The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05
THE CONTINENTAL FRAUD.
The Way the Conspirators Stole a
State.
PeEfurers 10 be Rewarded by Hayes-A
Demand for the Investigation to
Go On Until the Full Facts
are known.

/ revolution IN public sentiment. The inveS-
! tigaiion is no longer derided. The story of
Anderson is not yet understood in ali its
dramatic completeness, because the poor
! Sunday newspapers have not had enough
enterprise to reproduce it. Every one anxi-
ously awaits the arrival of the Sunday New
York papers, which come on Monday morn
i ing; but the broad effect of the Andersen
story is established upon the mind of nearly
\ every man whose opinions are worth having.
although public men in general are chary of
expressing opinions for publication until
they have the full testimony before them
/ No one has yet made any very earnest effort
TO discredit Anderson. He was honored by
the administration people only as recently as
/ last November when he was appointed con-
sui to the Madeira islands, and as late as last
February Stanley Matthews was writing to
him and trying to do all he could for him.
! Stanley Matthews admits that he has
THE ORIGINAL NASH AND ANDERSON DOCUMENT,
and will produce it before the committee il
called upOn. The document q brief epitome
of the fraud TO which Anderson was a silent
partner, has revealed to all the civil service
reform sham. The Louisiana villainy and
Anderson's reward is an act that should
cover with infamy both the president and
the men who urged Anderson's appointment
for services rendered. A new light Is shed
upon many of the presidential acts. Invol-
UNFAIRLY the mind runs oyer the long list of
men, from Stoughton and Sherman down to
smaller rascals of the conspiracy, who have
been
REWARDED WITH FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS.
There have been men simple or partisan
enough to believe that the white house Peck
sniff was really ignorant of all the crimes
/ that had been perpetrated in his name. The
intense morality and atmosphere of rel-
| gious affectation at the white house deceived
small number of people; but to find that
Hayes himself knew of the forged protest in
Louisiana, upon which votes enough were
thrown out to count him in has come with
rude shock to even the most cordial enc
mics of the bland. smiling, ever good ma
tured,
HYPoCRITICAL PRESIDENT,
who has rewarded crime as he sang penslve
Sunday-school hymns There is such haired
for the pious sneak that one hears in repub-
lican groups this evening a hearty satisfac-
ton expressed at the exposure of Hayes
crowd AS one republican senator said to-
night 81 think after this when man hears
the words civil service reform his hands
will Involuntary 90 TO the protection of his
pocketbook." Indeed, the extreme red re-
publicans must be credited with large
share of the responsibility for this exposure.
Anderson is
BACKED BY MORTON NJ MICHAEL,
proprietor of the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, ana one of the strongest friends that
General Grant has in this country. Ander
son claims that be is a republican, and was
overawed in acQuiescing in the great fraud,
and was not its guilty perpetrstor. William
f. Chandler has been another active general,
and is still pursuing, with the tenacity and
intelligence of a Cuban bloodhound, every
trace of Information that will bring ruin and
disgrace to all of the powers that are now In
high Office.
Anderson,s teef,uoDv is Drono1nooi NV
eminent lawyers to be impregnable. Strong
decorative evidence upon every point can
be had, even to the production of the orig1-
nal Sherman letters.
Naturally there are some inquiries pro-
voked since the exposure that will be asked
throughout the country, and they are
WHY ANDERSON WAS NOT REWARDED,
and why was it that he was allowed to talk
when an office would have kept.him silent?
Ii does not appear that any of Hayes cabi-
net knew of the nature of AndersOn's SER
vices except Sherman, and he has from the
first pursued
A SELFISH, COLD FLOODED POLICY
of ignoring all the men who participated in
the returning board frauds. 1t was John
Shermans idea that If none of these men
were appointed much public criticism of an
unpleasant nature would be avoided; that
10 ignore all claims of a criminal character
I z.
strictly pursued an absolute refusal to have
anything to do with the smaller fry would
have given the administration in case of any
expose, an opportunity of claiming immun-
ity from censure through lack OF personal
knowledge of any unlawful means employed.
1t is well known that Hayes himself is man
who
HAS NOT MUCH INFLUENCE WITH HIS CABINET
end one can understand how he would
L III Il
Evarts or his associates for desiring Ander-
son to be appointed. What more could he
say than this is a special case"?
Then IL is said that Anderson has delayed
long tine telling his story; but it must be
remembered that it was not very long ago
he gave up hope of being rewarded, and sec
Ond, that
! THE RED REPUBLICANS HAVE HAD HIM IN WAIT
ING
pending their resolution 70 make open war
upon HAYES Packard and Pitkln both will
/ confirm Anderson's testimony, which, with
the documents yet to be introduced, stands
| we'll enough Some of the men who are to
/ be worst shaken up in this whole affair are
democratic representatives in congress from
| Louisiana. 1t will be shown that they have
/ all along known the Anderson story, and
/ used it first to force the success of Nichols
| government and later to their own personal
! advantage. This is only another chapter in
the dirty,
INFAMOUS HISTORY OF IoUIsIANA's POLITICAL
HUCKsTERING.
! Not man breathes the air of Louisiana pol
! tiles who is not tainted with the bargaining
spirit. BY dirty intrIgues and shameless
undetermined counter plotting do they aim
to accomplish success. The end always, TO
! them. justfies the means.
So great is the disgust felt for Hayes that
one hears very strong talk already. One OF
the most conservative of western public men,
who has steadily opposed this investigation
movement on the ground of its stirring up
needless disturbance, said this evening: II
want to see this thing 60 on. The investiga-
ton has already brought enough to justify
it before the country
But where" said his interviewer, sis the
revolution
THE MExIcAEIzATIosP'
"Well," replied the first speaker, Il am
frank to admit that my mind has entirely
ohanuad IL our oOvprnmont can only he