The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-12-11
AT INDIANAPOLIS TO-DAY.


Does he dare to force himself to the /
font rank of the mourners who follow 1
the dead statesman to the tomb. wear /
ing on his false face the counterfeit OF /
their sincere. grief ? The insOlence Of /
such hypocrisy is inexpTessibie. we
should think that the despised wretch /
would tremble with fear lest the dead
himself should speak and say : back,
Fraud Stand not with those who
loved and who honor me -
On this day of the year, nine years
ago, the operations of the conspirators
who plotted against Hendricks right,
and foe Hayes benefit were far ad-
vanced. Federal troops crowded the cor
ridors of the State House in Columo oia.
At Tallahassee the Canvassing Board,
behind closed doors, were reversing the
Democratic maj0Tities in Baker and Al
achua counties The scOundrels in
New Orleans were bargaining with the
representative of Hayes, and voting to
go into secret session that they might
manipulate the figures so as to give the
electoral vote of Louisiana to the de
feated candidates for President and
Vice President, and thus defTaud the
country of its Tightful choice. The
liars in these three States were lying, the
perjurers were falsely swearing, the
subOTners of perjury were haggllng over
the price of crime, the fOTgers were
scTapiug and erasing and changing, the
thieves were hiding or destroying the
ballots stolen from the boxes that are
the sanctuaTIes of the peoples free sut-
frage, the larger conspiTatoTs at Wash
ingtOn were cOncOcting schemes to COW
er with the forms of law the infamous
work at the South. and Hayes was
J. htsf
aTdly iUpatience to seize and appTOpTl-
ate the fruits of that gigantic malefac-
tioR.
Has any Democrat forgotten the deeds
of November and December, 1876
Has any Democrat concluded 20 bury
these memories, or to extend the hand
o! forgiveness to the Fraud Hayes across
the grave of the defTauded Hendricks
1t is one of the duties of citizenship
to remember these things, and to-day is
an appropriate time to recall them. y
resolution of the Democratic House of
/ Representatives, adopted on Saturday,
March +, 1877, on the eve of the consul
nation of the greatest political crime in
/ history, sOemnly declared that Thomas
/ \. Hendricks. in the election of 1876,
/ received a majority of the electoral
/ votes and was duly elected Vice-Presi-
dent Of the United States. That TesO-
luton declared the truth No man can
/ gainsay it. It is established by evidence
/ that is unansw weTable, and by the con
fessiOr of some of the chief criminals
/ hired hy the agents of Hayes. Tilden
/ and Hendricks carried Florida by about
/ Ice votes. In Louisiana the Tiiden and
/ Hendricks electors received a majority
/ of abomt 9 900 votes. BY :he local pro-
{ cessss of false. fabricated and forged af-
tdayits Iud altered returns already de-
/ scribrd. more than 900 votes in FIori-
"a, and more than ten times as many in
Louisiana. were taken from the caudi-
/ dates to whom they belonged, ard the
/ result In the two States was thus Ie-
veIsed. Can any hypoCuticai tears
which Hayes may shed over The bier OF
/ Hendricks bot out the fact 2
/ Tue appeal was 20 Congress in Wash
! ingtCn. The national Legislature. hold
/ ing The constitutional power 20 count
/ the electoral votes, was asked to extT-
/ else that power. and 10 render Justice to
the people. The unconstitutional Elec-
T torai Commission was then devised.
Bg the law creating that body it was
/ directed to ascertain the true and lawful
vote OF every State Proof Of the fraud
uIent nature of The cOrruptIy procured
certificates from Florida and Louisiana
/
/ rejected BY majority Of Oue-the
vote OF a partisan Judge whose conduct
at this crisis in the nations life remains
as an lneftdCeabIe stain on the honor OF
the Supreme Bench-eveTy motion look
/ ing toward the Tighting of wrong the
. ascertainmentO Of truth, the rendering OF
/ justice, the invest igatiOu, even. Of The
facts on which judgment was 10 be rem
dered. was steadily and unf1inchinglv
thrust aside
Great as were the crimes Of the
thieves, peIiuTers and fOrCevs in the
couuties Off lorida and The parishes of
Louisiana, and In the Republican re-
turning boards at Tallahassee aud NV
Orleans, this Gual crime at Washington
4 was greater still. It was a denial of ius-
tice, a refusal even of hearing bv the
. body established by Congress as a court
/ of last resort. The fraud wb ich was
plarted at the polling places after word
had been sent from the Fifth Avenue
HOtel that + lOCida and Louisiana must
. be claimed and held at any cost. and
which biOssOm6d iu the darkness Of the
. back rooms where fOTgerS scratched and
! the perjurers hsggled with the agents of
+ Hayes, bore its Eruit m the chamber Of
/ the Supreme Court of the Uaitcd States.
! To the humiliation OF every uatrioLic
. utIitdIl, 1ut NtJIo OF LNe W nIJe House
and the vaults of the Treasury were
opened to the man who had been wait
ing for months al Fremont for the
fraudulent verdict. with greed aud cav
ardice alternately uppermOst ia his mis-
cradle sOEl. Can any tears. we say.
that this crocodile may sbeCat IadiauaD.
els to Cay aJ the grave of Hendricks
wash out bhe LO7 brand ?
Note the contrast. Cor il is "a paro OF
history, and its lesson is impressive. OF
the two meB elected President aud Vice
President iH 1876, one still lives, con
sp;cuOuSly hOnOred ald warmly beloved
the drst citizen of the land, after hav-
ing twice refused nomination which
meant the sure Tightiug, III measure.
OF the wrong which the Democracy sui
feTed IN his person nius years ago. Tn
other dies Ia the Office from which be-
was shut Out by the c8Bspirators of the
Fraud. HOuOred nd SINCERELY mourped
by the nation ha is carried 5o-dav to his
. last resting place. OF tie two men who
pIoh.e1 chiefly ba tue .mous1rOus in
lqdlly, one Is alE-Iy i0Tgotlen-wto
knows where Wlol.ar 5s, or whether me
HYes or sleeps In O5.iyIuu The o!beT
cravls ogt of obsCuE-Ly 10 touch the hem
ot Hendricks sbT0U6. happy thus to AZ
tract tor an hour even the attention Of
universal contempt.-N. I. Sun, De-
censJer Isl
THE whale is said te live 600 or oo3
years or thereabouts; and he is a y0r,.g
crow taat dies before he teaches his 1OOlh