The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-12
Downfall of the Hayes Admins
tratiOm.

The thing that was conceived in sin
and brought forth in iniquity, is dead as
Hector. Hays was defeated by popular
majority of 260, 900 vote, and by deeid-
ed majority of the Electoral College.
These results were annulled first by the
fraud and perjury of Republican Re
turning Boards and by Supervisors of
elections, suborned by visiting states
men who have since been rewarded
with high office by the de .facto Pres
ident and secondly, through the agency
of the Electoral Commission, which by a
union of a minority of the Democrats
with all the Republicans in the last Con
gress, was licensed to 90 on with the
count, after the detection Of its fraudu-
lent proceedings, and its failure to exc
cute the law of its creation. For twelve
months it lived a sickly existence, amid
constant signs Of the storm that would
sooner or later expend its fury upon its
guilty head. The storm has burst 1t has
come in the form of revelations by Re
publicans who were parties to the great
crime, not only against the rights of the
people and the laws of the land, but
the civilization of the age Numerous
we're the criminals engaged in this
foul conspiracy, but chief among them
were the accepted famiIiars of Mr.
L. B. Hayes, John Sherman and Stan
ley Matthews-one is his guide in
the Cabinet, and the other his mouth
piece and conscience keeper, in the
Senate. He appointed the one to be
Secretary of the Treasury, and intrigued
to secure the election of the other. The
proof is positive that these men went to
New Orleans pending the counting of the
votes by the Republican officials of
Louisiana, and gave shape and form
to the fraud. Sherman's letter is pro
duced IN which he pledged the Super
visors of the East Feliciana election that
Mr.. Hayes if counted in would reward
and take care of them if they would
stand by fraudulent, false and forged
paper protesting against the returns from
that parish. Numerous letters are pro-
duced from Stanley Matthews to Ander-
son and others showing that to prevent
the latter from exposing the villainy of
which he and his pals had been guilty
he used his efforts to secure Anderson an
office, which he succeeding in doing, but
which for reasons satisfactory to Ander-
son was declined. That he did this with
guilty knowledge Of the crime, and as
compensation for it, is shown by the fact
that Anderson placed in his hands a
corrupt bargain which he had made with
one E. Nash by which It was stipulated
that if Anderson would suppress evil
dence showing that East Feliciana was
fairly carried by the Democrats, he
should be appointed by r. B. Hayes the
of the stolen office, to & lucra-
tive position. That Hayes himself had
1 guilty knowledge of the crime after It's
if not before, no doubt can
possibly exist.
The Florida case is a repetition of the
same story of fraud. forgery and PERU |
Y; and it is upon this rotten superstruc-
ure that the Administration of r. B |
Hayes is shivering. Nothing can save
t; nor redeem it from lasting infamy
It is mark for the finger of scorn, and |
before its term expires, there will be
lone so eager as its own friends to bury
t out of public view.