The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-30

up by the Democratic House oil Repre-.
sentatives, nominally to expose con-
spiracy by which said party was ierryman'
dered out Of the lawful result Of the
Presidential election in Louisiana, will
sum up conclusions far different from
what were either expected or intended.
SO far the net return Of the investigation
to its Democratic promoters, has been to
confirm the truth Of the allegations that
the Irregularities committed in the State
Of Louisiana were such as to not only
Justify but to compel the Returning
Board, If it carried out the letter and
spirit Of the law, to make just such de-
ciaration'6f the result as they did make
The country ia now thoroughly con-
WINGED that the investigation itself was a
conspiracy, deep and carefully laid. The
evidence Of It have bubbled up like a
noisome stencil through the rotten, tang
led mass Of perjury that must make the
yery heavens reel. One OF the strong
points made by the Congressional con-
spirators was that the people by whose
agency the great wrong which kept the
Democratic party with It's cyclopic head,
from enjoying the Offices Of the govern
msnt were to be ierretted out and pun
i,hed Yet the very people who stand
before the country covered all over with
the leprosy Of perjury as with gar.
ment, have come and gone before
the committee, the self acknowledged
authors Of the very crimes by reason Of
which the great Democratic party, like
Nasty, mourns the loss Of the offices
Let any man point to any one Of the in.
famous crew who have been before the
Committee, who has given his testimony
with the fear Of the State prison before
h,s ewes. What one Of them manifested
any fear that after unfolding such a tale
Of fraud they could no more reside among
the people Of Louisiana whose good
name they had SO grossly outraged. Ia
there anything about the testimony Of
those ingrained perjurers that bears evil
dence Of contritien for great moral
and political crime, anything to show thai
their statements are born Of shame and
remorse, Of conviction that they mus
atone for the evil they had dones so lar al
confession coull do so, let the consequen
ces be to themselves what they might
There is not the faintest CLEAN Of such
incentive. On the other hand in support
Of the allegation Of such Democratic
conspiracy what do we fndH in the
very initiation Of the investigation the
minority of the committee, with the ex'
ception Of Butler, were kept as far as
possible in Ignorance Of the course to be
pursued in carrying on the investigation
They were ignored a. far as practicable ii
arranging the preliminaries, and why
Simply because the preliminaries had
been already arranged and it was not In
tended that the minority should have any
part therein, except to concur, whether
they liked them or not. .-.,
Again. when the determined course
Of the majority was finally developed, II
VIVA clear that the lessons had been care.
fully prepared, that the witnesses had
been thoroughly pumped in order for the
purposes Of the investigation, to find out
The exact value Of the wares they had to
offer. The interrogatories were prspar'
ed accordingly. And such interrog-
storiesl They were, most OF them, Of such
A palpably leading character IA would
have brought down a reprimaud from
any respectable Judge Of any court 10 the
United States. The Democratic querists
endesyored to keep their crooked wit
nesses from inextricably taugling them
selves by virtually putting answers into
their mouths, under the thin guise Of
questions. Readers Of the public
prints have not failed to mark
the insolence Of the majority, especially
OF Butler, towards the minority when
they insisted upon their right to object
either to the manner or The matter OF the
investigation. Why were they thus insO'
lsnt2 Simply because Republican objec'
lions tended to divert the investigation
from the course pre'arranged by the
Democratic magnates Of the Star Cham-
Der. Viewing the whole course OF the
committee from the stand point oil facts
developed at Washington, no man can eS'
cape the conclusion that the investigation
was, alb initio, a conspiracy as absolute as
that.which it charged against the Rspub'
llcsn visiting statesmen. 1t was conspir-
acy that upon the ilmsy basis Of testimony
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the finding Of the Electoral Commission
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