The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-05-15
SOHE POINTS ESTABLISHED.

There are few points which have been con
clus1vely established by proof tina. the Potter Com
mittee would gladly have ignored entirely. 1t is
well TO notice these:
1. 1t is concuslvcly proved, by the admissions of
Smith Weei IN bis secret dispatches to Gramercy
Park. that the actual majority of the votes in South
Carolina was for the Hayes electors. Yet it is adj
united that Mr.. Weed the favorite lieutenant and
richt-ha man of Mr.. Tidcn in NewYork politics.
tired to secure the votes of South Carolina for Til
den by bribery 1t is conclusively proved that the
Board in that State Mt time for sale. that Mr.
Weed was fooled by the reports brought TO him by
person who was anxious to get the $1,000 for ms
services as intermediary, and that w. L. Peiton,
Mr. Tilden's nephew and confidential secretary
went to Baltimore expecting as he admits, to re-
ceive and to pay over the money for the purchase.
The vote of South Carolina, then. was cast exactly
as the majority of voters intended and desired
Democrats tried to buy its vote and failed
III. IL is concusivey proved by the admissions OF
Manton Marble, in his secret kilograms to Gram
ercy Park that the actual result in Florida de-
pended upon the decision made as to one precinct
in Alachua County and the returns from Manatee
County, there being only about one hundred ma
jority either way. 1t secretly telegraphed by
Marble that lit would not strain Board much TO
throw out the DISPUTED Democratic votes in Mama
| tee. HIS opinion of the worthless character of
Democratic claims that case was confirmed ny
| the Board. which also threw out the disputed Re
publican votes Alachua. There ~ not a particle
| of proof that either OF the members OF the Board
ever for sale. The two Republicans were
strongly convinced of the Justice of their from
the beginning, and in every decisive action they
were sustained by the Democratic member. Marble
and Woolley both transmitted to New-York propo-
sitions designed to sway tho decision by bribery,
/ but failed. Evidence taken in the Congressional
contest in that State has proved beyond dispute
that the Republicans were right in their claims
and that the votes believed by them to have been
lxr A.
electors. But the essential question Is not whether
the Board may have been mlstak zen in judgment;
the vital fact IL that 1t decided according TO the
law land down by the Democratic member. the
AttOrney-General, and its honest convictions, and
not for sale. although the Democratic leaders
tried to buy ITS decision.
ILL., II Is concusivey proved, in respect to Louis
lana. that reign III terror and violence In several
parishes caused by Democratic crimes. had made
il dangerous, IL not impossible. for active Republic
to bring out their vote. Such was the terror
ism that the proper officers did not dare. Tor their
lives TO make formal protests until they had es-
| capped from the reach of Democratic assasslns.
| Some of them were afierward murdered because,
having thus escaped, they told the truth. For the
| express purpose oil preventing the success oi q
party by such means, state law had intrusted ex-
| Board-powers which would neither be needed nor
conferred in a civilized State. Those powers We're
exercised by strong Republican partsars, and there
Is not the fantest shadow of "a reason for believing
| that they required or had anv other inducement
| than "A of justice and intense hostility to
| the party of assassination ard m"ssacre. The
Democrats insist that their assassins should have
| triumphed, aud that there Great Fraud" ne
cause massacre defeated by the exercise of FIX
| IRENE and arbitrary powers conferred by law. The
Republicans, on the other hand, rejoice that for
once the revolver and shotgun failed to elect "a
President
w 1t Is conclusvely proved that the Democrats,
being defeated elsewhere, tried To obtain by bribery
| in Oregon vote To winch they had shadow OF
claim The offer of money Went from Air. Iiden's
own house. and the money itself afterward went
| from banks and bankers with whom he has close
and confidential relations, nj the request of his inn
pecunious nephew That attempt To swInde the
/ country failed as similar attempts had failed in
/ South Carolina and Florida. And pow the thwarted
| assassiIls are Yelling - Fraud because they could
neither get the power BY murder nor by bribery.