The Portland daily press., 1876-11-27

Is no peace f0I soul
That's distracted with doubt?
Let us know who Is in,
Let us know who is out
For our eyes they grow dim,
AS on figures we gaze,
That make it for Tilden
And make 1t for Hayes"
In consequence of errors in the tickets in
Indiana there is possibility that four Tilden
electors may turn up missing.
The Tilden managers are still fighting for
an electoral vote in Vermont or Oregon. their
main reliance being in the latter state, where
the returning board is probably Democratic.
The Boston Adrertiser favors a constitu-
tional amendment making the supreme court
the arbiter of Presidential elections, giving
the powers now delegated TO the president of
the senate to the chiefjustice.
What is the use of having any count OF
votes in the South anyway? Nearly every
Democratic paper las decided in advance that
den.
1t is now confidently believed by good
Democrats that the unanimous refusal of the
senate last winter to adopt the "22d Joint
rule," was part of the "helish radical con-
spiracy to count Hayes in"
1t is time that northern Democrats should
begin to muzzle their hot-heads who are talk
ing OF revolution. The people are prepared TO
accept either Tilden or Hayes, but they will
not tolerate the mischievous rawlings of reck-
less political incendiaries.
Who is to decide the Presidential election:
the constituted authorities of the different
states, is the only manner prescribed by the
constitution and the laws or the bowling OF
mOh hnfQrmina6 IN laiK IL =.
spite of the law and the returns.
There is not even one carpet-bagger or
northern man in the Louisiana returning
board. Ex-Governor Wells, the president of
the board,i native of Louisiana, and a man
OF wealth. He was steadfast Union man
dnring the war, has often been in positions of
danger, and is not 10 the habit of allowing
himself to be scared. General Thomas G,
Anderson is a native of Virginia, but is an
old resident OF Louisiana, and hss represented
his district in the State Senate for twenty.six
consecutive years, He is men of great pop
larity, and is one of the wealthiest men in
the state. The other members are colored
men OF good character and intelligence.
When certificate of electoral votes comes
from state, properly authenticated by the
recognized officers of that state, where under
the constitution does the House of Repre-
sentatives or the Senate, or Congress as a
whole, or the President of the Senate get the
right to inquire into the regularity of the
election in the state or the correctness Of the
certificate or the honesty of the certifying
officers. Does not the constitution remit the
whole matter of appointing electors to the
Senate, and does it permit any inquiry into
the matter further than to ascertain what
the state by its own officers and under its
own laws has done? If the regular certif-
cate from Louisiana can be rejected, cannot
regular certificate from New York also be
rejected? Cannot the appointment of elect
ors in all the states of the Union be taken
out of the hands of the states, in effect, upon
any convenient pretextP Is the law of the
case or the regularity OF the proceeding af-
fected in any respect by the good character of
the officers In the state or the bad character
Of the officers in another state? There ought
to be no hesitation in answering these ques-
tions, least of all on the part of state rights
Democrat.-Neao York Ere1aing Post.