The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-18
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The following reply. of the Washing
ton Post to the Now York Times on
the Electoral Commission is well wor-
thy of an attentive perusak We agree
with the Times that the Commission
twas clothed with authority to exam
inc the grounds of the Electoral dis
pute." But the Times, and everybody
else, knows that The first thing schieh
the Commission did seas to decide that
Il aeould NOT 10 tte rery thing Il tcas
created 70 do-"eramine the grounds 81
ne dispute" The Democratic party |
had its choice either to resist this out |
rage on the part of the Commission,
and thereby incur tho almost certain
risk of plunging the country into revo-
lutionary strife, or to accept the peace
fal revolution which the Commission
decceed when it refused to examine the
grounds, and gave the office TO the can
didate defeated at the polls, 1t patri-
otieally decided to adopt the latter
course so far as to admit Mr.. Hayes de
Etcto title, but it was never guilty of
the wrong, the iniamy Of agreeing,even
by implication, not to hold up and de-
nounce at all times and in all places
the crime committed in setting aside
the election of 1876, the men who We're
sharers in that iniquity, and all who
Nigh tbecome the accomplices after the
fact. On the contrary the Democratic
party, from the very first, regarded 1t
as solemn duty to keep this colossal
crime of the age before the gaze of the
people, that it might become more and
more hateful rs time should pass, and
that silerce might not be construed in
to consent or approval, and thus en-
courage repetition There was never {
more imperative duty than the denun
citation Of all the varied infamies tha
constituted the Presidential theft. Mr.
4 Hayes de .facto title is respected, fo
\ the Democratic party prefers to suffe
= wrong rather than plunge the conntr.
/. into tumult and disgrace. But ther
is not Democrat of high or low de
gree in all this land who does not fee
that he is bound as a patriot and as a
honest man, that it is his duty to th
present and coming generation, to max
the revolution which put the minorit
= on TOP, and the majority underneath S
odious and so infamous in the sight {
all the world, that no party viii eve
dare attempt the ike again. This
. why the leading men of the Democrat
- party speak of Mr.. Hayes as Fraud
ulent President. II they lacked coui
= age to thus speak the truth, the masse
. of the party would soon repudiate thei
leadership. 1t is quite enough that th
. majority of the American people endur
{, the wrongs that rob them of the col
a troll of this Government, and keeps tha
= control in the hands Of the party bea
en- in the election. For the Times
: expect them to be silent and thus stu
= tify themselves and encourage revol'
y ton is going too far. AIr. Hayes wi
> get no further courtesy than such oil
"a " cial recognition ofshis de faeto title as
y. necessary to the proper running of Ii
IA mechanism Of the Government Wha
, ever hard things may be said of Il
. Democratic party in the future, it wi
. never fall SO low as to justly incur II
es charge of silent acquiescence in Il
n. greatest crime ever perpetrated againi
u those principles on Shich both the Coz
II stitution of the United States and I'll
ln Democratic party were built.