Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1876, Page 4

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" Aflerhoon knd cven: DMcvVicker's Tg:nll:'n. 1. s Medison strect, between arborn AD ate, ent of “Misy Mary Anderson. ernoon, k! nm’t%}l‘:xdfullfl." Evenlag, "Evulne.M Haverly's Thentre. , between Clark and LaSalls. Calls fulgfldflm&‘:fi?‘ ATtoraoon and evening. Nosr Chicago Thentre. Clark street, between Lake and Randoloh, Hooley's Minstrels,Afternoon and evening. BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1876, Greenbacks ot the New York Gold Ex- change yestorday closed at 91, [ —— Complete returns from all the counties of Tllinois give Haves o majority over TiLoex of 17,408, In ninety-five counties Currom bLas & mojority over Srewarp of 8,667. The seven counties to be heard from will increase this msjority. In ninety.oight counties the vate for Coorer and Cany foots up 156,422, Tho remaining four counties will add perhaps 400 to this vato. There i8 occasion for goneral rejoicing at tlio capture of tho villains who attempted to riffo the tomb of Apramax LiNcorN of its precious contents. An interesting account of the mannor in which the porpetrators of this dastardly crimo wero hunted dowa and finally entrapped by the detectives under the dircction of Ewsen Wasusunx is given in our columns this morning. The gain of & Republican Congressman in an unexpected quarter—the Fifth Maryland District, whera the official convass shows that McCoaras, Republican, has boon elocted by a majority of ninc—holps to make the political complexion of tho next Houso still more uncertain. If, out of tho fivo cases that aro 0s yet doubtful and unsettled, the Republicans should securo thres members, s i clainted with confidence, it is not difi- cult to figure out an sctual mnjority with the aid of ono or two from Now Hampshire, From the legislative returns in Louisiana itseerns to bea fact that tho late clection Los vindicated the sction of the Board in 1874, for in every instanco where o Ropublic. 8o member of the Legislature had been un- sented by the Wuernrs Compromise and n Domrocrat seated in his place the people had returned o Republican in the last election. This shows that the claim sot up by the Damocrats was a falso one, and furthermore that they had been beaten fairly, snd were 10t éntitled to the soats about which such o terrible row was kicked up, Somebody has bLitupon & plan whereby auy interregnum in the Presidentinl term may be avoided in the ovent of a refusal by the Democratic Houso to co-oporate iu the steps necessary to declare the election of o Republican Presidont in case the prosent un. certainty shall ond in that way. The plan proposed is that President Granr shall re- sign on the 8d of March, leaving the Senate Presidout pro tem, to fill the vacancy thus created until o President is iusugurated, Tt is well enough to disenss expedients that may become necessary to rosort to, but it is to be hoped that the condition of affairs will 1ot require no unusual romedios. It was decrded yesterday by the Louisionn Returning Boanl to sdmit five rapresontn- tives of cach party s spectators of its pro- ceedingy, aud also to allow contestants to bo represented by counsol at such times as the Board shall designnte for henring a guments upon disputed questions. In this way tho canvass of the vote is practically thrown open to the public,and every possible ground for complaint or suspicion on the score of secrecy is removed. It is ovident that tho Returning Board mean to have n fair and honest count, and ono that will Le accepted by both partiea sy o final settlement of tho whola question. A similar provision ns to publicity has been made in South Carolina, the Canvassing Board having voted to allow a committeo of Republioans and Democrats to be present. e — Certain of the London journals are vigor- ously engaged in working up n war feeling in tho British uation by poiuting out the necessity of an immediato occupation of Constantinople by an English army in the event of Russin'a invasion of Turkey, The protection of the Dardanellos from seizure by Rusaln is the programme said to havo been resolved upon by tho British Onbinet, though it is highly improbable that this an. nouncement of the Ministerial policy is mnde upon good nuthority, or that England seri- ously contemplates tho assumption of the custedy of the Bosphorus upon no stronger provocation than would be furnished by Russia in declaring war sgolnst Turkey. Neither is it likoly that tho xvet of Europe, whilo taking no active in. torest in the contest helween Russin and Turkoy, would look with fayor upon En. glaud’s occupation of Constantluople, ‘The Times discredits tho statoment that such a policy has beon resolved upon, and ndvocates co-oparation with Russla in exacting of the Porte tho reforms dewnnded. A dispateh from Coustantinople is to the effect that an Extroordinary Cabinet Council will be held to-dny, at which the quostion of n conforence will bo definitely decidod, T — The Chicago produce markets wero rather less sctiva yosterday, and steady, Mous pork cloaod 5c per brl higher, at $15.80 for November and $14.756 for the year, Lard tlosod 2§o per 100 Ibs higher, nt $10.10 seller the wonth and £9.92} soller the year. Meata were uteady, at Gjo for new shoulders, Boxed, 8jo for do short-ribs, aud 8o for do short-clears. Lake-freights wero dull, at 2{o for whent to Buffalo. Highwines wors wteady, ot $1.07 per gallon, Flour was in good demand oud firm, Wheat closed §o Thye Tribizsss. _tion aud despotism, “EVE1.124 for November and $1,134 December, Corn cldsed j@jo higher, ot 45fc for November and #4jc for De- comber. Oata closed steady, at 82ja for November and 333c for Decomber, Ryo was firmer, at 61}@G2¢. Barley closed 2je lower, at 72@72)c eash and 73}c for December, Hogs wero nctivo and closed firm, at $5.60@ 685 for packing grades. Cattle wero in nctive demand and were firm, with sales nt $2.25@4.85. Bheep were unchangsd—quoted nt $3.00@4.60 por 100 lbs, Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $109.75 in groen. backs at tha closo. County Clork Lizs appears to be seized with a