The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

s IT is partisan appointment. DIR.
Blaine, the leading member of the
Cabinet, in his speech at Newark, n. J.
in the Presidential canvass, urged that
ii would not do to elect Gen. Hancock
{ because it was important that the vacan-
cies on the Supreme Court Bench should
be filed with men who hold that the
/ United States Government is in effect
"a consolidated empire, and that the
rights of the States to the exercise of
the reserved right of selfgovernment
is a pestilential heresy." Matthews
appointment is in conformity to this
theory that the bench should be in
tensely and even Indignantly partisan.
The New York Herald, an independent
journal, deprecates his appointment
and saws that Mr.. Garfield had "a
splendid opportunity to put an end to
national scandal, the existence of
partisan bench" and that since 1861,
no Democrat has been appointed to the
Supreme Court Bench. Three of the
Judges after their appointment became
liberalized; but, says the Herald, the
quickening came from an ambition to
be nominated for the Presidency by the
Democrats Stanley Matthews is rabid
Republican partisan, therefore his NOM
ination was not fit to be made.
Again, says the n. Y. Herald, the
''idea of the Supreme Court was that
every section of the Union should
"have a representative, knowing the
wants of the people and seeing that
''justice was done, without regard to
estates or territories. As the Bench
islands the South is practically di.fra'a-
''chised" This is true, and being true,
the appointment of Stanley Matthews
was not fit to be made. He is not only
Northern Republican, but an intensely
sectional one. He was Third Termer
before the Chicago Convention met on
the ground that such heroic treatment
of the South as Gen. Grant would
administer was needed to compel these
people to obey the Constitution and
laws. His speeches in the. canvass were
taken up with an arraignment of the
South on the false and malicious accu-
sation that her elections were conducted |
by violence and fraud.
And lastly, his appointment was
conceived in not only par
tisan, but vicious and corrupt motive.
1t was to reward with lifetime Office
of great responsibility and dignity, at
public expense, a chief agent in the
Presidential theft of 1867. No man
is qualified to wear the ermine of that
august tribunal who has a record as
procurer of bribery and perjury. The
evidence which connects Mr.. Matthews
with this disgraceful transaction is
furnished in his correspondence with
James +. Anderson, and which is a
part of the history of the great Fraud.
Anderson was Supervisor Of Registra-
ton for East Feliciana parish in the
election of 1915. He testified that the
election was peaceable and fair and that
there was no ground for rejecting the
vote of the parish which went largely
for the Democrats. 1t was necessary to
the execution of the plot to procure the
vote of the State for the Republicans,
to buy up Anderson and induce him to
recant, and negotiations to that end
we're successful. An office was promised {
Anderson on condition that he would
suppress evidence showing that said s
parish was fairly carried by the Demo
rats" Anderson complied with his
part of the bargain; and here are some I
# Matthews letters duplicating him in
his infamous negotiation
"CINCINNATI, March 80, 1877.
"MY DEAR SIR: This will be presented |
o you by Mr.. J. E. Anderson, who may !
Iesire to communicate with you confdenti- !,
LA. Yours truly, :
=" STANLEY Matthew's. t
''Gen. J. A. Harlap.1 .
CINCINNATI, May 7, 1877 !;
"MY DEAR SIR: The appointment of
fr. James E. Anderson as one of the three
equity collectors, or other suitable place o
satisfactory to him in the Custom House at h
Few Orleans, I l0ould regard as IN the inter
st of the public service, a deserved recognition S
f his ooCn services, and a personal favor to C
lyself Nay 1 venture to ask your personal :,
aJfuence in his fdror? Yours truly, \
STANLEY MATTHEWS. r
"Gen Thos, G. Anderson"
CINCINNATI, May IA, 1877.
"MY DEAR SIR: The bearer, Mr.. James b
;. Anderson, of New Orleans, is the gentle 6
nan in reference to whom, when last in
Washington, / had private conversation
nth you urging his appointment to a con- j
ulship. Mr.. Anderson has had until now
subordinate clerkshiP i'll the Custom f.
louise at New Orleans, which has always :,
cen unsatisfactory to him, and now his res Il
1ence there has become so unpleasant that h
e has abandoned it and his clerkship o
he circumstances in achich Mr.. anderson has
cen placed, and in which he has been compelled
act a Gerry difficult part, are such as to gtUe
i'm rery strong claims upon the Administration
! the public interests and do most earnestly
rye that some satisfactory public employ C,
lent may be found for him at once. ci
Very truly, rs. NJ" a
With these proofs of Stanley Mat o
hews' completely in procuring bribery "
nd corruption by promises and efforts b
reward with public ofice-to say ,
othing of his being an ultra partisan D
nd sectional agitator-we repeat that +
is nomination was not fit to be made SC
nd is not fit to be confirmed.
After the foregoing was prepared, we h
,und in the Chicago Tribune, Republi- Il
IN, another item in the long account io
gainst the appointment of Stanley G,
[atthews. 1t alone is sufficient ground a,
,r rejecting his nomination f
'There is one argument against the con- w