The Hartford herald., 1880-09-22


by the Returning Board upon testimony
and evidence manipulated by Garfield,
that the electoral vote of Louisiana had
been given To Hayes and Wheeler. Ii
Was notorious that Til,len had carried
the State by majority of 5000. Had
the Commission exercised the right
which Garfield said upon the floor of
the House they undoubtedly had" to
" go behind the returns for correction of
fraud" they would most certainly have
discovered not only that the State had
been stolen for Hayes, but that il had
beeu stolen for Hayes upon frauds COM
mitted under the personal supervision
Of James a. Garfield.
80 the Commission, BY the casting
vote Of Garfield, resolved "that evil
dence bc not received in the ease of
louisiana"
soon afterwards the ease of Oregon
was reached.
The certificate from Oregon was duly
signed by tine Governor, and complied
in every particular with the require
ments of the law of that State. The
certificates 81 framed declared thai the
TIl'icn electors had received majority
oi the Votes east.
Common honesty, common decency,
AMI common sense of Justice demanded
that the same rule established i'm the
Louisiana ease should he applied to the
Oregon ease. Having decided 'that
evidence bc not received in the c.lse of
Louisiana, tine commOnest sense of jus
tice, h.Id the Electoral Commission been
governed in the least by the principles
of justice, required that the Commits
sion in the Oregon case should also de-
eide ''that evidence be not received"
But such decision would have COM
PEELED them to accept the certificate Ot
the Governor of Oregon, and the ac-
ceptance at that certificate would have
made Mr.. Tilden President of the
United States.
so the Electoral Commission, upon
motion of George +. HOar, and by the
casting vote of James y. Garfield, ere
solved, that evidence he received i'm the
ease of the State of Oregon" Garfield
voted one way in the case of Louisiana,
and another way in the case Of Oregon,
because the application of the same
rule i'm both eases would have rendered
futile his labOrioUs work i'm that little
inner room in the New Orleans Custom
House, where he manipulated the re-
turns for the benefit of MIR. Hayes.
Hon. William Strong, one of the
Commissioners, and IA Judge of the SUI
preme Court of the United States, adj
mits the fraud i'm Louisiana. In his
letter To Hon. Geo. w. Jones, of Ten
nessee, dated February 26, 1876, MIR.
Justice Strong says:
Congress has of late years interferred
quite too much with the States. The
Electoral Commission has no more
power than Congress has, and | think
u would be IA most dangerous usurpa-
ton were il to do what the States alone
had right to do, even to aver Chdt 4
fear Wds a great tcrOng of the Louisiana
Returning Board"
What was this great wrong of the
Louisiana Returning Board? Simply
this: That the vote of the people of
that State Was 50 changed by the inner
room manipulation of the nimble-fin-
gered Garfield is To throw out 10000
votes actually east for Tiltlen, and count
in "A majority of 5000 for Hayes In
plain words, it was the disfranchise-
ment by Garfield of 10000 voters Of
Louisiana, and through their disfran
chisement the overthrow Of "A popular
majority in the United States of Amer
lea of quarter of a million.
Mr.. Garfield is the Republican candi-
uItc lOr f-ft>iuetll- III Tue itilSust-c oi
Governor Hendricks:
'ilis nomination means the endorse
mrnt and approval in the most positive
and offensive manner possible Of the
Presidential fraud OF 1876 and 1917. lie
had more to do with it than any other
man He WAS the only man who Oc-
cupied toward il double relation.
Aller the election Garfield went To
] lrl. i.Nr Rf "a
Grant, without authority of law, rs 4
partisan. He went there to assist his
party in making up a ease, and after his
return to Washington, Of all his asso-
ciates, he was the only man who took
his seat upon the Electoral Commission.
BY every sentiment of lair play he
should have been excluded from the
jury box. by his own sworn statement
Of what he did i'm New Orleans, Gar
field had charge of the returns from
; | West Feliciana Parish. In one of the
inner rooms of PackarPs Custom
House he did his work; examined the
aflidavits, and when they We're not sui-
liciently full, according To his ideas, he
manufactured additional interrOgatO-
ries to bring them within the rules
adopted 10y the Returning Board. The
testimony 50 prepared by Garfield went
back To the Returning Board, and that
the result was that West Feliciana,
with its Democratic majority, WAS
thrown out. In Washington Garfield's
vote WAS that Congress could not go be-
hind the returns thus made. As agent
for his party he helped to make returns
by manipulating the evidence; and, as
juryman for the nation, he held such
evidence as conclusive and binding"
The Democratic party North and
South peacably acquiesced i'm the decis-
ion of the Commission and the elected
President, Mr.. Tilden, submitted to this
great steal accomplished by perjury
through the forms of law, because sta
bility i'm Government, and success i'm
, business to the people, were in the bal
. ance.
They bided their time.
: They now come to the great tribunal
: of the people, and indict the Republican
party for grand larceny.
Four years of unlawful possession OF
, an Office To which the people said Hayes
: had no right, and the payment of 2O
! thieves who helped to steal the Office by
gift OF place and patronage, cry aloud
: for Justice, RetribUtiOH, aud Pfaisi-
mCHt.
Justice travels with "a leaden heel,
7 but strikes with an iron hand. Wait
until the fioodgate is lifed and "a full
head of water comes rushing on; wait
and you shall see fine grinding then"
; -ECdasriIie Courier.