The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-04-26
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senator Vest Proves Nions than a Match TO,
John bheTman-- VIC Truti, or II,stnru ~

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John sherman Riie Truth or History.
In the courseo of the Senate's, considera.
tion OF the BILL for the admission of South
Dak0ta as RState, and the organization of
q tne IeTThorysof North Dakota, Senator
sherman said that in the absence of Sena.
TOR TEdmunds, who was engaged in the
supreme Court, he would ask the attention
\ OF the Senate. ,s,H A.. 49,. - -
1t had always struck him, he said that
the opposition to the admission of Dakota
as state was totally unjustifiable aud
Qa.teriy) facuous-so much so as to be
suoJeGI 10 the severe criticism of everybody
VINO hked TO see fair play on great oues-
tons affecting large masses of people
why, he asked, should Dakota be excluded
as state? He had listened to most of the
depate and had not heard a single reason
given Tor such exclusion. Never before
mad a Territory applied for admission as n
otate with anything like such population
or such resources. Why should not Dakota
Se aumittedf ln the name Of heaven why?
simply because the Democratic partv did
not want that State to be admitted. In the
course or his speech Senator Sherman
TSooWed by the vote in the Senate that tho
electoral commission bill was not a Repub
lican, but Democratic measure. Twrntv-
Blk Democrats had voted for it and oniv
twenty-one Republicans, while the votes
"h"ine' ~ "etc fourteen Republicans Tin
Guiding himselD and one Democrat Sonatnr
Eaton, of Connec1icut.) The Democrats
were, therefore, precluded from assailinu
inc OIL as PARTISAN measure He declared
ms tull conviction that Hayes had been
1alrly and legally elected, and that if nv
some hocus pocus, Tilden had been ipouG
urated ne would have been illegally elected.
lo eNpiaiL le incongrnity of Packard
not getting u. lovernorship of Louisiana
Dy showing that that was subject to local
laws and decisions; and he declared his
conviction that Packard hal been ILLEGALLY
deprived Of his office.
In the further course of q long spopcb
III which Senator Sherman incidentally
touched upon current Louisiana politics
he said: P''i'1"''
Hereafter wheE any man asserted of
president Hayes tina; he dad been elected
oy fraud or wrong, or had not been duly
elected he (Sherman) would hold him in
contempt as uttGrlng that which was not
true and which was denied by thc vprv
men VINO overthrcw the local government
In Louisiana in 1876.
Senator Vest replied:
lie said that the threat which Senator
SHERMAN has Illuminated as to holding in
To- -,conternpd i,GfCny who questioned HavCss
election might have terror for members of
his own party, but even with the terror of
'hiS"o pSloiC ulS yes nC " SSI) sui
denied the honesty and legality of that
election. The question which he had asked
yesterday about Packard and Hayes had
Dcen asked in a dcsultUry and unprcmcdi-
taled way, and tho Senator from Ohio had
not answered it satisfactorily
Senator Vest sent to the clerk s desk and
had read extracts from speech made on
that subject in the Senate by Mr.. Blaine,
in which he declared tnat the election of
HaVpS nnH poIL Lor ;,,,; !; Il
nected, and asked who had authority to
make any Arrangement by which Packard
was not upheld, stating that it Was impos-
sible for the Administration of HAYES to
have done it.
That, Senator Vest said, was the State
ment Of the most distinguished Republican
now living now living, with due Difference
possibly to the Senator from Ohio Laugh
ter the standurd-uenrer of the Ecnublic-u
party in the last Presidential canvass. and
ut was to be taken for grantcd,) to be the
standard. bearer Of that party in the coming
contest. MIR. Blaine had then asserted that
II Packard was not elected Governor of
Louisiana Hayes was not entitled to the
electoral vote of the Stat.
Senator Vest then passed on to the uues-
uon ot the i'0uiSi&pa returning boaru, and
stated thai every member and officer of
that board, and their relations, had been
provided with lucrative Offices. except the
one colored member (Cassanave), who had
not been so provided, and who had come
10 Washington and appealed to HAYES and
Sherman then Secretary of the Trcasury)
for pecuniary aid, which had been given or
offered to him TO the amount of over 81 900.
he (VesO 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
tlaNpS II (,aSS0noVp n)prolX t,l I;
legal and constitutional duty? Why had
II been that every man connected with that
Doard, from the highest to the lowest. had
been rewarded with an office? There Was
no paGc OF administrative history that de-
manded more explanation than hat which
now stares him in the face. The Senator
from ONO attacked the people of Lousi-
ana, charging them with crimes that would
stamp them with infamy, but he Vcsu
stood there to ayouch that whatever had
been done in Louisiana on that occasas;o on
mad been done not to bring about an unfair
election not to trample on the ba lot 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 ana sole purpose Of plunder. The
oehator from ONO 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 t..
day If the newspapers spoke the truth
about them? What would become of any
public public man in this country if news
paper statements were to be taken as cyi-
dence before any tribunal? He criticised
sarcastlcally the opposite sentiments cx-
pressed by Senator Sherman in his two re-
cent speeches at Nashville Tenn, and
Sprlnlleld, ILL.,, and said in conclusion:
AT the risk even Of the Senator's con
tempt, undertake to say that the Amcri
can people never will be satisfied with the
explanation made today, but that, like
James G. Blaine, they have already come
10 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 givinY
the electoral vote of Louisiana to uayes for
the Presidency, but was not good for the
purpose OF giving il to Packard for Gov
ernOr Of that State"
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