The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-06-06

open letter, addressed to the people of the
South. warning them against any attempt to
unseat President Hayes as fraught with danger
to the public peace, and urging them to sup
port no person for Congress who is not
pledged to sustain the title of Mr.. Hayes.
Congressman Potter, of New York, Chairman
of the special Presidential Investigating COM
mittee, has also written letter upon the SUBJ
iect of the pending investigation, in which he
says:
There is not the slightest chance of revolution or
disturbance. When the whole country was at fever
heat on the subject of the election, way was
found to establish tribunal to pass upon the cleo
ton, and every one submitted to that deter
mination. The Presidents title rests upon
that If now it should appear that there was fraud
which palpably affected the electoral vote, and
which the commission did not notice, and if legal
remedy exists for correcting the error, you cannot
believe that such proceeding, under the law,
could lead to disturbance. If there be no such
egal remedy existing, and Congress should here
after, by the approval of the President, or by two
thirds of both houses without that approval, pro-
vide one why should the legal determination there
after have any more produce disturbance than the
decision of the Electoral Commission did?
The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists have
nominated Gen. F. FL. Lane for Governor.
The Democratic Congressman from
Tennessee bitterly denounce Postmaster Gen
eral Key for writing letter in opposition to
the investigation. They assert that it was pre-
pared for him, and that the only choice left
him was to sign it or leave the Cabinet. Mr..
Key protests that he wrote the letter with the
best of motives, without dictation from or con-
sultation with any one, and that if he had the
thing to do over again he wouldn't alter a
word Of it.
The Iowa State Democratic Convention
met at Des Moines on Wednesday, May 20, and
nominated the following ticket For Secretary
Of State, T. W. Walker Auditor, Col. Eiboeck;
Treasurer, E. D. Fem; Register of the State
Land Office, T. s. Bardwell; Judge of the SUI
preme Court, Judge J. G. Knapp; Clerk of the
Supreme Court, M. V. Cannon; Reporter of the
Supreme Court, J. B. Elliott; Attorney General,
John Gibbons. The platform favors a
tariff for revenue only. opposes the granting
Oh subsidies Dy Inc Goneral GOV0TnmonU, O0-
nounces the financial system of the Republican
party as responsible for the misery and want
that now afdict the country, favors the repeal
of the Resumption act, opposes any further re-
tirement of United States notes. and demands a
Thorough examination into the election
frauds of 1876.' as
Representative Alex. H. Stephens has
written letter in reply to the statement Of
Congressman Potter touching the object of the
pending Presidential investigation. Mr..
Stephens views the whole proceeding as sun
wise, unfortunate and mischievous, and thinks
sits effect will be to disturb the peace, har-
mony and quiet of the country" In closing
his letter he says:
My own opinion is, as have repeatedly said, that
this affair will prove in the end either contempt
BILE farce horrible tragedy. Whether it will
lead'to the Mexicanization of Federal republic,
the result must show; but say, as I said on an
other recent occasion, that all soft words insting
in the mind of the people of this country the idea
that Mr.. Hayes can be peaceably unseated by Con-
gress as delusive and guileful the whisper
ings of the great arch-fend in the shape of toad
in the of Eve, from which sprung all our woes.