The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-27

that Hayes was not elected president Of
the United states. without the electoral
vote OF louisiana the whole world knows
| thst Hayes had not votes In the electoral coll
lege necessary TO constitute an election; II
Louisiana did not vote for Packard the whole
/ world knows that Louisiana did not vote Tor
! Hayes. Packard received nearly 1908 votes
the constit5tIon q the .ne presient had but one
plain duty TO discharge; that was to ascertain
whether the constituted tribunals Of L0ulsl-
| ana had declared Packard to be governor; If
/ so, then to defend his authority 20 the extent
of his ability when legally required so 10 do: III
! thev had not so declared then II waSequally alS
/ duty not merely to have withheld all support
of PacSard's pretense, but TO have given al
I rival. II was his duty to have done that, not
/ merely on the Goth of April, but TO have done
I 1t on the Attn OF March, Immediately upon his
/ assuming the office of president. AID If he
I found il his constitutional duty 10 require
| Packard tosnrrenGer hts office, he shoald have
own. i do not mean to- intimate a doabt that
President Hayes was entitled 10 the vote OF
Louisiana. II is my settled bellef tnat Loulsl.
ano declared for him, but certalnlg know
that if Packard was not elected President
Hayes was not. If the latter is not
usurpeF, Nichols is. L can see no possible
escape from the conclusion either THAI the
president has usurped his own Office, or that
he has aided Governor Nichols TO usurp MIS-.
After long discussion of the Louisiana
case and the southern question generally,
| Ma Howe continued:
"NIr. President, let no man say do Injustice
/ to the purposes of the presidents. / am not dis
eussing his purposes, but his acts. under
/ lican and friend of equal citizenship. 1t is
\ not for me 10 dispute him, but 10 is for me TO
say that he has offended both repubIcanism
and free citizenship : samuel j. 1ilden never
\ would have offended them. Perhaps had Mr..
/ Tilden been made president events would not
/ have transpired in South Carolina and Louis
! lama as they have transpired. Mr..
I Hampton would have been governor
\ i'm the former state, and Mr.. Nichols
/ in the latter. So far the Offense would have
been precisely the same, but that would have
been an ohense not agialnsI .Si
against republicans III those STATES MI. Ill
/ den would have decided perhaps that Hamp-
/ ton ana Nichols were chosen governors of
/ those states, and that if so they ought to be
! recognized and even If not so, since he had
/ Jurisdiction of the question he would have ac-
| guessed in his decision. But President Hayes
/ make il to-day. Mr.. Tiiden would
have excluded Packard and Chamberlain be-
cause he decided against their election. Presi-
dent Hayes excluded them because their elee
I ton was disputed. The former would have
given an erroneous Judgment, and would then
have seen IL executed. President Hayes has
/ abandoned the judgment seat 10 rifle clubs in
/ these states; left them TO make the decision
which the constitution and courts command
him to make; and, Infinitely worse than that,
has permitted a proclamation To be made In
his name that when the rifle clubs choose TO
I take the field in behalf of a ticket IL is not
necessary for them TO elect their ticket, but
I only to dispute the election OF the other, and
after all this prolonged effort at paclncatlon,
this outpouring of concessions and good will,
the angel of peace Still refuses TO descend upon
us. Day after day the president sends the
dove out over the angry floods, and night after
night the bird returns weary and II eless.
In these very days that government which
rules Louisiana, which was born of presiden-
tial grace and not of popular choice, has sig
naliZed its ingratitude by an act, not less in
sulting TO the PRECEDENT than atrociouS IN
a M mber of tte state board of canvassers of
the crime OF perjury in the election re-
turns of Vernon parish of 1876 Re-
cause anderson was tried for a political
Ofiense II he is guilty of the Offense charged,
have not n syllable to urge in his defense.
THE noint I make AGAINST the government of
Louisiana Is that 1T prosecuted, not IN the
name of public justice, but of partisan malice;
that IL prosecuted aman guiltless Of the ohense
alleged against him, and known TO be guilt
. . less. Anderson i a victim, not OF mistake,
but oil malice; not oil personal, out OF partisan
malice. He was prosecuted by that same fell
/. spirit of party spite which prompted Georgia
forty years ago TO offer So,OOO for the privilege
of prosecuting Garrison, and which twenty
: years ago made South Carolina clap her hands
at the whipping of sumner. Anderson stands
/ convicted in the court commissioned by Gov
ernor Nichols, who in turn stands practically
commissioned by President Hayes" Mr.. Howe
reviewed the action or the return ne board at
length, ridiculed the idea that Ande son
forged the returns, and said Judge Whitaker,
by the grace of Andrew johnson, was former
" assistant treasurer of the United States at
= New Orleans; that as such ne was a defaulter
10 the government in the sum OF more tl3n
half million dollars when he sent Anderson
dictment Tor that heavy embezzlement, but
that on the 18th OF April last, just as Nichols
took the Office which Packard ought to have
. had, the indictment against Whitaker was
+ not pressed, and he was permitted TO send An
dersOn TO the penitentiaTy, where he ought TO
! be himself. The senator spoke In the follow
; ing tone on the civil service reform: "An
eminent statesman from kentucky recently
made prllgrimage to Boston in the interest
of civil service reform. There, In the sight OF
that great monument which marks the spot
where immaculate valor died for Immortal IN
! truths, he dared 10 say tine cause OF reform
! in the hands of brave men will not be put
/ down or defeated by the seoffs-and derisIon of
, TO the Bostonians who those enemies of re-
! form are against whose derisiOn he has to
mate brave men. In spite of all the vocifer-
Gus pirate about reform of civil service no
: man mas formulated 1t, no man has defined II.
! do not know what they mean by
bidding those employed in the civil service
from acting on political commissions or pOliti-
! cal conventions. Is that what is meant by the
: reform of the civil service? If hO the preSi-
dent has already abandoned it, or / am n is
informed, or IL he still believes that means
reform. he is the only man in the United
States who does believe IL. That reform That is
tyranny; tyranny which no predecessor of his
= ever attempted and no successor viii venture
, 10 initiate. Once 10 was lndustriOusly adver-
! tised that public officers should not be re-
) moved during their official terms without
cause. As already remarked believe in that
I rule. / have myself adhered 10 il, but
! the president has tlagrantly violated It,
r Ihat surely can not be what Is meant by re-
= sugge sted that the great reform consisted in
, making appointments TO Office regardless OF
J, the advice of senators and representatives
= I from the states, and so smashing the machine
In some conspicuous cases the very reverse
: has been done. What rule is upon this or up
I on any point touching appointments ii is not
4 I given TO infinite intelligence TO know, but
' have four remarks TO make upon this last
2 suggestion.
r al All the presidents have been, all the presi.
e dents must be, and President Hayes is guided
d by some advice, and that advice does come
J. and Will come from one or the other of three
n sources. Either II will be supplied by those
o whom the several states have sesc ted for their
II representatives or by those who have not
d been, cut aspire 10 be chosen as representa-
f tlveS, or ii Will come from the Office brokers
n who have no political aspirations, but do q
q chiefly cash business
S '2. When any president viii absolutely re-
! lleve the representatives from all responsible.
D 1ty for that multitude who want office and dc
q not get IL, he will shield them from that ser
}, vice which most impairs their usefulness and
;, lmperils continuance of their employments
e -. When any president will take upon him
4 self the sole responsibility from all men whom
{ he does, and all others whom he does not, APP
{ point, he will not need to pledge himself