The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-15
THE PRESIDENTIAL FRAUD.
INVESTIGATION INEVITABLE
wHArrHaP PEOPLE DEMAND.
VOx POpuIi, VOx Del

Seashore Glz .tte Gen. Dtyis)I
II r.aIly seems "a il there were some
nr,sp ct Of an upheaval of tn has" OF
fraud and iniQuity on which the de Jdcto
Ooyernm, mt at Washington rests. I0tttt-
Clans of all parties are in general opp sea
tn any AGITATION of the subject. Tleg dep
zee te il as tending TO unsettle thihgs.
Stn-e decisis ct non Qaietd ntOUere, Is th' prln-
eiple they uphold. But the country at large
Is nor in &C ord with the politicians
What it will am nunt tn in the Fnd. we are
unable {, feresee, but it is clear THAT the
Pres Dental seat is getting Sha V. IL Is
idle To talk abDur the question a. having
been Sc tel by Congress and the Electo al
ConmtSSion-thlt prodigious b!utGHr, N e
off-nriny of eng res ional timilitV. Fraud
vitiarcs all settlements. What is won by
forgery NAV be held by force. but not by
any legal tenure. We have no sympathy
with ths policy tn at would leave unmo-
lested-
" A cut-purse of the EN- ire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious dladem
stole,
And put it in his pocket
merely because it would be bad manners or
mig make Il breach Of the peace. to look
into smother mans pocke'.
Mobile News
That a thorough investigation be under
ttken by Congress through is committees
"a
others who hold Office through these frauds
t those who htre ben detrandrd OF the
fruits of the ballot. aud above all to the
gread body of the people.
n Y. World.l
Ever since the World drew the attention
of the country to Senator Conkling's con-
fession of the guilty, and in his own Ian
guage "infamouS,' methods through which
the actual Administration attained power,
it has been plain that, in one form or an
other, there must be thorough reinvesti-
ration of the electoral proceedings in Flor
ida and Louisiana. And this quite indie
pendently, as Mr.. Hendricks in II convers
ton reported for this journal judiciOusly
pointed out OF any practical effect to be
produced by such a reinvestigatiOn upon
the tenure by which Mr.. Hayes holds his
seat Ii is OF the gravest importance TO the
peaceful preservation of our institution that
proper constitutional and legislative safe
guards should be provided against any re-
currence of scandals as that to which Sena-
tor Conkling has lent the weight OF his po-
sition in Republican party. And TO
that end il is essential that the country
should know exactly what the facts were
out of which those scandals arose.
Columbus independently
a great majority OF the people of Missis-
sippi, desire to see the yillainy throughly
ventilated. They believe that the investi-
CATION ofthe fraud. in Florida will disgrace
the leader of the Republican party, disgust
the people, and drive robb Is from power
for all time.
Westvile News.l
We think, if there is any power in the
land-and there certainly must be some
whereby which these usurpers can be
ousted, it ought to be resorted to, and that
without delay, and if our members of Con-
gress fail to do their duty in the premises,
the people will certainly hold them to
strict accountability in the future.
Port Gibson Rev,i.le.
1t is now growing more evident, every
day, that the dissatisfaction which the mass
of the people have felt i'm the matter, and
manner, of the great election fraud, is to
eliminate in a peremptory demand for a
sitting of that fraud. and, for
ri iustiaa l. NOT tho cuStnn, Of