The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-04-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON y, c., March 80, 1878.

WARRINGTON u. u, Marcn ~, 1910.
The original Jacobs--the man who
visited Mr.. Hayes on Sunday night,
March 4, 1877, at John Sherman's
house, and then and there discovered
that Hayes was not all that Republi-
can fancy painted him Senator
Hamlin. The words that Senator
Hamlin used on that occasion were
profane. lie said, did Senator Ham
lin, by Cd we're sold" | recall
this incident only because couple of
Pennsylvania Republican Congress-
man, after year of experience sim
Mar to what Hamlin had, are just
now affecting to be astonishea at
something Hayes has done or failed
to do. It was a matter of an Office
as, no doubt, was Iamlin's--and this
leaves Mr.. Hayes in March 1873 with
very much the same feelings as the
Senator did in March 1877. We may
expect that in 1880 the average Penn
sylvania radical Congressman will
understand things as fully as Hamlin
did after the Is minutes conversation
with Hayes.
Montgomery Blair's resolution,
which passed the Maryland House
yesterday, instructs the Attorney
General Of the State to exhibit a bill
to the Supreme Court of the United
States setting forth that by reason of
the fraudulent returns made from
other States and allowed to be counted
due effect was not given to the electo-
raj vote of Maryland, and praying
the Court to make the revision con-
templated by the electoral commits
sion law, and upon such revision de-
clare that Hayes and Wheeler were
not, and Tilden and Hendricks were
elected President and Vice-President
of the United States.
This resolution has none of the OBJ
jectionable features of other suggest
ed measures for getting this case be-
fore the Supreme Court. Such action
is, however, without precedent, and
the power of the Court to act on a
case of the kind, so brought to its at.
tention, will be questioned, of course.
The House yesterday seated Dean,
Democrat, in place of Field, Republi-
can, from Massachusetts. What made
tho case specially noticeable was the
course of General Butler. He voted
for Dean, asserting that, under a bad
law enacted by Republicans, Dean
was entitled to the seat. He said the
law, made by Republicans to protect
Republicans, happened in this case to
aid q Democrat, and it was not the
less a law and ought to be lived up to.
There arc several laws, on more i'm
portant subject, which have answer
cd the partizan purpose for which
they were passed, and which Iexpect
Republicans will yet wish to see re-
pealed.
The feeling here appears to be that
the New Orleans Collectorship lies
between Packard and Anderson with
tho chances in favor of the former.
But Mr.. Hayes has a very curious
habit Of listening attentively to all
that is said Of candidates, then making
his selection from those who have not
been mentioned.
We all remember how the Moffett
bell.punch was laughed to scorn a
few months ago bit it seems to have
widely commended itself. BY its prac-
teal workings and has been adopted
IN two other Southern States, is before
the Albany Legislature, and is being
strongly urged for this District,
A would be Wisconsin Postmaster
MANAGED to call the Presidents at
tsntion particularly to bis case by
sending him map of his little bor-
ough with bis adherent's houses paint
Cd pink, those of "the other fellow"
yellow. The idea appears hardly
adopted to large towns of the size of
Now York, for instance.
ALBION.