South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-11-17
By Yesterdays Mail.

ID There is no changein the situation
- TO the count Of the electoral votes in
Louisiana, South Carolina. and Florida.
New YoRk. Noy. I5.-The Heraltrs
Louisiana dispatch announces that the
returning board vii not meet until Satur.
day, when it will adjourn until Monday.
New YORK, Nov. 15.-The Worlds
Cedar Keys dispatch says Tilden has
certainly $500 majority in Florida. It
charges that the Republicans are at
tempting to carry the State by fraud.
THE PRosPEcr IN FLonrpA.-The
following dispatch was received in Bal
timors on Tuesday evening:
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. Nov. IA. 1876.
TO II. Clay Dallam: The returns of
the county canvassing boards are not
yet in. The State canvasssrs, of which
!, as attorney general, am. one. does not
meet for thirty-fve days after tho cleo
ton. but you may rest assured that
Tilden has carried this State, and so has
Drew for Governor.
VIM. ARCHER COOKE"
The Proposed Count IN Lo,.isiano-T The
Only Hope Of the Republicans The
Vermont Electoral Case.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-H is now ap-
parent from the latest dispatches re-
ceived here from Louisiana by republi-
can managers that they have abandoned
all hope of securing the electoral vote
Of that State for Hayes without the ac-
tive cooperation Of the returning board.
They privately admit that Louisiana
has gone for Tilden, but charge that
1llden's majority was secured by fraud
and intimidation in five parishes, which
they will strive TO have thrown out in
the canvass to be made by the returning
! board.
This is their only hope Of securing
declared majority for Hayes, and every
effort will be made to have those five
parishes stifed in tue final count. The
main argument seems to be that in
those parishes the great majority Of vo-
tiers are colored men, hence the repub-
licans should have had the majority
AS the majority appears To be demo
cratic, therefore the result in those five
parishes was obtained by fraud and in
timidation. This argument is based on
the principle that as the Ethiopian can
not change his skin. therefore he cannot
change his original politics, and must
be held as forever voting the republican
ticket.
The case OF the postmaster in Yer
mont, who was chosen an elector on the
republican ticket, is causing the repub-
licans some alarm. 1t is understood
his resignation took place since the day
OF election. and was induced by the
discovery that his federal position dis
qualified him from acting as an eiector.
At the time of his election he was post
master. and therefore legally disauali-
fled, and if lie was so disqualified before
the election he cannot become qualified
the day after by the mere tender of a
resignation. Another question presen-
ted is whether the place thus vacated in
the electoral co lege is vacancy in the
legal sense.
1t is held that the five candidates
having the greatest number Of votes
must be taken to have been elected, and
rs the man in question was disqualified
lie cannot be considered as having been
voted for Mt all. If this theory be cor
rect one of the democratic electors of
Vermont has been elected. la the case
OF the postmaster there was no election
and hence there can be no vacancy
Suppose all the candidates on the re-
publican electoral ticket in Vermont had
been postmasters, would not the demo
cratic electors have been chosenP This
IS the view OF the case presented by the
democrats, and the republicans manifest
considerable uneasiness over IL. There
IS a similar case OF postmaster in O.
RECON, who was on the republican ticket
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