The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-16
GOODBYE, SHAMMY.
Your Always Slim Chances fer the
Presidency are Now Gone.
FOR RUTHERFORD b. HAYES is
TO SUCCEED U. s. GRANT.
Despairing Democrats May Deem This
Dubious, but They are Doomed
TO Disappointment.
However, We Give them Some Interesting
Reading Matter from the Chicago
Times and Other Demo-
cratic Sources.
ELECTION ECHOES.
South Carolina.

OOuiH OufOtttu.
Charleston, Nov. 15.-An error in the
returns from Pickens county reduces
the majority of the Democratic State
ticket, according to the News and
Courier count, to Ills.
Washington, Nov. 15.-R. b. Elliott,
chairman of the South Carolina Repub-
lican committee, telegraphs to-day de-
nying having conceded Hampton's cleo
ton and claiming Chamberlain's.
Dispatches from Columbia name sew
eral Republicans who openly admit that
the returns as received, and without
eliminating those claimed us fraudulent,
elect Hampton governor, but the same
returns give Hayes a small majority.
Florida.
Tallahassee, Nov. 15.-As the county
canvassers go on it becomes more and
more apparent that Hayes has run far
ahead of his ticket. The Republicans
are sure that their ticket is elected by a
good majority, but no matter how that
may be, there can be no doubt as
to the success of the national ticket.
Mr.. Cespedes, Republican candidate
for the legislature in Monroe county,
protested against the canvass of the
vote of the third precinct in Key West,
on the ground that the ballot-box was
taken away from the polls and counted
by the managers, in violation of law.
This precinct gave a large Democratic
majority. The protest was not needed
by the county board.
New York, Nov. 15.-The Herald's
special from Tallahassee says: 1t is
considered to be s~ettledthat full official
returns of county canvassing boards
| will give the State to Drew by more
than nine hundred, and to Tilden by
more than five hundred majority.
These majorities will be attacked before
the State canvassing board, and the Re-
publicans are conf lent that they can
throw out several precincts. The Dem
ocrats are equally confident that they
can defend every return. The county
boards have, with hardly any excep-
ton, canvassed the vote and referred
all matters of contest to the State
boards.
Chicago Times 1t1addle.
Chicago, Nov. 15.-The Times
Washington special says:
1.-THE Democrats, in a quiet way, are
very jubilant wei their prospects.
Nothing can prevent Tilden's success
now. Senator Thurman telegraphed
here to-day, that he had heard that one
of the Republican electors in Oregon
is q postmaster, and asked that an ex-
animation of the records in the depart
ment be made. This request was COM
piled with, when it was discovered that
John w. Watts, the elector mentioned,
is still a postmaster at. Lafayette. This,
with the Vermont e~lector, who is also
a postmaster, leaves out two votes for
Hayes, that cannot be filled. 1t has
been claimed by the Republicans here
that the ineligibility of these merely
constitutes q vacancy that car be filled
by other electors. 1t is held by good
legal minds that where aman is ineligi-
BILE as an elector prior to election the
office represented by his name has never
been occupied, consequently there is no
vacancy. There is a line of tactics
opening up that will be a cause of the
Republicans having to submit to their
own medicine. The governor of Cali
fornia has telegraphed here that The
does not intend to certify to the present
returns of his State, as he has discov-
cred such enormous frauds as to mega
tive all of the Republican majority now
claimed. He has made a discovery that
800 Democratic votes were taken
| bodily out Of the ballot-bOxes. 1t is
| claimed here that Oregon is now held
back to see what the administration is
to do in the South. The State organ
ization is Democratic, and it may be
possible that if the Republicans begin
the game of counting in they may be
matched at it. This is n of the cur
rent suggestions by men who don't
talk upon street corners, but are es-
pecially well informed of all movements
made upon the great political chess
board. There is not a single Democratic
leader here who does not repel with
repel with horror any idea that Oregon
could be held back for any such pur-
| poses, but all think that if the game of
fraud is to be played, the opposition
will not see itself beaten when tits sure
of its hand; and upon the principle that
all is fair in war, will charge boldly
ahead to assume the reins of the gov
eminent. The Democrat leaders are all
on guard, and noting carefully every
movement of the enemy. They claim
that they are capable of meeting every
move of the Republicans; that the lat
ter are now hipped, and wen if they
( should be successful in counting in
South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida,
they will still have between them and
the White House the impossible noun
tain barrier of the two missing cleo
toral votes of Oregon and Vermont,
with California rejected on account of
frauds.
. How Oregon is TO be Handled.
Salem, Nov. 15.-It is announced by
the Democrats here to-day that the fol-
lowing programme is to be carried out
in reference to the case of j. w. Watts,
presidential elector IN the Republican
ticket, who was postmaster of Lafay-
EFT. The law of Oregon provides that
the secretary of state, in the presence
of the governor, shall count the votes,
and give to the persons having the
highest number of votes certificates of
election, giving the secretary no power
except to count the votes and issue the
certificates, but it is asserted that a
writ will be served on the secretary, is
sued out of the Supreme Court, enjoin-
ing the issuance of II certificate to
Watts, and giving it to the highest
elector ON the Democratic ticket.
The Question Of Eligibility.
Washington, Nov. 15.-It is unde-
niahlo that the questions CONCERNING