The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28
PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS.

WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator
Howe, of Wisconsin, called up the
resolution submitted by INN last week
calling upon the President for lnfnrma-
ton as to charges against Judge Whit
aker, of Louisiana, being a defaulter
to the United States. He said: dur
ing the past year We have seen here
and everywhere throughout the country
small but active squads of political in
quIsitors busy with the work of assist
ing the Republican psrty in gathering
into hallowed garTisons all those who
svow themselves supporters of the
Presidents policy, and pouring un-
quenchable fire upon all the rest.
Poles have been set up at all the cross
roads and flags inscribed with the
Presidents policy have been suspended
from them, and the self-appointed
inquisitions have lurked in convenient
jungles to detect who did and who
did not recover under the flag. He
had withheld no honest effort to elect
HAYES, and it panied him to be found
not IN accord with his views. He
Senator Howe) believed that Repu5-
lIcan President should, as the Cincin-
natl convention declared, select Re-
pubhcans for all those places where
harmony and vigor of an ADMINISTERS.
sion required policy to be represented.
He then commented on the civil SER
vice policy of the President, and said
he had selected for his Cabinet one
man who was not a Republican but a
Democrat, still the individual was so
well known to him Senator HOwel,
and he believed so implicitly in
the moderation of his opinions, in
the business of his sentiments
and the integrity of his character that
if he had advised his selec-
ton he could and did not complain of
it. He then referred 10 the appoint
ment of Mr.. SchuIZ to be Secretary OF
the Interior, and said, although not a
Democrat vet he was not a Republican;
he was equally at home with all parties
and in all places. BY turns he had
been everywhere and espoused and de
serted every party. He spoke like al
oracle and his facile speech could be
fitted to the vicissitudes of parties as
readily as double-faced satin can be
turned to hide the accidents of society.
His critIques upon his political ascot
ates always gave him popularity. With
his political opinions, lnconstant in
everything else, he has always been
constant 10 his trade, that of politics.
His first enterprise was to revolution
iZe the government under which he
was born that failed and he fled. He
commented severely on the life and
history of Secretary Schurz, saying
that he had threw more mud at Gen.
Grant than any dredge, and argued
that the President had made bad
choice in his appointment.
He next referred to Louisiana affairs,
and said when the President was inau-
gurated Stephen B. Packard was Gov
ernor of Louisiana. Within sixty days
after that Inauguration he ceased to be
governor. When he disappeared the
will of Louisiana was subverted and
trampled Upon. If Mr.. Packard was
not elected Governor of Louisiana,
nothing can be more certain than that
Mr.. Hayes was not elected President
of the United States. Without the
electoral vote of Louisiana the whole
world knew that Mr.. Hayes had not
the votes in the electoral college neces-
sary to constitute an election; and if
Louisiana did not vote tor Packard
the whole world knew that Louisiana
did not vote for Hayes. Packard re-
ceIved nearly two thousand votes more
than some of the Hayes electors. I'm
der the Constitution the President had
but one plain duty to discharge; that
was to ascertain whether the constitu-
ted tribunals of Louisiana had declared
Packard to be Governor; then to de-
fend his authority to the extent of his
ability when legally required so to do.
If they had not so declared, then ut was
equally his duty not merely to have
withheld all support of Packard's pre-
tense, but to have given all required
support to the claim of Packard's rival.
1t was his duty to have done that; not
merely on the twentieth of April, but
to have done it on the fourth of March,
Immediately upon his assuming the
Office of President, aud, if he found it
his constitutional duty, require Pack
ard to surrender his office. He should al
so have recognized the duty of surren-
derlng bis own. l do not mean to in
innate a doubt that President Hayes
was entitled to the vote of Louisiana.
1t is my settled belief that Louisiana
declared for him, but all certainly
know is that if Packard was not elect
ed President Hayes was not. Ii the
| latter is not an usurper Nichols is. l
can see no possible escape from the
conclusion, either that the President
has usurped his office or that he has
aided Governor Nichols to usurp his.
Referring to Senator Hoar, of Massa-
chusetts, he SAID that he was one of
those who, as it is understood now,
pursue the unreconciled Democrats of
the South with dishes of patronage,
believing in their speedy capture as
fondly as the boys believed they could
catch the birds whose flight they eager
ly follow, if they can only sprinkle a
little salt on their tails. He comment
ed at length on the President appoint
ing Democrats to Office, and said (:
"Mr. President, let no man say do
injustice to the purposes of the Presi-
dent. l am not discussing his pur-
poses but his acts. | understand he
avows himself still to be a Republican
and the friend of equal citizenship. 1t
is not for me to dispute him, but it Is
for me to say that he has offended
both Republicanism and equal citizen
ship as Samuel j. Tilden never would
have offended. Perhaps if Mr.. Tilden
had been made President events would
have tIanspired In South Carolina and
Louisiana as they have transpired.
Mr.. Hampton would have been Gov
ernor in the former State, and Mr..
Nichols in the latter, and after all
this prolonged effort at pacification this
outpouring of concession and good
will the ANGEL of peace refuses to de-
scend upon US. Day after day the
President sends the dove out over the
angry floods and night after night the
bird returns weary and leafess. In
these very days that government which
rules in Louisiana, which was born of
presidential grace and not of popular
choice, has slgnalized its iDgratItude
by an act not less insulting to the
President than atrocious In itself. 1t
has dared to accuse, try and convict
a member of the State board OF returns
OF crime, of forging the election re-
turns of Vernon parish for 1876. Re-
member. sir, do not complain because