The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28

OI. LOU1O 1S d OChOCldbtC anu
yet she elected three Republican Con-
gressmen. Why? Because the better
class of Democrats, the substantial
business men OF the city, the men in
terested in the prosperity of the city and
the nation, found themselves in SYM
pathy with the national policy of the
Republicans and honestly against the
national policy of the Democratic party.
This is point for those who are seeking
light on the present complications to
remember.
New YORK Tribune: There was one
pretty badly worsted Democrat at Wash
ington the other day. He was buster
ing about declaring that the House
would not allow Hayes to be elected if
Tilden were not, but would prefer to
have the President of the Senate to fill
the Office. An Illinois Republican Con-
gresham quietly remarked that the Il
hnois Legislature will be in session at
that time, and if necessary will elect U.
S. Grant to succeed Senator Logan, whose
term expires March Sd, in order that the
Senate might make him President pro
TEN. The bare possibility of such an
event made the Democrat suffer.
VIRGINIA is a fine old Democratic
State. Everything is lovely there. No
bulldozing, nor anything of that kind.
Democratic majorities are manufactured
in a-quiet and respectable way. For
instance, it transpires that in one ward
in Portsmouth, in the recent election,
over four hundred Republican votes
were polled, over two hundred voters
having affirmed the fact under their own
names, but when the "count was COM
pleted, only ninety-eight Republican
votes appeared. The object of this little
game was to elect a Democratic Con-
gresham, but the Republican candidate,
Jorgensen, got in after all.
CINCINNATI special to the Chicago
Times: He Governor Hayes, speaking
of the Oregon complication, says there
is nothing in it. When his attention was
called to a fve-column letter to the
Commercial recently from George Hoadly,
showing why Governor Grover is right
in doing as he did, he said it would take
fve-columns more to put any reason or
sense in it. He wears the appearance of
man whose mind is wholly at rest on
the subject, and who has no doubt of his
title to the Presidential chair. There is
no appearance of anxiety about him, and
his health seems to be unimpaired by
any excitement or worry of any kind.
The manner in which the Democracy
clutch at the straw held out from Oregon
shows not only the desperation to which
they are reduced, but the dishonesty to
which they have recourse at the first
prospect it opens to them. Of the 369
legal electors 1S5 have cast their votes
for Hayes, and the creature appointed
by the Governor of Oregon to DO the
dirty work of the Democratic party has
no more claim to seat in the electoral
college than TO seat on the throne of
England. There is not Democrat who
does not know this and acknowledge it
in his heart, but thus far we have not
heard of Democrat who has the honesty
to come out and say that the electoral
college is no place for buf0onery and
Lurlesquing, and that the people of the
United States were prepared to accept
the legal results of their legal institu-
tions, regardless of whether such results
pleased them or not.
The difference between the action of
the Returning Board of Louisiana and
the action of the Governor of Oregon is
that the latter entirely aud shamefully
disregarded the law, while the former,
whatever else may be said of them, are
admitted to have kept inside the statu-
tory powers bestowed upon them. The
Republicans respect and obey the law,
and ask no victory except under its
forms; their opponents disregard it, and
look for triumph only by trampling law
beneath their feet.
REPUBLICANS have asked why two Re
publicans coDspired with Cronin in Ore
gan to carry out Democratic scheme.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, who knows
the men, says that the two tools of Gro
yer and Cronin, who were reported as
Republicans, are in fact strong Demo-
Gratis, and cast their votes for Hayes I'M
der orders from Grover, to cover the in
fanny of the proceeding as far as possible. |
There were not two Republicans in all
Oregon base enough to countenance the
rascality.