Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-24

THE Mexican Democracy of the House
finally succeeded, on Friday last, in driv-
ing up a quorum, and passed their one
sided, partisan, Potter resolution for an
investigation of election frauds in Lou
isiana. The Republicans, seeking to d.
vest the resolution of its partisan char
acter, demanded that the investigation
should include all alleged frauds, in
whatever State, connected with the
Presidential election, fought the resolu-
ton as offered, as long as there was any
hope of defeating it, but relinquished
their fillibustering attitude when they
saw that it would do no good. 1t is
easy enough to see the plotting hand Of
Mr.. Tilden in this move. Mr.. Potter
has been in constant communication
with the old fraud of Grammarcy Park
during the whole proceeding, and as he
pulls the wires the puppets are expect
ed to dance But there were symptoms
of independence and consistency among
the Democrats of the House, albeit
they were suppressed by the bru-
tai majority. The venerable Alex. H.
Stephens, of Georgia, sought to obtain
the floor to record his protest against
the revolutionary proceedings to GUST
the President, but was not permitted to
speak, being silenced by disorderly cries
from the mob comprising his party asso-
ciates.
On Monday the committee of eleven
was announced as follows:
Carkson N, Potter, of New York: VIM. K.
Morrison, of Illinois; -Eppa Hunton, of Vir-
ginia; John A. Mcmahon, of Ohio; j. c. S:
Blackburn, of Kentucky; w. s. Stenger of
ocrats; B. +. Butler, of Massachusetts,; Frank
Hiscock, of New York; j. D. Cox, of Ohio, and
Thos. B. Reed, of Maine, Republicans.
In the selection of this committee
Speaker Randall had chance to show
his malignant partisanship, and improv-
ed it. The Republicans on the commit
tee are evidently selected to help the
Democratic case. Butler, out of pure
cussedness, will do this directly, and the
others indirectly, through ignorance Of
the merits of the investigation and inef-
ficiency. Secretary Sherman, however,
who is implicated by name in the Potter
resolutions, proposes to have something
to say about it. He has addressed a
spicy letter to Potter, in which he says
that the allegations Of the resolutions,
so far as they apply to him, are abso-
lutely destitute of even shadow of
truth He makes formal demand to be
represented before the Committee Of
Investigation by counsel, and says that
he will prove that the elections in the
Feliciana parishes in Louisiana were
controlled by force, fraud and violence
so revolving as to excite the Indignation
of all who were knowing to the facts.
He says this was proved to the Return
ing Board, and offers, if allowed, to fur
nish the names of witnesses to establish
the truth Of this statement. He says in
conclusion: "To my personal conduct
during this examination, I invite your
fair and candid scrutiny, with entire
confidence that not only myself, but my
associates of both political parties, act
ed honestly and properly from sense
of public duty"
Meanwhile, the men who, to graf
ify the malignity of played-out
politician, thus menaced the peace
and security of the country by revo-
lntionary proceeding, are hearing from
their constituents. Many of the Demo-
cratic members, especially from the
South, are receiving letters from their
constituents, earnestly deprecating the
reopening of the Presidential question,
and some of them were made to feel
very uncomfortable by intimations that
their action had already cost them many
votes that would be cast against them
in future. Gov. Wade Hampton, of
South Carolina, is emphatic in the ex-
preston of his disapprobation. He
says: "The reopening of the Presidency
question at this juncture is fraught with
danger to the whole country. 1t will, in
my judgment, react disastriously upon
the Democratic party. \
The whole country will regard it as a
revolutionary proceeding, and convic-
ton of this sort will do more to make
Grant President in 1880 than all other
influences combined" There are other
indications that the Tilden missile will
prove a boomerang that will Stay the
Democratic majority in the next House.
The Democratic National Committee
has been summoned to Washington, to
consult about the investigation, and it
is intimated that it will publish an ad-
dress in which, for prudential reasons,
it will disavow any intention of disturb
ing the title of Mr. Hayes.
Iowa State Sabbath School Convention.