Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-23

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Pittsburgh POst.l
THE COUNT FOUR YEARS HENCE.
Grant and other radicals are seek
ing to alarm the country by insinuat-
ing that the object in passing the res
olution is to count out Garfield, but
the real purpose is evident to any man
possessed Of common sense and com
mon fairness, ant that is to put it out
of the power of Chester a Arthur to
count in a fraudulent president IT
1884. According to the republican
theory that the vice-president con-
trOls the count, nothing would be
easier than for the vice-president TO
declare the defeated candidates elected,
and while democrats admit the cleo
ton of Garfield, they are determined
to place II beyond the power of any
uDscrupulous partisan who msy o3cu-
py the yice-presid initial chair to put
another Hayes in the White House.
DEMOCRATS GEITED.
So far as can be learned there is
unanimity on the democratic side il
favor of settling this question upon
the basis of the constitution, which,
in calling the two houses to witness
che count, evidently intends that they
shall participate 10 the proceedings
and that senator's and representative
sholl not est lilo GO ,,..v HILL. 81
stones while a false and fraudulent
count is being recorded. Should the
matter not be settled before the day
fixed BY law for making tie count, a
sufficient number of democrats will.
no doubt, absent themselves from the
joint meeting of the senate and house
to break a quorum, as they d. not pro-
pose to admit by their passive pres
enc the rieht or the power Of the
fraudulent yice-president to make the
count.
HAYES AND HIS DEBTS.
The late Mr.. Mackey was want 10
charge the fraudulent presid Mt with
ingratitude IN the men who put him in
the White house Whatever Mr.
Mackey's grievances NAV have beeh
certain it i that The de iacto" has
succeeded pretty well in %repayiug witt
government appointments the long
line Of his debtors, from the visiting
statesmen down to the returning board
thieves and perjurers, by whose pens
aud tongues their villsinies were sup
ported to a successful conclusion.
But nne great actor in the drama re
mains unrewardod for his dis inguished
services That man is Ulysses S
Grant, who covered the capitol and
White house with cannon to prevent
the installation Of the lawfully elected
president. Hayes shows himself nos.
sessed Of the same spirit Of gratitude
10 the man Of all others who rendered
his usurpation possible that he exhib-
tied to the vile scamps who ialsifed
the returns in Louisiana and Florida.
by proposing that congress shall con-
Ter upon Grant the extraordinary and
unrepublican title and power OF cap
t%ain-general Of the army. Hayes de
sires to discharge all his obligations
before his retirement from his stolen
ONCE, and has reserved the highest for
the last. This is the secret of his
sollcltude that the recommendation of
HIS last message shall be carried ont
The bill offered by McCook to place
Grant on the retired list, with the
rank Of general, suits neither he
great tramp and mendicant nor Mr.
Hayes, The latter having received
S2lO,0OO Of salary belonging 10 Mr.,
Iilden, Of which he has asyed at Ieast
$l6O,OOO, wants Grant to have some.
thing commensurate with the consnic.
gons part he took in contamination of
the crimes Of Madison Wells and the
other small fry, who set the will n
the people at defiance.