The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-12

way they can; let the President of the, Senate
count the votes, and then will sustain you
recognize Packard Chamberlain and Sbearns
and we will put Coy. Hayes in" ,,
That was just like Grant, and NAG ~ ~ w
vice been adOpted there would undoubtedly
have been either civil war or a total relapse
Of the country into martial law ana military
despotism.
BUT THE FRIENDS OF HAYES
did not like that iron-handed programme o
the man Of the Wilderness and Spottsyl vania
1t was too rough and rude for the delicatt
nerves of the reformers who surrounded
Hayes Besides 1t would shock the nerves o
Mrs. Hayes. who was averse to the seating o
her husband III the presidential chair by force
So they objected to Grant programme. They
advised that the whole thing be done under
color Of law, using intrigue Instead of force
and sending
VISITING STATESMEN WITH BRIDES INSTEAD
OF SOLDIERS WITH BAYoNETS
10 reverse the results of the election in the
three States whose votes 1t was necessary tC
steal
Very well" said Grant, grimly, what dc
you want me to do2''
Simply nominate the visiting statesmen
and then preserve
THE STATUS QUO"
said the friends of Hayes.
Then they went on with their intrigues
They got their man in without any blood
shed, and all seemed lovely. Finally they
undertook to evRnRelize Fraud in the name oil
Reform and with Sunday evening psalms Of
the White House, and there they split The
result Is now dlsmally apparent. Hayes,
foolishly believing that the beggarly crew OF
Democrats fso-ealledl who fawned around
him for office represented the people OF the
South and would protect him and his frauds
ia case OF need, deliberately went to work
to estrange from his fortunes and enrage
against his person the Radical leaders, who
ia turn alienated from him the masses OF the
party. AIS a consequence Hayes has no SYM
pathy from any quarter In his hour q tribu-
latiOn. The masses of the Radical party
are utterly Indifferent to his fate. The lead
ere, at least those of them who are not chained
by the record OF their own crimes to the
corpse of the administration. rejoice in Sc
eret ct the prospect Of his downfall and
gathering doom of his advisers, John Sher-
man and Stanley Matthews, whom they
charge with having led him to cut loose from
the party at large,
do not say that the programme originally
advised by Grant could have been carried
out. ] believe Grant advised 1T for the pur-
pose Of getting the party to follow him into
A POLICY or MILITARY REPRESSION AND
DHSPOTIsBI,
with d view to breaking up the Electoral Col
dege altogether and getting himself made
dictator or provisional President on the
fourth oil March. 1917, But ne naQ sense
enough TO see by Hayes friends rejection Of
his advice that he could not depend on sUffi-
cieut following to warrant hopes Of success
iii bis designs, and so he quietly abandoned
his notion and did the bidding OF Hayes and
his advisers. However, there was more
chance Of success In Grants warlke
programme than there turns out to have
been In the Hayes scheme of intrigue and
diplomacy. These things are of interest just
III this time, ,affordlng as they do o new veri-
fication of the ancient proverb, that d mans
hindsiRhts are always better than his fore
sights. ,a4y7 Ell.
In my dispatches last night was a brief but
comprehensive outline of the schedule of pro-
ceedinRs determined on by the investigators.
suppose 1t will be three weeks or a month
before that part OF the inquiry relating to
THE REGENT RETURNING BOARD TRIALS
in Louisiana will be reached, But when 1t is
reached you can look out for some reading
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