Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-23
SHERMAN AND LOUISIANA.
His Candidacy Likely TO Reopen the Lou
isiana Sore of 1876.

his Candldacy Likely to Reopen the Lou
isiana Sore of 1876.
While Foraker at Dayton was declaring
unctuously that he would stand by John
Sherman as long as he had button ON his
coat, and malodorous Keifer was equally
enthusiastic but would probably change
the phrase from the buttons on Sherman's
coat to the dollars in Sherman's pocket,
John Sherman himself, says the Chicago
Times, was attempting to defend in the
Senate his own and his party's action in the
Louisiana scandal of 1876.
In one sense that account Is closed. The
Democratic party IN Congress submitted
the differences of that year to the extraor-
dinary tribunal created in part by their
votes, which delivered its Judgment as
might have been foreseen, in favor of Mr..
Hayes Party men, however grievously
disappointed, could not refuse acquiescence
to the finding of tribunal created with
their assent The Hayes Administration,
which was at least freer from scandal than
its immediate predecessor, had its day, and
Hayes himself has passed into retirement
almost as profound as total obscurity. The
tortuous details of the struggle, which was
blot upon the political history of the Re
public, are rehcarsed only because one
prominent actor in an affair which support
ers of Tilden regarded as infamous per-
sists in the ambition TO become Presiden-
tial candidate Mr. Shernan's candidacy
must compel discussion of an episode which
brought him reward without honor
His service 10 Hayes IN that campaign or
fraud and finesse was followed by his ap-
pointment to the Treasury portfolio Pressed
to the point Sherman is compelled to offer
as plausible defense as he can frame Of the
Louisiana Infany and his connection there
with, but say what he will certain facts re-
main which must forever plague the apollo
gIsts of Sherman. Tilden received clear
majority of the vote of Louisiana. The GER
tihcate was given to Hayes. Packard, who
was the Republican candidate for Governor,
had majority of the votes cast for that
Office, yet the place was given to his Demo-
cratic opponent. The stalwart Republicans
of the time pointed out the absurdity of the
proposition that Hayes, who lacked votes,
was entitled to Louisiana's vote for the
Presidency, while Packard, who had the
votes, was not entitled to sit as Governor.
Mr.. Sherman was then, as he is now, pro-
feSsed Civil-Service reformer.
1t was his care to prostitute the civil SER
wee that every member Of the returning
board which had followed his suggestion as
visiting statesman might have a place on
the Government pay-rolls. Packard was
soothed with the plum of the Liverpool Con-
sulsnlp. 1he negro upon the returning
board was the only member Of that plant
body who was not cared for at public ex-
pense. Mr.. Sherman had little repugnance
IN pensioning Louisiana rascals upon the
Government when later it suited his am
bilious purposes he had no hesitancy in
dismissing Arthur and Cornell from the
customs service at the port of New York.
II 1t Is desirable 70 avoid reopening the
Louisiana sore Of 1876 Mr.. Sherman must
remain content with his present station
Upon him more thsn upon any living man
/ falls responsibility for the corrupt bargain
ing which rcsnlted in the theft of Louis
iana's electoral vote.
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