The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-12-15

tons demands it. There Is
now combination very for
midable and reckless TO prevent the legal
| results of the election, and to place men
i'm the high offices who have not been
elected to them, aud thereby to defeat the
changes and reforms which all classes OF
| society and all the great industrial and
commercial interests of the country so
much require. They haze resorted to re-
turning boards party machinery hereto
| tore unknown in national politics, pow
eress for good, but pregnant with evil
They threaten to depart from the estab-
lished usage in counting the electoral
vote by Withholding from the peoples
representatives their constitutional pre-
rogative of participating IN the decision OF
questions that may arise in the progress
of the count, and by clothing one man
| with the power of allowing and exclud
ing votes, and thereby controlling the
presidential election. The purposes of
this dangerous conspiracy must be de-
feated. The right as declared at the bal
lot-box must be respected and main
tanned. AS was said of Mr.. Lincoln's
election, the people that can elect a man
are strong enough to place him in his Of
flee. Our army must not be used to
place either governors or presidents, in
Office who have not been elected. It is
revolution and its accomplishment will
disturb the foundation OF Our institutions
and endanger the cause of free govern
ment itself We cannot maintain our
| institutions If the people allow
| their choice and will, as expressed in pur-
| suance Of law, TO he defeated by fraud
and force. The committee, therefore,
call upon the people without respect to
| party, who make our country's welfare
paramount to every other consideration
all who say that the vote Of the people
shall not be defeated by fraud, and all
who
| STAND BY FAIR PLAY
| And honesty, to meet at their county
seats on the day mentioned, and to make
an expression OF the popular judgment
| that can not be disregarded even by the
| most abandoned and reckless enemies of
| our institutions, and to appoint men as
their delegates to the state convention on
the Sth Of next month who will fearlessly
and prudently make such declaration,
and take such vote as will give our state
her proper position and influence in
mo- N fai constitutional .rn,o,np,o,t
and the rights and liberties of the peo-
pie.
After resolutions inviting Hon. G.. w.
Julian to address the convention. par
ticularly as to the action of the returning
| board in Louisiana, and inviting d. w.
VOORHEES, to present the legal status OF
the presidential questions to the conven-
ton, the committee adjourned.
Louisiana.
THE RETURNING BOARD STILL REFUSES.
New ORLEANS, Dec. l3.-Wells of the
returning board was before the congress
sional committee to-day. He declined
answering questions, denying the author
as to returning board matters. Mr.. Nor
| rison said they would not press the ques-
tons.
Governor Wells stated that if the COM
mittee would employ clerks, i'll addition
to the clerical force of the board, all the
papers could soon be copied and with
them the committee would have all the
| information as to the vote cast in the
| state, and the evidence which prompted
the action of the board.
Other members Of the returning board
were notified that they would be exam
| ined hereafter. Other witnesses were ex-
| amined as to the late election, but moth
ing new or startling was developed.
APPOINTMENT OF sUB-CoMMITrEEs.
New ORLEANS, Dec. l3, II p.m.-The
chairman appointed the following sub
committees TO be located at Shreye-
port, for the adjoining parishes Meade,
Democrat, Of New York. chairman
House, Democrat, Tennessee; Danforth,
Republican, Ohio. At Monroe, for Qua
chita and adjoining parishes McMahon,
Democrat, Ohio, chairman Ross. Demo
crat, New Jersey Grape, Republican, |
Massachusetts. For Baton Rouge aud
adjacent parishes-New, Democrat, In
diana, chairman Beebe, Democrat. New
York, Joyce, Republican, Vermont. For
parishes adjacent to New Orleans
Blackburn, Democrat, Kentucky (: |
Phelps, Democrat, Connecticut; Hurl-
but, Republican. Illinois. The general
committee with headquarters at New
Decentralization, Democrat, Illinois.
chairman; jerks, Democrat, Pennsyl-
yania Townsend, Republican, Pennsvl- |
yania.
The date for the departure of the sub |
committee is not decided. They will not
leave, however, until copies OF the re-
| turning board records have been obtained.
The Lille unknowa.
SPEECH BY RETURNING HOARD U.yFs