Evening journal., 1893-01-21

end by the forgers. perjurers, visiting
statesmen, lawyers, and partisan Judges
employed in Mr.. Hayess interest, two
distinct bargains were necessary in be.
half of the Republican contestant:
The first was the guarantee of reward
and protection to the scoundrels who
were induced to risk the penetentiary
by committing the indietable offences in
dispensable at the outset in Louisiana
and Florida
The second was the bargain under
taken during the progress OF the count,
by which certain Southern Democrats
consented to its completion by Congress
on the promise that Mr.. Hayes, If seated,
would lend the power of his administra-
ton to the overthrow of the Republican
carpet bag Governments in the Southern
States
Within twenty months after the IN
auguration of Mr.. Hayes he had paid
nearly every person prominently con
cerned in counting him in, with a Fed
eral Office and salary from the United
States Treasury The infamous Return
ing Board of Louisiana and their accomp-
Ices all had stepped up and received at
his hands the compensation for their SER
vices. j. Madison Wells received his
commission as surveyor of the port of
New Orleans. Two of J. Madison Wells's
sons were provided for in the New
Orleans custom house Thomas G.
Anderson of the Returning Board was ap-
pointed as deputy collector. L. M. Ken
erof the Returning Board was appointed
as deputy naval officer, and his brother
as clerk of the naval Office The brother
of G. Casenave of the Returning Board
was appointed as United States store
keeper at New Orleans. Abel, the sec
retary of the Returning Board, was ap-
pointed as an inspector of customs.
Woodward, Green, Blanchard, Davis,
Hill, and Grindley, clerks of the Return
ing Board, all gained clerkships in the
New Orleans Custom House. Ray, the
counsel for the Returning Board, became
special agent of the Treasury Depart
ment. Woolhey the affidavit taker, be.
came United States Commissioner
Campbell the chief of the affidavit
factory, went to Wyoming as United
States District Attorney. More than
fifty other men, directly concerned as
electors or supervisors or supervisor s
clerks, or ward managers, in the opera
tions which transformed an honest ma.
| jority of G, $40 for Tilden in Louisiana
into fraudulent majority of 4,S07 for
Hayes, received one office after another at
Hayes's hands. down even to the brother
of Agnes jerks who swore for him before
the visiting statesmen. The visiting
statesmen themselves got high offices.
| The grand aggregate of the salaries paid
to these men out of the United States
Treasury ON account of services in con
nection with the Electoral Conspiracy in
Louisiana alone, amounted to almost two
hundred thousand dollars annually.
| The second bargain was likewise car.
ried out by Mr. Hayes. BY withdrawing
from the carpet-bag government In
! Louisiana and South Carolina the Fed
eral support by which they had been
upheld during the reign of Grantism, he
caused the sham fabrics to collapse. In
so doing he recognized as governor OF
! Louisiana a Democrat who had been
elected on the same day as Mr.. Tilder
and by substantially the same majority
and he overthrow a Republican claimant
who, according to the fraudulent Return
ing Board count, had received for gov
ernor a majority substantially the SAM
as Hayes's own fraudulent Returnin.
Board majority for President In s.
doing Mr.. Hayes did precisely what tn,
partisan Electoral Commission had re
fused to do by its vote of s to 2. H
went behind the Returning Board
fraudulent certificates, and declared tina
the vote of Louisiana, If honestl,
counted, would have given that state
and with IL the Presidency, to Samuel J
Tilden.
These facts, we say, prove that th
late Rutherford B. Hayes knew that h
was not morally entitled to the Office o
President, and understood and acQuiesce,
in the methods employed to steal it fol
his benefit. That he permitted tn
shameful scheme to proceed from star
to finish without protest on his part
that he accepted and enjoyed the fruit
Of the great crime against American
suffrage, knowing that he held an oific
to which another man had been elected
are facts irIeconcilable with the estimat
of his personal worth which charity an
tolerance would like to pronounce owe
his grave.-New York Sun.