Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-15
THE BLUsTER OF THE GREAT
ERAVTD

ne 49, ESvPuVIIUa1 papers are 10 Ue De-
lieved, the creature who occupies the Presi-
dental chair to which he was never elected
by the people, proposes to make RELENTLESS
war with the Democrats of the new congress.
1t has already been announced that Hayes
intends TO place himself as a bulwark be-
tween the Democrats and the legislation
they propose. The Associated Press dis
patches represent the occupant of the White
House as preparing for a vigorous war. He
is reported as saying that he is willing to
sanction a bill for the repeal of the test oath
and the use of troops at the polls, but he
swears by everything sacred and profane
that he will not sign a bill for the re-
peal of the supervisors law. He says
that supervisors are necessary to secure
a fair election and a fair count, and he in
tends to preserve the purity of the elective
franchise from the corruphons of the Demo-
cratic party! Was there ever such unblush-
ing impudence? Hayes, the most stupen-
dous exhibition of fraud that ever dis
graced the annals of history, talk
ing about purity in elections The
man who obtained the highest office in
the republic by a most gigantic fraud is 60
ing to protect the ballot-box by vetoing any
bill which the Democrats may pass for the
purpose of depriving ]. Madison Wells and
other rascals from carrying the next PresI-
dental election by the same system Of fraud.
Such hypocrisy on the part of the fraudulent
President will be gorgeous moral spectacle.
Why, if Hayes had assembled to the Presi.
dency covered with the splendors and re-
nown of great deeds, by the unanimous vote
of the people, and amid the applause of bis
admiring and grateful countrymen, there
would be some decency and appropriateness
in this talk about the purity of the ballot
box. But when it is remembered that Hayes
climbed to the Presidency, not by the vote of
his countrymen, but by gross and palpable
fraud, the American people will unite in ex-
pressing their indignant contempt for the
hypocrisy of TIE man who threatens to exer-
else the veto power for the purpose of pre-
serving the purity of the ballot-box. This
man, who now puts on a sanctimonious ex-
terror, Is the product of fraud. He was
spawned into the Presidency from a seething
bed of rottenness just as the toadstool
sprouts from the debris of the barnyard. Yet
ne talks about preserving the freedom of
elections from Democratic bulldozers by ex-
ercising the veto power! A sincere desire
for unintimidated and unpurchased ballots,
deposited by freemen, whsre they shall he
held sacred to the purposes of our free insti-
buttons, animates every patriotic citizen. But
the man who occupies the Presidency by
theft, who receives fifty thousand dollars
year as his share of the stolen under, is not
the man to talk about the purity of tle bal
lotb box. Even an old maid cannot
be dignifed with smut on her
nose, and Hayes can never be
made a full-blown cherub-a reformer in
elections, as his name is smirched with
damned spot" which can never be efaced.
We can think of nothing more repulsiyely
disgusting than the spectacle of Hayes send
ing veto message to congress in which he
denounces the corruptions and malpractices
in elections, and expresses his determination
to preserve the purity of the ballot-box from
the control of the Democrats. The monu-
mental fraud of the age, condemning the
process by which he owes his present posi-
ton, is truly an inspiring sight. 1t is bad
enough for Beecher to preach against the
crime OF adultery and for Satan to rebuke
SIN, but when Hayes AXIS about honest cleo
tons, and the purity of the ballot box, the
climax, the apex, the ne plus ultra Of sub
lime impudence has been reached. Congress
meets on Tuesday next, and the Democrats
will give the fraudulent President an oppor-
tunity to carry out his threats. The Democrats
are united in their determination to adopt
the old systems of conducting elections, and
which existed from the days OF Washinton to