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IVltnl Voorhecii Says.
[Extract from a receii speech.]
In the midst of its will-spread de
moralization, however, a grange and
violent attempt has recently been made
to revive the waning fot' -bes of the
Republican party by a sectional attack
on the investigation now’ being made
into the alleged frauds by which the
present administration was placed in
power. When this investigation was
ordered by a Democrat,/.; House of
Representatives, a sort |*f hysterical
scream burst out from tin. entire Re
publican press. To dispaq ionatc ears,
however, it sounded more 1 ike the cry
of conscious guilt and fear of detection
than of patriotic apprehension]for the
country. Anew word 'was coined,
prophetic of evil to our government.—
We were informed with oracular em
phasis that our government was to be
“Mexicanized.” Mexicanized! Do
those who have hurled this word into
our political vocabulary have any con
ception of its real meaning and import?
From the conquest of Cortez to the
present hour Mexico has been a land
ofrevolution and lawless turbulence. —
One of the leading features of her his-
tory lias been the usurpation of power
by those who were not entitled to it, —
Fraud and violence have controlled her
highest official positions. The ques
tion there has not been, who was elect
ed President of the republic, but who
had the means of chicanery or force to
obtain the position. Lordo was but
yesterday driven from that pi ace, and
Diaz now holds it in violation of the
Mexican constitution, and without the
sanction of popular suffrage. But does
the evil examples of Mexico apply to
the conduct of a party which investi
gates fraud and seeks to ascertain the
true expression of the popular will ?
Does it not rather apply with "rushing
force to that party which, • "ring pro
openly confessed means returns;
now seeks to stifle all inquiry on the
subject? Which policy would soonest
aud most certainly Mexicanize the
American government? What party
is on the plainest road to that bad
end ? Is it the Democratic party,
which aims to discover fraud, and to
hold its criminal perpetrators up to the
public execration, or is it not in fact
the Republican party, whose leaders
have desecrated the ballot box and
sapped the very foundations of popular
government through the instrumental
ities of the Andersons, the Webers, the
McLins, the Dennises, the JeDckes and
that brazen gang now so conspicuous
before the public ? Who can be harm
ed by investigation ? None but the
guilty. Who dreads investigation ?
It is my experience that the innocent
have no fears, while it is the experi
ence of mankind that the guilty flee
even when no one pursues. How much
greater, then, must be their fear and
flight when they are hotly pursued by
the indignation of a free people burn
ing with a sense of wrong.
I do not wonder, therefore, at the j
not:s of alarm which filled the land
when it was proposed to sift this great
est political crime of the nineteenth
century to the bottom. It was right
that it should be done, When the
electoral commission was created, the
entire American people, with the ex
ception of a few leaders who were in
the conspiracy, expected it to make a
thorough investigation of the facts, aDd
to ascertain who in reality was chosen
l’resident. Its refusal to perform this
plain duty was a surprise and a disap
pointment to every honest bisd of eve
ry political party. The electoral com
mission decided the great question of
the popular will in the choice of a
Chief Magistrate upon a meagre, bar
ren technicality. When it decided not
to go behind the returns, it gave a le
gal title to Mr. Hayes, binding in law,
but entitled to no more respect than
the liberty which an offender iu court
obtains by relying on a flaw in his in
dictment rather than on a trial of the
merits of his case. In view of this
state of facts could the House of Rep
resentatives do less than order an ins
vestigation ? But further. The elec
toral commission ha< not only failed to
do its duty in this regard, but in a
brief space of time the instrument
which was used in tho great conspira
cy to defeat tho popular will began to
reveal the whole plot. This was to be
expected. Sherman, Matthews, Stough-
ton, Noyes and others who visited
Louisiana and Florida are now under
going the same fate which has always
attended those whoTlo unlawful things '
by the hand of others. History is sim
ply repeating itself on this point. The
tool of the conspirator is always swollen
with a sense of his own importance by
reason of the guilty secret which he
shares with meu of position and char
acter. Sooner or later he seeks to
make his secret a source of profit to
himself, nor will he ever be satisfied.
The result is inevitable; he first threat
ens, and when those who are in their
power find themselves unable to ap
pease his constant and unsatiate de
mands, ho reveals everything, as if
thereby ho atoned for the original
crime. Such is the philosophy of the
course pursued by McLin and Dennis
in Florida, and by Anderson and oth
ers iu Louisiana. Nor is there any
thing new in the manner in which high
officials at this time bear themselves to
ward those who arc giving testimony
against them. John Sherman and his
associates are not the first who have
drawn themselves up in well affected
disdain, and disclaimed all knowledge
of the tools they oneo used and cast
aside. Others before him have exclaim
ed to their former confederates, who
returned to plague them: *•Avaunt, I
know you not!" But when was the
world—the great thinking, intelligent
world—over imposed on by such con
duct? Who is McLin, of Florida?-
Soon after the inauguration of Mr.
