The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-25
A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER.
Senator Vest Proves More than Match for
John shsrman-The Truth OF History.

John saerman-The Truth Of History.
In the course of the Senates considers
ton of the bill for the admission OF South
Dakota as State, and the organization OF
the Territory of North Dakota, Senator
Sherman said that in the absence OF Sena-
tor Eamrnds, who was engaged N the
Supreme Court, he would ask the attention
of the Senate.
It had always struck him, he said, that
the opposition to the admission OF Dakota
as q State was totally unjustifable and
latterly) factious-so much so as to be
subject TO the severe criticism Of everybody
who liked to see fair play on great ques-
tons affecting large masses of people.
Why, he asked, should Dakota be excluded
as State? He had listened to most Of the
debate and had not heard single reason
given for such exclusion. Never before
had Territory applied for admission as a
State with anything like such population
or such resources. Why should not Dakota
be admitted? In the name of heaven why?
Simply because the Democratic party did
not want that State To be admitted. In the
course of his speech Senator Sherman
showed BY the vote In the Senate that the
electoral commission bill was not Repub
Ecsn, but Democratic measure. Twenty
six Democrats had voted for it and only
twen.y-one Repub bhcans, while the votes
against It were fourteen Republicans Gn-
Guiding himseID and one Democrat Senator
Eaton. of Connecticut.) The Democrats
were, therefore, precluoed from assaillng
the bill ss partisan measure. be declared
his full conviction that Hayes had been
fairly and legally elected, and that If, by
some hocus pocus, Tilden had been lnaug.
urated he would have been Illegally elected.
he explained the incongrnity of Packard
not getting the Governorship Of Louisiana
BY showing that that was subject 70 local
laws and decisions; and he declared his
conviction that Packard had been illegally
deprived Of his Office.
In the further course of long speech,
in which Senator Sherman incidentally
touched upon current Louisiana politics,
he said:
Hereafter when any man asserted Of
President Hayes thai he dad been elected
by fraud or wrong, or had not been duly
elected, he (Sherman) would hold him in
contempt as ustering that which was not
trpe and which was denied by the very
men who overthrew the local government
in Louisiana in 1915.
Senator Vest replied:
he said that the threat which Senator
Sherman has Illuminated as to holding in
contempt men who questioned Hayes's
election might have terror for members Of
his own party, but even with the terror OF
that threat before his eyes he (Ves0 still
denied the honesty and legality Of that
{ election. The question which he had asked
YESTERDAY about Packard and Hayes had
been asked in desultory and unpremedi-
tsted wsy, and the Senator from Ohio had
not answered it satisfactorily.
Senator Vest sent TO the clerks desk and
had read extracts from speech made on
that subject in the Senate by Mr.. Blaine,
IN which he declared tnst the election of
Z Hayes and Packard were inoissolubly con-
necsed, and asked who had authority to
make any arrangement by which Packard
was not upheld, stating that it was impos-
ssible for the Administration Of Hayes to
have done It.
That, Senator Vest said, was the state
nsnt Of the most distinguished Republican
now living now living, with due Difference
possibly to the Senator from Ohio. Laugh
ter3the standard bearer of the Republican
party in the last Presidential canvass, and,
M was TO be taken for granted to be the
standard bearer of that party in the coming
contest. Mr.. Blaine had then asserted that
sc Packard was not elected Governor Of
Louisiana Hayes was not entitled to the
: electoral vote Of the State.
Senator Vest then passed on to the ques-
ton Of the Louisiana returning board, and
{ stated that every member and officer Of
that board, and their relations, had been
Z provided with lucrative offices, except the
one coiored member (Cassanave), who had
not been so provided, and who had come
to Washington and appealed to Hayes and
Sherman then Secretary of the Treasury
for pecuniary aid, which had been given or
offered to him to heamount of over s., 600.
He Westl made no charge, he said, of any
corruption IN the matter on the part OF the
Senator from Ohio, but what claim had
that member Of the returning board on
HAYES II Casssnave merely carried out his
LEGAL and constitutional duty? Why had
e been that every man connected with that
board, from the highest to the lowest, had
been rewarded with an Office? There was
no page of administrative history that de-
manded more explanation than that which
now stares him in the face. The Senator
from Ohio attacked the people Of Louisi-
ana, charging them with crimes that would
stamp them with infamy, but he (Vest)
stood there to ayouch that whatever had
been done in Louisiana on that occasasion
had been done not to bring about an unfair
election, not to trample on the ballot OF
any human being, but to defend themselves
against ruthless, outrageous and criminal
conspiracy against their property at the
hands of men who had gone there for the
single and sole purpose Of plunder. The
I Senator from Ohio had read newspaper ex-
tracts with stories Of outrage and murder
and crime in Louisiana, but where, he
asked, would the Senator or himself be to.
day If the newspapers spoke the truth
about theme What would become Of any
public public man in this country If news,
paper statements were TO be taken as evl-
dence before any tribunal? He criticised
sarcastically the opposite sentiments ex-
pressed by Senator Sherman in his two re-
cent speeches at Nashville, Tenn, and
Sprinfeld, ILL.,, and said in conclusion:
eat the risk even Of the Senator's con-
tempt, undertake to say that the Amer
can people never will be satisfied with the
explanation made today, but that, like
James G.. Blaine, they have already come
to the conclusion that it is impossible even
for the ingenuity Of the Senator from Ohio
to explain why it was that the vote OF
Louisiana, as returned by the returning
board, was good for the purpose Of giving
the electoral vote of Louisiana to Hayes for