sudden and severo nttack of official nanxioty for extreme acouracy in tho perform. anceof duty and a strict compliance with tho requiroments of the law as con- strued for tho purpose of accomplish- ing n specifio object. Horotoforo tho Cook County Board of Canvassers, of which 3r. Lizn is n momber rz-officio, have proceeded in a purcly ministerial eapacity in the cauvassing of votes, and have not thought proper to exclude any portion of the roturns on account of informality in the man- ner of their making.up by judges nnd clorks of election, 'This was right and proper, nnd did justico to all parties. Now, howaver, the Canvassing Board, through tho spokes- man Lren, manifests n disposition to disfran. chise a portion of tho voters of Cook County simply because some of the clection officers have fafled to perform their duties correctly. Able and eminent Iawyers unite in pointing out the truo intont of tho statnte ns forbid- ding such disfranchisement, and aro agreed that the duty of the Board is not to discrim- inate, but simply to count the vote. The Board moy decide differently, and may attempt to so manipulate the eanvass ns to defeat Republicans who wara fairly clected and elect Domocrats who were fairly defont. ed, but there is, fortunately, a power in the Courts to revisw and rovisu the work of this Canvassing Bonrd, and frustrate any attempt to override the will of the people nsexpressed at the polls. S ——— A LESSON IN STATES' RIGHTS, The desperate desigu to count the voto of Louisiana for Troey, whether ho had an honest and lawful majority 1 that State or not, has betrayed the Democrats into assum- ing o ridiculously inconsistont attituds on tho subject of local Governmont. No sooner had Mr. Hewrrr, 08 Gov. TrLosy's manager, called for assistanco in this schemo than statinch believors in Stato Bovereigaty in all parts of the country seized their carpot-bags and rushed to New Orlenns to shape tho course of ovents there, forgetting that thoy wero guilty of just what they aud their an- cestors have always denounced gs unwar- ranted interforonce in the affairs of an inde- pondent and soveroign State. Looking over the ground, these Domocratic * trespassers” (to use ome of Gov. TiLbEN'S oxpressions) concluded that the majority might possibly full to Trzoex if all the votes securod by fraud ond intimidation could bo counted without any allowance for the votes suppressed by threats nud violenco, and theroupon Mr. Warremsow, a gentle- man who fought in the Rebel army in defense of State Sovereignty, suggeated that tho canvass of tho votes be taken away from tho Louisiana people altogether, and conflded to a volunteer corps of carpet- baggors of both parties from the North, Acting upon this, ox-Gov, Paumer, of Illi- nois, who wanted Gon. Suenipay eashiered from tho army becauso he protected Ohicago from thieves and roughs at the time of the fire, associated with him somo of the other State-Soveraignty Democrats from the North, and submitted o proposition to certain Re- publicun gentlemeon from tho North for cocferenca to carry out Warrerson's plan, On replying to this proposition, Messrs, Joux Suersaw, Stantey Marroews, and other prominent Republicaus now in Now Orleans, have taught Mr. Paraer and his assaciates a lesson in their own school of politica which ought not to bs soon for. gotten, It was a very quiet and dignified, but not the less effective, method which the Repub- licans adopted for rebuking the Democrats who deliberately proposed to override the traditional policy of their party for n temporary ndvantago. The following sen- tence from their reply sums up tho whole caso: ¢ Weare herc as private citizens, with no oficiat powert, We therefuro cannot supersedo or moil- ity nny Jawsa of this State, nor have we any rlght to control or influenco any of Its officers ns to the manner {n which thuy shall perform the ministerinl or judicial dutfes Impored upon them hy its lasrs and shiould we, being strangers and withont ofticlal functione, attempt thiy, we should bs condemned by the peopleof every State Inthe Unlon for an im- proper interference with Jocal adminlstration, We should think this reminder would re- eall the State-Sovereignty statesmen to their seuses, ‘Their proposition was that citizens of otlier States, without any offlcial charac. ter, should invade the State of Lonisinua, displace tho lawful Stato officials, and pro- ceed to count the vote of the Htato in opon vialation of the law guverning such a count, ‘They not only proposed to displace the Ro- turniug Board, which exists by virtue of the Inw of Loulsiana, bu} also to count the votes “ns they were cust,” without any ro- gard to tho Inw of Louisinna conferring the power upon tho Returning Board to protect the people ngainst the results of vlaluhce. intimidation, and fraud at the ballot-hox, No advocate of National Soveroignty and State subordination ever yot went so far s this, and had any such proposition under similur circumstances come from Republicans it would have becn denouncad by these snme Democrats as anothor step toward contraliza~ First, thoso State-Sov. eroignty Democrats wanted to ignore ** for this occasion only " the application of their doctrine in the soverelgn Btato of Louisiana; snd, socondly, they wanted to coerce the counting of votes ‘*actually cast” instead of the votes lawfully cast and roturned under the law, ‘We know no ona whom this rebuke hita so aptly and forcibly ns Jomx M, Parauu, of Illinols, whose name hended tho list of the Btate-Sovoreignty Democrats who thus stul- tifled thomselves. Paaen has always pro- fossed the noat abjoct dovotion to the su- premacy of the Btats, He has taken every possible occasion to ventilate his views on the subjoct,. He wns Governor of Ilinois ot the time of tho Chicago fire. Gen, Buznipax was o residont of Ohi- cago, and had a handful of troops at com- mand. His fellow-citizens begged him to uso theso troopa for the protection of life and property at a time wheu tho oity was ex. posed to plunder, and when the police aud residents were too jaded mnd fatiguod to pro- toct themselves, Gon. Burripan acquiesced, and woy of great assistance. But