The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-18
CONKLING ONmHAYES.
HIS VIEWS IN REG ARD TO THE AD-
MINIsTRATION AND ITS METHODS.
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Especial to the Democrat
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE Worlds Utica
says the friends and foes OF
Senator Conkling In this section have been
alike disappointed by his failure to speak upon
the great public questions of the hour.
A reporter interviewed the Senator, who
said:
II do not see how the true history of the
Louisiana electoral business can be kept
down. Too many avenues OF information are
opened to-day to make concealment OF avail
much longer. No reasonable man can doubt
there was some kind Of bargain between the
friends Of Nichols and
That Man Hayes,
and that Stanley Matthews and Sherman
were privy to it.
A very great many people have become ex-
ceedingly curious to know precisely what the
bargain was, and exactly how it was carried
out, and Yankee ingenuity will be sure to find
some means Of getting at the information. |
cannot say how soon the facts will come out,
for something may occur any day to force
them to the surface. It will probably be best
to let them come out naturally. The result
will be that the whole country will be ap-
palled by the
DIshonor of this Administration.
Never in the historyof this nation has there
been, in the entire four years OF any admins
tration, so much corruption, bartering of
offices, rewardng Of political favorites, traffic
with political leaders, and bargain and sale Of
the electoral franchise as during the past
year.
The people will not believe 1t until the proof
Is shown them, but the proof will be forth
coming.
The country was in actual danger after the
reassembling of Congress In 1876; the danger
real and imminent The point of peril was
not In the South but in the West. 1t was un-
derstood that the Republican leaders had de-
termined to have Vice President Ferry count
the votes at all hazards and declare Hayes
elected, and the West was determined Oh re-
sistance.
Il was to be no child's play in that section.
Gen. Steadman had 10000 men
Enrolled and Assigned 10 Regiments
for the purpose Of seating Tilden in Office, in
case Vice President Ferry carried out his
proposed programme.
suggested to President Grant that there
seemed to me one way out of the trouble, and
only one, and l suggested to him the plan Of
the electoral com mission. He grasped it in q
moment and declared it the very thing, and
that it would save the country. / pledged
him to secrecy, saying that II it became
known In advance that the plan was ours it
would be sure to be defeated by the Demo
Gratis, and left him much relieved.
In the morning when l went to the White
House found Sherman with the President
who had told him Of the plan, and both of
them expressed themselves with unbounded
satisfaction. John Sherman. Watterson, Fos-
ter and other Western men had their heads
together and were
Plotting Something I Knew.
There was no effort that knew of to get
me in the lines but once, and then 1t failed
1 think everybody knew there was intrigue
going on between the Southern Democracy
and the friends of Hayes, and the wires be-
tween Washington and Columbus kept the
Ohio man thoroughly informed as to all that
was doing in his behalf.
Putting this and that together I was
pr ,tty we'll convinced there was rottenness
in Louisiana and that an effort was making
to stihe all inquiry knew nothing, and SO
/ could not speak, and when the commission
determined
Not TO Go Behind the Returns.
there was no choice but to indorse the regular
returns, as presented.
I was not, to speak candidly, sorry, how
ever, that an engagement made long before,
and that could not be delayed, prevented my
presence at the vote on Louisiana. believe
that when the whole truth Of the Louisiana
business Is known it will sink this admins
tration, President and all, to
The Lowest Depths of Infamy.
The President is agreat friend to and wholly
in the hands now OF the Southern Democracy.
In regard to the ability of the Southern
leaders, Conkling said Senator Lamar is un-
questionably the ablest Of them all. Gordon
Is arrogant and domineering, but by no means
brilliant Hill has very little honor, even in
his own State, and his opinions are change
able. Butler, OF South Carolina, is cool and
polished, and will probably have enough to do
to defend his own case in connection with his
seat. Lamar is
The Jesuit Of the Senate
When Stuart l.. Woodford went on his trip
to Mississippi, Lamar took him in charge and
bewildered him. Poor Woodford, it was like
cat playing with a mouse. He came home
with his head full Of Mississippi levee
schemes and utterly obivious that any
wrongs had ever been perpetrated on Repub-
licans in that State.
Lamar talked to him about the political
millennium, and must have chuckled to him
self over his easy conquest. The willy Missis-
sippian always understands how to put his
best foot foremost.
Tho Sanator than rooitod tho hictoru Of thn