Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1927, Page 3

* MT. VERNON STEAMER Charles Macalester Leaves 7th St. Whart Daily 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Roand Trip, 85¢ Admission, 25¢ Cafe and Lunch Counter on Steamer Mt. Vernon not open on Su CHAPTER VIL 1D ever know,” in quired Uncle Joe, with. a twinkle in his eye, “that was a Democrat who Pr dent of the United you . Hayes tates?” No, 14Chapin t. 1 Block from Meridian Park 3 Rooms and Bath $50.00-$52.50 W. H. West Company 916 15th St. N.W. Main 9900 Co-cperative Apartment Homes I said in surprise the newspapers ever said ‘I thought you @idn’t,” Mr. Cannon | chuckled. “The story has never ap- | peared in print. I don’t even remem ber that it has ever come up much |in conversation. But it is true. The {to Tilden and swung to in his face because one Democratic member of | the House outwitted another Demo- cratic member. Had the one member to see how | quicker adroitly | being tied and muzzled, Tilden and not | Hayes would have been declared elect ed President. Country Wild With Rage. great conflict tion of 1876, imed the election of Til den sident and the Republican claimed the election of Hayes. such situation had ever arisen before Each party charged the other with trying 1o steal the presidency through {fraud and each was determined that {the crime should be prevented. Th {country was wild with rage and threats of civil war were freely made. It was only 11 vears since the War of Secession had ende and now the of a bloodier one, because the dividing line would tional and every city and in the Union would be a battle ound. “You have always heard that the | country was saved by a new device 3 |invented on the spur of the moment o | by Congress. & |or the laws, and called the electoral | 4 | commission. This commission was to | B on the votes in the disputed | | States and decide whether Tilden or | | Hayes had carried them. The commis- | sion decided in favor of Hayes and he became President. Therefor ereation of this commission s Nation from war and perhaps destruc. ion, and made a President. lines of disputed eral the Den the as P strable n's Most | tive Building MerB: REN mee on 1re in this ¢ R THE 16th & §olumbia Road N.W. Desirg§ble one, two and fBthree room, kitche reception hall a’d bath apart- $ ments: Unexcelled servic? and location. the | ved the | 4000000000000 0000004 | Chzos Threatened Nation. “That is the story as generally told and it's the story you are familiar $ | with. Everybody knows it. But what $ | everybody doesn’t know, and what you $ |don’t know, is that while the comm sion was passing on the election cases | the danger became acute again; that $ | within four days of the time set by 3 | the Constitution for the inauguration | of whoever might be decided on as | President, it was suddenly proposed ’m drop the commission altogether, have the House declare Tilden elected | $ [and throw the whole question open to | the winds of chance—of war. “Not only was this proposed, but it | would have gone through but for the nimble wittedness of one Democrat vho preferred to lose the presidency for his party rather than to plunge | his country into all the unimaginable | terrors of anarchy. * this is what would have hap- pened. The House was heavily Demo- cratic, the Senate Republican. The administration. was Republican. The House had agreed to the electoral com- mission scheme. If now it were sud- denly to throw the commission over- board and declare Tilden President, the whole Government would be torn apart, the Republican President and Senate on one side and the Democratic | House on the other, and within for days the Nation would have no Pre; dent, or rather two rival Presidents. | It was to be supposed that in such a | case the Republican President, backed by the Regular Army, would seek to | install Hayes, and the enraged Demo- cratic half of the country—more than half, for Tilden had had a majority {on the popular vote—would have no | choice but submission or a resort to violence. Republic Before Party. “From this situation, from the great- est danger the country has ever been in throughout its history except in 1861, it was saved by one sentence spoken with hardly a moment for pre- meditation, by one patriotic Democrat. In uttering it he threw his party out of power for four years and deprived a great statesman of a Presidency which his fellow the voters'had given him. But it is hardly too much to say that he saved the Republic. For no one can imagine what would have happened if March 4, 1877, had ved to find the coun- try split between two pgrties from Maine to California, each claiming the presidency, and each s0000000000000000 Re‘::ltals Very R Easonable THE ARGONNE 16th & Columbia Road N.W. . . s 4900000000000 0000 oo :E Southaven will Soon Be Pedges & AMiddleton ) 1412 Eye St. N.W, Realtors Frank. 