Gov, Pavue, sitting cosily in the Exeoutive Man. uion at Bpringfleld, fulminated & proclama. tion against this * Federal usurpation,” this **invasion of the soveroign State of Mlinois" ; in his mind this act of kinduess on the part of Baenpax was renlly o casus belli between 1linois and the United Btatos Governmonut, and wo think he left the Republican party principally because he could got no support for his Quixotic attack. Yet onoof tha very first mou to leave for New Orleans to inter- fero with the count of Louisiann's vote wns this samo Jony M. Parsmn, It has been a marvel that he was nble to get there so quickly.. Wo quostion whether ho even walted for a change of linen or took his tooth.brush with him, Ifo must have made arrangemonts for special spoed, for the Southern railronds never before transported n man so quickly 23 ho was taken from Bpringfield to Now Orlepus, Onea thero, he assumed command of thesmall nrmy of Democratic ** trespass. ers,” and sought to persuade the Ropublicans from tho North to join him in nn attempt to invade tho Btato of Louisiana, drive out tho Btate officers, nnd nullify tho State lawa. Fortunately the Ropublican respaet for Inw was too strong to be tempted into State-Sov. eroignly Panwen's stultification, and -the tables have been vory neatly turned upon him, Wo sholl probably hear less about Stato Rights in the future from ex-Gov, Parsen atleast, —— THE CASE IN LOUISIANA. The Election law of Louisiana must nppear to Northern people somewhat peculiar, be- cause it contning provisions intended to gov- ern o condition of ciroumstances which has no existence ot tho North, After Louisiana had been reconmstructed, the native white population, which had almost unanimously engaged in the Rebellion, had exclusive con- trol of the elections, When tho Fiftconth Amondment wns adopted and the colored people were admitted to suffrage, then the Republicans were in the nscendemcy. The troubled condition of tho State, resulting from tho deep-rooted hostility of the whites against the negroes voting, led to all mauner of devices to rotain control of the State. The negraes, howover, were alive to their nowly-nttained liberty, snd determinedly exercised it. The war against them was aggravated by the Democratic failure in 1872, and has ever since been infamously and barbarously practiced. The Election law of Louisiana is a necessity from thisstateof things. Without such a law the negroes would be prastically disfran. chised. The fact that thore is n tribunal clothed with authority to declars an election void upon proof of violence, or intimidation, or tho forcible provention of voting by any class of voters, is the great restraint upon such violonce. The law is absolutely essen- tial to the peaco of the Stato, and to tho pos- sibility of tho mnjority of the people of the Stote voting at all. The Board of Convassers are mnde by law & judicial 88 well as ministerial tribunal. ‘Whenever a complaint is made they hear tos- timony and argumont on both sides, and ju- dicinlly determine upon the evidence, Their decision is final and absolute, They unitein oue tribunal the functions of the ordinary convasser of roturna aud those of the court of Inst resort. There is no appeal from their decision. The power of this Board is, howover, lim- ited to the rejection of returns. Thoy can- not count votes not polled, and the law, as it stands, is largely in favor of tho Demoeratic porty, The violenca nnd intimidation are confined to Republican connties. Order at elections generally provails in Democratic porishes, and for the reason that the Demo- eratsearefully avoid furnishing any pretoxt for rejecting Democratio countics giving Demo- cratic wajorities, In the present instance there are five precincts which two years ago gave & Republican majority of about 4,000, and would hnve given a larger majority at this time. Tho Rogister was shot, and the great body of thy colored men fled to the swoamps, and the five parishes are returned a8 giviog 4,200 Democratio majority. It is within the power of tha cauvassers, under tho law, upon proof that n large portion or o majority of the volers were prevented from voting, to reject the returns from theso parishes; this was probably the original purpose of the Democrats. They committed the violenco in order to furnish a cause for the rojection of the returned vote of theso parishes, there- Dby eutting off the 4,000 Republican majority which those parishes would have given had there beon a fair election and a full vote, In order to wnko this cxclusion cortain, they manufactured o large Democratic majority in the same parishes, Sinco then, howover, the necessity for n Democratic mojority in tho Stato to elect TrLpeN hag arisen, and now they claim, in addition to the extinction of tho 4,000 Republican majority, the counting of the 4,000 Demooratic majority,—a change of 8,000 votes! Ench State has full power over the exerciso of suffrage within its bordors, subject to tho provision that no porson shall be denied tho privilego of voting be- causo of his race, color, or pravious condi- tion of servitude. This simply places the negro, 88 to suffrage, on an oquality with other citizens. Each State hns oxclusive authority, within its own jurisdiction, to provide rogulations coucerning all its popu. Inr clections. Congress has made no regula. tions except ns regards the election of Son- ators by the State Legislaturcs, and that Rop- rosentatives in Congress shall be elocted by districta. Presidentinl Elestors and State offlcers aro all chioson under Stato laws, in such mauner and under such rogulntions as to connting and doclaring the result as the States by their Constitution and laws mny provide. Inevery State n tho Union there is o Board to canvass the vate given at elec. tions. No one cau question tho aathority of Louisiana to appoint such a tribunal and to regulata and define its jurisdiction and pow. ers. ‘Tho State of Louisiuna hns, for the well-grounded rensons wo have stated, given to this Board final jurisdiction, and made it a court to hear and dotermine all charges of forcible intimidation amounting to n defeat by o lawful election, and