The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-06-19
WASHINGTON,
June 8, 1875

OF course hoSutnS 10 o'''no" va Vi
,rnarently thought of here except
.bs great investigation of the electo.
al frauds, and I presume the inter
90. taken in the same subject by the
,esaers of the Democrat must be
soually keen, no less from local than
f,om national considerations. The
investigation may be said to have
nassed its first stage and entered up
IN its second, with complete success
to the Democrats and thereby to the
cause Of right, law and justice gene
rally. The FIRST stage of the investi-
cation consisted naturally develop
inc evidence enough to support the
snhiect matter of the resolution au-
tborizing it, and in demonstrating
the necessity of further procedure,
both Of which results have been at
tanned TO degree considerably be-
vond the expectations even of those
whogslike your correspondent, had
prior knowledge Of the evidence that
was in store.
AS q matter of congratulation
mention that the time is now passed
when the frantic drivel of hired men
like Key, or the forcible-feeble re-
monstrances OF. superanuated senti'
meutalists like Aleck Stephens car
attract public attention, much less
command public respect. 1t is also
worthy of note that the cries of rev
olution and Mexicanization, will
which the rag-tag and bob-tail news
paper claquers of the Fraudulen
Administration at first sought tt
bulldoze the Democrats into silenc'
and submission have suddenly ceas
ed, and instead Of them the air is Gil
ed With the cries of the wounded
thieves and the groans of the dyin.
visiting statesmen" at the yer.
first discharge from our batteries -
The investigation has now been 60
ing on just q week. 1t is not We
fairly under way. The ground ha
hardly been staked out for the gran'
structure of exposure and conviction
which is to be built as charne
house of fraud and hospital for tn
victims of justice. This investiga
ton, as / telegraphed you last night
has already assumed proportion
which argue it's prolongation ia
months. And yet the first week c
it has destroyed
JOHN SHERMAN AND STANLEY MAI
TIEWS
beyond the faintest hope of resurre'
ton; destroying by the writing
their own hands and out of their ow
mouths. 1t has put Mr.. Hayes upo
the defensive, and with him has d
yolved upon the Radical party IL
onus probundi of establishing it's il
nocence or the innocence gifts agen
of the crimes clearly and circumsta
TALLY implied in the documentary e
idence adduced.
OF course nobody contends th
anything substantially new has bet
developed. Everybody in Louisian
at least, has known all the time tn
the electoral vote of the State ";
seized by thieves, falsifed by peri
rers, perverted by forgers and coun
ed by corrupt aud dishonest judg
for the defeated candidate. Ever
body has known that Jim Anderso
as Supervisor of Registration Fl
East Feliciaua, was one of the pri
cipal tools employed to do the dl
tier, or at least the more despera
portion of the foul work; that he d
it by the advice and at the instig
ton of John Sherman, Stanley Ma
thews, Stoughton, Garfield, Hale
al, and under positive promise of r
warl from at least two Of the pr
cious gang, to-wit: John Sherm'
and Stoughton.
Everybody has known, too, that fro
the moment of his Inauguration doy
to the present day Hayes has been e
gagged in using the honors and emol
menta of the public service to pay t
debts which his infamous agents co
tracted in his behalf in suborning pc
jury where perjury was needed, and
bribing men to commit or submit
forgery wherever forgery was nece
sary to the accomplishment Of thu
designs. Beyond these specifcatio
the public has all along been eogniza
OF o vast mass of report and rumor,
many cases so direct and positive as
amount to matter of fact, as to b,
! gains, intrigues and negotiations
the furtherance Of fraud or the reali,
zion of its results in various ways a
by and between great number of
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