Smyrna times., 1878-06-12
WHOLE NO. 1906.
Political.


The result in Oregon is decidedly mixed.
The Republicans elect most Of the State
ticket, and probably the Governor also, but
the Democrats have carried off the great
prize-the United States Senatorship. This
will afford the party chance to put Cronin
i'll position where that controversy about
the illuminating qualities of his nose could
be settled to the satisfaction of the country.
The Lancaster L,tclL;gencer says of James
+. Anderson that he was, years ago. a resi-
dent Of that city, and one of Judge Patter.
sons Sunday School scholars. lie was an
apprentice in the Un;on office, and was dis
charged thereirom, according to the h,t,lt-
gcnccr, . for Offering to the Democrats to
mix their tickets with those of the Repub.
lican party printed at the tnion office"
While in Lancaster he was regarded as
shrewd and tricky, but 10y no means
brilliant.
solemn friend writes Us from Delaware
in protest against our view that the presi-
dent cannot be realloted until 1880. He
| overlooLs the fact that most Democrats
think just as we do. lie is eloquent about
| frauds; but does lie really believe men who
swear back and forward like the Andersons
and McLins? Really, brother, there must
| be a decent witness or two to overturn the
! Constitution. But Mr.. Hayes offered
| them offices" Yes, when they were play
ing martyr SO well as to deceive the very
elect.-IEe Nthoi,st
Gov HENDRICKS on THE INvEsTIGATIoN.-
| Gov. Hendricks, in an interview at Indian
apolis, last week, stated that he was op-
posed to any attempt to disturb Mr. Hayes
in his position. While he believed Mr..
Tilden had been fairly elected still the
action of the FOrty-fourth Congress was
final, and could not be reviewed. At the
same time he expressed himself in favor of
a thorough investigation of the frauds by
which the will of the people had been
thwarted, to the end that the perpetrators
might be punished and a repetition thereof
be prevented.
The New York Commcrcid Adrertiser, a
Republican paper, intimates that the Demo
Gratis made an effort to raise a hundred
thousand dollars to buy Wells and Ander-
son, end also that nearly an equal amount
was put up to carry Wisconsin for Tilden.
1t says if two eminent Democrats could be
called they would prove this, but declares
that, after all, nothing but disgrace to the
country will come out Of it," All the dis
grace to the country that is possible comes
. through the resort to such methods in poll
| tics, and not through their exposure. As
soon as the Investigating Committee gets
, through the work Immediately in hand we
: | hope it will the matter in hand and learn
l. who the two prominent Democrats are to
whom he refers in this article. The country
wants the whole truth in these matters
and can stand its revelation. 1t will no
n necessarily show that the country is rotten
1t but merely that its affairs have been en-
g trusted to rascals and that another set o
es rascals have been trying to get into powe
;, by putting out the first set
"a A PoLITICAL CANCER-The investigation
is by the Potter Committee has Just CON
of menced, but it has gone far enough t
". bring anew to the cheek of every homes
I'd man the blush of shame, that the fate c
a the country should have been held in tn
IL balance by such fraud and corruption q
existed in the taking of the last ballot fc
President. There is, unfortunately, notl
20 ing new in the testimony of Mr.. James
- Anderson, except in the story of the detail
~ of the special inquities of which he VIZ
no cognizant What he tells is only the r.
be freshing of Il too well-founded belief thu
to the election everywhere in the South was
Int record of the most iniquitous fraud. 1t
he not of special Republican guilt or particl
he lar Democratic crime of which we speal
vas but of q universal generalization whiC
ere seemed to recognize no immortality in ar
f. offence that was political. What the R
aid publcans did III one place the Democra
log did in another. and the accusations of pa
his tisanship can make the act of neither Il
at most offensive. The history of the pa
sht shows that where corruption is permittC
the as means the end can be only deca
was as By unsparing use of the knife cane
n may be cut out; the blood cannot be rid
nos o its destructiveness by hiding the sore wi
mn a plaster This is no time for Republica
m. to palliate or temporize. To live, the par
en- must purge itself, and join in honest {
nunciation of wrong wherever it is foun
-PhHu North american.