Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-07
Discusses the Presidential Fraud lives.
tigatiOn, and Tells of the Great Rev.
OlutiOn OF Sentiment as;tO the
PrOpriety or the Pro-
ceeding.
The Unenyiable Positions In which the
Four Supreme Justices, strong, Brad
ley, Miller and Harlan are Placed
Another Long List OF
Worthless, and
The Rewards they Received in the Dam
nable Business-And with All These
Lights before him Key, Protests
Against the Investigation.
Special Correspondence of the Appeal. ]

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| WASHINGTON, June 3 The result of Ii
first days woIk Of the investigating commit
tee IS before til country. 1t fully justitie
the Potter resolutions. Anderson's testimon
was straightforward and to the point, an
bears out all that it was said he would b
able to prove. He asserts Kellogg's share il
the plot to continue the enslavement of til
people of Louisiana, and swears point blanl
to the expressed determination of the Repub
llcans to perpetuate their power by perjury
by bribery and corruption, by robbery of tn
ballot boxes, and by murder, if neces
sary. He swears to the bargain be
tween him and Weber on the one side ant
John Sherman on the other, and gives tb
names OF Senator Stanley Mathews and Mr.
| Justice Harlan, OF the supreme court, as &C
cessories before the fact. He goes further
He not only asserts and maintains by hi
oath the fact that the secretary of the treasury
| justice OF the supreme court and senator
| but that the de fdctO President knew of the
| fraud by which the vote Of Louisiana wa
stolen, in order to cheat Tilden Of the higf
| office OF the chief executive of the nation La
] support of his statements the letter of Johr
! Sherman was read in which it was
| be taken care of. And General Butler
cross examining for the Republican side, ellie.
| tied from the witness the confession that the
| letter thus put In evidence to substantiate his
statements was copy as Weber had die
tated 1T to him, but it was, to the best of his
| knowledge and belief true COPY, he having
read the original before the copy was made.
| John Sherman denied this letter, acknowledge
ing, however, that there are many things in
| it that, under the circumstances, he would or
might have written. Before the investioa-
ton is over he will be confronted with pho
tographic copy of the original, perhaps the
original itself, and will be able by it to decide
whether he conspired to rob a sovereign State
of its vote-whether he assisted to Mexican
ize, as Key says. $50 far, so good" But
there Is more to come. As promised In this
correspondence, not only John Sherman
whose financial policy has brought ruin to
the mercantile as well as working classes
but perhaps Hayes himself will be proven
guilty OF connlvlng if not cofsenting to the
frauds by which he reached the Presidency.
Startled and surprised by the first DAYS de-
velopments before the investigating commit
tee, even those of the people in this section
who opposed or doubted the sroprlety of that
movement are clamorous for its continuance.
Stimulated by what is now before them in the
form of documentary evidence, they want to
know all about the great crime, and to have
the criminals punished. There never was in
so short time so great revolution in pub
lie sentiment: Fraud must, the people ev-
s %S hPfac6 e9l9fr rau 5 BFf baag.
particulars of the frauds in South Carolina,
as we'll as Florida and Louisiana, must, the
people demand, be brought to light. The
cry of MexicaniziDg has no terrors for the
masses. They will know all about the bar
gam for and sale of the Presidency, even to
the furnishing by Jay Gould of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to carry out the
nefarious plans of the Republican party.
Admonlshed by the developments in the
credit mobilier and other Investigations
L Il. I,,k
against which the Republicans loudly and
Justify protested, the people are eager for all
the testimony as TO the robbery of the Presi-
dency that it is possible for the house COM
mittee to bring to light. They recall the ex-
posures which have made Grants admins
tration odious, and, with what they already
have of John Sherman's doings in Louisiana,
are prepared to hear, as is likely to be proven,
that like the imam" the master" is covered
all over with fraud. They remember that
among the
SADDEST RESULTS OF RADICAL ASCENDENCY
is the disgrace brought upon the high
est court in the land through four Of its mem
bers, one of whom, the latest appointed, and
the one for whom Hayes Is responsible, being
charged with completely in the damning
frauds in Louisiana by which the vote of that
State was counted for Hayes and against
Tilden, for whom it was cast.
First-There is Mr.. Justice Strong who
was charged by Chief-Justice Chase with &C
cepting an appointment to the supreme bench
solely for the purpose of reversing the legal
tender decision, and also with beng the will
ing tool. to that end, of great railroad cor
poration by which his appointment was sug-
gested
Second-Mr. Justice Bradley, who stands
charged with having entered into an arrange
mant with various interested persons to
wreck the Memphis, Ell Paso, and Pacific
railroad, which was then solvent concern /;
and with having assumed jurisdiction of suits
brought for that purpose outside of his dis
trict, and by certain irregular and illegal
proceedings transferred the property of the
Memphis-El Paso, through the hands of a
questionable receiver, to the Texas Pacific.
Also, that when he came to give the decisive
vote in the unconstitutional electoral COM
mission, he wrote out an elaborate opinion in
favor of the Tilden electors in Florida, and
that, under severe pressure from the Texas
Pacific jobbers, who had previously used him
as above, he changed the conclusion of that
opinion in a single night, and thus consum-
mated the fraud in the teeth of his known
convictions.
Third-Mr. Justice Miller, who stands
charged with giving a favorable decision In q
suit, one of the parties to which Jay Gould
bribed his wife, through lady who is watch
ing her opportunity to enforce performance
of the contract.
Fourth-Mr.J Justice Harlan, who is charged
with completely in the Louisiana frauds, with
| being the particular friend of Senator Math-
ews as one of the visiting statesmen who
turned that long-suffering State over to its
! legally-elected governor. Anderson, in his
| testimony, says that Stanley Mathews gave
him a letter to Justice Harlan when that
! gentleman went upon the mission of pacifca
ton, and that he not only informed him o.
1 = - H.,
ments which proved it. This knowledge Mr.
Justice Harlan suppressed, and acted as il
| he knew nothing of 1t, receiving as his re-
| ward the position which he occupies, anC
| from which he Is expected to dispense even
| handed justice as a judge of the court o
last resort. And yet there are people who
| though in all other things they manifest gooC
1 sense, Join Key in his silly cry of Mexican
! jzing. AS if there can be, or could be, an,
worse form of MexicaniZing than this of re
/ warding men for crime, of paying the pre-
MUM Of high places for barefaced and shame
less rascalIty.
| ANOTHER LIST.
But these are not the only citizens who's
damning deeds have been cOndoned, who's
| UNANIMOUSLY criminal practices have been re
warded with Office. They are not the onl
| ton for accomplishing what Key said on tn
floor of the senate was fraud, and wha
only a few weeks ago he repeated was
fraud; fraud that neither he nor any post
master under him, nor any journal baited by
postmastershipcan apologize for nor cajole tn
people INTO paTdonIng under plea of fear tina
the country will be Mexicanlze9. Here is a lis
as the Post. of this city, has prepared 1t, tina
in any court of justice would be accepted 9
good collateral evidence that Hayes himse