to reject all dishon- est retarns of elections which the Board sit- ting as o court may decide to bo illegal. The State hns conferred no authority on this Board which it has not the power to confer, and the Board, by rejocting any returns sent to it, after hoaring testimony pro and con, will exercise no power not conferred upon it by the State, If thero ever was 6 question of the exclusive right of tho State to regu- lato and govern ita own cleotions, that ques- tion i presouted in this Louisiana case ; and yet conspicnous among those denying this right to the Stato is our own Gov. Parazs, the great champion of State-Sovereignty, Lot us sce if we can bring home the exist- ing state of things in the bull-dozed parisMes of Loulsinna to the comprehension of our Dewocratio readers in this oity, We premiso that the colorod men in the Bouth arons neurly unanimously Republicans asthe Catho- lio Irish aro Democrats. It requires fully ns wmuch persuasion to clisnge a Bouthern negro into a Democrat aa s would bare in Chicago THE CHICAGU TRIBUNL: SALURDAY, NOVLMBER to chango n Democratic Irishman into o Republican. Bridgeport cnsts nbont 3,100 Democratio voter and 1,100 Itepmblican votes; of tho former perlinps 8,000 ave Irish Cntholics, and of tho Intter 1,075 nre Protest- nnts. Buppose on the moming after the election {t had been announced that Bridge- port had voted ns follows: Ilaves and the wholo Republican ticket, 1,758 ; ‘Imoex and the Democratio ticket, 3,—whnt would the Times have enid? Mow would Penny II Burrw, Gon. Oamenoy, and Mines Kr- noe lnve talked? What opinion wonld Capt, Connerr, Tox Fonev, Mire Evaxns, and Dave Toonxtoy, give of the causes that produced such n result? Tho nstonishment of the Republicans of Now Orlenns wns equally great when thoy loarned that the overwhelming Republican parish of East Feliciana had beon roturned 1,758 for TipeEN and 3 for Hayes, whon evory man in Loulsiana knows there is n Re- publican majority in tho parish of botween one and two thousand. Suppose, further. moro, that the Irish Sixth Ward had been roturncd 500 mojority for Hares, tho case would hnave been no worse than the return of 800 Domocratio majority from West Feliciana instend of 1,§00 Republican, which it can give. Buppose the Irish Seventh had beon returned at 600 majority for Haves and the Irish Eighth Ward at 1,070 for Ilayves, in- stead of 1,400 nnd 1,800 for Tmwen, thon you have n parallel ease to what wna done in Morehouss nud Quachita Parishes against the Republicans, The registered vote in West Foliciana is 406 Demoerats nnd 2,248 Republicans, and yat this porish, with its 1,642 Republican majority, is re- turned by tho Confederate (hioves who conducted the clection s having cast 465 majority for 8asm Tiupex! Tho registered voto of Morohouso Parish is 938 Democrats and 1,830 Republicars, but it is returned by the scoundrols who bull-dozed it nt 628 for TmpeN! Ounchita Parish has 9256 registered Democratic voters and 2,167 Republican, but the bull-dozers have returned a majority of 1,070 for Trr- pEN! Noman but nn jugrained scoundrel will aplold, justify, or defond fraud, corrup- tion, and villainy of this sort. Of course tho Returning Board, upon proof of theso alleged frauds, must throw out tho spurious majoritics roturned in thoso bull-dozed par- ishes, nnd, whilo this is ns far ns the law allows them to proceed, yot then the Repub- licans will be deprived of the 4,000 majority thoy have in those pnrishes. And now tho country is threatened with civil war by the Democrats who expect office or havo bots ponding if tho fraudulent votes of those bull-dozed parishes are rejected and TiLpeN thereby loses the State of Louisiaun! ——e, THE SOUTHERN FRAUDS, Tf Mr. Tirpen shall bo declared elected Presidont of tho United States, that result can only bo sccomplished by unparailsled frouds practiced in the four States of Florida, South Carolinn, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The evidence of this hins not only been estab- lished by competent testimony, but will be apparent to any unprojudiced person from the political record of the four States in quostion, the figures of tho consns, and the election roturns of tho past fow yenrs, ‘Tako the caso of Florida, There is in that State n largo colony of Northern white men, who have gettled in Florida on account of the mildness and salubrity of the climate, IIun. dreds, if not thonsands, of them have bought places and are making the Stato their South- orn home, They have given tone to soclety, hnve developed tho resources of the Stato, and have Ropublicanized its political char- noter to such an extent as to call in large numbers of blacka also,—so lnrgo that nt this timo tho blacks outnumber tho Southern whites, and, with the Northern whites, consti- tute o majority, which in a fair contest would elect the Ropublican ticket without the shadow of a doubt. Florida is a Republican State by from 2,600 to 8,000 majority, and tha best evidence of it is that the Domocratic managers tacitly ndmitted the fact by mak- ing nospecial effort to carry it, and laying no claim to it in their estimates until the morn- ing nfter clection, when it became apparent that Tiupex might need tho State to elect him, Then Mr. Hewrrr sent down word to the Democratio Stato managers that the Electora! vote must bo liad at all hazards, and the Democrats for the first time went to work by dactoring tho returns. Tho back countles, with four or five hundred Domo- cratic mojority, were doctored up to the neightborhood of ono thousand, and the Ite- publicans in tho back counties, nlong the Georgin border, were correspondingly re- duced. Before the cloction the Domocrats did not cxpoet to carry the State, and vir- tually conceded it to the Ropublicans ; now they claim it by virtue of the peculiar pro- cesses of tho bull-dozors. Take tho caso of South Carolina, This Stato Lins an undoniable majority at the least catimnto of 20,000, and it is more likely to be 26,000, and yot by u system of organizod fraud, and terrorism, and swindling in ro- turns, tho Democracy protend to say that the vota of South Curolina hns been cnst for TioeN and HaseroN. Lot ono instance suflice to show the gross unfairness of this eloction. Tn tho cight countics comprising the Twonty-third District, at the election two years ago, when there was unususl excite- ment owing to the failure in introducing re- forms, and when many Ropublicans voted the Detnoeratio tickot, théra was still a Ropub- lican majority of 4,112 votes, In these ocight countics tho Democrats aro now claiming a mnjority for 'TILDEN of 5,834, and for Haxr. ToN of 6,488, showing u change of 10,600 votes in two years! Does any sane man pre. tend to Lelievo thero has been nny such chango of vote in the brief period of two yeurs? Will nny man, except nn extreme, prejudiced partisan claim that such n result could ho accomplished cxcept by the grossest frauds and inost wnblushing swindling in retumns? 