The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-13

1.-The Count ---VOtesS Il kaStWf4nS S ,s,,'
The. Radical scheme now eysloped Is to
q count votes !" which President GRANT
STYLES :. actually aastss' 'What votes are
to be counted and how they are to be
ascertained to have been g actually cast !"
are matters entirely with the Radi-
cal party. ANY man is a siulpleton
who supposes those votes are not prear-
ranged and fixed upto give Radical maiori-
ties. The inebriate Secretary OF the Int
rior knows it, and that Judge OF horses,
puppies, and good liquor--the President
knows it too. And now the world is invited
to see the votes in the ballot-boXes so ar.
ranged counted--to see how honest the
Radical returning officers are, and how
pure and innocent the Administration Is
And yet this sscount" is, by order OF the
President, to take place under the protess
ton Of military observation And why !?
Does not everybody see that the object is to
perpetrate some fraud OF such enormity
that men are afraid to commit it without
the protection Of the Government?
|. This plan has had its ioretelling shadow.
For days after the election there were occa-
sional kilograms enlanating from ZAcK
CHANDLER's pandora's box OF evils, an
nouncing that first one State and then an
other in the South had gone for HAYES by
heavy maiorities, or was safe for him, &c.
| These kilograms often appeared in the same
columns that contained returns from those
very States clearly showing that they had
voted for TILDEN. Among the latest oil
these was the statement that Florida had
given HAYES 1850 Incredible for its
amount) majority, when we had kilograms
from the best authority in Florida that the
State had gone for TILDEN by 1000 to 1000
This sort OF telegraphing was in the line Of
the GRANT. CHANDLER scheme. 1t was in.
tended to prepare the public mind for re
suits in the South that would be ultimately
forced 5y military interference. Old FACE
meddled with North Carolina. He had tele
grams about her. FITZPATRICK was SEN
there. and had long conferences Will
Raleigh negroes. including KEouGH. Blu
it was found that North Carolina had gone
beyond their reach, and sue was abandoned
Still the telegraphing went on, and RadIca
: newspapers-no doubt in the sccret-de
clared that HAYES was elected, and did 81
with such confidence, i'll the face Of facts tt
the contrary, that we could not but see thai
some scheme was afoot for forcing States tc
vote for HAYES. ..
South Carolina. Florida, and Louisiana.
: whose returns had been purposely delay
ed. being absolutely necessary to ciec
HAYES, were immediately brought unde
. the scheme. And GRANTS orders devel
, oped the stratagem The returns are, II
those States, fixed up to concur with CHAND
:, LER's kilograms. But the outrage contem
Mated was so abominable, and likely to eN
! cite such indignation that the President AMI
the Secretary did not deem it safe to leave
= the agents of the villainy to the mercy o
=, public resentment; and so the military arr
ordered to sustain them, and Presiden
, GRANT says to sec that things are done hon
T estly and without intimidation. How lovely
, Now the plan beyond all question is II
, force these three States to vote for HAYES
and thus elect him by one vote. It will bt
accomplished. 1t is determined upon. The
fraud will be sustained by the army ant
navy OF the United States. 1t is a great
, usurpation. 1t is an outrage upon the MA
jority of the people Of the United States-it
, is perversion 81 our republicanism. But
, what will be done about it? That's the
question. Now is the time to crush the
tyranny of this personal government OF
ours. II it triumphs, public liberty is gone