Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-23

| nc raulcaiS say tue otteI ieeo!otiou '|nuo
TO produce an unsettled condition of affairs, to
dcpress business and depreciate the value Of
all sorts of property, and that it consequently
meets with the disapprobation of the country,
and receives the condemnation of the moned
men throughout the length and breadth OF the
land and yet, and almost in the same breath,
they say 'the tbiog came from 1lden,
Wall street and the money riggs of the East. "
Such Inconsistency of expression indicates
pcr,urbed state Of mind, and is calculated
to start irquiries concerning the cause OF that
perturbation and inquiries iuto the causes OF
radical effects, as proved by the history OF that
party from it's rise down to the present time, can
have but one result, and that is to expose q
mass of rapaciou5 corruption such as no other
political organization was ever before capable
of couceiviug. The Potter resolution was not
born of o ring of any kind, but owes Its birth
to the general desire of the country tor salts
factory solution Of the question The electoral
commission was appointed to decide, but which
that commission, by party vote, refused to
determine except upon technical grounds.
While few persons radicals than dem
ocrats-mauy want to see Mr.. Hayes deposed,
the people of the country have no such desire.
They know that whether fairly elected or not,
the men they fairly elected to Congress gave
him an irdisputable title to his Office, and
that :hst title can never be impaired save
by 4na,a future act that will render him
liable 10 Impeachment. But while their feel
iDgs aud knowledge induce them to oppose
any measures calculated to shorten the
term for which he was inaugurated, they do
waut to know to what extent the frauds in
South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana were
carried, who perpetrated them, who made
them effective, and who have been or are
to be paid for completely in them. The cleo
toral commission was appointed for the pur-
pose of procuring this information. but,
contrary to the expectations of all save those
benefited by the frauds, it refused even to at
tempt to obtain it, aud decided, BY vote Of
eight radicals to seven democrats. that what
the people wanted to know, and the object for
which it was appointed. were aliunde, and that
the OILY question before it was whether or not
a certain uumber of papers purporting to be
statements Of electoral votes had been sent to
Congress- The Information that the electoral
commission refused to hunt up and furnish
an etquiring people is still wanted and
tho Potter resolution is intended to furnish it,
and that resolution is popular because its OBJ.
jee is to supply popular want. The resolu.
ton is not calculated to unsettle and depre9s
the business Of the country, for those capable
Of conducting business understand it's object,
and cannot be deceived by radical twaddle, es.
pccially when expressed in such inconsistent
terms as those to which reference is made at
the commencement of this article; but if it
were, Mr.. Tilden ard the money rings would
certainly have no part nor lot in it, for, as is
generally believed, it was the fear entertained
by those very rings that prevented forcibe and
successful resistance to the accomplishment of
the fraud aud the inauguration of man as
President who, large majority of tho people
believed, was not elected.