Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-18
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THE POTTER RESOLUTION,
Opinions Of the Press.
THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE.
Todleben CrOwding Turkey.
PASSAGE OF THE POTTER RESo.
LUII0N.
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NEW YORK, May lS-The Times commpnt
ing on the action of the House Yesterday.
says: ms whole business of Investigation l.
the Work OF handful of men, indiyidualiy
unlmportant, but able SO 10 as, IN, nm n rhi1arSS
OF th .he caucus as TO commit the party in spite
OF the better Judgment OF the majority az lie
members. The resolution does not EXPRESS the
mature result OF a conference repreSanting
The party as whole. Ii merely tells the pur>
pose OF a faction OF which Mr.. Tilden - the
guiding spirit, and its adoption by tba parfS
in Congress Indicates how abjectly memberS
respond TO the requirements of the unscrupu
louS men who hold the caucus screw
The Tribune regards the action of the UouSa
as revolutionary, and says: The democratic
resolution IL not only indecent and knayiSh
IL is an attempt to get up new rebellion
against lawful authority. In either aspect n
could be resisted as matter of right i'm the
latter II was duty 10 resist IL. UnTil the rev
olutionary intent is wholly defeated republi.
cans ought 10 treat all compromises and AID
justments that may be proposed precisely As
peace at any price COpperheads were so
treated when the first rebellion began.
The Herald 'ayS: No intelligent man of
either political party can longer doubt that
this whole batch of incendiary ATTEMPTS were
lnStlgated by Mr.. Tilden. He never did any
thing more CHARACTERISTIC of "Stin hunt
methods. This aStute and secretive plOtter
who mistakes cunning for wisdom, is no doubt
sincere in thinking that he has been dpfrauded
OF an office 10 which he was elected by tht.
people, and he probably juStiheS 10 himself the
underhand attempts he is making 10 shake
The STABILITY OF the government, imperil the
public tranquility and disturb the bust
ness OF the country. But neither his
10y the pubic sentiment of the country
III the democratic party sets itself In
array against the title of a President,
who has been regularly inaugurated and has
completed nearly half his term, the party will
exhibit a truly remarkable example of poIiti-
cal suicide. The indignant opposition af the
country 10 an attempt 10 heMcanize our in
StitqtionS will render The democratic party as
odlous 10 public feeling and as contemplate
In numbers as II was at the close of the civil
war. This great hlunder of the democrats
me repubilcanS are prompt TO seize upon 10
their OWN advantage, as will be seen by the re-
publican address which is issued on the heels
OF the passage of the democratic resolution
Against the city of fraud they raise the cry
of revolution" and they will unite the whole
north once more in their support.
lhe World regards the republican address
as Wild and unwiSe, and tending TO excite the
very clamor and confusion which those who
thus mlSrepresent the action of the democratic
majority pretend TO deprecate. The World
refers to The report of the republican Congress
frauds in the state of New York which report
considered it OF the highest importance that
congress should provide remedy against fu-
ture frauds. IL says: Has a remedy against
the danger since been found or Droyideds
Certainly not, if the allegations of Senator
COnkllng as to Louisiana, and of the chairman
OF the board OF state canvasSerS as TO Florida
are true and substantial. All that the Potter
resolution desires to accomplish is TO carry out
measure which a republican committee of
Congress in 1869 truly pronounced TO be OF
the highest Importance" ISthat measure of
less Importance now, when, as a majority OF
the people of this country believe. the absence
OF a proper remedy against this danger i'm
Florida and in Louisiana has actually resulted
in the elevation Of a candidate TO the Pres-
dency by votes fraudulently or illegally east"
The Sun has no editorial, but prints figure
head, with the word Fraud" on the forehead,
With the following title: The portrait as de-
iineated by Mr.. Charles +. Adams OF the man
who yesterday saw a section of the day of
Judgment. A person who must forever carry
upon his brow the stamp of fraud first tri-
umphant in American history. No subsequent
action can wash away the letter of that record
Charles Francis Adams