New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-18
The Louisiana Visitors.

Mr.. "A. 3. Hewitt, Governor lilOe0 8 next
friend, set dangerous precedent in asking
O large number of his political friends to re-
pair at once to New Orleans to be present
ut the counting of the election returns of
Louisiana. There is lawfully constituted
revising board in that State whose official
duty it il to count the election returns, and
no one else but it's members can participate
in the count, unless in direct violation Of
the laws of Louisiana. Inasmuch' as Mr..
Hewitt, no doubt at Mr.. Tilden's instiga-
ton, advised the partisans of his candidate
to go to New Orleans, and there is no law
to prevent this outside pressure, the c0un-
ter suggestion that leading Republicans
should attend also. was altogether apprO-
pirate, perhaps necessary. As the New
York Post remarks, the visitors can only
report, not instruct; and, as the public
knows the penchant some of the visitors
have for circulating sensational and false
reports, it will be glad to know that there
are visitors there like Stanley Matthews,
General Dix, General Garfield, William M.
Evarts and General Harrison. But the
precedent is a bad one, and to the Dem
Ocrats belongs the credit of sending dele
cations of politicians from several States to
take part in counting the election returns Of
another. If Louisiana may be subjected to
this novel inspection, every other State
may be on the same ground, and at the
next presidential election in Kentucky
the New England States may send
Blaine, Butler, Rice. Wendell Phillips
and Frederick Douglass to Frankfort to see
that fair and square count is had. There
is not much doubt what sort of reception
would be rendered the New England EN-.
bassadors by the distinguished members of
the Frankfort clique. They would ask their
visitors, "What shadow of right or author
ity, legal or moral, have YOU to interfere
with the officers whose duty it is to canvass
the vote of Kentucky With equal right
the Western States, or rather the partisans
of some defeated candidate in those States,
might send q committee of inspection to
admonish Pennsylvania or New York, or
Tennessee how to count their votes. 1t is
to be hoped, however, that the majority of
the visitors of both parties now in New Or
leans are judici0us, impartial men; some
evidently ar, neither. Travelling journal
lists, who, before they have had an oppor-
tunity to look into the evidence, scatter SEN
sational dispatches over the country, are
mischief makers, not peace-makers, ard
their room is much better than their COM
pany at such time and place. A dispatch
from Mr.. Redfield, to the Cincinnati Com
me,cial. Gays of another visitor
"Sam Randall says the whole question
will come before Congress-, and that Louis
iana's fraudulent ana unconstitutional Re-
turning Board can not prevent the inaugu.
ration Of Tilden."
Here is another leading Tildenite who,
without waiting for evidence or even tho
meeting of the Returning Board, makes up
his mind that Tilden shall be inaugurated
at all hazards and in spite of the action OF
the board. He is nice specimen of an i'm
partial peacemaker. To make the matter
still worse, Pennsylvania, which Randall
represents in Congress, has lust elected a
delegation to the next Congress which is
largely Republican. Randall not only
tramples on the laws of Louisiana. but he
defies the instructions and commands of his
own Stato,-LOuiSrile Cam ,0erciOl