National Republican., 1878-06-24


United States, and yet such fact does not
exist and cannot be shown by any COM
petcnt proof. FINLEY has rummaged the
Government Printing-Oflico steadily for
nearly or quite six months without finding
any thing In the way Of fuud and corrup-
tion, thus showing oonclusively that the in
ycstigation is either in the hands of q stupid
bungler or nothing exists TO be discovered
and unearthcd, for thus far no exposures
have been made, after most Jealous and
determined search. So also in the other
Departments that have been assailed, the
experts have been active and vigilant, but
not fraud has been exposed to reward the
vast amount Of labor and money expended
in the search.
When summer came, with its heated and
exhaustive influence, the Democrats discov-
cred that long and patient hunt had put
no game in their bag, and, greedy for the
reputation of some Republican official or
some show of success with which to justify
themselves for having neglected higher and
more important duties for this piddling and
pottering waste of time and money, and
afraid to meet their constituents with such
q record, plot was conceived for overturn-
ing the Government, and the conspiracy
developed into the POTTER resolution assail-
ing the title Of the President This was TO
TO be the chef d'Gurro of investigation and
the crowning act of glory under which the
Democrats were to destroy the title of Pres
hv hnt nf ,I In,
count and the establishment of the fact
that the Presidential position Is held by
fraud and should be overturned. The his
tory of the passage of this remarkable rcso-
luton and what has followed as conse-
quence are too fresh in the public mind TO
need recapitulation at this moment. 1t is
well known that the investigation Of the
title has proved a miserable farce and failure.
Though perjury the most foul has been
resortcd to to effect the object of the con-
spirators; though rowing commission has
been sent to Florida at much expense;
though the Democratic press has been howl
ing fraud all over the country with stento-
rian power; though the country has been
advised that few months more would find
President HAYES relcgated to private life;
though all that malignity and dishonesty
could devise to bring revolution upon the
Government and distress to the people by
its direst enemies, the uor popnH Of the ma
ton has forced the conspirators ostensibly
to abandon their nefarious designs, and now
the Democratic party and its leaders are in
the direst dilemma that has ever attended
the defeat Of contemplated revolution or
the purposes Of latent treason against the
integrity Of the Government. Again, the
Democratic party has forfeited all claim to
public confidence and respect by inaugurat-
ing another raid upon the stability and per-
petuity of the Government. They must now
settle the account with the people. This is
their great dilemma.
ALEX STEPHENS AND THE BOURBoNs
The Albany (Ga.) advertiser, speaking for
the Bourbon, or the controlling element of
the Democracy Of that State and the South
generally, proposes TO read the Hon. ALEX
ANDER ii. STEPHENS out Of the Democratic
party. Exactly what party it would read
him into it does not say, but satisfies itself
with an effort to get rid of him and his in
dependent ways in the Democratic camp
1t cries out, in agonizing tones, Let Him
Coz, and follows this exclamation with q
column editorial, from which we make the
following extract:
Tho South has perhaps never produced q
stronger "Unionist" than the Hon. ALEXAN-
DER III. STEPHENS, and the day Georgia Joined
the seeding States he should have crossed the
Potomac for cline more congenial to his in
stincts and political opinions than those which
filled tho Southern heart During tho four
years of terrible conflict between the States
Mr.. STEPHENS appeared to labor under a firm
conviction that the principles which actuated
the people with whom his lot had been natur-
ally cast were wrong, and never until this day
has he been in full accord with Southern senti-
ment.
In other words this Bourbon advertiser
would have the world believe that the ex-
Vice-President Of the Confederacy Is and
always has been Union man, and for that
reason is not now and never has been de-
serving of recognition as q Democrat in
good standing. We are led to believe from
this that politicians of the SINGLETON
stripe are alone acceptable as Democrats in
Georgia, men who are willing to declare in
Congress and out of it their allegiance to
their States to be paramount to their allegi-
ance to the General Government. But the
Adrcrtiser goes on to make o bad matter
worse, as follows:
Notwithstanding all this, however, Mr.. STE.
PHENs has been hOnOred by the psoplo of
Georgia since the dark days that resulted in
the bloody suppression of those principles they
held so dear but which he has so persistently
refused to espouse In the very face of the
fact that he was the open apologist of GRANT
aud his tyrannic administration he has been
| twice made one of the honOred Representatives
Of Georgia in the Congress Of the nation. And
in that position we find Mr.. STEPHENS to-day.
bidding defiance to his party and defending
the present Radical and fraudulently.in.
stalled President, X. b. HAYES. From GRANT.
| the tyrant, he has transmitted his affections
and political support to HAYES, the fraud.
And 50 he has been the apologist and Jealous
supporter of every President In his day, cx.
cept the southern patriot, Jefferson Davis.
Here we have it in plain words. A man
who has not been and is not yet o jealous
supporter OF "the Southern Patriot, JEEFER-
:" son DAVIS" is not Democrat within the
purview of this distinguished Democratic
organ. Further on in the same editorial it
says
lie has never been in full accord with tho