Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-02-22

Louisiana as conspirators," and
of others who had been sending let
ters of coincidence and sympathy TO a
condemned criminal, said he himself
(Hale) was one of those who had
been invited to Louisiana after the
Presidential election to see that there
was fair count. He had gone there
because he knew that the spirit which
had for years prevailed in the Demo-
cratic party there was sufficiently act
i've to flame again and to make the
streets of New Orleans run with blood.
He went on to defend the action of the
Returning Board, and particularly TO
show that the returns from Vernon Par
ish had been published in the newspa-
pers before any claim had been set up
that there had been fraud or alteration
in them. The Returning Board had
eliminated certain votes which were
claimed to have been cast through in
timidation and fraud, and through the
overawing influence of armed bodies
of men in that State. Their action
had been sustained by the Electoral
Commission, and following that Mr..
Hayes had been inaugurated. He did
not know what the agreement was; did
not know that any existed, but he knew
that, whether the troops had been with
drawn from Louisiana for constitu-
tional reasons or as q matter of concili-
alton, the Nichols Legislature had
passed resolution that it would dis
countenance any political prosecutions,
and he knew and believed that the
prosecutions of the members of the Re-
turning Board were of that kind. He
had signed the dispatch referred to, be-
cause he did not believe that these men
ought to be abandoned, or that the Adj
ministration ought to abandon them.
Ellis La.), who had been out of the
hall during the discussion, and who had
evidently been ill-informed of the pur-
port of Mr.. Hewitt's remarks, obtained
the floor, and (assuming that Hewitt
had held himself and his colleagues re-
sponsible for the Presidential bargain)
declared that the lip which uttered the
assertion that Louisiana, or any repre-
sentative of Louisiana, or any author
lied agent of Louisiana, had ever bar
tered, or sought to barter, or enter
tained a proposition to barter, away the
interests of the Democratic party, or
the interests of the whole people of the
Union, in the election of Samuel j. Til
den, lied in his heart and lied in his foul
throat. He then went on to relate the
conference at Wormley's Hotel, men
tioning as the actors on that occasion
himself, +. A. Burke, of Louisiana, and
Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, on the
Democratic side, and on the Republic
an side, Mr.. Garfield, Mr.. Foster, eX-
Gov. Dennison, Stanley Matthews and
| Senator, now Secretary, Sherman. He
declared that there was there no bar
gain, nor talk of bargain; that the
only matter which transpired was an
| interchange of views, and that he and
his friends relied upon the assurances
of Mr.. Hayes close friends as to what
were his views and sentiments in regard
to Louisiana and South Carolina. These
gentlemen had pledged nothing for Mr.
Hayes. They had bound him by nj
promise, by no pledge.
Subsequently Ellis again obtained th'
floor to make a personal explanation
and retracted all offensive illusions tC
Hewitt in his remarks, saying that ht
had been assured by that gentleman
and by other friends that he had beer
entirely misinformed.
The result of the days proceeding
was disastrous to the malcontent
who have been continually shriekins
about fraud and bargains. They wer
given battle on ground of their own Sc
lection, and the boldest defiances tina
could be made failed to draw them out
After this contest it is not likcl
the electoral " fraud bugaboo will b
again brought into the House.