1t was upon the basls of sueh frouds ns theso that the two Bouthern Associnted I'ress agonts—one of them the editor of tha flro-cating News and Courier nud the other the Captain of ono of tho Rifle.Clubs—commenced tele- graphing North, before tho result wasknown or evun any returns wero in, that the State hiad gone for T1LbEX by from 6,000 to 8,000 majority, They knuw that theso frauds Lind been practiced, because they were in a posi- tion to know, belng inside the ring, ‘I'ako the caso of Louisiuna. Sinco the Inst censns tho black voto has greatly in- creased over the increnso of the white vote, because tho negroes always drift iuto tho cotton and sugar States, Tho Btate registra. tion made for 1876, after all the names had been revised and roturned, showed a colored wajority of 10,000 over tho whites. It is not claimed that 500 colored men would vote the Demooratio ticket unless they were com.- pelled to do 60 with o pistol al their heads, ‘Thero is also a very decided sprinkling of whites who vote tho Republican ticket, awounting to nedrly 8,000, If thero were a fuir clection in Louisiaua, the very lowest Ropublican majority wonld reach 15,000, and ovon now if the bull-dozing which has been practiced in Feliciann and Ouachitn has not been prafficed all over the State, it ought to return from 5,000 to 10,000 Ropublican majority. And yet the Democrats are claim- ing Louisiana ! ‘I'nke tho cane of Mississippl, This Btate, upon the black basis, has a clear Republican mnjority of 18,000. That majority was atolon lnst year by a system of the moat out- rageous terrorism and fraud, thoe details of which wero oxposed beforo the Oxford Grand Jury, and the stolen properly has beon ro. tained this year upon tho Misaissippi Plan, Now here aro four States casting 27 Eleo- tornl votes, with a Republicun majority of 70,000 votes ns unmistakable and natural as the majorities of any four Northern Repub- lican Statos; and yet, by the infornal ma. chinery of tho White-Liners, by force, vio- lence, terrorism, and an organized systom of nssnasination, the bull-dozers have seized one of them, and are perfecting their plans to soizo the other throo, throatening war unless they are allowed to count them in for Tir- orN and HENDRIORS. A grosser outrage was nover porpetrated upon the liberties of a free people and the sanctity of the ballot. Lox. THE LAW IN FLORIDA. Tho Eleotion law in Florida provides for a registration of votes by the Circuit Clerk, at lenst six duys bofore the election. The ap- plicants for registry muat take the following onth: 1 do rolemnly swear that T will support, protect, and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States, and tho Constltution and Gov- crnment of the State of Florida, ngainst all ene- mies forelgn and domentic: that I will bear true falth, loyalty, and allegiance to the same, any ordinances or resolutions of any State Convention or Legislature to the cantrary notwithstanding. So help me Uod. The detmls of conducting elections are genorally the snme as in this State. At tho close of tho polls at sundown the voto has to be counted and the returns made out in du. plicate. Within six days the roturns of each county are canvassed by the County Judge, Circuit Clork, and a Justice of the Peace, ond copies arw forwarded to the Governor and Secrotary of Btate. Tho State Board of Canvassers is composed of tho Becrotary of State, Attornoy-General, Comptroller of the State, and such other Btato officer ns these mny select, Within thirty-five days from the election (Deo. 12) this Board is to can. vass the returns of the wholo Btate for State officers, members of Congress, and of tho Legislature, aud declare who is clected, In canvassing the vote, the Board is thus em- powered by law : If any retirne shall be shown ar shall appear to be so Irregular, fulse, or fraudulent that the Board shall be unable to determine the truo vote for sny such oflicer or member, they shall ao certify, and shall not include such returns in thelr determina. tlon and decluration. From this it will be seen that the Board may roject any return which by proof or on its fnco shall be so irregular, false, or fraud. ulont that tho Board shall bo unable to de- tormine the true vote for any such officor or member. It would seem from this that tho Board ean go behind the returns, and hear nnd receive evidence impenaching the rogu. larity, the truth, and intogrity of the roturna nsmade by the county officors. Their de- cision is final and decisive, The Board is not confinad, 88 in YLouisiana, to cases whero the election hins been rendered void by vio- Ience or intimidation ; they may upon any evidence, which will render it unable for them to determine the true vote, reject any return, In tho speoification of officers whose olection is to bo declared by this State Board, Presidential Elactors are not named ; but as no other persons aro named to canvass:tho voto for Electors, it is nssumed they fall within the juirisdiction of the State Board. Commonting upon some dispatch from Now Orlenns which chronicled the presence of Mr. Cnanrres B. Fanwers, in that city, and sald he was “*doing good work" there, the Times had to say: The anly ‘‘work " that Mr. Fanwriy can do, therefore, whereby the State can be made to ** go for Ilares, Ia to nesist tho Kmrruga cbneplrators In perverting the returns, stufing the