The daily gazette., 1878-06-04

nation of perjury, were all resorted to to |
produce the official declarations which |
deprived Mr.. TIlden of more than the |
number Of electoral vote necessary to |
have placed him in the Office of President
and the evidence which will connect Mr.. |
Hayes with these crimes will be such that
it viii be entirely impossible for any
honest and de cent man to doubt his com
plicity in them. We have firm con-
viction of this, and that conviction is
founded on information of the facts, that
has reached us from trllSty sources, facts
which 60 very far beyond any of the con-
fessions yet made public facts which can
| not much longer be kept secret and which
it will not be in the power of any man to
suppress.
But without asking anybody to accept
in advance our conviction of what the
Investigation will disclose, let it be sup
posed that the result clearly establish
the fact that the Democrat electors were
chosen by the people of any one or more
States whose electoral votes were count
ed by the Electoral Commission and by
the two Houses for Hay es ; that these
results were brought about by forgery,
perjury, and subornation of perjury
| that the agents who procured these re-
| suits were the partisanS Of Hayes, more
or less directly acting in concert with
him or his immediate friends that the
| persons who consented to commit the
| frauds were promised rewards, and that
some of them have been rewarded,
while some of the agents in the nego-
tiations have been consciously rewarded.
| If this, or any considerable part of it, is
clearly established, is it conceivable
that the people of this country will per-
nit man TO retain the office of Presi-
dent who was put into it by such means?
Can any one imagine that the people
Ixtrtn ,.t -.
the office upon technical title, founded
in false count of the electoral votes,
rather than to establish a precedent,
called for by every decent regard for the
Constitution and for popular rights,
namely, to require an immediate surren-
der of the office to which the incumbent
has no title that is not tainted with the
most infamous frauds? There will be no
| necessity for any process to displace MI
Hayes. There will be no occasion for
any force. excepting the force of public
, opinion. That description of force will
, operate, whoever deprecates or opposes
it. 1t will be overwhelming, crushing
irresistible; it will leave no room for op
position, no means of resistance, no pos
sibility of hesitation. Mr.. Hayes will re
tire frem the office, and that same public
, judgment which will expcl him from i
6 | will designate by what means the de tdctt
vacancy can be filled de jure, in consis
: tency with the requirement of the Con
| stitution.
In the mean time the public peace will
q be everywhere preserved. People VIII,
s are SO foolish as to talk about civil wa
or public cOmmotion are too short-sighte'
) to see that there will be nothing to figh
: about. There can be no need OF violenc
to,enforce popular demand where ther'
Z ! can be no resistance to the popular viii
u The idea of Mr.. Hayes intrenching hin
: self in the White House by means of tn
II army is simply ridiculous. The arm
1t would fall to pieces on the issuing of hi
d | very order. The idea of the Democra
Al calling on the army to put him out
~ equally absurd, and so is the idea of an
- Democratic organization of an irregula
le force to compel Mr.. Hayes to retire. Me
3 cannot raise Irregular forces in this coul
p try to accomplish political purposes
er their individual action. Even the war
IS the rebellion could not be brought abol
ly without the action of the States in the
re sovereign capacities and in this matt
- of the Presidency, there is not state
~ the Union that would find the least O
&c casion to act upon the matter as Stat
40 because the public opinion of the matte
Y, | would have settled the business for N
ly | Hayes before he or his few remainil
it. partisans could be thinking of anythil
ic but packing their trunks and deparhl
of from Washington.
po Instead, therefore, of the Democra
nc incurring any risk as party by pushil
ii, this Investigation to all its legitimate co
re sequences, they will certainly lose groul
I'll politically if they do not push it, for tn
in have, In ordering and preparing for &
ly Investigation, acted far less on their ov
bo motion than they have as the ager
~ and organs of public opinion. AS to t.
" Republicans, it will be their death as
m omn party to throw any obstacles in the W
no keep Mr.. Hayes in Office after the rept
ais of the investigating committee has
nut tablished the fact that he never was el,
ted. There never was party in u
M country that could carry such purd
-. as Hayes will be after that report is
he fore the country.