Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-23
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As we have always been of the
number who believed that the CHI
cane aud fraud and contempt of
the will of the people which the
Republicans displayed in the last
Presidential election have materi.
ally complicated our politics, GER
tain iippant questions, in the spirit
Of Tweed's famous "What are you
going to do about it?" which have
been addressed to US do not embar-
rass US in the least. We are pain
fully aware of the difficulties
which beset the American people
In the line of asserting themselves
as genuine Republic, cherishing,
above all things, the right to elect
their President. We believe that
nobody but the witches themselves
were responsible for the compound
ing Of q certain hell broth on a
bleak Scottish moor, which was so
fateful to Macbeth. We contributed
none of the ingredients of the Elec-
to-al infamy. There was not an
element Of legality in the whole
thing, both because it was extra
constitutional and because it was
done under duress-the duress of
unprincipled men who controlled
the army. Over all impends the
time-honored maxim, consecrated
from the times Of the Pandects
even, that fraud vitiates every
thing. Two things We do know.
The first is that even the act which
constituted the Electoral Commits
sion expressly reserved the rights
OF either of the parties to The Presi.
DENTAL controversy. If the people
of the United States desire to rem
edy gross wrong they can very
easily find o method. II it shall
prove, as the resu 1t of an investiga.
ton of the Florida and Louislana
frauds, that Mr.. Hayes, through
MS agents, participated in the
crime. and that he afterwards re-
warded those agents and the GRIM
inals who made him President with
Office, his impeachment and re-
moval from office would be de-
manded by the voice of the country,
Irrespective of politics. But this is
but a minor view of the subject. II
the result of an investigation shall
disclose the fact, beyond contro-
veTsy, that Mr.. Tilden and not Mr..
Hayes was elected President, res
olution of both Houses 10 that eff
feet would reach the evil and the
remedy at q bound. The theory of
the Constitution Of the United
States is that Congress shall,
having in view the de-
cision of the people, eX-
pressed in the Electoral Colleges
OF the several States, declare
who is President. Congress is to
accord this recognition TO the man
who has q majority-not per-
jured and suborned majorlty-of
the electoral votes. The fact that,
under exceptional circumstances,
and under a misrepresentation of
the truth, Congress had made
wrong proclamation of the result,
by no means preclules that body
from repairing the wrong and Civ
ing the rightful efficacy to the
voire of the people.
We have written thus much as
to the logical aspects of the ques.
ton. We will adj a few more
words. The HERALD has never
committed itself to the proposition
that Hayes must necessarily be re-
moved as result of this invesLiga-
ton. We firmly believe that lie
ought to be; but, whether he is or
no, the people have right to
know the full details of the shame
full frauds by which they have
been cozz ened, and they should be
instructed as to the extreme danger
of surrendering the control of the
government, in any of its branch
es, to the Republican party until
1T has been thoroughly chastened.
We know Of no party which is so
much In need of experiencing the
Sweet and bitter uses of ADVERSE
ty'' as the Republican party. For
all we know, it may be in Hayes
to continue TO present q cheek of
brass TO the Indignant voters of the
United States; but, if he stays in
office, he will be compelled to wear
his honors as very shirt Of Mes
sus.
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