ballot-boxes, certifying to a stupendous lle, and consummating un infamous and rovolutionary fraud. The Kxi- Laua crew do not appest to be innced of aesiatance In this thelr chiosen work, Their capacity for f1l- dloing has beenabundantly attested heretofore, and the instinct that would lead any poraon to volunteer hils assistance In such a caso must be infamous boe yond exprossion, As Mr. Fanwers is in one sense a repre- sontative of the people of Chicago, the dan- ger which tho Z%mes finds in his prosence at New Orlonns might excito serious concern in this community, if it were not for one cir- cumstance which the Times overlooked. ‘There is another Chicagoan at New Orleans, ng we are informed, who will be fully able to counteract any * good work" which Mr, Fan. werLL may do for Mr, Haves by gotting in “botter work” for Trupey, The people of Clicago may rest easy that thocause of Hayes will not have unduc advantage through Mr, Fanwery's political sagacity so lobg as Mr, Perry H. Sarrrn is on the ground in the in. terest of TiLoeN, Mr, Satrrm has been Tre- nEeN's manager in Ilinois and Wisconsin dur- ing the campaign, and what he doosn't know in practical politics isn’t worth know- ing. Mr. Fanwewr, may be noturally shrowd, and hos cortainly had a good denl of political experience in one way and another, but Peeny Swnrir has boen training with & crowd that has graduated in the arta of political chicanery; and, ss ho was the personal selection of Mr. Tmoey for the nansgement of tho campaign in the North. weat, we bave an abiding confidence that ho will uot permit Mr. Fanwzey to get ahead of him, E——— We printin another columu :"commnnicn- tion from a gentloman, professing to be a -Turk, in this city, in which he comes to the dofenso of his native country. While we may admire thoe sbility and tho patriotism with which ho argues his cause, wo are freo to confess his defenso does not alter our con. victions ns to Turkish tyranny, or change our opinfon that the Turks should bo efected from Europe. We will not deny that thers are Turks who are gentlemen of culture and good mnnners, but these are not the Turks who have ehocked the world with their re- ligious fanaticiem and unparalleled atrocity, Wo beg to call this gentleman's attention to ano or two genoral facts. When England and France rescued Turkey from Russia, tho Turkish Government was profuse in its promises of roforms, It promised to release its Christinn subjects from unjust taxation, to give them the bonefits of good Govern. ment, and allow them justice in tholr courts, and also to give them ndministrative representation. Those re- forms were promised, but not executed. Wo would call hia attention also to the fact that his Govornment borrowed from England a thousand millions of dollars, which it promised to expend in internal improve. ments which were essontial to the prosperity and good government of the country, and to the interesta of peace, With the excop- 18, 1876—TWELVE PAGES, tion of a very short atrip of raflrond, thesa roforma hinve not boen carried ont, and the monoy hag been squandered. Worso than this, the Government has defaulted on the intorest, and of course will not pny tha prin. oipal, Wo would further enll his nttontion to the fact that sinco tho outbreak of the Belavio rovolt the Turks have been guilty of atrocities in Bulgarin which lave nover beon oxcelled in cruelty, and that these have been 80 thoroughly eatablished by varions wit- nosses and official testimony as even to have nliennted England from their support. Wo have no desire to go into details, These are genoral faots, and sufliciently foreible to warrant Tag Tnrioung in the course it has taken, The Chicago organ of the Confederates, the cditorship of which is just now in dis. pute, is dreadfully exorcised nbout n remark socredited to Prosident Gmanr. That gen- tloman ia reported to have said that he would ** porsonally soo that Haves wns inaugurated if the Roturning Bonrds of Floridn, Bouth Caralina, and Louisiana should declare those States for Havzs,” Theroupon the Zimes breaks out into more than a column of frothings, and rovives and consolidates much of the slang and billingsgate with which it has attacked the Administration for cight yoars, What Gen. GrantT probably said snd undoubtedly meant was thot, if Mr, Havzs should prove to have a logal -majority of the Eleotoral votes, he (Gmant) would sece to it that Havzs should be inaugurated, snd that the American people should mot be swindled, or bullied, or * bull.dozed " out of their choico, That is simply Gon. Grant's duty, and his carcer justifies confidenco that ho will perform it. He will bo Chicf-Magis- trato and Commandor of the Army nnd Navy, till March 4, next, and it will be n port of his sworn duty to hold tha trust sacredly for the successor choson in a lawful manner by the people. If tho Z%mes thinks that it is the duty of Gen, GRANT to retire, and dnring the last fow months of his Administration allow the Government to be crippled as Bu- cnanAx did, go that his lawfully-elected suc- cessor will have to fight for his in. ouguration, or expose himself as the victim of © mob, the Zimes will find very faw people to agree with it. Wa beliovo that Gon. Grant will equaily do hia duty in this regard whether Havzs or Tinoex be his successor ; for, whatever shortcom- ings may be nleged ogainst his Administra- tion, it has never been ressonably charged that ho failed to enforce the laws or preserve the pence. THE NORTH FOR HAYES, The Democratic papers are parading cleetion returns to show o great popular majority for TILDEN, But they neglect pointlug out that all the mojority except a few thousand comes from the Bouth, where fraud, terror, pressure, and coerclon were applied to produce them. TILDEN carried four Northern States and Hayzs cighteen. Iowa gives IIAYES a larger majority than TiLDEN recelved In his four Btates. Of the 231 Northern Electoral votes, 1avEs has 160 and TiLvEN only 65. The re- sult on the popular vote fn the Northern States shows an equally declded preponderance for the Republican party, Below we give tho latest figures as to thcso majoritivs: ¥ Hayes' Tilden's States, mu). maj, Malne. . . 