The daily gazette., 1878-05-03

THE PRESIDENTIAL FRAUD.-We may
be wrong; but we cannot believe the in
telligent people of this country will agree
to submit to the decision that has been
made of the Presidential question.
If Mr. Hayes was not elected, his i'm
position upon the country as President,
mo matter how excellent his character)
is the most stupendous outrage ever per-
petrated. The manner in which it was
accomplished is more to be dreaded than
revolution by the sword. The Electoral
Commission may have been and doubt
less was wise provision, and gotten up
by the great body of those who assented
to it with spirit of the most supreme
patriotism. But did any one outside of
the few conspirators who concocted the
reference to the Supreme Court, that
thereby dictatorship was being erected,
that would with single wave of the
hand or nod of the judicial head decide
TO set the voice of the people aside, and
make a President of gentleman whom
the nation had by the acknowledged
forms Uoted should not be President?
If it should be proved that Mr.. Hayes
was informed of the frauds in Florida
and Louisiana, he was a party TO the
fraud but the worst feature in the trans
action is that it proves the U. s. Court to
be fraud; scandal and stigma a
trap and device for deception.
The reference was to the Court, not as
to an arbitrator, but as Court to try the
case to weigh the evidence and decide
accordingly. 1t was not to determine
the constitutionality of the Electoral
Commission, or the constitutionality of
anything else it was to weigh and deter
mine upon the evidence and faith.
full rendering make of the very right of
the question as TO who received the ma
jority of the votes polled in Florida and
in louisiana But a member of the
Court claimed to be the fifteenth men,
ber-to wait until he saw the opinions of
his fellow members of the Commission
and then to have the right to say whether
there should be any examination made
of the evidence; and also whether auy
trial should be gone into; and also who
should be elected President Z; and by his
own vote he thus constituted himself a
dictator as to the whole matter. And so
this man determined to vote for himself
and thus to make Hayes President, who
was not elected. And now when the
evidence is adduced that Hayes was put
in by fraud ; that the fraud was known
to those who put him there before the
Electoral Commission was formed; and
that If the case had gone to trial he could
not have been put there, we are told the
decision of this self-made dictator the
decision OF this abuser of the privileges
OF the U. S. Court cannot be reversed
that there is no constitutional method bv
which fraud in the Presidential chair
can be removed from it, that a Congress
elected by the voice of an intelligent
people may have its acts set aside or
passed upon by fraud but that that
congress cannot discard the fraud and
acknowledge the man lawfully elected
by the people to the Office We saw we
cannot believe this. We cannot believe
that we have monstrosity, instead of n
government The electoral colleges met
and cast their votes. In Louisiana and
FLORIDA votes cast for Tilden and votes
for Hayes. In both cases the votes for
Hayes were given to him, when they
should have been given to Tilden HAYES
was entitled to none in those two States
While he was given all, and all were
necessary to his election. But the so,ne
States voted also in electoral COLLEGES for
1llden and one single vote of them all
alone was enough to elect him, But tbe
dictator chose not to regard anv of ,ho
votes given to Tilden in Florida and
LOUISIANA as oil right his And when the
proof was offered the dictator spnrned
it, And thus Hayes was put into Office
Every act that he has done is illegal and
subsequent U. S. Court could conscien.
uously so decide it and thus DESTROY
every bond and legal enactment to which
the fraudulent signature of HAYES the
President was attached Us Il PREREQUISITE
TO its lawful nature. And vet we are
told Congress cannot order the reversal
and acknowledge the electoral votes OF
lorda and Louisiana that were given
TO lllden. Why could they not witnes,
ms oath OF Inauguration and send theil
pls to him as President? If Tilder
We're Hayes and Hayes Tilden, and the
congress Republican instead of Demo
cratic, the imposter we believe would be
changed quickly
NO PARTY papers are a fraud, or a re.
publican form of government is sucb as
an intelligent and educated peonIe .can
tns.
sustain farnes are necessary to re-
puohcan government and party papers
are indispensable to intelligent marty
organization. lift were not tor mar, :,
papers the people could be deceived by
partisans at any time.
Hayes an Accessory.
THE CONCLUSION THAT HE wAa rncNr