The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-03
". E. CHANDLERS. PERFORMANCE


dress to the Republicans of New Hamp-
shire, we must admit he has done great
public service. He shows the trickery
and fraud in countingin Mr.. Hayes. The
People fairly elected Mr.. Tilden-he had
a majority also of the Electors, but yet
Hayes is President.
Mr.. Chandler is no common witness.
He speaks with knowledge and with au-
thority, having been one Of the inner
ring of the Republican leaders. With
the direCtness of man who means busi-
ness, he goes direct TO the point:
Encouraged and forced forward by these ss-
surances, the Returning Board boldly performed
itsduty, gave voice to the murdered Republicans
of the bulldozed parishes OF Louisiana, by titles
indissolubly connected In law, in morals, and by
every rule of honor that prevails among civil
lied men. The same tender regard for the Lou
islana Republicans, and for the resultwhich they
had achieved, continued ducing the ensuing
struggle in Congress. The Returning Board were
arrested and confined at Washington by the Con-
federate House Of Representatives, Sick, and In
prison, they were visited by Senator Sherman and
his associates and urged to stand firm until relief
should come from the advent to power Of the
President whom they had made. Before the
Electoral Commission, to maintain and vindicate
their work, Gov. Hayes personally continued the
employment of Messrs, Matthews and Shellabar-
ger, while Senator Sherman, from his place in the
Senate on Dec. IA, threatened negro Instructions
al oh ha tod In nd
colored men placed under his devoted care"
I'm Louisiana, however, there had been thrown
into the ballot boxes over 1000 more votes for
the Tilden electors than for the Hayes electors
and to make Hayes President 1t became necessary
for the Returning Board, acting under peculiar
local laws, to throw out more than 1000 Tilden
votes on account Of alleged murder, rio. and in
timidation, preventing fsir and free election In
certain parishes. To perform this extraordinary,
even If justifable work, In the face Of an armed
and infurated Democracy, required men of un
daunted courage; and such courage the Return.
ing Board possessed, 1t trequired, also, that the
board should haYe assurance that the national
exiguency demanded Its performance; that the
moral sentiments Of the.North would approve it,,
and that they themselves should be protected
from evil consequences 10 be apprehended from
the violence of mob government, which 1t was
known would be established by one Nichols a
pretender to the Office of Governor against Ste
phen B. Packard, who was sure to be found elect
ed Governor If the Hayes electors should be found
to have been chosen.
"All these assurances were freely and forcibly
given by Senator Sherman and his associates Mr..
Stanley Matthews declared to Mr.. ]. E. Leonard,
and on more than one occasion, that Hayes and
Packard shall stand or fall together.
"a reported interview Of Gov Hayes, December
with Mr.. W. R. Roberts, of the New Orleans
Times. having occasioned alarm as to the future
course of the prospective President toward South
ern Republicans and the Louisiana and South
Carolina Governments, Gov. Hayes through his
private secretary, Capt. A. E. Lee, since made
Consul General to Frankfort, and Gen. James M.
Comfy, of the Ohio State Journal, since made Min
lister to the Sandwich Islands, denied the reported
interview and all sympathy with the sentiments
therein expressed.
This shows Hayes personally bargain
ed through John Sherman and other
Ohio emissaries with the Returning
Board in Louisiana to stand by Packard
upon condition of being counted in by
Wells, Anderson, and their two mulatto
colleagues. Mr.. Chandler positively says
that on Nov. 8, three days before the Re-
turning Board had completed the work
assigned them, intelligence was received
in New Orleans to the effect that Gov.
Hayes had, in an interview with an en-
issary of Southern Democrats, indicated
his purpose to pursue certain course to-
ward the South that this "oCcssioned
alarm" in New Orleans; whereupon
Hayes, through two ofhis closest friends,
gave such assurances as were satisfactory
that is, Hayes gave his promise he
would protect and sustain the thieves in
stealing the vote of thatState. The test
imony of Mr.. Chandler goes further than
that taken before Mr.. Morrison's commit
tee in New Orleans, or that of Mr.. Field
in Washington, since it directly fastens
the responsibility of the actual Corrup-
ton on John Sherman and his associates.
and traces it back to authority derived
from Hayes.
The second charge alleges bad faith on.
the part of Hayes to his original engage
ment, but AYERS that second bargain
was subsequently made to secure the
completion of the electoral count by
which he would become de taCto Presi-
dent, the chief condition of which was
violation Of the solemn pledges previous
ly given in his behalf to Packard and
Chamberlain and their friends:
ION the one side Messrs. Matthews, Charles Eos.
ter, John Sherman and James A. Garfield, and on
the other L, @. Q. Lamar, John B. Gordon, E. ].
Ellis, Randall Gibson, E. A. Burke and John
Young Brown had agreed
"First-That the count should not be broken up
in the House, but that Hayes should be declared
and inaugurated President.
"Secondly-ThRt upon Hayes's accession, the
troops should be Withdrawn from protecting Cows.
Chamberlain and Packard, and the new admins
tration should recognize the goVernm ents of Wade
Hampton In South Carolina and F. H. Nichols in
louisiana"
These charges are not new, but they,
are presented distinctly and emphatic
ally, and now by good witness.
We hope this will lead to a full and
thorough investigation of the whole mat
Ter by Congress.