Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-01-02

Hon. William E. Chandler
Makes an Open Assault
on the Administration.

40" the kIag aas Been Lower
ed to Garry Out the Contract
with Various Democratic
Leaders North and
South.
How tho louisiana Commission
Have All Been Rewarded or Of
fered Rewards for Their
| Work. s..tI .ass..
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ato . Humpus.
New YORK, Dec. 27.-The Hon
William L. Chandler, of the Republi.
can National Committee, has address.
ed letter to the Republicans Of New
Hampshire which will be printed in
the Monitor and Statesman to-day
The following are the salient points
CONCORD, N. II. Dec. 26, 1877.
To the Republicans Of Ne,o Hamp
shire: 2
1t is my privilege and duty as YOU
representative in the Republican Ma.
tional Committee, to state to you the
reasons for my hostility to the so.
called Southern policy Of the admin.
istration of President Hayes.
The Presidential campaign of 1876
was carried on with no announced
change of the principles of the Repub.
lican party concerning the Southern
States lately in rebellion.
The Cincinnati Convention had de.
clared the Republican party to be
"sacredly pledged" to the complete
protection Of all the citizens of the
South .in the free enjoyment of all
their rights" owe declare it to be
the solemn obligation of the legisla.
tive and executive departments of the
government to put in immediate ex.
ercise all their constitutional powers
II for securing to every Amer.
lean citizen complete liberty and exact
equality in the exercise of all civil, DO.
litical and public rights. To this end
we imperatively demand Q Congress
and Chief Executive whose courage
and fidelity to these duties shall no,
falter until these results are placed
| wy OhA NAcHulC VI IGC6lls
Mr.. George William Curtis, in the
convention, had commended his IA.
vorite candidate as one who, "armed
with the power of the Government Of
the United States as District Attor.
ney Of Kentucky, hunted and hunted
and hunted the Kuklux until the Ku.
klux disappeared" "The lite of ev.
cry man at the South Is safe in the
hands of this man from Kentucky
who has known, as you of the South
have bitterly learned, the
mortal perils of the struggle"
Governor Hayes, in his letter of &C.
ceptance, Endorses the resolutions, and
specially declared himself in favor OF
"the complete protection Of all citi-
zens in the free enjoyment of all their
constitutional rights. What the
South needs most is peace, and peace
depends upon the supremacy Of the
law. There can be no enduring peace
if the constitutional rights Of any
portion of the people are habitually
disregarded. -
The candidate for Vice-President
the Hon. William A. Wheeler, an
nounced it to be the mission of the
party to secure "to every American
citizen complete liberty and exact
equality in the exercise of all civil,
political, and public rights. This
will be accomplished only when the
American citizen, without regard to
color, shall wear this panoply of citi-
zenship as freely and securely in the
canebrakes of Louisiana az on the
bank of the st Lawrence"
| The Presidential campaign was
carried on, SO far as methods and ut
terances were concerned, in no re-
spect differently from the campaigns
of 1868 and 1872. The duty Of the
Federal Government to interfere BY
all possible constitutional and legal
means for the protection of life and q
free ballot at the South, was the prin.
cipal issue of the contest. The
Sbloody shirt" as it is termed, was
freely waved, and Governor Hayes
himself urged prominent public men
to put forward as our best argument
the dangers of "rebel rule and solid
South"
On the Sth of November, when he
thought himself defeated, he uttered
these words: 81 do not care for my.
self, but do care for the
poor colored men of the South. !
II Northern men cannot live there
and will leave. The South.
ern people will practically treat the
constitutional amendments as multi.
ties, and then the colored mans fate
will be worse than when he was in
slavery. That is the only
reason ! regret that the news is as II
is"
On this main issue-the necessity OF
keeping Federal power in Republic.
an hands and using it for the protec.
ton of black and white Southern Re.
publicans-wast the Presidential cam.
paign, by Governor Hayes advice
and procurement carried on and won
| THE RESULT.
On the morning Of the 7th Of No.
vembor it was apparent that Hayes
and Wheeler were elected by one
majority, if South Carolina, Florida
and Louisiana had given them their
votes But Immediately the Tilden
forces-hungry Northern and desper-
l
to prevent the counting of the votes
of those states for the Republican
candidates, ana threats, attempts to
bride, and all manner of foul infiu-
ences were arrayed to seduce or intim-
idate the local Republican officials
who were to declare the result.
10 counteract these Vaccinations,
Governor Hayes sent large array
Of distinguished persons to the con.
tested States; from Ohio notably the
following:
| Messrs. John Sherman (afterward
made Secretary of the Treasury.
Stanley Matthews lprivate counsel
for Governor Hayes afterward made
q. 8. Senator by his influence.
Edward F. Noyes (afterward made
Minister to France). &
John Little Governor HAYES, At
torney GencraD. z
| Samuel Shellabarger Governor
Hayes private counseD. % q,
James A. Garfield (member of Elec-
toral Commission and administration
candidate for Spesker).
And many others went there from
other sections. q ~ s..,-.i ag
In south Carolina and Florida, ow-
ing to the manifest facts and to the
noble fearlessness of Governor Daniel
FL. Chamberlain and Governor Mar
cellus H. Stearns in protecting the
canvassing boards, the correct result
of the election-the choice of Hayes
electors-was declared, without ex-
traordinary assurances from the
Northern visitors. i''r
In Louisiapa, however, there had
been thrown inte the ballot boxes
over 1000 more votes for the Tilden
than for the Hayes electors, and to
make Hayes president it became nec-
essary for the Returning Board, act
ing under peculiar local laws, to
throw out more than 1000 Tilden
votes on account Of alleged murder,
riot and intimidation, preventing .
fair and free election in certain par
isheS. To perform this extraordina-
ry, If justidable, work in the face Of
an armed and infIriated Democracy
required men of undaunted courage !;
and such courage the Returning