Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-25
GRANT LOOMING UP.
II Hayes Is Ousted, Will he Become his
Successor f-Usurpati0n Succeed ,
Ing Eraud-TaktnE Advantage
OF the Potter Investigation
STIRRING Events
Ahead, Etc.
New York Mercury.l

New York Mercury.l
WASHINGTON, May 18.-The telegraph
has told your readers about the proceedings
on the surface for the investigation of the
alleged frauds in Louisiana and Florida, but
the true inwardness of these actions seems to
remain hidden from the sluggish correspond
ents of the daily press. Let the Mercury
files of your journal for the last eighteen
months they will find that you have always
been far In advance In giving a correct view
of matters in the national capital, and that
YOUR predictions have seldom failed to come
true. 1t looks just now as if the Democrats
of the house were chiefly at fault for the en-
deavor to revolutionize the country, and that
they are bent upon such arbitrary action as
will injure the business interests Of the coun-
try and Jeopardize our revivlng prosperity.
This is not quite correct. The Democratic
leaders should be credited with the endeavor
to restore the purity of the ballot-box by an
investigation which will
SETTLE THE QUESTION OF FRAUD
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future There may be some exceptions, but
this is the rule. That there is conspiracy
against the quiet and welfare of the country
will be admitted, but it has its origin among
those dissatisfied Radicals who are enraged
because they are not allowed to divide the
spoils of office, as of yore. The present
movement has for its prime conspirators
CoNKLING AND GRANT,
who, having held dictatorial power for eight
years, are not satisfied with the Independent
action of Mr.. Hayes, and propose either to
block his way or remove him from Office If he
Grant onkling ring. Under the Grant rule,
the first question asked of the man who
sought office for himself or others was:
"What does Senator Conkling say?' 1t was
fiatteriDg incense to "My Lord Roscoe"
and he misses it sadly. Had he been nomi-
mated at Cincinnati all would have been well.
But when he failed of that, though backed
postofhces in the land, he grew soured, and
determined to have his revenge though 1t cost
the party or the country its existence. He
sulked and would not speak for Hayes, and
was really glad when, in the fight over the
election, he found an opportunity to 'get
even" with the lucky maa from Ohio. From
that moment he meditated treachery to his
party. Sometimes he lthought 1t could be
done through Grant, and sometimes by means
Of Iilden. There seems to be mass of con-
current gossip going to show that when the
Louisiana vote was before the senate he med
itated making speech in favor of Tilden's
claim to the Presidency, and then and there
going over bodily to the Democracy. Some
of his Democratic admirers in your State pre-
dicted at the time that Roscoe Conkling
would make such speech as could not fail to
give him the
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION IN 1880.
His courage oozed out at the critical mo.
ment, and he contented himself with absent
ing himself when the vote on Louisiana was
taken. Failing Tilden, his next idea was to
make Grant president of the senate and act
ing President, by throwing out the entire
Presidential vote at the last moment Again
nY,t ha kka1u H.,
to be inaugurated, taking his revenge by
speaking of him as ''that man, and declined
to call at the White House until Hayes had
called on him to consult him about official
appointments in your State. Since that time
he has been mumbling to everyone that would
listen to him that Hayes is a fraud-that he
knows thing or two about Louislana-that
he has copies of certain kilograms he
could upset the administration, and that the
White House breads him alone and the mo-
ment when he will speak. Two or three
times, | understand, he has made up his
mind that he would speak, and then his
courage seemed to give out. As telegraphed
you in January, at the time of toe reassem-
bling OF congress after recess, the Radical
programme was that General Butler should
open the ball in the house-it being given out
that he corld not do so earlier, on account of
his interest in certain Federal appointments
in Massachusetts. The attack on the admin
istratlon was to be followed by Conkling in
the senate. There was a double idea in it.
Either feint was to be made so successfully
that the administration would submit to all
the demands of the Radical leaders in the
matter of spoils, and with this the chief con-
spirators would be content, or, failing this,
the Democratic leaders were 10 be
FORCED TO INVESTIGATION
of the alleged southern frauds and the Presi-
| Dental case. In the the latter event, it was
| expected, by judicious prompting of the
| Democrats, Hayes might be prosecuted into
resigning, and the Radical Vice-President,
| Wheeler, would take his place, or that both
might be cast out of Office and proper man
| could be made president of the senate. For
reasons that remain unknown, General But
| Ter failed to come to the front, and Mr.
| Conkling refused-refused, as you know, even
| when the editor of his home organ demanded
| that he should step forward and redeem the
promises of bold action made to him, and
through this paper to the public. But now
| the Democrats are In motion, and General
Butler is with them, and no one doubts here
| that the full sympathy of Senator Conkling
| is given to the agitators. 1t is known to all
| men here that the senator's hatred to Mr..
Hayes is carried almost to the verge of insani-
ty. No epithets are too strong to be used by
him In
DRNOUNCING THE PRESIDENT.
And it is fair to presume, therefore, that he
will stoop to any efforts to get nd of his rival.
In the winter of 1877 Senator Conkling was
possessed by the delusion that Grant on the
third of March ensuing might legally be
elected president of the senate, and thus IN
event of the failure 10 seat Hayes, he would
become his own successor Gd interim. He