The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-16
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The fact can not be disguised that Hayes
is in most critical condition. Talk as he
may, the crimes by virtue of which he
mounted to the office of president can not
be obscured. They will not down. Eternal
justice is pledged to their exposure 1t is
not pc sible TO hush the voice of truth. 1t
is forever demanding audience Perjury
can not pass current. The American people
will forever protest. The great mass of the
people believe that Hayes is a fraud. They
do not recognize his right to rule. Every
utterance is tinctured with corruption. Ey-
cry act bears upon its front lie. Smile
as he may. talk as he may, Hayes is not
the rightful president of the United States.
He may be president de .facte, but he is not
president dc jure. He was quickened into
official life in the hot furnace of perjury.
He came into official life bearing upon his
person the scabs and blisters of crimes
against constitutions, law, truth and justice.
The whole transaction was treason TO the
will of the people. 1t was an exaltation of
duplicity over honesty, and it stands forth
amidst all the errors and crimes of the GEN.
fury as the monumental and continental
villainy. Great efforts have been made to
obscure it, to apologize for it, to keep it
from the gaze of the world, but so
far such efforts have been signal failures.
Now what? Simply this: Hayes own party
propose to investigate his right to be presi-
dent de .factO. VIM. E. Chandler is not much
of man. He is said to belong to the weasel
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his low and villainous antecedents, but it so
happens that he knows whereof he speaks,
and the blows he has dealt and will continue
to rain down upon the head of Hayes are in
the interest of the right Chandler has the
facts, for ne was one of the conspirators.
We are aware that the trouble in the radical
party grows out of the division of the
spoils. We know that it is low
and venal to the last degree
But it has ever been thus in human affairs.
When thieves fall out, honest men, if they
do not regain their property. are likely to
find out how it was stolen. The New York
Journal ofCommerce very properly remarks
that ''if the president had given Mr.. Chan
'dler and his friends the offices they ask
they would never have assailed the title of
his Office. If the president were the obse-
'quious servant of Mr.. Conkling, and con-
suited that gentleman in all the New York
appointments, resolution to investigate
the late electoral proceedings would not be
'offered-as it now promises to be-with that
senator's approval. But, although the mo-
'tives of the men at the bottom of this bust
ness are unquestionably selfish and malevo-
lent, an investigation might elicit truth
now suppressed and throw light into places
now dark. We can not have too much
knowledge about the tricks which made Mr..
Hayes president. If it has no further effect,
1T will instruct and warn the people to
prevent a repetition OF the fraud, if possible.
TT may be said that this discussion-the at
tempt to reopen controversy supposed to
be settled-will only make bad feeling in
congress and throughout the country, and
win do no good. But the bad feeling al
ready exists, and sooner or later it will find
vent"
Great efforts are to be made to suppress
investigation, but the progress in the other
direction is daily gaining force, and the in
dications are that revelations Will be made
that will startle the country. We regard
the impeachment of HAYES as one OF the
probabilities of the times. That he was
party to all the scoundrelism, by virtue of
which the VIII of the people was reversed by
the Florida frauds and the Louisiana re-
turning board perjurers, is gaining strength
in the public mind, and it Is possible that
before 1880 he and Wheeler will be snugly
located in the cells of some substantial peni-
Tertiary.