The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-16
OUR HANCOCK LETTER.
FAIRvIEw, HANCOCK CoUHTI,
November Ia. 1875,

Me4lcanlZe tue government Oy counting
in their defeated Presidential candidate
through fraudulent returns Of the cleo
ton in three of the most defencelesl
Southern States, is already, or will be
efectually thwarted. The undemonstra
tive, tut firm and considerste resolution
of the Democracy, North and South, &c
require aAd, il needs be,entorse the same
respect, in the present instance, to the
will of the majority, as they and the
people have been wont to yield in the
past age of the Republic, lnsures the
defeat of that conspiracy, SO far as its
present aims extend. Had the few days
succeeding the 9Th of November, (for
the conspiracy was one OF precipitation,
formed after the election. to meet an
uncalculated disaster consequent on un-
successful fraud) developed a spirit of
tame submission in the Democracy of
the country-such as has too much per-
vaded it for some years past-there can
not be particle of doubt that the cleo
toral votes of South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana would all have been wrenched
from Tildsn, to whom they were given,
and counted for Hayes, and thus the
Grantist faction kept in power. But
those few days of tentative trifing with
the rights of mighty and resolute ma
jority have convinced Zach Chandler and
his conspirators that their game is dan
gerous one, and that they must "let 60"
or they will he made let go.
But, allowing the audacious endeavor
to transfer the votes of the three States
named to Hayes, to have failed, does the
conspiracy end there3
fear not, and that there remains yet
a third (may be beyond that fourth)
struggle to be joined and triumph
achieved before the expressed will of the
people shall stand as the supreme law of
the land. That struggle, anticipate,
will occur on the second Wednesday Of
February next, when the two houses Of
Congress assemble together to witness
the counting of the votes Tor President
and Vice President. expect to see AT
that time determined effort made by
the Grantists to prevent any election being
made. The scheme will be this: Upon
a false Interpretation OF the constitution
and statutes upon the subject, the Senate,
claiming to act Independently of the
House, and in Its ordinary capacity as
one of the two legislative branches, will,
upon objection to counting the votes Of
Democratic States, refuse to agree
thereto; and sufficient being objected
and disagreed to, to reduce Tilden's vote
below the requisite 1856, it will be claimed
that no one is elected. What then? Will
the election 90 to the House? Doubtless
so; but then that is precisely what the
Grantists will deny. Unless and until
the Democrats agree 1oith them y to cast
out enough votes to defeat Tilden, they
will insist that there has been no deter
mination or decision of the cleo
toral vote, and SO long as the cleo
ton remains undecided, no right to
elect can belong to the House!
The falsity of the reasoning upon
which such revolutionary course would
be based affords no reason why 1t will
not be attempted. A recent article in
thu Washington Chronicle seriously as.
serts construction of the law consistent
" tn the scheme referred to, and is un-
Goubtedly intended TO pave the way 10
it, practical adoption. 1t means revolu-
ton; and the Democracy must prepare
themselves to meet the responsibilities OF
50 vital contingency.
Although politics Is of nearly all
absorbing interest, yet our community
finds time 10 take considerable interest
in the projected establishment of second
newspaper in this place. The protector
is Mr.. w. +. Brown, an employe for
some two years in the Courier office, and
formerly connected in proprietary way
with the Pan .H1ndle Ne,ps. The new
paper, we are informed, is to be neutral
in politics. Hancock county will then
present the unusual feature Of possessing
two newspapers, neither of which is
party organ.
Much sympathy (pure "sarkazzum")
is felt by the Democracy OF this county
for the sad state to which Tilden's cleo
ton has brought the gentle-souled and
mild hammered DR.. Todd formerly
resident here), "wich Is postmaster" at
your neighboring town of Bridgeport.
The Doctors tongue Gid much, on the
back-action or antiseptic principle, to de-
eide undecided voters in the recent can
vass in this county.
Sadly deceived and misled as they
were by the culpable misrepresentation
of the Intetligeneer, and hard as it is,
consequently, for them to die, yet the
Radicals of this locality show as much
resignation under the affective dispsnsa-
ton which consigns them to back seats,
as any people trained to such views OF
intolerance and arrogancy as they have
been, could reasonably be expected to
display. .
p. S-Since the above was written l
nave received the REGISTER Of to-day
and read the special to the Enquirer,
which gives the views Of ex-Goyernor
Curtin, Sam. j. Randall and others. l
cannot out think that Mr.. Rsndalrs
view with respect to the twenty'second
Joint rule is erroneous. Mr.. K. claims
that it is, in effect, still existing,) That
rule provided that upon a question being
raised as to the count of the votes in the
Joint session of the second Wednesday
Of February, the Senate shall withdraw,
land no question shall be decided affirm
atively and no potes objected TO shall be
counted except by the concurrent rote' Of
the two Houses"
Thus determination of the result Of
the electoral votes could only be had by
the Democratic House concurring with
the Radical Senate in its objections to
sufficient Democratic votes to defeat Mr..
Tilden. And the door to the revolution
airy villainy have suggested is left wide
open. A wise and true view of the case
it seems to me, is this: The twenty-sec.
ond Joint rule being null and void, as aP-
pears to have been generally admitted,
by reason of the failure to re-enact 1t, the
decision of questions touching the count
of the electoral vote is RENTED, BY obyi-
Gus and necessary construction OF the
Twelfth Amendment OF the Constitution
and the statutes passed IN pursuance
thereof, to the joint witnesses and Judges
of the count, to-wit, the Senate and
House, in their extraordinary Joint ca
pscity. The decision of the count thus
becomes. not only practicable, but Its