The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-28


party pretended to treat the Cassanave
matter with contempt, and sought to
brave it out, but the truth has at last come
to the surface aud duplicates John Sher.
man and the fraud Hayes as the ones who
gave Cassanave the hush money, A
special to the st. Louis Republican, from
Washington says
Tho missing link in the documentary
evidence in the Casanave transaction has
been supplied. When the negotiations
were going on Webb Hayes came to Judge
Shellabarger's Office and handed him 81
600, saying that was all that could be
raised Just then. 1t WIS too late in the
day to transact any business involving the
payment or transmission OF money, so
Shellabarger told Casanave to go home
and sleep soundly as the mater would be
arranged and bis property saved. Judge
ShelIaberger arrived at his Office next
morning, 18th, very early, and found
Webb Hayes there waiting, He at once
accorded Webb a private interview, and
the latter said that his father wanted that
$1,000 held beck; that detective had In
formed his father that there was 'collusion
and fraud" between CasaDave and the
New Orleans attorneys. Cssanave was
informed of this, and then the following
note was sent to Secretary Sherman:
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is, 1879.
my DEAR SECRETARY-The $500 you
sent me have sent to Badger. | still
hold the 81 900 sent me by the president.
He reports collision and fraud. What
shall / do?
SAM'L SHELLABARGER."
Inquiry showed that il was all right, and
the president was not allowed to retain
his money, it being sent to New Orleans
The evidence grows stronger each day
that duplicates the present occupant Of
the presidential chair as party to the greaI
crime which darkens American history
Hayes was not elected president of the
United States, but secured bis seat BY
direct bargaining with the returning
boards, through John Sherman as prin'
cipal manager. The Republicans are nov
forced to the defensive in this matter, anC
though they may seek to overbalance thu
weight of the testimony showing thu
direct connection of Hayes and Sherman
with the crime, by the policy Of genera
denial, such explanations must be made a
to leave no doubt with the people. Mr.
Hayes is accredited man of parsimoniou
tendencies aud it must be something on
of the usual order Of things that would in
duce him to pay out $1,000 for charity
He don't do that sort of business, and
can nationally be inferred that his reason
in the Cassauave case were SO urgent tbs
he was compelled to pass over the moue
to buy the silence Of the member {
the returning board. The pres
OF the stalwart party may go on deny
ing any completely on the part {
Hayes or Sherman, but it won't satisia
torily explain matters. 1t is only que
ton Of time when every featuee OF tt
infamous transaction will be made publ
and Hayes be held up to the cOntumely
the world as a hypocriticsl pretender, wi
leagued with thieves aud peIjured scou
dres to secure the presidency, knowing
the time he did 20 that he vas not euti;lt
to the position which fraud aud perjul
has given him, And yet the Republics
party goes on with barefaced impuden
prating about its morality, lofty aspiri
tions and advanced ideas, and the frat
Hayes sits complacently in bis chair al
lectures an intelligent congress on the n
cessity of pure elections. Hayes is
fraud, nothing more or less, and owes b
position to intrigue so base end unprinC
pied as to be unexampIed in history, b
side which ordinary crime is made respeC
able. The stubborn fact will ever rema
uppermost that in 1876 the people we
wiHully defrauded of their rights and tn
Rutherford B. Hayes was willing par
to the conspiracy. This has always be
deep seated conviction among the Peep
and from the evidence at hand it is an
controvertible fact which ten thousa
deni4Is from stalwsrt organs cannot eta
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