Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-20

meinbe one night in February, l~s wien
they, me sainted GARttxLp and otucrs mei
Major Il. A. BuRxs. of Louisiana, anu severn,
500 .hern representatives III ROOM ~
Wvrmley' IIotca fcr the purposc OF Ioachlne
NJ, arrangement with those southern repre-
sentatives thar would break the hllbustcring
movement and enable che counting nf the
electoral vete TO be cOinpleici before the ltli
day of March, ~ M and iurther enncle
HAshS to occupy an Office To which ne WAS
not elected, DO they remember that the
price demanded By the southern representa-
tlv ~ for $" throwing fiLDEM overboarn was
the throwing overheard by HAYES Ell the car
pet~bag rsscals I'm south Carolina, Florida
and LouisIanus Do they remember that
they eagerly agreed to pay this price, hut did
Major Bunk &C and the southern representa-
tive insisted they shoud2 DO they remcm-
Der that Maior BURKE wrote out the bargein
on three pieces of two bills OF fare and sskcd
ali concerned To sign? DO they remember
that the subsequently greatest living man
cicr-for his own pockel-JoiiN SHERIDAN,
suggested that, instead OF signing their
names, each person SHOULD make ~ Justine
tive mark? DO they remember that MAJOR
BURKE and the southern representatives
would not accept SHERhAS's amendment,
and that BURRn signed his name frst ana
the rest followed, SHERMAN next after
BURKE? OF course they remember now the
southern representatives broke down the
nibuster movement, how HAYES got into
TlLDEss ofcs ms the first result and how
HAYES slaughtered the South Carolina, Flor
ida and Louisiana rpei-baggers ana MI the
title To the presidency he had ~ the same
time as the next result Now, this journal
desires to ask JOAN SHERMAN, STANLEY
MATTHEWS and Governor CHARLES CALicO
FOSTER II they know That the three pieces OF
ihcsc two bits of fiip on which that bargain
was written are now in existence ana pro.
curnhle? rhis relates TO the celebrated
! Wormley d1etcl conference OF February. 1877,
and Is about all of II.
This is not direct charge, but IL can
mean nothing else. 1t Is susceptible
of but one construction, and that is
that GARFIELD, SHERMAN, MAT
rIrEws, FOSTER and others of the Re-
publican party and Y. A. BURKE and
Others of th' Democratic party of the
South bargained, that ia consideration
that HAYES should call Off the carpet
baggers from Louisiana, South Carroll
ma and Florida, that the Southern rep
resentatives in congress would cease
fillibustering, and allow Il correct of
the electoral vote prior to March 4th,
1879. This meant to Gust TILDEN who
was elected and seat HAYES who was
not elected. IL is an answer to tlAe oft
repeated inquiry how ii was that the
same vote that elected HAYES in
Louisiana should elect NICHOLS gov
ernor. If this be true and the asser-
! ton that the written agreements are
still in writing, places it almost be-
yond question it is quite time for the
Democracy to stop complaining Of the
presidential larceny. If the Demo
Gratis of the South were party to the
agreement they should cease twittine
| the Republicans about it. 1t seems
| hardly possible that the representa-
| tives of the three states named should
agree to course that would relieve
them of carpet-bag rule and oppression
when the same end would have been
attained by adhering to principle
and inaugurating the man who had
been elected president. There could
/ be no doubt but that, if inaugurated,
/ TIDEN would have removed the
troops from the Southern states and
permitted them the enjoyment Of loca
s,lf-governtment. II seems incredible
that such man as Maj. BURKE would
have been party to such fraud upol
the people OF the three states men
toned, but OF all the Union. If TIN
agreements are in existence they
should be produced.