Tainted by Suspicion by Fred Lucas

Author:Fred Lucas [Lucas, Fred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics & Current Events
Publisher: Stairway Press
Published: 2016-05-22T07:00:00+00:00

Wormley House

On Feb. 26, the Electoral Commission heard arguments from attorneys on South Carolina.

That night, four Southern Democrats, Reps. John Y. Brown and Henry Watterson of Kentucky, Senator J.B. Gordon of Georgia and Representative W. M. Levy of Louisiana met with Ohio Republicans James Garfield and Charles Foster, both House members and Ohio Sen. Stanley Matthews and Ohio Senator-elect John Sherman at the Wormley House hotel in Washington to see if a deal could be reached to prevent the House Democrats from blocking the results with a filibuster.

The men talked about details through the night, and by morning agreed to stop the House Democratic delay tactics that were blocking the certification of the Electoral Commission’s findings, on the condition of ending Reconstruction, appointing a Southern Democrat to the cabinet and providing federal money for southern projects. These were things Hayes expected to do anyway.

The next day, the commission—in a ubiquitous 8-7 party line vote—awarded seven South Carolina electoral votes to Hayes, which the Senate affirmed and the House rejected one day later.

A letter from Matthews and Foster to the Democrats followed, saying Republicans wish:

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