Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-21
A PoIisIea, Farce.

Yalus III cOlieCtiuk euO suOoeAio"i
properties to make a neat 'set' of
the roaring farce Of the Bloody
Shirt" Nearly Everybody in the
United States, irrespective of his
politics, who ever draws q free
breath, and who can think for
moment Independently of the tram
meis of party, has come to believe
that gross injustice was done In
the last Presi Dental election-an
injustice which dishonors those
who profited by it. Edmund Burke
once INDUCED in q felicitous ex-
preston when speaking of the cav
alters of France who clustered
around the beautiful Queen, Marie
Antoinette. He said they "felt a
stain like q wound" To-day there
Is not q Republican in the United
States, of fair and generous i'm
pulses, who does not feel the pres
ence Of Hayes in the White House
as q personal dishonor.
What is q Republic? In the sense
in which the idea has been honored
for over q hundred years in the
United States, it is form of gov.
eminent in which the will Of the
majority, as expressed at the bal
lot box, governs. In our complex
system Of sovereign States the
voice of the Electoral Colleges
somewhat impedss the direct ex'
preston of the will of the people.
This fact intensifles the infamy Of
a conspiracy intended to falsify the
voice of the people In this ultimate
form of announcing their prefer.
ence for President.
What fair man forgets the dis
gushing and anti.Republican spec
tacle presented in the Southern
States in the last Presidential cleo
ton? The Republican leaders first
started on the presumption that
they must have a Republican sue
cessor to Grant. 1t simply must be
done. Everything must bend to
that pre-determination. The will
of the people counted for nothing
with these meu. A system of the
most colossal Federal "tull doz-
ing" was inaugurated in the
States of South CarsIina, Flor
ida and Louisiana. The Marshals
of Democratic professions were
arrested at the head of them.
in the desperate hope Of provoking
resistance and thus inaugurating
the Louis Napoleon method of car
rying elections. Every demoniacal
energy of which bad men are ca
pable was employed to bring about
bloody rencounter between the
blacks aud whites. Nearly every
man in authority in t.of those
States, under Republican rule, was
criminal, forger or thief, or
something Of that kind, only anx-
ious for civil commotion as guar
antee for further immunity in
crime. Grant, during his eight
years of license called administra-
ton, escaped Impeachment though
he should have been impe aohed
twenty times. Democrats in the
South were laborlng under posi-.
tive duress, and the intriguing and
bloody tactics of their adversaries
were only defeated because the
Democrats showed matchless pa
thence and self.containment which
were not expected by Zach Chand-
Ter and his co.adjutors, and pa
thence aud elf-contaInment which
they deeply regretted. We say
deeply regretted, because it is the
sober truth. Nothing would have
80 delighted the conspirators at
Washington as the news of
bloody deed in the South directly
the result of Observation-Disclosures
and Infamous procurement, to be
used as buttress of the +" bloody
shirt" campaign. 1fs2se #. !
Notwithstanding all these prov
0cations, the Democratic. party
kept its temper and triumphed.
Ofthc nineteen votes Of South Car.
olina, Louisiana and Florida, Mr..
TildeD, who had u majority of
the popular vote of nearly half
million, needed but one to elect
him. Mr.. Hayes needed the whole
nineteen. From the very moment
this fact became known the Re-
publican leaders at Washington
determined that their candidate
should have every one of those
nineteen, at any cost. This is the
story in n nutshell. a thousand
volumes might be written on the
subject, and yet the whole narra-
tive, If truth were regarded, could
be compressed Into that single sem
tence.
Every one remembers the gloomy
panorama of frauI which fJl.
lowed. Grant, for a mo.
ment, seemed to have caught
the spirit Of patriotic Amer
lean civilian, and he announced
that no man sworthy to Gil the
Office of President would take it
under a doubt of his election. At
tho same time he avowed his pur-
pose To send do wn q lot of ssVisit-