Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-10
groll County Aeaister
At indianapolis To-Day.
From NJ Y SIM. Dee 1st

The volunteered presence of Rutber.
ford b. Hayes at the grave of Thomas
A. Hendricks to-day is spectacle
which the country might well have
been spared. Is it possible the man is
SO utterly destitute of the sense OF
shame? Does he dare to force his way
to the front rank OF the mourners who
follow the dead statesman To the tom b.
wearing on his false face the counter
felt of their sincere grief? The inso.
lence of such hypocrisy is inexpressi-
bic. We should think that the despis-
ed wretch would tremble with fear lest
the dead himself should speak and say:
Back, Fraud! Stand not with those
who loved and who honor meI''
On this day of the year. niue years
ago, the operations of the conspirators
who plotted against Hendricks right
aud for Hayes's benefit, were far adj
vanced. Federal troops crowded the
corridors of the State House i'm Column
bia. AT Tallahassee the CanvassiDg
Board, behini closed doors, were re-
versing the Democratic majorities in
Baker and Alachua Counties. The
scoundrels in New Orleans were bar
gaining with the representatives of
Hayes, and voting to go into secret ses-
sion that they might manipulate the
figures so as t., give the electoral vote
of Louisiana to the defeated candidates
for President and Vice-President. and
thus defraud the country of its rightful
choice. The liars in these three states
were lying, the perjurers were falsely
swearing, the suborners of perjury
were haggling over the price of crime,
the forgers were scraping and erasing,
the thieves were hiding or destroying
the ballots stolen from the boxes that
N i # t,a nt..fs c,,f
frage, the larger cons orators at Wash
ington We're concUctug schemes coy
er with the forms of law the Infamous
work at the South, and HAYES was
waiting waiting with eager but cow
ardly Impotence to seize and appro-
pirate the fruits of the gigantic male
faction.
Has any Democrat forgotten the
deeds of November and Decembe
1876? Has any Democrat concluded
to bury these memories, or to extend
Hayes across the grave of the defraud-
ed Hendricks?
1t is one of the duties of citizenship
to remember these things, and to-day
is an appropriate time to recall them.
A resolution of the Democratic House
of Representatives, adopted ON Satur-
day, March 3, 1877, on the eve of the
consummation of the greatest political
crime in history, solemRly declared
that Thomas a. Hendricks, in the
election of 1876, received m"jority Of
the electoral votes and was duly elect
Ell Vice-President of the United States.
That resolution declared the truth. No
man can gainsay it. 1t is esta blisf ed
by evidence that is unauswerable, and
by the confession of some of the chief
criminals hired by the agents of Hayes.
TIlden and Hendricks carried Florida
by majority of about 100 votes In
Louisiana the Tilden and Hendricks
ticket received majority of 9 900 votes.
By the local processes of false, fabri-
Gated, and forged affidavits and alter
ed returns already described, more
than 900 votes in Florida, and more
than ten times as many in Louisiana,
were taken by the State Returning
Boards from the candidates to whom
they belonged, and the result in the
two States was thus reversed. Can
any hypocritical tears which HAYES
may shed over the bier of Hendricks
E5lot out that fact?
u The appeal was to Congress in WASH
ington. The national Legislature.
holding the constitutional power to
count the electoral votes, was asked
to exercise that power, and to render
justice to the people. The unconstitu-
tiOnai Electoral Commission was then
devised. By the law creating that
body, it was directed to ascertain the
true and lawful vote of every State. |
Proof of the fraudulent nature of the
corruptlv procured certificates rom
Florida and Louisiana was offered To |
the Com mission. 1t was rejected By :. |
majority of one-the vote OF 1. partisast
Judge whose conduct at this crisis i'm |
the nations life remains as an iuefface- |
able stain on the hOnorof the Supreme |
Bench-every motion looking toward |
the righting of wrong, the ascertain
ment OF truth, the rendering of justice,
the investigation, even, of the facts on |
which judgment was to be rendered. |
was steadily and unfiinchingly thrust |
aside.
Great as We're the crimes of the
thieves, perjurers. and forgers in the
counties of Florida and the parishes of
Louisiana. and in the Republican Re-
turning Boards at Tallahassee and
New Orleans, this final crime a WASH
Ington was greater still. 1t was a de-
NAL ofjustice, a refusal even of hear
ing by the body established by Con-
gress as court of last resort. The
Fraud which was planted at the poll
ing places after word had been sent
from the Fifth Avenue Hotel that
Florida and Louisiana must be claim
ed and held at any cost, and which
blossomed in the darkness of the lack
rooms where the forgers scratched and
the perjurers haggled with the agents
OF Hayes, bore its fruit i'm the chamber
of the Supreme Court of the United
States.
To the humiliation of every patriotic
American, the doors of the White
House and the vaults of the Treasury
were opened to the man who had been
waiting for months at Fremont for the
verdict, with greed and
cowardice alternately uppermosti in his
miserable soul. Can any tears, we say,
that this crocodile may shed at Indian
apolis to-day at the grave of Hendricks
wash out the to brand?
Note the contrast, for it is part of
history, and its lesson is impressive.
Of the two men elected President and
in 1876 one still lives,
honored and warmly
beloved, the first citizen of the land,
after having twice refused a nominal
lion that mea mt the sure Fighting, In a
measure, of the wrong which the
Democracy suffered in his person nine
years ago. The other dies in the of
ice from which he was shut out by
The conspirators of the Fraud. Honor
ed and sincerely mourned by the ma
lion, he is carried to-day to his last
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