The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-05-03
POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES
SENATE.

The campaign seems to be fairly
onpned i'm the Senate, and last week OLD
matters were revived in discussion
tbere calling out Senators Edmunds,
Sherman. Vest, Butler and others. The
T,onlsiana election of 1875, and the
fraudulent count and seating of Hayes
were gone over among other things.
Of course Edmunds and Sherman
maintained that "Hayes was lawfully
fairly and Justly elected" Their own
party know better, and, in fact, they
know better, but being partlceps crlm-
inis, they will not confess. senator
Vests response was emphatlc anu ulu
justice to the facts.
Mr.. Vest-Mr. President, have never
understood, and the people Oh Ihls
country have never been able TO unuer
stand, why Packard was not elected
Governor with larger NUMBER Oh VoUes
than Hayes received for FresiuenI.
But Packard was thrown out ond sent
as consul to Liverpool, and Hayes was
sworn in as President or the Uhiued
States. l do not choose now 10 place
my assertion upon Democratic authorl,
ty or my own ipse diXlt. have heard
the ablest Republican in this country,
who now lies stricken in the CITY OF
New York, the foremost IN every com
bat for the Republican party ana It's
supremacy-I have heard Roscoe CollK-
ling say upon this floor that it was by
fraud that Hayes came to be President
of the United States. And he made 1t
not once but over and over again. Ex,
Justice Strong of the Supreme Court OF
the United States, made, IL IN
different language and to the same
effect. The convection is settled today
with the people of the United States,
irrespective of party, in my judgment,
that Rutherford b. Hayes was moi
fairly elected president of the United
States. The senator from Vermont
saws that he has no doubt in regard to
his election, AS a matter of course no
one expects that distinguished senator
to disavoW his own offspring ana 70
bastardize the result of his own labors
| upon that commission; but when he
states that the people Of this country,
and l will put it in the strongest way, a
large majority of them, have any doubt
| in regard to the fact that l have men,
toned. | take issue with him and put
my opinion and Judgment against his.
The issue between Vest and Edmunds
might be submitted to a Republican
iury. The next day in tilt on the
same question with the great fence
repairer. John Sherman, Senator Vest
sent to the clerks desk and had read
extracts from a speech made on the
subject in the senate by Mr.. Blaine, in
which Mr.. Blaine declared that the
election of Hayes and of Packard were
ndissolubly connected. Mr.. Vest con
tinued:
That was the statement of the most
distinguished Republican now living
with due Difference, possibly, to the
senator from Ohio [laughterl l--the
standard bearer of the Republican par,
ty in the last presidential canvass, and
it was 20 be taken for granted to be the
standard bearer of that party III the
coming contest. Mr.. Blaine had then
asserted that if Packard was not elect
ed governor of Louisiana Mr.. Hayes
was not entitled to the ELECTORAL vote
Of that State. Il At the risk ev
en- of the Senator's contempt, / under
take to say that the American people
will never be satisfied with the eXplana
tion made today, but that, like james
G.. Blaine, they have already come tC
the conclusion that it is impossible ever
for the ingenuity Of the senator from
Ohio to explain why it was
that the vote of Louisiana as
returned by the Returning Board wa
good for the purpose of giving the elec
toral vote of Louisiana to Mr.. Hayes
tor the presidency, but was not goot
for the purpose of giving it to Nh
Packard for the governorship of TIN
State.
Mr.. Sherman's old worm-eaten ant
rotten fences, built in 1876, are the wors
he has to care for. In Hayes's cabine
that being his pay-by putting Pack
ard out he entered Judgment agains
himself. his fraudulent chief, and tn
Republican party. That will be tn
verdict of history, as it is to-day tn
belief of nine -tenths of the American
people.