0 e New Ham Vermont. Massachug Rhode Island, Cunnectleut . New York.... 11,000 08,432 50,413 cn that Hayrs! msjority over TILDEN In the Northern States Is more than a quarter of amillion of votes, —————— Y BULL-DOZING. T2 the Bditor af the Tribune, Cnicago, Nov. 17,—1 have noticed in Iate Isaues of your papor, thut you quote a word—**hull. dozed "'~—as having been used by Gov. Krttoua in 8 diupatch in reforenca to tho recent election ju. Loulsians, and you have once mentioned itns a new word added’to the vocabulary. Now Iwould 1ike to inquire whether the word really used by the Goverporwas not **bull-dogged.” 1t was atleast #0 bulletined and published. " And certainly, phi- Tologically copsidered, the latter word is the niore ratlonsl und reasonable, as it can be readily do- fined, whereas ‘‘bull-dozed* lLias nelther rhywo nor resson, Respectfully, Hennr E. Mannge, Wo first saw tho term “bull-dozlog” iu the New Orleans Jtepullican a fortnight or so ago, That paper thus explalng the meaniug of the slang word which originated in Louisiana: ‘The pleasant brethren of the ** Stap “'—~a polit- fcal soclety—were in the habit of giving warning cally once, twlco, threo uum-l to thoso whom they demanded should join the '*Stop.” If, un tho third and lust call, they did not comply with the demand and take the oath, the unfortunate negro who rofuscd was taken to the woods and filwn a **butll-dosc * of tha cowhide on his naked back, A coul hundred well taid on wasconsldered a bull's dose for once; and the viclim either ltoned to such potent roasoning and took the oath as & muni- ber or fled the country, Froma bull's dose soon camo the verb to bull-tozle, With this explanation our correspondent will percelve that “bull-dozing " isa very apt and expresaive term to apply to the intimidated and Ku-Kluxed electlon precincts in the South, — ‘WHY VENERABLE? To the Editor of The Tribuna, Povo, L., Nov. 15.—=Wil} yon kindly Inform me to what degres Witaun F. Sronky, tho editor p:uxu« fa tho editor} of the Chleago 7Tmes, fu ‘a venerablo man, afirmed by you in your articlo ed *Thnt ¥mes’ Divpatel, ™ published o Toosday's TRIBOUNS, the 14thY . ¥. J. Groroast, To the degree that senile age, snowy locks, plous uspeet, unctuous conversation, and godly walk and conduct entitles a man to tho appella- tion. As ADDISON says, ‘‘One who moves about us in a regulur and {llustrious courso of virtue.” That's him, R — Ex-Gov, Joun M. Parszr hias had his State. Bovereignty doctrine shoved under his nose in Loulsiana In & way that must make him feel cheap and wish he had remained in Mocoupin County lustead of rushing by lightning specd to New Orleans to *count the vote.” e ———— Three or four days after the clection, when it scemed all the States that had been set down as doubtful must bs added to the Hayes column, it will bo remembered the Democratic leaders began to clalm Callfornla with an assurance that was somewhat surprising, consldering that the returns, 8o far os reported, all polnted to a Ro- publicun majority i that State, The Callfornia dispatthes contalned nothing satisfuctorlly ex- plainiog the grounds upon which this Demo- cratic cloim was based; and as it was suddenly abandoned, in the tide of events, the whole matter was forgotlen. But now come wmall ad- vices giving the detalls of the affalr which ex- posc & scheme worthy the White-Liners of Misalssippl themselves for bull-dozing the Btate. Tho Weduesday night after the clec- tion Duke Gy, the ageut selected by TILDEN to capturc the vote of the Solid Bouth, tele- graphed from New York to San Franclsco: “Wo must have one of the Puclfic Statcs.” The Dewocratic mansgers at Bun Frane clsco then hoped Oregon bud been carried, or conld ba counted, for TiLvxN. The pext day the utter futility of such hopes wus manifest, Then Gwin sgeln dispatcbed: ¥ We must havo Callfornia or we aon ¢he was stralghtway taken, ‘;’iu‘;’lun:;n e after tho receipt of that. diapatel e ot Bupervisors of San Franclseo, mnln‘:llu Democratle najority, passed o rc!-)lmluL L. fng thedellvery to o committee, by gy e Clerk, of the oriyinal ragleteruf ey, LMY ostensible object was 1o lllveilln:alumll T Republican frauds, by which 11 was givon ood thousands of fictitlous certifientesy uL( ef‘ W hind beon lssued and voted o for fh 'lll‘fmr, Uean tket. Tad thls onder gy s P with, there vould have heen afforded llmt"s‘ & mitteo no lotter OPRurtunity to magyf, ;.’m' frauds enongh to comply with (wiy'y 1 Ay tive Instructions to glva Californin 1o 'r":pw‘ The very audacity of the schieme seemy u: .:m:,. been relled upon to earey it to o myey I?‘u issuc. But the Clerk 8lood firm, |, nlm o ceedings were then talked about, wblulf | ‘nro- an examination of the statutes, when n,m 4 settled that the Clerk was the sole ang s, stve legal custodian of the origlnal m«h(n:m“. that It cowid not e remoyed from iy pyo fml slon. And about that time, it s stgnitoas note, the Democratic managers at New r; e began to “concedo ™ Californla to Mayes, o ?n\". ln::m announced that he wonldy'y x’u:‘;g 0 8] . 3 Elecfllra.w certificates of election of the Hargy i e Bridanss alralpp1 earnestl; 16~ 70 Gien, 1y i y"f‘l,!umlllfmxbllunn’g;"i oth patles, whon son’ have compinte Ctate vestigations 'tn Loutelana, to viqe (nia J0UF mako s liia Investigation [t the frany Si4e O lence with which the Btata has been umcu.“ o Chialemon Republican State Exccuiiys oo™ If Jomy M. Paruen, Hesny \V::-';‘m:f: and the other representative Democrats sy have Invaded Loulsiana to see that there be nfl frauds upon the ballot in that State, accept th invitation and go to Mlssissippi, they can xllscw3 er enough of outrages upon the Tberty of the ballot to hatrow thelr souls for the remalnder of their cxistence. A very mild Investination wouldbring to thelr knowledge how the eleetlon was conducted In that State, 8o that the minority of the legal voters will throw the Electoral voto of tho State for TILDEN. 