The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-27
A Returning Board Paper in Rock
Island.


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A Returning Board Paper in Rock
Island.
The Rock Island Union, commenting
upon the resolutions adopted by the Re-
form Club, in Killers Hall, on Monday
evening, the 18th, says:
They arraigned "Chandler, Morton, Cameron q
Co." for shameful efforts TO annul the voice OF
the people," den ounced military interference"
and recited that t is the duty OF every patriotic
shall take effective measures to ascertain the actual
vote in tire disputed states, and to place IN
office and sustain the men for president and vice
president who actually received a majority Of the
votes OF the people OF said states as cast"
This resolution, innocent as 1t doubtless APP
Peared to the audience when hastily read is revou
uonary In character. IL means the overthrow OF
the returning and canvassing board.
Three DAYS after the election, and when
itwa known that Tilden was elected,
Grant then made himself an obedient tool
of Chandler, Cameron. Morton & Co. ,iand
ordered Sherman to do theirlbidding, with
the army, in order to defeat the will of
the people and count Hayes In, but he
sugar-coated the pill in the following
words:
Send all the troops necessary to ensure
''entire quiet and a peacable count of the
ballots actually cast. Should
there be any grounds of suspicion of
fraudulent count on either side 1t should
DE reported and denounced Gt once.
THE presence of citizens from other
states, understand, is requested in
Louisiana to see that the board of can
"UdSserS make q fair count of the Uote
''Gctudlly cast. 1t is to be hoped that
representative and fair men of both
"parties will 20. e The country
can not afford to have the result tainted
by a suspicion OF illegal or false returns
No man worthy of the Office of
president should DE willing to hold it II
counted IN or placed there by fraud"
(Signed) US. GRANT,
This order was issued by Grant, from
Philadelphia, on the 10th of November
three days after election, and after it had
been ascertained that the army and the
corrupt returning boards might steal, for
Hayes, the l9 votes which he must have
to be elected, and which the people re-
fused to give him. The army was sent to
protect the returning board thieves and
scalawags from the wrath of an outraged
people, which, the conspirators at Wash
ington feared would be visited upon them
for the monstrous fraud they were ex-
pected to commit. The corrupt returning
boards have performed their part with
shocking barbarity and in the bungling
manner which thieves, robbers and
burglars usually do their work. Did they
count The UoteS actually cast? No. They
refused to count the Democratic votes, or
such portion of them as was necessary to
refuse in order to carry out their monstrous
design. Did they report and denounce a
suspicion Of fraud by their own officers
No. They cOnnived to give those frauds
force and effect. Did the partizans Grant
sent down to Louisiana with an order tC
''see that the board of canvassers make
fair count of the pote actually cast" do so
No. They connived with and acted al
aids for the board, to commit the
monstrous fraud aud outrage Of refusing
TO count the Uote actually cast.
And this is the work the Rock IslauC
Union defends, and says it is revolutionar!
to overthrow, The Republican suprem,
courts Of South Carolina and Florida don
seem to agree with the Rock Island Union
Gen Barlow, the ablest and fairest ma
Grant sent down there, don't agree wit
the Rock Island Union. Scores of decen
Republican newspapers in the countr
don't agree with thej Rock Island Union
Thousands of honorable Republicans i
every state disagree with the Rock Islam
Union. All these think it nc
revolutionary to correct the forgerie
frauds and thefts Of dishonest Republ
can returning board On the contrary
they think that the only revolutiouar
proceeding is that of the returning board,
who refuse to count the vote actually Gas
and substitute therefor false statement
of the vote cast-which false statement
the people aud the courts demand sha
be corrected, and Which they are about {
correct, and will never rest until th
corrections are made.
We are not surprised to see the Roc
Island Union put itself on record a
opposed to effective measures to ascertai
the actual vote, as cast In the dispute
states" and opposed to placing in ofiC
and sustaining the men for president an
vice president who actually received mi
jority of the votes of the people of sal
states as cast"
1.-THE Union has taken its positionin fave
of fraud, and opposed to the order
Grant, -opposed to an honest count of I'll
votes actually cast The people wi
repudate the revolutionary returniu
boards and all the office-holders an
apologists of the rascally returning board
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