The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-29
WHO SHALL BE PRESIDENT

That is What We Are All Trying to Find Out.
Days lengthen into weeks without
the question Of the Presidential cleo
ton being settled. The contest still
RACES in South Carolina, Louisiana and
Florida. We give the more important
items, in connection with each State
contest, which have been brought out
since our last issue:
TIE SOUTH CAROLINA CANVASS.
Notwithstanding the direct orders of the
Supreme Court, the South Carolina returning
board on the ed threw Q 1t Edgefield ar Law
renee counties, which gave Democratic ma
l0rltles, issued certificates of election to Cham
6erlan and the other Iepublican nomir ces
Tor State offices, also to Il Hayes and Wheel
er electors and ed joarn ID sine die. This &C.
ton produces great excitement in that State.
Wade HamptO /, the Den Ocratic candidate for
Governor, Il; issued an address urging the
people to be quiet and stating that the Demo-
Gratis Still rely upon the courts to reverse this
action.
The canvassing board claims that it was linn
lied by law to session OF ten days and that
the time having expired they had no alterna-
tive save to ad journ.
The Court ordered the Board to re-convene
and upon its refusal to comply the members
were lined 81 900 each and Committed to the
OVANA1AUA" Je.AA w dNtIlV LllC VI UAlC
court. The names of the imp isoned board
are +. l.. C>rdozo, treasurer; T. c. Dun, comp
troller; General w. S. Stone, Attorney Gen
eral; II. E. Pc yne, Secretary Of State, and H.
w. Pu"vis, ex-Adju:ant and Inspector Gen.
eral.
The Court has under advisement the oues-
ton OF requiring The board of State canvassers
10 make comparison of The returns of the
county ca1lvasse,s and returns of precinct
canvassers in the cases of the Presidential
electors. The court declined to issue the or
der, giving the certificates 70 members of the
Legislature for Edgefeld and Lourens coun-
ties, refused by the board, but stated such
members could obtain copy of The record
from the Clerk of the Court which would be
equivalent to q certificate.
Louisiana.
THE DUPLICATE POLL LISTS.
The following is Southern press dispatch
rom New Orleans:
1.-THE total vote of the State, made up from
d. plicate poll lists received from torty-seven
parishes and ten parishes estimated by the
is as follows: For Governor, Nichols, Dem
ocrat, 81, 202 Packard, Republican, 76. l12;
total vote, 16O,224; total vote in 1874. tor
STATE Treasurer, III, 705; increased vote this
year over 1874, 1853; Nichols majority over
Packard, Of the votes polled, 5000.
OF the Tilden electors five have a majority
over the highest Republican electors of S.24S.
The other two Tiden electors have majority
of 1885, The discrepancy in majorities is
c used by the omission of five Hayes elect
ors from the Republican tickets in several
parishes.
Up to the evening of the Esd only Is par
ishes have been canvassed. AS there are II
in the Sta e it will probably be week or ten
days before the canvass is Completed.
The time on the 9th was entirely occupied
with the consideration of the contested parish
of East Baton Rouge but no conclusion was
reached.
On the 25th there were no returns passed
partially, considered. An associated press
telegram reports the following episode on
| that day:
The returns from De Soto parish were
brought in aud were contained in one pack
age sealed with wax. When the seals were
broken by the members of the board there
were foundinside the consolidated votes. the
commissioners statements and tally sheets.
Attached TO the returns were a large number
of protests and at1idavits.
The Secretary of the Board said it had been
received on the 18th instant and was entered
in his receipt book. The returns he said had
come by mail In the course OF the inspec-
ton it was discovered that one of the protests
of the supervisors charging general intimida-
ton was dated November IS, and sworn to in
this city before commission OF the Circuit
Court. When called on to explain how a pro-
! test dated on the 25th instant could get into q
sealed registered package receiv ID bv mail on
| the 18th instant, The Secretary said he had re-
ceived two packages. He was detected by
| one of the Democratic counsel present in the
act Of making another entry in his book of the
two packages received. After some delay an
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