The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14
THE MILLS OF THE GODS AND
HAYES.

We have had from the day the great fraud
was consummated which placed Hayes IN
the Office of president full faith that
truth would ultimately triumph, the right
be indicated and the crime of the century
exposed and punished. We have not been
unmindful of the fact that the track of the
conspirators was serpentine, and that
consummate cunning had been employed
to obscure it. But the crime was
too colossal to admit of doubts
as to final results. The proposition was not
TO be accepted that the scheme was not to be
unraveled, the beginning and the ending
found, aud the part that each perjured vii
lam acted brought on; into the full light of
day. There was a time, however, when the
prospect was dubious. Hayes was inaugur-
ated, the troops removed from the southern
states, and the fraudulent administration
fairly launched upon its career of
duplicity and mendaclty. Hayes
overhowed with professions of reform. On
all occasions the recipient of stolen powers
honors and emoluments gushed about his
southern policy, while at the same time he
was rewarding with federal offices the beetle
browed criminals who had made it possible
for him to exercise the prerogatives of pres
ident. AT this supreme juncture Maryland,
in the supreme dignity of her sovereignty, de-
manded an investigation, and immediately
thereafter the fires of hell seemed to have
seized upon the conscience of Florida vii
lain, who made an open confession of frauds
he had perpetrated by which the vote OF that
state was stolen and the will of its citizens
reversed. With these events investigation
became inevitable, and as a result Congress
man Springer announces that Hayes is like
ly to be impeached, and in this opinion Mr.
Potter isreported to fully coincide. The proof
is said to be conclusive that Hayes knew all
about the Florida and Louisiana frauds.
The impeachment of Hayes is in the direct
line of the footballs of fate. The mills of the
gods are grinding on. Protests are unavail-
ing. The crimes of the conspirators are
coming up out of their darkness and slime.
The leprous gang who committed the frauds,
the forgeries and the perjuries can not make
lying longer available. Efforts to excuse
Hayes are no longer. to be tolerated.
He will have to face his fate
and submit to his doom. The
New York Express, In commenting upon the
situation, says that "the vote of the house
'on the Burchard resolution declaring that
the presidents title. fixed by the last con-
'greSs, can not be called in question by
subsequent congress, was predicated on the
'supposition that Hayes was personally hon.
est. 1t was presumed that il frauds had
been committed he knew nothing of them
when inaugurated If at all. 1t was believed
then, and is still believed, that Hayes is
weak rather than wicked John Sherman
stands him up on end or twists him about
his forefinger at pleasure. The conspir-
'acy to count Hayes in seems to have been
'concocted by Sherman and Zach Chand-
Ter, Kellogg, Packard, Wells, Noyes, and
found that Hayes had guilty completely
in the business; that he was prvy to the
whole plot and took a more or less active
part in carrying out its details; that he has
appointed scores of the men who were up
TO their eyes IN the conspiracy in payment
for their guilty acts that he actually bought
the electoral votes of Florida and Louisiana
by promises of federal appointment and
pledges to southern democrats, it is obvious
that new face will be put on the situation.
The people will turn with loathing and dis
gust from the man who got into the white
house by conniving at crimes and conspir-
'acy with criminals, and hiring. them to
boost him up. The suspicion that Hayes
had guilty knowledge of this business is at
the bottom of the Indifference everywhere
felt for HIM. He is of no more account in
his own party than dead rat in the pit.
None are so poor as to do him honor. The
conventions ignore him. The mention