Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-03

- 1lreetpgy. which will appear every
x011aB moEning.
~ uspassss RsFshlng RushItghs.
fo-night, ct twelve O'clock, the
a 1olAl light Of Rutherford E.
EEoSos Will 60 out. When that SOL
- boar sounds, there will not be
i lpoltsFing fag end Of . very foul
no1le to remind mankind that
Ayoe Tor four years occupied the
- q Warrington. He dies OH.
11Ily unwept. unhonored and
1ong. He was made Pres
qot BY the most remarkable,
6tnltous and corrupt combina.
61nno Over recorded In the history
r ~ people living nder . con-
1l1aelonal government. The
11o1ofal Qommission which, by
6a1nr from Mr.. TIlden tho votes
~ Leuislana. Florida and South
ooe1alna, made Hayes President,
~ . thing utterly unknown to
~ constitution of the United
U1atss. Had the Commission pro-
pQnoed In favor Of Mr.. Tilden Its
151QBolarity In form and substance
1rAt have been condoned because
q would ct least have had the
191oe Of recognising the claims Of
( : uan Who had received POS out of
~ - electoral votes. and who
~ : plurality over Hayes Of
~. 600 Of the popular vote.
~ little over four years ago there
~ offered to Mr.. Rutherford B.
Hayes the finsst opportunity for
dienifying Republican government
ever accorded to any man on Gods
1ootstool. He knew, as all the
people who are broad between the
/, syes, irrespective Of politics, knew,
that NJ. TiIdsn had been elected
pso1ldent OF the United States.
0nly the audacious pronuncia.
mlento Of Zach Chandler that
Hayes had received 1856 electoral
Votoo and was elected President,
psevsntsd the Republicans from at
oaos throwing up the sponge the
day after the Presidential election.
When Chandler wrote that tele-
gram for the Associated Press he
kuew that Mr.. Tilden had received
~ electoral votes to Mr.. Hayes's
-. A. the Chairman of the Re-
pnblican National Com mittes and
member Of Grants cabinet,
ChAndlse 1t once made up his
0and to steal the nineteen elect.
oral votes needed to elect Hayes,
aod In this nefarious project he
hid the full support of the shoddy
Wo0ld-be Cesar who was theu
RFesident. Every one remember
tie infamous details OF the Presi.
eontial conspiracy which was hur.
( yied rApidly forward and which, to
many good men Of both parties,
scanned to render the Electoral
Co0missien patriotic expedient.
Had Rutherford B. Hayes, at the
critical moment, developed the
pauhood and rectitude which
would have enabled him to cry
halt TO the consplrators, he would
to-day be the most houored man in
The United States. No human con-
juneture abort Of death could have
provsntsd his election aud inaugu-
nation for two terms of the Presi-
Disney. and that by q practically
unanimous vote of the American
people. He would, in the future,
have been spoken Of with much of
: the reverence which, in all ages
snd chimes, will attach to the
nsms OF Washington.
But this sublime opportunity
was allowed to pass unimproved
b. > man whose moral stature
proved to be Unexpectedly low.
HE. Hayes took the office which he
knew belonged to another, and
eonnived At conspiracy whose
end II not yet. No man living can
calculate the strain which was put
ppou American Institutions by the
events which followed the Pfesi.
Dental election OF 1875. Much OF
the evil wrought then might be
oouuteFacted II the wholesome po-
utical revolution lately inaugural t.
4 - IN Psnnsylvania should extend
70 other States, and the "boss" de-
vSlopmsnt In our politics should be
permanently retired. 1t was the
Dosltleal "bosses" ct Washington
uhos four years ago, made possible
~ tRampling upon the will Of the
peepIs.
70 may very we'll be doubted
whether Mr.. Hayes's short and
seminal experience Of power has
proved TO be bed OF roses. For
6 yoars past one could hardly pick
- : Republican paper which has
- beea filled with open or covert