The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-09

cousin of Wade Hampton, was appointed
marshal of Georgia, in place of one Smythe.
a competent and honest republican, and was
confirmed by the democratic senators votes
and that of Stanley Matthews alone.
Pror 10 the selection of FitZsimmons the
president had determined to change Smythe
and appoint Mr. w. A. Huff, of Macon.
democrat whom Gordon had selected. Some
republicans of Georgia joined in recommend
ing HUFF, upon discovering which damning
fact Gordon retracted his selection of Huff
and procured the president to nominate
Fitzsimmons.
Gordon thus states his reasons in letter
to Huff:
heard for the first time that you were being
pressed for appointment as a suitable person
to build up the republican party in Georgia.
Surprised at this, l at once asked the president
TO withhold any appointment for day and
until could be heard from. The president
consented.
Messrs. McBurney and Dibble, republicans
from Macon, . say in their letter 10 the
president that your appointment would ma
terially strengthen republicaniSm in Georgia,
in harinonizing conflicting party differences,
and bring mucn strength from sources hitherto
dormant or in active opposition.
i therefore asked the president the direct
question, sis Mr.. duff urged for appointment
as n democrat" He said no, not as demo-
crat; but as man with very liberal ideas il
politics.
The information given me by the president
himself, supplemented by the fact that Messrs.
your appointmenJ because 1T would materially
strengthen republicanism in Georgia, were the
reasons, the only reasons-and think sufh-
cieni reasons-for my opposition to your APP
pointment.
president that did not believe your appoint
ment would be acceptable TO the people of
Georgia.
Had you made known your dlsapproval of
such arguments, You would have saved the
president from any Misrepresentation as to
your political status, me from the diagreeable
task which sense of duty to my state conf
from the modification experienced at the loss
of the Office you desire TO fill.
j. b. GORDON.
And so General Gordon procures Samuel
]. Tilden-no, Rutherford b. Hayesl-to
turn out Smythe, republican, change from
HUFF, liberal democrat, to Fitzsimmons,
a rebel democrat, and make the latter mar
shall to protect the poor colored people of
Georgia.
OF like character, procured by like infu-
enceS, are the appointments of Walden as
marshal of Tennessee, and Northrop and
his assistant as district attorneys in South
Carolina.
These significant instances of a surrender
of the power of the federal courts to rebel
democrats, the prompt and complete amnes-
ty to all negro murderers and ku klux, and
the eager trampling out of the only remain
ing republican state governments at the
south, entirely crushed all republican cour-
age, and left republicans at the mercy of
their enraged 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
-faI Ior al
have become terrible realities.
In Mississippi, Governor Stone, infamous
for his failure to prosecute effectually the
Chisholm murderers, was reelected by sc, 3S2
votes, only / 1853 republicans daring to go to
the polls where, in 1872. Grant had S2.175
votes and Greeley only 7,2SS, and in 1876
Hayes had s., Cos votes to III, l73 for Tilden,
In Virginia 101 $40 democratic votes were
cast and 4,3S9 republican.
In Georgia. the republican party, seeing
Senators Gordon and Hill. the intimate
friends and trusted advisers of President
Hayes, debating the appointments and con-
trolling the federal patronage, must of
necessity dissolve, and yet, in 1872, Grant
had $3.50 votes and Greeley IS 1885, and
even Hayes had 40,446 TO 13O,06S for
In Pennsylvania, where Hayes had 3s4 122
votes to 366, 155 for Tilden, the republican
party, in 1877. weighted by the Hayes policy,
cast but pa, 4S0 votes falling off of 40 600.
and the democrats carried the state by 1000
majority.
In Ohio, where Hayes had $50. sos to s2s.-
1S2 for Tilden, the republican party, in 1877,
cast only 241, 49, votes, loss of 80, 26l, and
lost the state by 1900 majority, aud the
legislature by over 40 majority, which the
previous year had been republican by 80
majority.
In Massachusetts,, where the new policy
was most Extensively thrust down the Threats
of republicans, OF the 150O63 voters for
Hayes, who gave him 40, 600 majority over
Tilden, over 10000 refused to vote for
Governor Rice in 1871 and the majority
against him was / ,S36, and ii was only by
the support and money of the organized
rumsellers 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 Pennsylvania.
Look, however, at the result where the
new policy was repudiated.
In Iowa, Hayes had 1929 plurality, and
in 1877 the republicans had 81 1913 plurality.
In New York. Tilden had 32,742 msjority
and in 1877 the democrats had only II, 264
majority, although the new policy men
promoted the democratic side by indiffer-
ence, and by procuring the new administra-
ton to make or announce many injudicious
removals 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.
l. 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
reason of special 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 Governors
Chamberlain and Packard.
p Before the actual declaration of his