American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-05-18
Do We Care TO Investigate Hayes
Tile ?


ance, to hich the party that elected
him had been so long strangers,
murmurs Of disapprobation were
heard along their ranks When
the party lash was then vigorously
Iapplied, and Mr.. Hayes stubbornly
refused to be whipped Tito traces.
muumurs became dehunciatiCns OF
the most furious character; and the
moe ultra element of the Republi>
can party bolted from the support
of his administration. Peace to the
whole country, the veal and pros
perity of every section was not in
the Radical programme; aud hence,
being the furthest from their desires,
Mr.. Hayes, who was designed at
first as their tool and dupe, readily
brought upon hitiself the most Bit
ter and unrelentlng hostility when
he shaped his administl alton in the
direction of the general good and
welfare of the whole nation.
But the spirit of the Radicals
does not stop with the mere display
of hostility to their own chosen
candidate. Foiled by him, their
own instrument, i'm their schemes
for pefpetuating the "bloody shirt"
era, they do not rest content with a
dignified protest or even a decided
exhibition of enmity. but have been
betrayed into such violent excuses
of vindictive animosity as not to
hesitate to expose their own shame
in order to make manifest the
frauds by which Hayes how holds
his seat.
Ought anything to be more Bit
terly Notifying to the great party
than The acknowledgements of its
great leader, Mr.. Coukling, that he
himself suggested first the Electoral
Commission, that he knew it was
illegal aud unconstitutional that
after suggesting it, and during its
he held his peace that
he raises his voice at this late Iry
because MIR. Hayes has not exactly
filled the measure, according to
that distinguished statesman's
ideas, of what Republican PIesi
dent should be Then, again, the
publication by Chandler of his own
shame i'll the part he took in the
frauds in Florida, would never have |
seen the light of day had the PIesi
dent, whom he declares elected |
through those frauds, pro-ed a tool
for carrying out the purposes of
party hatred. And now comes
Judge McLin of Florida, aud Dem
mis-. who unblushIngly give forth
to the world, detailed statement
of the frauds in the Florida election
and the part they took, the former
excusing himself from his paticipa-
ton thereiD,-not through any pre-
Lcuutu infOCCuCC VI SuCh 1dCto;
but lie shields himself from the
of his great crimes
behind so thin and gauzy a pretext
as "extreme political ardor and
partisan zeal" He alleges that he
exposes the frauds in which he so
participated because
Mr.. Hayes had broken down the
party in the South!
that is to say, went back oil
McLin).
Thus, we are to conclude that
because Mr.. Hayes was untrue. as
is charged, to the party that elected
him; the frauds by which he was
elevated to the position he occupies
are unearthed I; and the participation
therein exposes in detail his o,cn acts,
assigning no other explanation for
bis high crimes than "belng blinded
by party ardor and political zeal J"
THIS made what now appears to
him as a great crime, a great and
patriotic duty at the time lie was
the transgression.
had not the engineer been hoisted
1pon his own petard, no word OF
ault would have been found with
he Kramer in which Hayes became
President. The question of the
great fraud would have lain dors
nant forever. Conkling, who was
silent at the time of the arranging
md sitting of the Electoral Com
mission "a plan of which he claims
he paternity, and who knew all
he while it was 'iIlegal and uncon-
would still have pres
served his silence.
The Democratic party has nothing
o gain by urging investigation OF
lie legality of Hayes title TO the
Presidency. Let the Radicals pubs
ish their own disgraceful frauds.
rhe poisoned chalice is of their own
reparation-let the cup be com
aended to their own lips. What
yer shame and disgrace there is,
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