The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-02
WHO H is PRESIDENT :

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than one year occupied the White House
in Washington, and has been exercising
the functions of President of the United
States. He is dc .facto President, but
from the very beginning he has been
considered a fraud and the representative
Of grand political swindle. The peo-
pie have always felt that his triumph
was the triumph of military tyranny
over free people, Of corrupt returning
boards over free ballots, and of political
trickery over the constitution and laws
of the United States. Since his inaugu-
ration he has removed the United States
troops from South Carolina and Lou
isiana, for which some politicians, either
from o lack of thought upon the subject
or from other influences, have been dis
posed to render his fraudulent admins
tration quasi support. We have never
felt that MFR. .Hayes was entitled to any
credit for this course. 1t was evidently
a part of the bargain by which he was
counted in as President, and in the next
place hesRas compelled to do it from the
fact that the Democratic House Of Rep
resentatives in Congress refused to vote
him any money to sustain his army un-
less he did withdraw the troops. This is
the only act he has performed at which
his Democratic friends can point to claim
credit for him, and it was performed be-
cause he was obliged to do so. Since
then he has loaned his influence 10 seat
Kellogg and Corbin, and has appointed
the Wells, Andersons, Stones and Pack
ards to lucrative Offices when he knew
they were morally unfit for positions of
public trust. The people of the nation
hsve seen and felt thst Mr.. Hayes is lit
tie better than time-serving demagogue,
and that he is filling position to which
he is not entitled. This opinion has
beer founded on differences drawn from
circumstances connected with the last
election, but the Florida exposures,
an account of which appear elsewhere,
dissipates any lingering doubt which
may have existed, and presents Mr.. Hayes
to the country as the embodiment of the
greatest political crime ever committed
in free country. That the republican
party carried the election by bribery,
forgery and Infamous corruption, there
is not the shadow of doubt, and the
developments go far in the direction of
connecting Mr.. Hayes with that fraud.
What will be done about it is hard to
prophecy. 1t is not the light matter
which some facetious journals pretend.
1t involves principles underlying the
very security of republican institutions.
If frand has triumphed, and although
exposed, is still allowed to go unpunished
and unredressed, the step to military
despotism is by no means long one.
We believe the passage of the legislation
by Congress necessary to give force to
the resolutions of the Maryland General
Assembly, known as the Blair resolu-
tions, and a thorough investigation of
the last Presidential election upon its
merits by the Supreme Court of the
United States is the only adequate rem
edy for the present attitude of the fraud.
If Mr.. Hayes was elected, the grave
charges against him should be hushed.
If he was not elected, he ought to be
turned out of Office, and the man WHO
was elected should be inaugurated.
It is simple justice that this should he
done, and for this reason we favor tie
investigation.