidential office by usurpa-
ton and revolutionary violence. Mr.. Stan.
ard was an active partisan of Hayes during
the late canvass, and except certain consplcu.
Gus leaders lately confined in the penitenlia.
ry, has been for years about the most active
and influential republican IN ST. Louis.
Col. S. H. Boyd, another ex.member of
| congress from Missouri and wheel horse OF
the Hayes party In the Springfield district,
publishes a long letter in the Springfield
Leader, a republican paper, of the Goth ult,
| from which the following is an extract:
"if the Republican party endorses and be.
comes the apolOgist of the administration 10
South Carolina, Florida and LOUISIANA il
Will never again enter a national political
canvass with any hope OF success The
counting in Of Gov. Hayes on certificates is
suad by Wells, Anderson, Casanave ald Ken
ner, once denouced by it, Is not short of de-
llberate and premedltated party suicide, and
will force test Of the strength of the govern
meDt if persisted In too long for peacea6lc
solution. As a republican | voted for Gov
Hayes, and could rejoice at his election to
the presidency of the United States by an cleo
ton clear of doubt, and without the technical
resorts and extraordinary movements We have
seen on the part of the administration and
party managers 10 force by menace, and the
power of government, the Inauguration of
Gov. Hayes, and that, too, in the face of so
overwhelming popular majority for Gov.
Tilden. believe Tilden has a prima facie
case of election and | believe every intelli. !
gent man in the nation not swayed by preju- |
dice or party service believes just as do
The Hon. Clement Hugh Hill, Of Bost IN,
first assistant attorney general under GRAFT
from 1870 to 1S75,-a republican AMI repre-
sentative of the best portion of that party in
Massachusetts and a leading member Of the
Boston Brstow Club, but an earnest support
er of Hayes in the late election, while at
Washington attending court last week, was
met by Times reporter to whom he thus ex
pressed himself:
Mr. Hill said that in his opinion the best
interests of the whole country would have
been subserved by the fair election of Mr.. |
Hayes, but he was free TO admit that Mr. |
Hayes had been fairly defeated and Mr.. Til |
den elected, and that the action Of the return. |
Ing boards of Florida, Louisiana and South
Carolina was infamous, and the conduct of
the republican leaders from the North in |
sanc,ioning and upholding the villainies
practised by the members of these returning |
boards was enough To cause every honest re-
publican to blush with shame. Mr.. Hill fur
ther SAID that he believed that he spoke the
sentiments Of the greater portion of the repub-
licans of Massachusetts who were known as
Bristow men, and that upon any fair test that
wing of the republican party could defeat the
machine politicians OF that state. !
Ex-senator Pratt, of Indiana. a supporter
OF Hayes, attended meeting at Logansporr,
on the 23d ult, and took part in it, at which |
meeting the reasonable plot of Chandler Il
Co. was earnestly denounced.
The Hon. David Dudley Field, the eminent
lawyer and prominent republican politician
of New York city, who worked and voted for
Hayes and Wheeler, is now operating with
The democrats, and is being run by them tor
TO fill the vacancy occasioned by
the election of Smith Ely as mayor of New
York city, on The sole ground of his opposi-
lion to the Chandler conspiracy.
\ dozen of Washington correspondents
state that Chief Jastice Waite, of the L. 5.
Supreme Court, makes no attempt TO conceal
his OPINION that the present aspect of the presi.
dental controversy points very strongly TO
the election and proper Inauguration of Til.
den.
And here is what Horace White says:
voted for the Hayes electors and the re-
publican state ticket IN Illinois, without ex.
ception, but acknowledge no allegiance or
tealiy to any party, and shall not vote the re-
publican ticket again il the action of the
Louisiana returning board receives the sane
rlon and support of the party.
Thus we could 60 on by the column. The
cases are 50 numerous that Morton has given
them u name, and calls them the "weak
kneed apostates" They are even infesting
the senate. 1t is well known that the repub.
lican senator Conover, of Florida, row that a
democratic administration has been duly IN.
augurated in that stale, has SD weakened in !