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left little or nothing to be desired in
the treatment of his subject. To
the presentation of his facts he gives
logical organization and from the
results draws a judicial and convincing
conclusion. After a painstaking,
minute and unprejudiced investigation,
the author sums up the evidence
-in his chapter on the Legal Aspects and
the Equities - and elicits the
verdict that the seating of Mr. Hayes was
a justifiable compromise of a
doubtful perversion of political rights;
that the Democrats committed the
first legal wrong by the shameless
suppression of the elective franchise,
particularly in Louisiana and Florida,
so as to unlawfully give those
states to Tilden. The Republicans met
this initial wrong by the commis-
sion of another wrong, so claimed,
namely the formal counting of the
electoral votes in question for Mr.
Hayes. It was a game of seizure
engaged in by both parties. Had there
been no theft on either side no
one questions but what the Republicans
would have justly won the
election at the polls., therefore it is
possibly a rare instance in which
two wrongs made a right. But, Congress
with undisputed powers
created the Electoral Commission, and
says Mr. Haworth, "So far as the
two parties as a whole are concerned,
the plan adopted was favored by
more Democrats than Republicans."
That the final outcome was accepted
with approval by the American people is
evidenced by the fact that they
elected the Republican Garfield as the
successor of Mr. Hayes. Professor
Haworth has produced a most valuable
contribution to the historical and
political literature of our times. Mr.
Haworth writes in a most vigor-
ous, bright and entertaining style.
THE OHIO MAGAZINE.
It is the day of magazines. The latest
which has just made its
bow before an omniverous reading public
is the Ohio Illustrated Maga-
zine, edited by the well-known writer and journalist, Webster
P. Hunt-
ington and published at Columbus, Ohio,
by The Ohio Magazine Publish-
ing Company, American Savings Bank
Building, subscription price $2.00
per year. The initial number, which is
dated July, gives promise of
occupying a field not yet pre-empted and
occupying it in a most
attractive and acceptable manner. The
editor of this magazine sets
forth as his reason for its being: "The establishment of The Ohio
Magazine proceeds from the recognition
of a condition not the promul-
gation of a theory. It takes into account,
primarily, the fact that the
Buckeye state, with a population of more
than 4,000,000, resources vast
enough to make it a princely empire in
itself, a past justly celebrated in
the history of the world's most
important nation and a future brilliant
with the promises of inestimable
achievements, has no representative in
the field of periodical literature such
as is now contemplated in this
magazine. Theory might flatter itself
that a barren waste would become