Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-15

to all negro murdererS ana hu-klux: and the
eager trampling out of the only remaining
republican State government at the South,
entirely crushed all republican courage, and
left republicans at the mercy of their en-
ragged enemies, who turned upon them with
fierce hatred.
Prosecutions and prosecutions in the State
courts have been freely resorted to, and OBJ
noxious republicans driven away or unjustly
convicted. The republican party has been
compelled to disband, and the dangers of a
solid South and rebel rule, which President
Hayes wanted the people of Ohio made to
believe would be averted if he were elected,
have become terrible realities.
In Mississippi, Gov. Stone, infamous for
his failure to prosecute effectually the CHS
holm murderers, was reelected by 96,382
votes, only 1,168 Republicans daring to go
to the polls, where, in 1872, Grant had 82,175
votes and Greeley only 1928, and in 1876
Hayes had 52,605 votes to 1878 for Tilden.
In Virginia, 1O1 $40 Democratic votes were
cast and 1883 Republican.
In Georgia, the Republican party, seeing
Senators Gordon and Hill the intimate friends
and trusted advisers of President Hayes, die
Federal patronage, must of necessity dis
solve, and yet, in 1872, Grant had $3.50
votes and Greeley 1886, and even Hayes
had 5O,446 to 13O,O68 for Tilden.
In Pennsylvania, where Hayes had 1884 ,122
votes to 66,158 for Tilden, the Republican
party, in 1877, weighted by the Hayes policy,
cast but 244, 4sO votes, falling off of 100000,
and the Democrats carried the State by 1000
majority.
In Ohio, where Hayes had 33O,698 to 1923,
1873 for Tilden, the Republican party, in
1877, cast only 241, 437 votes, loss of 88,261,
and lost the State by $4,000 majority, and
the Legislature by over 40 majority, which
the previous year had been Republican by 35
majority.
In Massachusetts, where the new policy
was most extensively thrust down the threats
of Republicans, of the 15O,O63 voters for
Hayes, who gave him $4,000 majority over
Tilden, over 10000 refused to vote for Gov.
Rice in 1877, and the majority against him
was 1886, and it was only by the support
and money of the organized rum sellers of
the State, and over 10000 Democratic votes
procured by rum influence, that he procured
his election by plurality, and the State was
saved from the fate of Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania.
Look, however, at the result where the
new policy was repudiated.
In Iowa, Hayes had 1928 plurality, and
in 1877 the Republicans had 81 1928 plurality.
In New York; Tilden had 32,742 majority,
and in 1877 the Democrats had only 11,264
majority, although the new policy men pro-
NOTED the Democratic side by Indifference,
and by procuring the new Administration to
make OF announce many injudicious re-
movals of Federal officers for the sole pur-
pose of irritating and humiliating Senator
Conkling and his friends.
vi.
These, then, are the facts before us.
1. Rutherford B. Hayes was elected Pres
ident by the Republican party on the plat
form of opposition to rebel rule and solid
South; and with pledges to protect, to the
extent of Federal power, life, suffrage, and
the free exercise of all political rights at the
South; was counted in as President only by
1osssun Or BpeclaI pledges to the same effect
given by his representatives and agents,
Senator Sherman and other Ohio emissaries,
who particularly and emphatically promised
that he would recognize and maintain the
lawful State governments of South Carolina
and Louisiana, and stand by Cows. Cham
berlain and Packard.
2. Before the actual declaration of his
election, and to secure the same, a deliberate
written bargain was made in his behalf by
the same Senator Sherman and his associates,
by which it was agreed with Senator Cor
don, aud other Southern rebel Democrats
that when he should be President, no at
tempts should be made to enforce the above
principles of his party, but that the South
should be allowed to manage its own affairs
in its own way, and that in particular ht
would abandon the lawful State govern
ments of Louisiana and South Carolina, ant
recognize in their stead the mob govern
1nents of Wade Hampton and F. H. Nichols
8. After his Inauguration, the bargain
was literally fulfilled; the United States fat
disgracefully hauled down III Columbia ant
New Orleans; the lawful governments mott
fed to surrender to rebel mobs, and upo1
their hesitation deliberately and actively tom
down by his Administration by unconsitu
tional processes, and the use of Federal pat
ronage vigorously welded by the same Sec
rotary Sherman and his associates; the mo-
Governments of Hampton and Nichols re
cognized, and solid South and rebel rul
established by the swift and eager action Q
his Administration.
4. All attempts to administer the Govern
ment upon the principles by proclaimin
which he had been elected and counted il
we're deliberately abandoned; the South not
i fed that it should not be interfered with b
his Administration; Southern Ku-Klnx an
negro murderers released and amnestied b
Presidential order; the enforcement of Fec
eral laws at the South given up, or intruste
to rebel Democratic hands; Senator Gordo
and his. fellow bargainers accepted as the il
innate and acknowledged advisers of til
President and the disposers of Federal pa
ronage: and tho black and white Republ
cans of the South mercilessly surrendered
the insults, prosecutions and atrocities
their Democratic enemies.
5. As a necessary result of all this, Il
Republican party at the South was disbande
and no Republican votes were cast in Stat
where free ballot would show large Repul
publican majorities the Republican party
: the north was paralyzed wherever the advit
of supporters or apologists for the new polio
was needed; Republican defeats ensue
} wherever it was endorsed, Republican Wet
ries only where it was repudiated and wit
: solid South and divided North, the Coz
federate Democrats are marching toward
: National victory in 1880, while Presidel
HAYES and Secretary Sherman look on vii
as much indifference as if they were
name, as they are in fact, allies of the Der
e ocratic party.
9 In view Of these lamentable facts, it is q
9 duty of true Republicans to take prompt al
!. courageous action.
Silence is crime; acquiescence and ina
: ton are political death. Can the Republic,
party, of heroic achievements, be bound
t an Administration which is not free agel
E but is bound by bargain to Gems. Gorde
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