The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-03
CONkLuNG AND LOUISIANA.
Documents and Teicgrams Convince Him
that the state Was C0rruptly
Given to Hayes
/. II. Mines In N. Y. World |

At the time that Senator Conkiing first
freed his mind to his friends in Utica in re-
gard to the Louisiana business. they had
every reason to believe that he would soon
speak on the subject in the Senate as some
of them know from his own mouth. His fail
ure to speak has been grievous disappoint-
ment to them. He said, 1T must come out.
and before long The mon to whom he gave
the credit of managing the alleged great
fraud there were Stanley Matthews end John
Sherman the latter being credited with hay
ing the longer head and the more cunning.
There was a deberatcness and earnestncss
in his mode Of speaking in regard to
the electoral frauds there. Of the
usurpation' of Hayes. and the "cor-
rupt bargain with. Nichols by which Pack
ard was "drven out ut the m,lzzle of Confcd-
crate guns that impressed me so much with
the truth of his convictions as to make me
firm believer in his story. | said, Senator,
Is there any possibility of Mr.. Hayes having
been kept in Ignorance of the steps that were
taken for a fraudulent count, and that he may
not have been u party 10 any wrong proceed
ings2" After deIiberation he said: II am
afraid there Is no room for doubt. The people
who went down there I'm his behalf were per
sonally too closely connected with him to
permit any other theory except that he
was cognizant of all that took place,
l think that when the matter comes to
be taken up and the evidence is pro
duced, it will be shown that Hayes is
not merely weak, but corrupt as we'll"
He spoke Of the rewards that had been
heaped by the President upon the men who
assisted in the Louisiana business as show
ing that he was not merely accessory
afterward but before the fact. And ] certain
ly could understand nothing else from his
remarks subsequently, but that he was in pos
session of important documentary proofs
brought from New Orleans and Of kilograms
that had passed between Washington and
Columbus while the matter was in agitation
There was no question In my mind that he
had ali the proof necessary to speak, and
hence the wonder that he delayed.
The Utica Republican spoke boldly on
this point as its columns will show.
believing it had sufficient basis for
all 1t should say. It's instructions were
to assail the administration on this point, rs
1t tthe administration deserved and should
receive no quarter. Certainly this would not
have been doneby an experienced newspaper
editor Ii he had believed he was to be made
ridiculous by being left unsupported in the
time to come. The Repabiicn, was distin-
guished for the bitterness OF its attacks on
the President and for its insisting that all
that VIM. +. Chandler had said was true, and
more; and its course in this respect met the
hearty approval of the Senator In whose be-
half 1t claimed to speak. This was said alike
by his friends here and in Washington, and
without any hesitation. In our last eonver-
sation | asked him IL the paper was right in
following up the matter and attacking the
administration, and he praised its course and
said that time would prove 1t to be correct.