Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-21
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER FL. 1879
Recommending Election Returns.

Accommodating Election Returns.
Two or three OF the southern states are IN a
condition Of semi-anarchv. so far as concerns a
determination of the result of their state cleo
tious 10 Alabama, it is confined to the legs.
lature, which has organized, or is trying TO
organize, in two bodies This irregular and
disorderly condition Of that state seems TO be
the result Of struggle between the parties for
control of the legislature, The republicans
claim majority of the members elect; but they
alleqe that the democratic secretary OF state has
frauduIently issued certificates TO seven or eight
OF the defeated democratic candidates, and that
the old state government, having control of the
state house, will not allow seven or
eight legally elected republicans to take
their seats. This may be true; but it
is claimed on the other side that the re-
publieans in question were defeated by the DEM
ocrats TO whom certificates have been given.
1t is difficult TO learn the exact truth from the
dispatches; but the republicans carried the
state There is no question in regard to the
election OF their state ticket; and they probably
have q legally lected majority of the legsla-
ture, of which the old state officers have sought
10 deprive them by means Of fraudulent GER
tifcates. Meanwhile the democrats have
waited in the state house for a quorum, while
the republicans have organized in the rooms of
the United States court building.
There is a similar disturbance in Arkansas,
which, however, appears to involve the whole
result of the state election. But all that is
known Of this matter comes in brief dispatch
from the democratic side OF the controversy,
which evidently avoided an attempt to be accu-
rate 1t claims that the democrats have carried
everything, and charges that Gov. Hadley and
other republicans have formed a conspiracy "to
hold possession Of the state house, appoint
legislature, and maintain themselves in
Office" OF course, this statement which does
not attempt to give the facts, is eXtravagant;
but it seems to indicate that the result OF the
state election in Arkansas is in controversy be-
tween the two parties. Some of The counties OF
this state have been, for some time, in a condi-
ton oflawless disorder and violence. 1t is not,
on the whole the most enlightened part Of the
country, nor the part most distinguished for
political virtue. A serious dispute about the
whole result of the state election is not likely TO
promote quiet and order.
But Louisiana presents the most notable case
of lawlessness in dealing with election returns;
and here there is not much room for doubt in
regard to the principal facts. That notorious
political shyster, Gov. Warmoth, has deter
mined to count in the democratic state ticket
aud enough democratic senatorial and reprenta
tive candidates 10 give the democrats control o
the legislature. This is part of the work tC
hoe -,la bxr
alliance with the democrats. They have here
tofore denounced him as even bad men are sell
dom denounced; but, in this election, they
made arrangements TO use him, and he
hopes to be paid for his services by being
made United States senator In managing the
registration and the polls, his creatures did all
they could to shut out republicans from voting
but the republican majority in Louisiana is
large, and it was not easy to exclude enough
republican votes to destroy it. 1t appears that
the republican state ticket received majority
of the votes; but Warmoth seems to be operat'
ing to give the election to the other ticket, and
TO secure board Of state canvassers that will
do what he has planned to have done.
Warmoth began his last operation by ATTEMPT
ing to reconstruct the state board OF canvassers
whose duty is to make the final count of the
votes and declare the result. He has summari-
ly removed the republican members of this
board and put his own creatures in their places
but the displaced members appealed TO the
courts, and the courts have found this proceed
ing illegal and decided against him. Having
investigated the whole question, the court de-
cides that the legal members of the STATE board
of canvassers are F. J. Heron, john
Lynch, James Longstreet, and Jacob Hawkins
and that Wharton, Hatch and DIponta,
whom Warmoth had arbitrarily substituted
for Heron, Lynch, and Longstreet, are not legal
members OF the board, Warmoth IS 4 reckless,
persistent man, who seldom scruples at any
thing; but the republicans now hope to bafle
him and secure fair play. Meanwhile, the result
of the Louisiana electien waits to be declared
What Warmoth is, and who was chiefly to blame
for outrageous proceedings for which Louisiana
has been notorious under his administration, can
now be seen. But he is nearly at the end of his
career, for the democrats would not make him
Unued States senator, if they should have power
TO do so.