New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-17
The Disputed States.

The example OF tenacity that the Dem
ocrats gave in claiming State in the case
of Colorado, is of value in estimating the
true nature of the vigOr with " hich they as.
sert, in the present double-eDded dilemma,
that they have carried everything except y
few old Abolition districts and some new
country.
Democratic sticking to South Carolina
has been q phenomenon, and there is no
doubt that the papers of the Tilden per-
suation, all over the country, will recite the
old story to-day, and do it, as our Ohio
Thompson would say, "exultingly and with
the utmost confidencew
But the private secretary of the Governor
OF South Carolina telegraphed us last night
that Hayes had the State, and limited
their claim to the election of Hampton.
The race between Chamberlain and Hamp-
ton is very close. An astonishing case of
fraud and intimidation in heavy Repub-
ican district, is given in this dispatch.
There seems to be reason to believe that
the honest vote of Florida was Republican,
but the State was raided in the Western
counties by Alabamians, and the difficulty
will be in ridding the State of the effects of
fraud and violence in that quarter.
Our Jacksonville correspondent says:
''Allowing all these manufactured returns
and other easily proven frapds, Tilden's
majority would be between 1000 and 1000,
but taking the undisputed and indisputable
returns and giving the entire votes of these
bordering counties to the Democrats, Hayes
majority would then be between 1000 and
1000. This is the whole case."
The laws of Florida having q bearing on
this case are subject to examination in
another article. II will be observed that
while the right is probably with the Repub-
licans in Florida, they have not the Ger
tainty of maintaining the right; and we
rely upon it that the power of money will
be employed to aid in overcoming the State
in the interest of ECONOMY and REFORM" so
to speak.
We return to Louisiana. Our dispatches
show that the drift of the official returns of
the parishes as they CON in are in favor of
the Republicans. Also, that the examina-
ton of the laws of Louisiana by the emil
nent lawyers congregated in New Orleans,
shows that the board of canvassers have
the power to cOnstrue the law and the
facts. Before the direction in which the
electoral vote of this State is to be cast
can be determined, the board must
pass upon the returns. 1t is at last,
we presume, q question between the IRE
spectacle elements OF society" and the
phrase, tor which we thank him. The re-
spectables feel aggrieved that field hands
have the right Of suffrage, and regard all
means to nullify the amendments OF the
constitution as fair, and every remedy for
the disfranchisement Of the black men by
intimidation, as trenching, in q way that
must be resented, upon the prerogatives of
''the respectable elements" of society, in
cluding property holders, bankers and
business men," How long since Democratic
statesmen were prOclaiming the superior
electoral rights of "bankers' over the labor.
ers who work in the fields-the farmers, in
other wordsl Distinguished gentlemen
should have a care where they are going in
these distempered times, or they NAV get
on the wrong road Cincinnati CONNER
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