Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-04-28
WAS HAYES EL-EcTED7


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So WAsHIEGToN, April 19. ME- Sherman adj
lressed the Senate yesterday on the bill 1or
he admission Of South kota as State.
nd the organization OF the Territory Of
North Dakota. Why, M. Sherman asked,
should South Dakota not be admitted!
simply because the Democratic party did
not want that State admitted. Dakota
would be kept out I'M ~ some other Demo
cratic State less entiCleu should be att
tached TO IT and shauied 70 on It's skirts
i There was no use, therefore, IN wasting ar
gument about t
Coming down to the discussion Tuesday
between Senators Vest and Edmunds he
ssaid an issue had been made relative to the
election Of President Hayes, and ought to-
4 be discussed ii there was any doubt about
it He undertook to convince Senators BY
evidence taken at the time when the events
we're fresh that the Repnbll leans were right
in 1875. He proceeded to give a history Of
she returning board Of Louisiana and of
! the two commissions sent there-One
4 BY President Grant, composed Of distin-
guished men Of both sides, and one by the
Democratic National Committee. It had
appeared, according to the vote as actually
cast, that there was q Dem cratic majority
in Louisiana, but, acting under the laws Of
the State. the votes Of parishes had been
excluded Where there had been fraud and
violence, ana the result OF that exclusion
had been majority in 4 ayor OF President
HAYES. u the actual result It's OF the election
IN Louisiana had been made known, he be-
heved there would have been Q majorit OF
from O,,OOO.to 10000 in favor of Mr.
Hayes AS to the Electoral Commi ssion bill,
no one had resisted It more than he and
senator Morton, OF M II diana. Twenty
SIX Democrats and tWenty-one Republic
ans had voted for the bill and fourteen Re-.
Puollcans (lnclud1ng himself and but one
Democrat mad voted q galnst II. There had
Deen the same kind OF vote IN the other
House The bill had been supported by the
democrats as means by which the de-
clslon OF the returning board OF Louisiana
Would be oVerthrown and the people de-
prlYed OF the President elected by them in
q legal and constitutional way The very
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most appalled, Mr. Sherman, even after the
lapse OF 50 many Years
/ recurring to the election OF Hayes and
the non-electlon OF Packard, Mr.. Sherman
SAID both mad been fairly and legally
e e ana explained the dlffel ence IN
u y result Dy statlng tnaL Inc question Of
1ne PresldenJlal election mad been decided
~ , the Electoral commission, ana that OF
3y sFllo. eiecblon py the Louisiana
Legislature, winch, after contest OF two
montns nad been Democratic The Demo-
cratlc party had not only by fraud and vio-s
fence ugn68 70 control sthe PRESIDENTIAL
election, but II had actually succeeded in
5depriVlng OF their ohcas the duly-elected
governor and mem ers OF the Legis' allure.
Ihen he read extra 8 from speech made
IN That State by Senator Eustis In which he
declared u to be the determine alton OF the
White men OF Louisiana to solve the race
question Without regard to Northern senti-s
ment and predicted that the final result
W v pc the overthrow OF negro rule and
1ne estaplls n1nent o.. whlte mans Govern
menu = tn ma sara .Mr. sherman was the
l ernillla1ioh q cne Whl1e people OF
ollsl'ana sle ,' OF me onl5ed
oeaees Wo '' nave 20 ne changed. Iha1
=. @ tee'claIeel tna1 Hepuplcan
- goyelhlleng slloulu De guaranteed
20 every STATE w hens IL was said that the
black man should not rule 1T was said that
the majority should not rule, for he be-
neVed that the blacks We're In majority
there and they had behind them great
many white Republicans who were among
the highest OF the people Of Louisiana in
wealth., social standing, and influence.
The people Of the South, instead Of
seeking to- win the COlOred reOr1In nv
kindness The wished to God they
would 9, and he did not care how
many votes they got in the process) had
& mar ma 6alned q system OF domlneer crime
anu violence: Not.only did the returning
oaIu q Louis nave su1hcent evidence
before ore tnenl OF fraud and Violence and
outrage N me election OF 1876. but the
present. Governor and one OF Its Senators
snau confessed all ana more than had ever
peen claimed by the returning board If
ever any body had any doubt of the
elecJlon OF ME- Hayes, that doubt had been
removed by the admission of the very men
VINO md participated In the wrong of that
day in Louisiana, and hereafter when any
man asserted Of President Hayes that he
had been elected by fraud or wrong, or
had not been duly elected, he (lr. Sher-
mani would hold him in contempt as ut
terlng hat Which was not true, and which
was denied BY the very men who over brew
local government IN u1siana in 1876.
senator Vest (Mo.) attempted to reply to.
senator Sherman's remarks. and stated that
Casenave and other members OF the return
ing poard mad been rewarded by President
Hayes Az the conclusion OF his remarks he
asked ask why the vote which gave the cleo
IOral Vote s to MI HAYES was not good