Hayes he was appointed Chief Justice
of the great Territory of New Mexico.
There are many future States in that
territory aa large as Indiana. The in
fluence of the administration of her
laws reaches far into the future, and
become a matter of the highest impor
tance. This solemn duty was intrust
ed to Mr McLin. Who will say that
made so important an
acter of the man Tie'ajJpirrtnFfr'*! 'nfr
Senate, however, being properly ad
vised, rejected the nomination. McLin
waited for something else, but waited
in vain. Doubtless it was thought the
debt due to him was paid. At any rate,
whether from motives of revenge, or
moved perhaps by a quickened consci,
enoe, he has told the story how by his
own instrumentality, and that of others
a clear and distiuct majority for Tilden
and Hendricks iu Florida was by per
jury and forgery wiped out, and tho
electoral vote [of that State given to
Hayes and Wheeler, lie cited tho re
cords of various precincts in corrobora
tion of his statement. Then came a
man by the name of Eennis, It ap
pears that he has been uu object of the
tendered care and solicitude on the
part of the government. Ho held of
fice and drew his salary without dis
charging a single duty for many
months. Mr. Hayes himself personal
ly recommended him to the Secretary
of the Treasury as a first-class person
tor a position in the Revenue Depart
ment. lie, too, however, guided by
that law, vague and undefined though
it may be, which sooner ox later re
veals wrong-doing, added his statement
to that of McLin’s. Auderson, in
whose behalf Senators, Secretaries, Col
lectors of Customs and the President
himself were solely anxious for more
than a year, laid open the conspiracy
by which a Democratic majority of be
tween five and ten thousand in Louis
iana was obliterated, and a majority of
between three and four thousand plac
ed to the credit of Hayes and Wheeler.
This state of affairs in Louisiana and
Florida was made known, and an inves
tigation ordered by the House of Rep
resentatives. Is there a man in Indi
ana who says the House could have
done less ? It is asserted that this in
vestigation may result in disturbing
the title of the present occupant of the
White House. My answer is plain
and simple: Ry the forms of law he
was inaugurated, tie has a legal right
without the equitable right. He will
remain where he is to the end of the
Constitutional term, unless he should
be removed by virtue of that provision
of the Constitution which has applied
to every President from the foundation
of the government. He is liable to im
peachment and to no other process for
removal. If lam reminded that the
President can only be impeached for
acts while in office, my answer is, that
is true, with this qualification : If it
should be proven in the investigation,
or any other, in reference to Mr. Hayes
or any future President, that ho was
an accomplice in the commission of
unlawful acts by which he procured his
place, ho would undoubtedly be liable
to impeachment for such acta. In the
present instance, I do not apprehend
such result, whatever the real facts
may bo. Tho great wrong will be re
dressed at the ballot-box. The inves
tigation will emphasize the crime which
has beeu committed against the Amer
ican people. It will go into history as
a warning to future times, and the fate
of those who committed it will make
it less likely to ever occur again.
Itic !ScsM liivcstiKiitfuif,
[Washington Post ]
Tho Potter committee have prov
ed, beyond successful rebuttal,
things believed to be true, but not
absolutely proven to be true be
fore, to-wit ; That the electoral
votes of Florida and Lousiana,
which were given to Hayes, belong
ed to Tilden. Leaving out of con
sideration tho State of Florida,
which no honest man will deny to
have been stolen, wo will take up
Lousiana. A3 to this State the
Potter committee has clearly prov
od :
1. That a conspiracy was en
tered into by certain Republican
leaders. The object being to bold
no election in East Felicina, Grant
and other Democratic parishes.
2. That tho fact that no Repub
lican votes were cast in East Feli
cina was not duo to intimidation,
as alleged, but was owing to Ander
son’s advice to the Republican
leaders not to vote, as it would
have a better effect than all the
affidavits that could be produced.
3. That for a period of two days
leaders aatfnrtetruiGv RwwbUajMr
Nicholls had carried the State by
a heavy majority.
4. That when it becomes evident
that the eloction of Ilayes depended
upon the result of the State, delib
erate preparation were made for
the purpose of defeating dhe will
of the people as expressed at the
polls.
5. That in pursuance of this
plan, protests, forged and altered
to suit the occasion, wero made
for the parishes of li*ast and West
Felicina. whereby a Democratic
majority of over 2,800 was chang
ed to a Republican majority of
500.
