The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-30
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publican attorney general of Flor
ida, telgraphed to Washington sew
eral days ago; i, as attorney gen
eral, am a member of the Return
ing Board; the Board does not meet
till thirty-fve days after the cleo
ton. but I can assure you Tilden
has carried the State, and 80 has
Drew for Governor" Chandler
showed this dispatch in his waste
basket, and said: On Cooke"
That Cooke crowed too loud for
Tilden.
The Louisiana Returning Board
OF 1872 and that Of 1874 and that of
1876 are, to all iutents and puFpo-
ses the same. The first two were
con instituted to manufaeture Repub
lican majorities, and the board Of
1876 is IN the same business. That
board Is sustained in its usurpation
BY Grant aad his Cabinet.
The business of the country is
rapidly coming to a standstiL Men
dare not invest their money wi5h
uncertainty before them, intensi-
fed by the attitude of the military
party, which is that of ''rule or
ruin" The Republican party
must be kept in power" says the
conspiratofs, if the country goes.to
the devil.
Hayes will squeeze in, says the
Dayton Journal. Yes, if he does,
he will squeeze in as a burglar
squeezes through a narrow window
to rob a house.
TiIden has a fair and square ma
ioriey of the voies of Louisiana,
aud the people viii see that he
holds it. Their verdict can not be
reversed by the Military party.
Many prominent Republicans of
this city do not hesitate to express
their opinion that TiIden is fairly
and honestly elected president.
Good for the agricultural edj-
tor" He hasn't been excited over
the election dispatches. His stur-
dy column has kept Its place, and
useful information has been dissem-
mated IN the midst of the unprofi-
table froth of politics. Amid the
wreck of matter and the crash of
ballot boxes, he has been quietly
writing up the iehnemon fly and
telling as about tree-planting, No
country that is web supplied with
agricultural writer's can ever be
completely ruined.
IN East and West Feliciana, Qua
chita, Morehouse and East Baton
Rouge parishes, Louisiana, United
States troops were stationed foI
weeks before the election and on
election day, and yet the Republi
cans propose to throw out the vote
of the five parishes on the ground
OF Democratic intimidation.
Thirteen hundred United States dep
uty marshals assisted the soldiers
. and between them three or foui
thousand voters were deprived o
the right of suffrage. The Repub
, licans want a s'fair count, " of course
The Republican newspapers ar,
p engaged in proving to their read
ers that several presidents have oc
cupied the presidential chair with
? majority of the popular vote agains
them. If governor Hayes should b
! counted in there will be no objec
! tion 10 him simply because ther
D is a popular majority against h;u
r but because in the face of such
adverse majority he took the seat a
D the hands Of that fodl piece of ms
a chinerv known as the Louisian
e Returning Bos, d when be knew tina
e the real yote Of Louisiana wa
against him. The popular major
: ty is not the objection; it only az
@ gravates the objection.
It The Hayes organs are once mot
J. bringing out the bloody shirts
5 Ere the No~ther1 heart. They hay
e the wretched in nbeciIity TO tell the
r readers that terrorism and 'intin
j idation" have brought about Demo
S, cratic maiorities in South Carolin
$. Florida and Louisiana. This is
% eaadid confession that Hayes
ie bea. en-, and as for the intimIdatIo
n part of the story, the readers
W these organs have been assured q
is along that the presence Of half Il
L. United States army in these Stat'
IN would necessarily secure a fair eie
if ton. The Hayes people are "hoi
p, by their own petard."