The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-01

men, if they are not Republican parti-
sans. for doing. Applause.
When l read this passage OF Judge
FOraker's speech, and came to realize
the awful danger in which | stood If
provoked him, and his devOut hope that
would not give him the prOVOcatiOn
for my own sake, thought had read
something of the kind in literature, and
! went to Martin ChuZzlewit" and
there found it: "'When ordered you
| to leave this house, upon the last Occa-
sion of your being dismissed from it
with disgrace said MIR. Pecksniff, when
stung simply beyond endurance by your
shameless conduct to this eXtraOrdi-
narily noble minded individual l ex-
claimed, 60 fOrthP told you | wept for
your depravity.'
ave said Mr.. Pprksnlff, and in
such a case you will find me an ugly
customer"
am to find Judge Foraker an ugly
/ customer ii | provoke him. Well, want
to provoke him, for az l said before, if
there is any one thing in my life that
entities me to the respect and confidence
and trust of the Democratic party, it is
this. Does not Judge Foraker know
| that Il. b. Hayes was counted into the
presidency upon forged ceTtificatesP ?
True, this was not discovered till after
the electoral commission, but it is IA
fact, that the certificates of election
which were counted by the electoral
commission were forged. This was dis
covered by the Potter committee the
next year. But it is fact, Judge For
aker, that the White House was occupied
tificates forged by William Pitt Kellogg
and his associates in the StatehOuse of
Louisiana.
1t Is fact, Judge Foraker, that at as
quiet an election as ever was held in
the United States, Samuel j. Tilden re-
ceiVed majority of five out of eight
electors of nearly 10000 votes in the
State of Louisiana. How came Packard
to receive more votes according to the
returning board than Hayes, to be
counted out by Hayes in May of the
next yearp Yet Hayes was counted in
by the electoral tribunal Reconcile
these two facts, Judge Foraker, before
you give way to my prOVOcatiOn, and
tell us how came Hayes to be President,
and Nichols, the Democratic candidate
who, according to your sweet saVOred
returning boards decision, received
fewer votes than Tilden, to be counted
in by Hayes the next spring as Cover
nor, and to fill out his full term as
such.
Do you not know, Judge Foraker. that
Mr.. Hayes's administration rewarded
with office, patronage, and money every
scOundrel, male and female, who were
engaged in stealing votes in Louisiana
and Florida? Do you think that the
Democratic party will soon forget its
effort to prove fraud in the Louisiana
election was rejected by the electoral
tribunalp The gentleman who, in my
opinion is. intellectually speaking, the
most distinguished Republican in
America, head and shoulders above them
all, said to me during the argument of
the Louisiana case, Judge HOadly, |
cannot understand or appreciate the ac-
tiOn of our party associates" said he,
'the State of Vermont gave its vote for
Hayes and Wheeler by 27,0OO majority.
II a band of ruf1ians from Canada in
the interest of the Democratic party had
invaded the State of Vermont and its
capital, the city of Montpelier, and by
threats against the life and liberty of
the electors, compelled them to vote for
Tilden and Hendricks, when the people
had chosen them to vote for Hayes and
Wheeler, will any Republican tell me
not only that that vote would have to be
counted for Tilden and Hendricks, but
that this action could be reversed as
soon as the electors were set at liberty,
and the vote counted as the people had
determined, for Hayes and WheeleTP
Yet" continued Mr.. COnkling, for he is
the Senator whom l have referred to,
who was too just minded and honorable
to sanction by his vote the theft of
Louisiana, yet" continued he, what
force annuls, fraud annuls; force and
fraud make void all that they touch"
Ii the vote OF Vermont supposed, could
have been reversed by fraud, so the vote
of Louisiana must be reversed if you do
not succeed in establishing the fraud
which you have offered to prove before
the electoral tribunal"
Do you not know, Judge Foraker, that
the electoral tribunal refused to re-
ceiye any testimony in the LOus-
lana casep We were present prepared to
prove by our witnesses in court that the
State had been stolen by fraud, and that
that infamous tribunal sat, not blind,
not deaf, but with eyes open to the
beckOning hand of the Republican in
terest, deaf only to the claims of Justice.
determined to stand on the form of a
transaction and reject its substance.
Do you believe that if ever again the
question OF succession shall arise in this
country, and you know that at every in
terval of four years such question is
likely and liable to arise, there will be
one human being who will quote the ex-
ample of the electoral commission as
worthy to be fOllOwed2 GApplausel.
DO you not know that Oy refusing to
receive the testimony and consider the
case on its merits, your party have block
ed the avenues in case of disputed sue
cessiOn hereafter, to peaceful arbitra-
tratiOn, and have opened the gates of
violence as the only method by which
such question can now be settled? Do
you not know that in the case of Florida.
that State with all her power protested
against the fraudulent action of the re-
turning board; that her courts decided
that the returning boards had not the
powers they claimed; that her depart
ments, Legislative, executive, and Judi
cial, finally interpOsed and rescued the
State from the destroyer and spOliatOr?
Do you not know that it was in that
State that the tissue ballots were in
Vented-knOwn as little jOkers-tO be
used for the purpose of electing Hayes?
Do you not know that by the right OF
quo warrantO, instituted before the vote
had been cast by the Hayes electors at
the Instance of the Tilden electors,
judgment of custer of the Hayes cleo
tors was rendered, and a judgment of
Induction of the TiIden electors? Do
you not know that by every principle of
American and English law a Judgment
OF custer and induction of quo warranto
taxa affpRt from tho lot D, "a