The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-04
Who Are MexicanIZiuG Us ?
Philadelphia Times.


A few desperate Republican leaders,
such as Sherman, Chaodler, Cameron,
NCyes and their dependents, resolved to
"MexcaDize the government OF this
country by defeating the will OF the peo-
pie as expressed IN the last Presidential
election. They deliberately summoned
fraud TO overthrow law, justice, conf
dence and peace, and they succeeded.
The electoral votes OF Louisiana and
Florida were wrested from TIlden by
perjury, forgery and wholesale manipu-
latiOn OF the returns, and Hayes WAS
made President, having received law
tul and unasssilable title from the EleCtO-
raj Commission.
The Democrats, the cheated party, are
content TO lose their stolen Presidency
since the theft has been legslized on
technical grounds by lawful tribunal,
but they propose to 90 TO the bottom facts
and tell the country and the world J1st
how the theft was committed. and who
the criminals are This is unpleasant for
the criminals, and the criminal happen
to be many more of the leaders of the
Republican party than the party can
afford TO have branded as electoral bur
glars. With one accord, therefore, they
howl against the Democratic investiga'
ton AS an effort to "Meyicaniz5' the
couutry and plunge it into revolution.
Those who deliberately "MeIicanIzed"
the country in 1861 now shrek them
selves hoarse against "MexiCsnizing" the
nation By a simple inquiry into the de-
tails of great fraud and the names Of its
chief criminals.
No one connected in any responsible
manner with the proposed investigation
of the electoral frauds seeks or desires TO
unsest President Hayes, but all the men
shout the President seam TO fear that the
developments must be 30 shocking that
the matter OF unsesting Hayes will some
how do itself; and, having lnauguTa.ed
the "MexiCsnlzlng" policy themselves,
they now join in pitiful chorus TO dis
tract the country from an inquiry into
monstrous crime and the criminals who
conceived and perpeLrated 1t, by deciar-
ing that revolution must follow exposure
aud punishment
1t never was pleasant for burglars TO
be cOrnered by the police, especially
when they had the stolen goods in their
possession, and they would naturally yell
fire or smallpox il they could hope
thereby to escape the penalty Of their
crimes. So argue Cabinet Ministers
Sherman and Key, and so argue Gar
field and Foster and Matthews aud
Moves, and they are united IN the des-
perate effort to convulse the country
about unthought-ot assaults upon
awful titles and impossible revolutions.
And the organs JOIN IN the cry Of the en-
dsngered criminals and would have the
nation believe that we arc on the verge
Of turbulence and lawlessucss, because
the people want 10 know exactly how
and by whom wss committed d crime
that strikes its consuming poison INTO
the very life OF the Republic. + it
wonderful that few read and fewer still
believe the paroxysmsl utterances of the
political organs of the day.
A great crime committed by men high
in authority in 1867 is the source OF
the present unrest Of the country, and
none but criminals or the apoIOgists and
defendents Of criminals, protest against
the most searching inquiry into the
authors and methods OF the mexican
ling process that was born of the Louis
lsua and Florida frsuds.-PhjiadeiphlG
Times.