1t will not be dig) L to discover how about 50,000 I(cpulxlix-nn votera were disfranchised, so that the State with not less than 15,000 Reput- lNean mojority gives Tinpey shont 25,00 majority. Of course Mesars, PaLvzr g Warrensoxy, and the rest of the Demo- cratic statcsmen who have flocked fo New Or- Teans to sce that there fs no outrage upon the ballot, never heard of the * Misstssippl Plan of outraging the ballot, else they had long since tlocked Lo Yazoo City and Vicksburg to futer fero to provent . When they havo finfshed their business in that tno at New Orleans, can't they find tlme to go over to Misslealppi and e what can be done to prevent the outrage upon the ballot that witl be perpetrated it the Elee toral voto of Mississippl be cast for Titoey, by the disfranchisement of the majority of the people of the Stated —— Wan! Wani—The TILDEN men of the North s South will not be cheated or counted ont, \\!= n:d peal to all vur brethren, to Domocratic Governors and Deuocrats everywhers, to stand fast in the faith; to como up 10 thy grand work which the hour may yet call for, Weaay it that these United Staten, by a quarter of a willion mn{m‘lly. liave called SAUEL J, TiLDEN Lo the chalr of Stare, 'the majority rules. The mafority will fisht it there aro no other means to rave this countrs. Are we cowards and slaves? Is the apint which made us free en and the States a Revublic now dead? Let the ]inpllhl]l.‘nml dire evoke the wrath of thiy nation. ~We put down rebels oncoand it can be xllgm.- aguin.—Zerre Mante Journal (Dem.), Noz, The sbove extract, which we take, heading and all, from the Terre Haute Journal, a Demo- cratle flre-eating sheet of the Copperhead sort, {s o falr sample of the belligerent bosh of nu- merous other Democratie swashbucklers 1n the North. With such Gen. Bouss there fs no se rlous argument to be made. The editor who wrote tho above paragraph, and who talks so glivly of fighting, was probably o {ome-guard during the War, and never ventured within sound of a guneven in the capacity of o curre- spundent for his belligerent sheet. He fs prob- ably on tho hunt for a Post-Ofllve or n place fna distitlery, and thirsts for Federal spolls, Fear- ing that Lie may losc it aftor all, his volec s for war, and hence he s tcaring round breathing fire aud brimstone through lifs nostrils, his Lelt stuck full of revolvers aud bowle-knlves,valiaot- ly clamoring that some one shall furnish ** bodles and gore and brulse the heel of the despos.” The proper course for the friends of the Indiana Boust 18 to take him to the nearest jury upons wrlt de lunatico tnquirendo, estublish his insani- ty, shave his head, put himon Ice, and comuit him to the most convenlent lunatic naylum untit such time as it can be shown that he hus recov- cred his sensca and can be let loose without da ger to the public. —_————— The New York Sun, which, next to the Chlca: KO Zimes, hus been the most rabld, unfalr, and unscrupulous partisan Democrathe newspaper in the Unlted Btates, Ia not In favor of jnaugu- rating TILDEN by force of armsjucase Havzsls declured elected. It saya: Noverthclesy, {f the echeme is carried through, and if, amid all the donbt, contlict, and nlnm’z‘.‘ Hlaves §s proclaimed President, wwe Aure no doul that auch a resully if accomplished with the formt of law, will be submitted to by all parties. "There will bo no Moxfean ontbreak, no_attempted insur- rection, no matter how great the wrung done to the conyictions and to the conscience of a great pm; portion of the people, no natter how nuorm'un the dumago Inticted upon business and property. The concern fn this city Is atlll threatening * blood,” and it *intimateathat o few rile-lalls may settle the PACKARD crowd, all other weth: ods Lailing.” ———— The Indianapolis Sentinel may not be e :;r- gan of Gov. HexDRICKS, but it is fn close rels- tions with his pacticular fricuds, and enlivens 1ts ngws with headtines like the followlug: ounce the nemmlnfi Tonrds—That l¢ the Pro- ac t mme of the People, If the Carpet-Bazzors Conn I:t Thetr l.'nnd!d;‘lel—\\'u WIII Not Iio Counte? ut, ‘The Clnelnnati Commercial, an mdepmmm: falr-minded, cautious, and clreumspect nvuww:u per, comments on tho Sentindls sdvice “ bounce the Returning Board " |hun:':n' - e at tho State Goyernment of I mfi"fi':‘.fig?fi'fl'pen-\xuou to declure the i.!e'c"t:‘r:.l vote of that Stato according ta law, after "“‘h’!l' i mont through the appointed legal process, el is done to” pleasa tho Democratlc party, 818 R tiioro f to bo violence It that party canuot i wuy, L would be interesting to know ‘: these aro the sontiments of Uov, HENDINCKS. e . The Bepublican strength doveloped in l-l:rr:il at the late election wns not without rww: The sehoolmaster has broken Into that Suu . the blncks have been sequiripg small Lot i steads thero for themselves,and !.hch-pmspesJ : bas attracted negro immigration from the l\.c“ centStates;and withall and more than ““:l‘l i England population with New Eugl-nb et hus been Introduced by Inimigration. T rfl o England Eniigrant Ald Compuny begatt 1270 Yankees there the year after the “::‘d: o stralghtway thero was o breaking out o o nouses all over the State, built b?- the wm"l"lm withs funds contributed in New Englaud. il waas missionary enterprise that was not w —————— Tz TaibuN has sald, and stands to It l:"‘ It %“docs not belleve the moral sens 7! Amerlean people wlll consent fo or M:T‘Blm‘ tha election of @ President of tho Unlte Drehl ahall be determined and declded by thro ,"f,“, e volea of several thousands of legal wolert 5 [ polled, in any Btate of the Unlon, Jecjlon position does uot upnuld or support 3 SRR L carrfed by *bull-dozlug ™ or othcr llh-ll“. Inul s Votes polled in bull-dozed preciucts ?:;.-l'lu‘l 1 gally polled. The election must bo “‘:’3”" {n conformity with law, and both “-lxlvbfl" bave the right to cast their voto for “lo ke candidates thoy please, none dariog them afraid, s While Demozratlc statesmen 8ro ,“,’}I?vwfi TiLoew's election “by tho white VUt might perbaps be well for them to r:w el that the only prospect thore 1s of Taep utl, ab tion constata fu his carrying the Solid SO L, 80 recelving tho tweuty-oune Elector: s which were allotted the Solid Sgn}: oy 1k portioument for the negro vote. Take the twenty-one Elcctoral votes mpr»;f::l’:;ufi o negro vote, snd oven though Lm; s Curollog, and Florids Were carrie