The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-26
THE PEf ESS ON THE PR ESH-
DENTAL FRAUD
THE ADMINISTRATION LEADERS AND THE
FRAUD.

THE ADMINISTRATION LEADERS AND THE
FRAUD.
n. Y. Times (Republican).
He NAV be set down one of the worst
specimens OF scoundrels whom Louisiana
partisanship has produced. and every decent
Republican in the land will blush for the
party management that made such crea-
ture its instrument in any service whatever.
He was a Republican appointee in the New
Orleans CustOm-hOuSe, Supervisor in the
Republican interest in East Felciana, and
generally i'm close fellowship with the Re
publican leaders and otfice-hOlders of Louis
lana. We shall be disappointed il he be not
proved perjurer. But the fact will remain
that this consummate rascal was once an ac-
tive particpator in Republican affairs,
holding confidential communications with
prominent members of the party and sustain
ed by them in applications for thereward OF
confessed dishonesty
The letters raise a presumption against
Sherman that will not be easily overcome.
AS for Mr.. Stanley Matthews, there can be
no doubt as to the effect of his letters upon
his own political character. The little that
was left him. after his Senatorial displays, is
utterly destroyed by these proofs of his in
timacy with Anderson, and of the solIcItude
he displayed in that persons behalf. with
all his scOundrelism, it is evident that An
derson was in Matthews opinion worthy of
consideration at the hands OF members of
the Administration and its friends.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE IN A BAD
PREDICAMEGT.
Boston Herald independently.
Mr.. Ferry appears to be in predicament
quite as bad as that of Stanley Matthews. Ii
will require more than his large shears to
cut the thread of the charge which has been
woven around him. As President pro tenn
pore of the Senate, he was bound to hold
the scales with exact Justice between the
parties He knew that the return received
from Louisiana by mail w as improperly in
dorsed. Why did he fail to call attention to
that very important fact?
THE CARPET BAa-PoLITlCIAN.
Gin Commercial (Rep.l
The more Mr.. James E. Anderson explains
his relationship to the Louisiana election
the stronger becomes the development of
the peculiar article of politician produced in
the South under the benign administration
of Gen. Grant.
how HAYES REWARDED THE PERI AND
FoRGERS.
N. Y. Herald Gnd.l
And while we have not the remotest
thought that President Hayes has been in
volyed in such matters, he ought to know
that the persistent and abundant favor he
has shown to men who were conspicuous in
the doubtful political transactions OF 1876
has lowered him in the general esteem, ana
robbed him of the respect and confidence OF
the best men in the country. He has DELHI
erately and continually used the Federal
| patronage to reward and honor men the
whole country knows to be disTeputaole;
| whom he knows, in common with every
body else to be tainted with the Disgrace
| full NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in the Southern
States; whom he could not have thought of
appointing or retaining in office il he had
| sought persons of unblemished character
| and reputation, and to whom everybody
| sees he extends his favor for no other rea-
son than that they helped by dubious means
| to raise him to the Presidency
THINGS DO NOT LOOK WELL.
Baltimorean Ind.
| Altogether things do not look well for the
Republican leaders, and if they cannot ex-
| plain matters to the entire satisfaction of
| the pubic good many points may be con-
| sidered as already scored on the Democratic
| side In great contest which Is TO be de-
| cided in 1880.
Sea Cost Herald, Gen. Davis Paper.l
It is not to turn out Mr.. Hayes, If he were
| only the passive tool of those who sought to
| perpetuate party power, that we advocate
| an exhaustive investigat and thorough
| exposure of the frauds which have been
| committed; but it is that the world may
see, and PROSPERITY remember, that the peo-
| pie of the United States will not tolerate the
destruction OF their political institutions,
and that they will punish. As far as justice
demands it, the criminals who would de-
strov that which, to them, is above price
tho honest administration of public affairs
and the right to govern themselves accord
jno to the Fundamental raw by which they
are socially bound to each other.