Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-06
Hayes - . niusterer.

The most amusing feature of the
bluster In certain Hayes Republic
can circles is the assumption that
the country is just on the eve of a
terrible civil war. This is all fiddle
sticks. No man in the Democratic
party has the slightest idea of vio-
lsnce. Its whole attitude may be
compressed into the single sentence
that 1t is determined the country
shall know the full extent of the
frauds which have been practiced
against the rights of the majority,
and that the Republican party
must be made to take the response
bllity of Hayes's continued pres
ence in the White House. We have
never thought that the great Pres
idential crime would be redressed
without Republican cooperation,
although it is of course possible
that 1t might be. Hayes's talk to
George Alfred Townsend about re-
sistance to removal shows him to
BE- . demagogue of the first water.
He seeks to alarm the conservative
and timid interests of the country,
but these classes are beginning to
see that the only hops for stability
and prosperity is to place the gov
ernment on the basis of right. AS
to his talk about resistance, the fol-
lowing extract from William Pitt
Kellogg's conversation with a re-
porter of the Washington Post sets
that bosh in its proper light. Mr..
Kellogg is the carpet-bag Senator
from Louisiana. He is Republi-
can of the Republicans, but he is
evidently clear headed man. He
says:
"Suppose, Mr.. Kellogg, that the
next Congress should meet and Or
ganize with o clear working major
ity Of Democrats in both branches,
a. It undoubtedly will do, what
under Mr.. Evarts's construction of
the law and the Constitution, would
be the modus operandi of disposing
Of Hayes?"
'Similar to that by which Mr..
Packard was dispossesssd. The
two Houses of Congress would pass
resolution declaring Mr.. Tilden
the lawful President. Then all
bills passed would be sent to Mr..
Tilden for executive approval;
messages would be received from
him, and his nominations to office
would be confirmed by the Senate,
and Mr.. Hayes would be utterly
ignored. That was the way it was
done in Louisiana, and If 1t was
lawful and constitutional there, it
ought to be here"
'sSuppose Hayes should resist?"
"Resist, h! How the devil
would he resist? What would ne
resist withW
II give 1t up.'
$50 would Hayes!"
"Do you suppose such q state of
affairs will ever transpire?"
'sNow, let's see about that. Mr..
Hayes was elected by the vote of
Louisiana, If he was elected at all.
The returns that elected him also
elected Packard. The Democrats
disputed Packard's election on pre-.
cisely the same grounds as those on
which they now dispute the elec.
tion of Hayes, so far as Louisiana
is concerned. Then Mr.. Hayes's
Secretary of State furnished the
Democrats with the law under
which they proceeded to oust Pack
ard and install Nichols. held at
the time that Packard was elected,
and SO hold now. also held that
Hayes was elected. But Hayes,
through his Secretary of State, in
structed the Commission that the
question as to who had been elected
Governor must be adjudicated by
the legislative body, if any could
be found with an unquestioned
right in law to hold their seats.
This law, as I said before-if it be
law at all-is organic, and hence as
applicable to the. Union as to q
State. And Mr.. Hayes and his
friends will have no alternative but
TO submit to it if it should happen
to be turned against them"