The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-23
THE ELECTION FRAUDS.
INTRIGUE OF A. n. STEPHENS AND
OTHERS WITH ADMINIsTRA-
TION REPUBLICANS.
To Defeat the Potter Resolution and Az
hrm the sacredness Of Hayes Title
The Movement RepudIated by the Re-

The Movement Repudiated by the Re-
publicans.
WAsH1NaToN, May %. The National Re-
It calls an intrigue between anti-resolution
Democrats and certain Republicans.
The article says the particulars of this In
trigue, as now developed, show that with
Messrs. Mills OF Texas, Buckner of Missouri,
Of his side of the House, Mr. Stephens was
willing to go so far as to amend the Potter
resolution by inserting a clause directly rec
ognizing and emphatically declaring the sta
bility OF President Hayes title.
The idea was to embody in the amendment
Mr.. Hewitts somewhat emphatic assertion
or concession, that the title is sacred and ire
fragable. 1t is known that the leaders of the
Potter wing promised to pass resolution
embodying this declaration as soon as they
had secured the adoption Of the one providing
for the investigation. That they did not keep
their promise Is also known, and that they
did not intend to keep 1t is proven by the fact
that they have studlously refused to recog-
nize any OF the antt-greasers in any way
whatever However this may be, the intrigue
referred to had an Indirect bearing upon that
promise, and may have been the cause of It,
The Representatives who were engaged in
the movement were of the kind known as
administration men, and the President him
self was party to their consultations 1t Ia
known that on last Thursday night Messrs.
j. ID. Cox, Amos Townsend and one or two
obueI hepuDllchIS, met bIe HreSluent at the
residence of Hon. Chas. Foster, for the pur-
pose Of talking this matter over They
agreed that the offer of the Democrats was
worth looking into and Mr.. Cox was selected
to do the looking.
Mr.. Cox having reached the terms that were
satisfactory to his associates as well to Mr..
Stephens and his fellow ant-greasers the
latter to the number of twenty-five signified
their eaTnestness in promises, by signing q
written agreement to vote with the Represent-
n oft ,rff,
vided the Representatives would join with
them after Potters defeat. in resolution
affirming the irrefragabiIty of Hayes title,
and providing for more liberal fnvestiga-
tion.
Mr.. Cox on Friday, armed with this paper,
cautiously began to sound the so-called anti
administration Republicans, as well as others
of the party, who had up to that time been
kept in ignorance OF the intrigue. Among
these was the Hon Eugene Hale, who instant
ly denounced the scheme as an Infamous at
tempt to divorce the administration from the
party. In his opinion it's success would sim
ply have thrown the President into the hands
of the Democrats, and placed him under OBJ
preservation of the sacredness of his tenure
of Office.
Other Republicans who were approached on
the subject expressed aStonishment that the
President should have cOuntenanced such an
intrigue, and again others characterized 1t as
an insidious attempt by the opposition to
place the administration in the attitude of
having sacrificed the reputation of some OF
its members, and having abandoned the Re-
publican party for the selfish purpose of Sc
curing to the President undisturbed possess
sion of his Office.
In short, Mr. Cox met with such slight en-
couragement that he abandoned the move
ment in disgust. His colleagues, especially
Mr.. Stephens, were choked off or down by the
opposition, and the Potter resolution was
passed as strictly party measure, twenty OF
the twenty-five intriguers voting for it.