9503 PAINT Certainteed HOUSEHOLD HELPS Q. Gal. Outside White. ... .$1.15 $4.10 Flat White Floor Varnish Varnish S N White House. doors of the White House stood open | No | Democrats believed | determined to | prevent the other from stealing the | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MAY 8. 1927 -PART 1. MEMOIRS OF.UNCLE JOE CANNON As Told to L. WHITE BUSBEY, His Confidential Secretary for Mzny Years. “Neither { | | | | | been a slower thinker and the other | he was | | | | | | | | % 1t is hardly too mu This was the creation | Agailed his own party for joining in the creation of the elect Yes, the lobby is still with us, braking qualities of each individual | wheel. | Cards for the test may be procured | FREE BRAKE TESTS WILL BE CONTINUED |it.iniaiess 5 elenteentn “and | | expedite a reconstruction?” 1t the | latter, why | stance of our interests to When Mr. Churchill ad the present ~ Washington directly ‘he knocks at s door do we sacrifice the sub- a dialect shadow? Iresses WRONG DEBT METHOD, | Pennsylvania_avenue, The Evening BRIT'SH ED'TOR SAYS 5 Per Cent of Those Examined |'s offered- { Churchill Should Have Addressed Found to Be Unequal—One- | Reply to Mellon to Press, Fourth Illegal. J. L. Garvin Holds. r ) wrov 19, nee ends that th should have addressed his cation to the British press, e moral is plain—the > the debts question to in the @ of Americ will TAXI DRIVER ROBBED. | Held Up at Bolling Field by Pas-| The free hrake tests, which ;.vn: sengers, McDuffie Says. being conducted by the American Automobile Association and the Metro-| Paul A. McDuffle, former White politan Police Department, will be | House policeman, 333 E street south continued until Wedn v May 11, |east, reported to the police that he iccording to an announcement made | was held up at the point of a pistol at A. A. A. headquarters yesterday.|and robbed of $35 and a watch last The continuance of the test was made | night by two men who had hired his nec hecause of the demand for | taxicab and instructed him to drive bra ing on the part of motorists | them to Bolling Field. f the I t of Columbla. An aver-| MeDuffle informed the police that > of more than 125 cars a day have robbery took pl after he had |been run over the brake testing ma- Bolling Field his | chines during the wee | Out of the 7 | brakes were | found to | stop the ca | quired by the local regulations of Columbia traffic chancelfor communi and adds more we » fought N public the Garvin con the Associated Press. NDON, Ma of the ( from the editor hserver are most come Mellon says that Mr. Churchill the subject of war debts ample of a wrong method, want our payments indefi or do we wish to cient r line sooner on s of Hao, a n in midpacific, rats serve a »f exchange, and with a suff mmber a man can buy a wife. was Tsland Do we nitely prolonged, LJ L] Phillips Terrace Apartment 1601 Argonne Place Just North Columbia Road at 16th We have left a few very attractive Apart- ments ranging in size from one room, recep- tion hall, kitchen and bath to four rooms, kitchen, reception hall, bath and porch. 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Ninety-five per cent | of the brakes tested were found to be | unequalized. a condition which causes i the automobile to slow or skid in the | divection in which the greatest brak- ing pressure is applied The tests are being performed on a dynamic brake tester, which tests the re- | : | composed of in FRAME __ . BRICK sTucco METAL gock UPERIOR GARAGES as LOW a $15000 . "$5.00 in cost per mo PHONE MAIN 9427 COLORED APARTMENTS The exclusive and attractive Willard Mansions For Refined Colored People 1731 Willard St. N.W. 1432 K St. N.W. Removed to Larger Premises 1811 7th St. N.W. he saved the Re s Y commission. but it isn’t the same old lobby. | |right of franchigse. The fierce strug |lieved he had been duly elected; all | gle began the day after election and | |1asted until the inauguration of Presi- | confronted dent Hayes on March 4, 1877. man was neutral, and in those perhaps because the wounds of of ays, war | | were still open and in every heme |traying their party, we than every- there were poignant took our politics more we do today., Passion memor ¥ | where. A Few Leaders Kept Cool. “In all that has been written about this exciting time not much has been | said about the fact that in both parties | there were conservative men who kept { their heads and remembered that not even a presidency was worth the cost | of a divided Nation. It happened to | be a Democrat belonging to this sane | and statesmanlike group to whom it | was given to speak the decisive word. | This was because of his official posi- | tion, for upon Randall. as Speaker | and the leader of the majority party, fell the major responsibility. 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