Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-10-31

gives the country the dement, OF ais opiI-
ion and experience on the Electoral Fraud
Of 1876. Simon Cameron was q member
Of the Senate when the great steal WAS
petpetrsted and was one Of the few Re-
! pnbiicans that WAS opposrd to the fsls'fS-
8 iny of the returns from South Carolina,
! Florida aud Louisiana, and to the uncon-
! stitutionnl method adopted 10y Congress OF
determining the result OF the presidential
! election Of 76. His last act ~ Il Senator
was 10 vote against this violation nf the
i CONF neutrality-suspicious. the great steal by
/ which the lawfully elected President Of
! the Unit, Il States WAS deprived of III seat
ANA fraud aud cheat placed in his seat
Mr. Cameron now says, ut would have
/ been better il Mr.. Tild-n had been permit
ted Ia be President II the Democrats bad
not been prevented from assuming power
at that time it would have been better for
the country now, for they would have
shown the clovtn foot just that mnch
socner."
!
country If Mr.. Tilden bad be, n permitted
to be President, but for q different aud
u better reason than is assigned by the rN-
Senator. II Nr Tild-u had taken bis seat
fraud would not have triumphed for the
first time IN our history. The man chosen
by the people would have becn the chief
executive. We would have had no Hayes
administration. The country would have
been spared that blot upon her fair name.
lies' of all, It would have .nded forever
Il u dou.iniJn OF the Republican party in
this Republic. II Mr.. Tildeu had been
p, ruiltc,i 10 take his seat and iuaugurared
nj, administration there would have been
would have been better for the country.
The clOvrn foot would have been show II,
hut IL would have been on the Republican
party. Tilden would have uuea'thrd adch
frauds aud disclosed suoll corruption III the
administrations If his Republican pretie
cessors a. would have insured tn. ascend
ancy Of the D'.nioc ratio party for all time
To come. There would have been real re-
fnrms made. The government wonld have
been honestly aud economically admins.
tered. There would have been no thieves
to rrward Tildcn wonld not have been
Indebted to such characters for his posi-.
ton. II would have been better, innlri.-r
ly better for the country, had r,Idcn bccu
President.
But 'hr Rc,u,ii,an party did not thinl
81. L. conc cre,i a plan Ia drfraud him
ont Of his rosition aud Ia reverse the viii
Of the p," pie - Expressed ut the ballor
box. Conspiracy was formed to falsfy
the r"fnrus aud alter the vote Of three Of
ih" States. II ~us carr,rd ont by ia, r..
pnblisan party. Ii violated the cpnstitn.
ton and consort-d with thieves to defeat
the will OF III. people. II was done.
Wh're then was the Republican who
thou hit that it woull lie best for the
country I" permit Mr.. Tildrn TO To- Presi-
dent' Tnerr were q few. sud among them,
in justice let It he told. was thu Senator
fsom Pennsylvani,; hut these frw were
poNcrlrss TO break the conspiracy which
he party had formed to steal the Prrsi-
'drncy. Mr. Cameron is right II would
have been better for the country had Mr..
Tildcn been permitted to he President, and
the whole country is fast coming to the
same c"nclrsi"u. In Ia il will he assert
-d at the ballot box, aud the country will
sec that there is not another Electoral
Fraud.