Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-21
THE LOUISIANA DICKER.
THE RETURNING B64RB REFfFEB
IN THE SENARE.
sn>rman Endeavors to Justify the Hayes
Election Fraud-vest Quotes Blaine,s
Admission That If Hayes was Elected.
so was Packard

Election Fraud-vest Quotes Blaine,,
Admission That III Hayes was Elected
so was Packard
WASHINGTON, April 18.-The land forfeit
ure bill went ovefas unfinished business in
the Senate and at Q this afternoon the Da.
kota Dill came up and Sherman took the
moor IN its support. He replied in an inn
passiohed manner to Vests alusiJn to tbe
UNFAIR method in the election of President
hayes. he claimed that every suspicion
ever cast upon the integrity Of that bro
ceedlng had been repelled and that it stood
n history as Q matter Ia which the Ren,,h.
GS Gcan posltion could not be impeached.
Sherman showed by the vote in the Ssnat.
that the electoral commission bill was not
republican, but a Democratic measure
Iwenty-six Democrats had voted for it and
only twenty-one Republicans, while
the votes against it were fonr-
teen kspublica ns (including himseID
and one Democrat (Mr. Eaton OF Connecti. |
cut). The Democrats were therefore nre.
cluded from assailing the bill as a partisan I
measure. He declared his full conviction
that Hayes had been fairly and legally
elected and that If by some hocus poems
Tilden had been inaugurated he wonld
have been illegally elected He
EXPLAINED THE INcoNGRuIrY
OF Packard not getting the Goyernorsb;n ~
Louisiana by showing that he was subject
to local laws and decision, and declared {
his conviction that Packard had been ilIe-
gally deprived OF his office The Demo-
cratic party had not only by fraud and
violence sought to control the Presidential
eIecti9h' but 1T had actually sue n
ceeded IN depriving Of their Offices | h
the duly elected Governor and
members OF the Legislature. Then be .
proceeded to read extracts from a sneecb t
made IN the late canvass by the late Sena- Il
tor Eustis, in which he declared il to be the Ia
determination OF the white men OF Louisi- 7
ana TO solve the race question without re- D
sSrd TO Northern sentiment. "If that re
Sald sherman, was the desire and de- fc
OF the white people OF Io,,;si. II
ana, the Constitution of the United States Il
would have to be changed" When IL vas n
aId there must be white mans govern lin
nent In Louisiana, it meant an un-repub. T
lean government. The people of the South. I'll
instead OF seeking TO a,
WIN rn, -, go, Il Il
y Kindness, had maintained systems of
omineering crime and violence. He had III
ZIG called upon to make these remarks,
artly to correct an historical error into
'hich many persons had fallen and to show
hat not only did the Returning Board OF SE
have sufficient evidence before
hem OF fraud and violence and outrage in
ne election of 1875, but that the present
overnor of that State and one of it's Sen.
tors mad confessed all and more than had
er been claimed by the Returning Board. Ho
ever anybody had any doubt of the cleo
On OF Hayes that doubt had been removed
the admission OF the very men who had
'rticlpated in the wrong OF that day in
'uislana' Sherman continued his defense
Hayes election and made q general ar N
lShOlent OF the authorities OF the Southern vice
to,,o5 ~ - .4ii negro voters. Hewas the
""'onoion' ing
tbescasS;, n sire
=, ae0u ~, Tue iionesCy ana iegailty ASST
H>"t election. The question which he q fto
d asked about Packard and Hayes had s,eo
been answered satisfactorily. Vest re- vice
red to speech made in the Senate by Satl
.lne in which Blaine declared the election selet
dayes and OF Packard were indissolubly Hew
nected. Vest passed on to the question Sewt
he Louisiana returning board and asked Juhl
IT had been that every man connected Cam
n the returning hoard from the highest Chul
jhe lowest had been rewarded with Office. the |
ire was no page OF Administration his. and
that demanded more explanation than Circr
WnIch now stared him in the face. He adjO
ST. stood there to vouch that whatever ory
been done in the State of Louisiana on made
occasion had been done, not to bring 1t
ut an Unfair election, not to trample on from
ballot OF any human being, but to de- an al
themselves against an cred.
ITRAGEOUs AND CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY, IN su
their property at the hands OF men nen.e m.
had gone there for the single and sole nnrn,
'ose Oh plunder. He criticised sarcasti- the ci
the opposite sentiments expressed by and
man in his two recent speeches at on cit
willie, Tenn, and Springfield, Ills, and
in conclusion: "At the risk, even, of
Senator's contempt, 1 undertake to say WA,
American people. never will be satisfied apces
the explanation made to-day, but Co,,,,
like James G. Blaine, they have al
y come to the conclusion it is imposs- fos
ven for the ingenuity of the Senator the ct
ONO to explain why it was that the ality,
OF Louisiana as returned by the re- his o
ng board was good for the purpose of countl
g the electoral vote of Louisiana to Seer
Is for the presidency, but was notgood serves
lie purpose of giving it to Packard for OF his
Overnorship of the State" and pl
rman reiterated his previous state Sens
8 and said in reference to Packard q man
President Hayes had no power over re- ial dut
sent to the Legislature. After the qualifi
'crats had inaugurated their reign of Sen ate
my to drive Packard out, it was not long p1
power OF the President to recognize unspot
'ithout usurpation. Secrt