The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
The Nomination OF Stanley Matthews
OUGHT 70 be Rejected

rejected. The Democrats in the Senat
have it in their power to prevent its con
firmation. They are in the majority
) and it is known that several Republican
are opposed to it. The shame of tn,
appointment will be spared the coun
try if the Democratic members will d,
I their duty. In politics, the appointe,
has been anything by turns A North
ern man, he came South in 1912; taught
school in Maury county, Tennessee
enjoyed the hospitality Of the people
and married one of the fairest daughters
of that noble old county. Returning tc
. Cincinnati, he became an Abolition edi
tor and helped to kindle the spirit Of
sectional strife which finally eliminated
in civil war. During the Buchanan
Administration, he was a Democratic
officeholder. Afterwards he became a
Republican, and then joined the Liberal
movement and abandoned it on pretence
that Mr.. Greedy was not free trader.
In the late canvass, he was a stalwart
of the stalwarts. But the bad feature
Of his appointment is that it is made as
reward for his services as one of the
visiting statesman to Louisiana, and en-
gineers of the rascality by which the
vote of that State was counted for
Hayes though it went by 5000 MAORI
" for the Democratic candidate. He
controlled the Louisiana election mana
gers, and manufactured testimony by
promises that Hayes would reward them
with office. This pledge has been re
deemed. His disgraceful negotiation
with Anderson has been published and
it revealed the part he performed. He
was one of the actors in the notorious
Wormly Hotel Conference, and upon
his assurances, purporting to come
from Hayes himself, that Southern
members Of Congress were induced to
desist from their movement in oppOsi-
ton to the confirmation of the electO-
raj count after the deep-laid villiany of
the SKI commission had been laid bare.
The Philadelphia Times puts it pungent-
" in saying that: Having put the
machinery Of fraud in motion in Louis
ana he appeared in Washington. He
lobbied with the Southern Senators
and Congressman, arranging with
Machiavellian foresight the consecutive
steps in that profound comedy of law
lessness aud chicane known as the Elec-
toral Commission. He argued before
the never-to-be-forgotten eight, and
with a cynical confidence in their parti-
san unscrupulousnCss and an inditfer-
ence to the forms of justice, which sent
such lawyers as O'Conor and Trumbull
out of the case in speechless scorn for a
court that would tolerate such prostitu-
ton Of the forms Of political or legal
equity. BY bargain with Hayes he
succeeded John Sherman in the Senate
but it is significant of his standing in
his own State that although his political
friends have twice had an opportunity
to elect him they have neglected the
and gone elsewhere. 1t is
an open record that his short term as
Senator was marked mainly by an amaz-
ing subservience to the interests of Jay
Gould and other unwholesome corpora
ton interests, regarded with profound
aversion throughout the whole land as
and non-American."
1t must be said to his credit that
while in the Senate, he introduced the
affirming the right of the
to pay off the bonds in
standard silver dollars of 4121 grains.
These resolutions were endorsed by the
vote of nearly all the Demo
Gratis and several Republicans. They
are all right, but they are counter
by the overwhelming weight
Of facts against him, not the least of
which was his opposition to the bill of
Senator Thurman which passed both
Houses to compel the Pacific Railroad
to pay its interest on the money the
government loaned to build it.
If the appointment of this man to the
Supreme Court Bench, is confirmed, it
will be due to the votes of Democratic
Senators. Results will show whether
they will register the decree of the
Executive, or do their duty.
The nomination of +. G. Billings for
the L. S. Circuit Judgship ought also be
Indignantly rejected. He came South
on the tide that bore most of the adven=
turers, and Grant made him a Circuit
Judge in Louisiana. He drew the in
famous midnight order of Durell in
1872, which brother-in-law Casey said
was a master-stroke that would reverse
the popular vote of that State lease the
party and give Louisianana
a Republican Legislature and State
government" He was co-adjutor of
Kellogg, Packard & Co., and when the
deed was done, sent the following dis
patch to Laudulet Williams of the |
Grant Cabinet:
New ORLEANS, Dec. Is, 1872.
Hon. GEO. H. WILLIAMS, Attorney-Gen- |
eral, U. s:
The en- tire Republican party of this State
thank the President and yourself for action |
Of yesterday in recognizing the legal and |
State Government
w, p. KELLOGG,
4. c. BILLINGS, and others.
The Philadelphia Times says what
everybody knows TO be true that there
is ''no dispute in regard to his unscrupu-
lous crimes against order, law and JUS
tice during the notorious reign of the
in Louisiana, and his APP
pointment stamps falsehood upon every