Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-05-03
6 rAe GREAT ELECTION feAup.
The Men Who Peypetrated Il stiu Def
ant In Their Guilt.

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ant In Their Guilt.
During the debate on the bill for the
admission Of Dakota into the Union
tsunting remark by Senator Edmunds
drew from Senator Vest, Of Missouri. the
retort that 1t was Mr.. Edmunds who crea-
ted the celebrated board which put
Hayes into the presidential chair" Mr.
Edmunds rejOined
Iwish to say with emphasis that believe, and
think nine-teuths OF the people Of the United
States who know anything about 1t believe, that
President Hayes was lawfully and fairly and
Justly elected by the votes OF the states according
TO the constitution Of our couItry.
This audacious assertion was at once
met by Senator Vest with the question
why Packard, who recei we'd for governor
of Louisiana larger lumber of votes
than Hayes received for president, was
thrown out of Office and sent as consul to
Liverpool, while Hayes was sworn in as
president Of the United States. II have
heard" continued Mr.. Vest, 1.-THE ablest
Republican in this country, the foremost
in every combat for the Republican party
and Its supremacy-I have heard Roscoe
Conkling say upon this floor that it was
by fraud that Hayes came to be presi
dent"
Mr.. Vest walked up nest of snakes.
The old memories came crawling out of
their holes, the old impudent pretenses,
the old defiant insults to right and justice
and common sense. 1t happens that sew
eral of the most conspicuous actors in the
conspiracy of the great fraud are Repub-
lcan members of the senate: Edmunds.
the creator of the electoral commission;
Hoar, member of the infamous eight;
Sherman, the visiting statesman and man.
aging man in Louisiana and the discoverer
Of Eliza Pinkston; Hawley, a member Of
the second Louisiana commission, charged
by Hayes with the arrangement of the
Packard difficulty; and Chandler, of New
Hampshire, whose fertile brain first
grasped the possibilities of the situation
on the early morning after the day when
Tilden was elected, and who completed in
Florida the work which he began at the
Fifth Avenue hotel in this town. They
all had their say concerning their respec-
tive parts in the fraud of 1875; and the
result was that considerable part of the
time of the senate on Tuesday. Wednes-
day and Thursday of last week was taken
up by this unexpected overhauling of
shameful history
The whole story was spread again upon
the record for the benefit of the latest
generation Of voters. down to the very
last hush money paid by John Sherman to
the negro Casenave three years after the
consummation of the crime, and to the
list of conspirators, accomplices, princi-
pal and subordinate. who were rewarded
with public Office by Hayes and Sherman,
at an annual cost of $223.00O to the
treasury of the United States
Yet not one of the defenders and up,
holders Of the fraud answered the plain
question asked by Senator Vest, of Mis-.
souri, Not one of them could satisfac.
torily- explain why, if Hayes was fairly
and honestly elected as president, Packard
was not the legal governor of Louisiana
With great force Mr.. Vest recalled the
memorable warning of Mr. Blaine: "You
discredit Packard and you discredit Hayes
You hold that Packard is not the lega.
governor of Louisiana and you hold that
Hayes has no title" .r.....
We should be glad to announce that il
the sober views of eleven years after, and
under the Christening influence of polti
cal vicissitudes, some one of these princi
pal actors in the crime of 1876 showed
signs of remorse That is not the case
Without single exception. their attitude
is as impudent and defiant as it was wher
their party was in the full enjoyment o
the stolen goods New York Sun.