Arizona republican., 1920-10-15

absolute bankruptcy By 1876 half of the southern states had restored peace and law, but in many the bayonet still held sway and the federal troops were forcing a corrupt government upon the people. The North did not sympathize with this state of affairs.
 Many of the Liberal Republicans, however, disgusted with the failure Of the Greeley campaign, and believing that when General Grant retired there would be no further trouble, Hooked to the support of Hayes. Prominent among these were Carl Schurz and Murat Halstead Others of the Liber- als, finding their own organization had no life in it, went to the Tilden side of the fight. Among these were men like Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania, one of the two men who nominated Lincoln for president in 1860, General John H. Palmer, Charles Francis Adams, and others who henceforward were known as Democrats.
 A Contested Election
 The election day came and Tilden swept the country. Next morning the papers of every shade of political faith said Tilden was elected. But Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, secretary of the Republican national committee of which Senator Zach Chandler was chairman, gave ont the news that Hayes received 1S5 votes to Tilden's lS4, and was elected. Then the pow erful machinery of the federal govern ment was set in motion, and the con- tests were originated in Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida and Oregon. The house of representatives was overwhelmingly Democratic. the senate was Republican. The country was threatened with anarchy, and congress devised the electoral commission. As 1t was constituted there were eight Republicans and seven Democrats on the commission and every question be- fore it was decided in favor of Hayes by vote of eight to seven. There was an incipent revolt among Repub- lican senators which would have pre- vented counting in the Hayes electors from Louisiana. At the head of it was Roscoe Conkling, and enough senators to have carried the day had agreed to fight if Conkling would lead. Kate Chase Sprague, according to the open gossip of the tirae. persuaded him to change his mind. Thus she was re- venged on Tilden for the defeat of her father, Chief Justice Salmon p. Chase, Tor the Democratic nomination in 1868
 Hayes was given the decision on March 2, two days before Grants term expired. The country, which had given a popular majority of a quarter of a million votes to Tilden, was indignant, but there was no resistance. Hayes
 had hardly taken hold of the duties of his office before the country realized that he would be liberal He took the federal soldiers out of the South, re- stored civil government all over the
 Union, permitted the Democrats elect ed to state office to take their seats. although elected on the same tickets 5 with the Tilden electors who had been thrown out. He disappointed the poli- I ticians of his own party, but he
 stamped out anarchy and restored pro 3 found peace to the whole nation. The Democratic papers called him His r Fraudlulency,' and there were charges that he had made deals with Wade Q Hampton, Democratic governor O, south Carolina, and other southern 2 leaders. He is the only man who has l sat in the presidents chair whose title f to the office is clouded, yet his admin.
 istration was one of the most benefi-
 cent the country has ever known.