G. That the Supervisors of the
abovo named parishes were pi even
ted by promises of reward made by
John Sherman and others from ex
posing such forgeries.
7. That oil tho 27th day of
November, when the Returning
Board proceeded to sum up tho re
sult of their labors, it was discov
ered ihat while Packard and a Re
publican Legislature were elected
Hayes was defeated.
8. That after the above date,
and in order to secure the elector
al vote for Hayes, forged protosts
were made for Richland and other
parishes and tho returns from La
fayette and other parishes so
changed as to increase the repub
lican vote.
D. That affidavits bearing fiotß
tious names, and tho names of
dead men, were manufactured in
tho Custom-House, and upon such
affidavits various Democratic polls
were thrown out.
10. That the act above recited
were known to setae of the visiting
statesmen, and received their ap
proval.
1 1. That the electoral vote of
the State, as counted before the
two Rouses of Congress, was a for
gery.
12. That John Sherman, now
Secretary of the Treasury, and at
the time the personal representa
tive of Mr. Ilayes, was guilty of
subornation of perjury.
Id, That the leading parties ne
cessary to a completion of tho
fraud were promised by him pro
tection and reward.
11. That the Fraudulent Presi
dent in fulfillment of Sherman’s
and Noyes’ promises has reward
ed with office evorv scoundrel con
nected with tho great crime in both
Florida and Lousiana.
15. That Stanley Matthews, a
Republican Senator from Ohio,
and Justice Harlan, a Judge of the
Supreme Court, had guilty knowl
edge of tho fraudulent transactions
by which the vote of Louisiana
was stolen, and personally interes
ted themselves to reward and pro
tect the criminals.
IG. That Senator Morton and
den. Garfield, both members of
the Electoral Commission, knew
when they voted to count the vote
of Lousiana for Hayes that it was
both fraudulent and a forgery.
17. That senator Kellogg, who
assisted at the forgery of tho Lou
isiana returns, has since been guil
ty of secreting the witnesses.
18. That not one of the crimi
nals who assisted to perpotrate tho
colossal crime of the age has been
punished; but that all but two
numbering over a hundred—have
been provided with officers by Mr,
Hayes’ direct order or request,
and in some cases by and through
his continued and persistent inter
ference.
With a few exceptions these facts
are proved, exclusive of the testi
mony of either Anderson or Weber,
notwithstanding that the commit
tee has only fairly entered upos
its task.
tHjitf ii VtWcN,
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We publish tho following pre-
plus iVppfe3T, TytuVr*
could bo engraved upon the mind
of every young man in the land.—
Pass them around, place them be
fore every boy and young man iu
the city aud country I take them a3
your texts and the subject of your
lectures and firside talks, and so
impress them upon the mind? of all
men and women, boys and girls
that the) may tell to the utmost:
Show us the young man who
can quit the society of the young
and take pleasure in listening to
tho kindly voice of the aged ; show
usthe man who is as polite and gives
tho street as freely to a poor
sewing girl as a millionare ; who
values virtue, not clothes ; who
shuns the company of such as
gather at public places to gaze at
the fair sex or make unkind re
marks of the passing girls; show
us a man who abhors a libertine,
who scorns the ridicule of a rnoth-
I er's sex, and the exposure of wo
manly reputation ; show us a man
who never forgets for an instant
the delicacy due woman, as a wo
man, in any condition or class
and you show us a true gentleman.
A lady en'ered a popular drug store
iu Newport, li. I„ a day or two since,
aud accosting one of the proprietors,
inquired if there was any method by
which a largo dose ot castor oil could
be taken to avoid tho usual nauseous
taste. ‘-Oh, yes, madam, we can ar
range that for you.’ The lady cast
her eyes about the store and compli
mented the gentleman on its fine ap
pcaram e, and was invited to takes
glass of soda, whiclf she accepted, and
having drank it off and waited a mo
ment, reminded the man ot drugs of
her errand “That is all right, mad
am,” he replied, “you took it in your
soda.” “OLord!” exclaimed the la
dy with a look of consternation, “I
wanted it for my mother 1” Tableau.
Ilcv. l>r, S. Key,
Pastor St. Paul Church, Columbus,
j (Ja , writes: “We gave l)r. Moffetts
i Teethina ( 7< rthinj to our
little grandchild with the happiest rc-
I suits. The effects were almost magical,
land certainly more satisfactory than
; irom anything ever used.” Jno. A.
J Griffin and all Druggists keep Teethis
na. .
Everybody ijets sailed who buys
Goods of C. A. DAVIb & b*)N.
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