Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-05-27

summation o. TIE scheme w0Ml0 &c oe-
piorabie 10 those under the press.
though 4 wouldnsl Be 80 ohjeessonsble
prosSied they'd give roo and ne d
brace 81 Dukedoms. in the divisions Of
the spoils." And here Is The meaning
81 The '.one majority in the electoral
votes Of 1876" which the Republican
ticket did not get. though much they
wished.
The last issne Of The n. 7. Weekly
Worid-eome 70 hand since commences
ment Of this writing-puis Il IN : nut
shell. ION the morning Of the 9Th Of
November. 1875. the Republican Ma
tional Committee gave up tle presiden-
tial battle and conceded the defeat OF
Hayes. Bot the next dag The two
Chambers passed the word along the
Republicsn line that Ibis would never
do. South Carolina, Florida and Lou
isiana must De contested Cor Hayes.
On Wednesday aliefnoon Dir. William
z. Chandler, The henchman Of Mr..
Blaine, suddenly departed from New
York 10 Florida 10 capture that State.
Governor kellogg. now setiingasa Sea-
asor in Congrass from Louisiana. tele-
graphed President Grant 20 send imme-
diaiely 10 New Orleans the most active
and Inscriptions among the Republic
can managers. Sherman, St0nghlOn
and others were forthwith selected and
sent. Il was then quickly sgFeed
among the Republicsn managers that
Democratic ballots enough should be
thrown out in Florida, South Carolina
and Louisiana to give the Hayes cleo
tors majority 10 each Of those States.
ss se The plot m Florida and Lou
isiana could not be worked without the
moral and material support Of Federal
bayo0ets. The returning boards in each
Of those States refused to exclude the
needed number OF ballots unless the SOL.
diery stood around while The fraud was
executed, 10 protect the canvasseFs
against the despoIled and defrsuded vo-
tiers who had honestly depositedthe ball
lots which were not to be counted.
Thereup0ll President Grant telegTaphedi
the following orders to Gen. w. L.
Sherman to supply the troops demand
ed, both in Louisiana and FLORIDA, and
containing his famous sstop-thief = dodge
10 the tune Of ono man worthy OF the
Office Of President should be- willing to
hold IL if Counted in or placed there
by any fraud" 90 on 70 quote (the
whole article would be Q good CAM
paign document here) but you no doubt
have Il snong your exchanges.
ballots actually cast were excluded as
well az overlooked in sufficient num-
bers to give the States to the Hayes
electors" "By one majority" be IL
remarked, after all this and more -
The Louisiana returning board was not.
even returning board, according to the
enactment Of The carpet-bag State Leg
islature which bad created returning
boards for this very contingency; for u
had but two members, the law Tequir-
ing three, one ol whom should be =
Democrai;--hence the deficiency.
Now let rs see whether this ''oue
majority was put on record. When
The returns were counted by the Elec-
toral Commission, il is Of record that
one was not in proper form and anoth-
er contained q forgery Of some OF
The Louisiana county election officers
nance, who were not present at their
signing and who afterwards testified be-
fore the Congressional investigating
committee Of Feb, 1877, that they had
never signed the saidreturns. Now what
did the s8x7' Electoral Commission do
under the trying circumstancesi Why.
they refused TO do the one thing they
were crested for, examine the ballots
actually cast; decided Chat they could
not or would not, ralheF,-'.gO beyond
the returns" fraudulent or fair); 30 the
Zone majority was actually never coun-
ted; and 10. Bradley discovered ''sliun-
de- evidences for declaring oiiciaIly-
without the electors having anything 10
do with it-that Hayes was President
OF che United States.
Now what becomes Of your tone M
jority."lls
A shrewd gentleman exclaimed 70 me
on the OCCASION mean the day after
ski had been broughttobeda and Alum
de-" had been delivered-"Truly, The
South has all the honesty and the North
all the smartness ~ AS illustrative Of
this shrewd guess after the proof was
soregone, let us look . little into The
legitimacy of this supreme returning
board, the SIT Electoral Commission.
Issi in the Senate gallery ell through The
reading Of the original bill creating 1t,
by that wiley old accoucheur Of The Alb
clifton Party and Of Hayes Administra-
ton, Senator Edmunds, from Vermont,
not missing word. The Electoral Com
MISSION was. believe, conceived BY
ConkIing, from New York, but the bill
was evidently grained BY Edmunds.-
How he encouraged The patient fpnblIc
marel How he administered soothing
syrup at critical passagesl How he sup
ported the perenneuml We were 10 have
an equal number Oh members appointed
from each Of the two branches Of the
legislative body and the same number,
Eve iron that impartial. incorTuptabie,
outside OF and shove politics. dlgniiled
tribunal, the Judiciary branch OF our
great government. And Che Only reas-
on given tor the TACT that this sqHaf
partition not eren, was chosen was
ssThat f-i-i-t-e-e-n seemed tobe revy
propsr nsmbsr." Egual, not egsn; God
save the maxi But then the Demo-
Gratis we're to have the zone majority"
on the Ski. Now Is u possible TO be-
lieve, even after the fact, that any sane
man. let alone q whole Democratic del
egation in Congress, could tail to detect
al glance the devils tail sticking
a