Middletown transcript., 1876-11-18
= OPINIONS OF PRomINENT MEN.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS INTERVIEWED
Charles Francis Adams, who is nov
at the Windsor Hotel, New York, toll
Tribune reporter yesterday that b
had no intention to 60 South. Of on,
thing, however, he had no doubt, ant
that was that Governor Tilder
had been elected President Of tht
United States 1t was an election
wholly without precedent both in the
closeness Of the contest and the length
Of time which it took to procure definite
information as to the result. This was
very unfortunate, on account of the fac,
that it gave opportunities for both sides
to claim frauds in the election Such
opportunities had never been given
before in a. national contest. Mr..
Adams said that President Grant hav-
ing called upon prominent gentlemen Of
the Republican party to proceed to
Louisiana and see that fair count was
had, he considered it eminently proper
that the Democratic National Com mittee
should also send representatives from
their party to take the same precaution-
ary measures on behalf of the Demo-
Gratis. Although it was a proceeding
entirely unprecedented, yet if it result
ed in satisfying the people Of the coun-
try that the election there was an hon.
est one, and in checking any cry of
fraud, be thought it was good thing
SENATOR BAYARD INTERVIEWED.
A World reporter had an interview
with Senator Bayard in New York yes
terday. The Senator said be certainly
was not going to louisiana and said that
what status citizen Of another State
would have before board composed of
Louisiana State officials was more than
he could discover. He deprecated the
action Of the President and Of the Dem
ocratic party in naming delegates and
said
l hate the very name Of party in con
nection with such an emergency as now
apparently confronts the American peo-
pie Whether successfully or not l
should ask or seek nothing to. day from
any man, either as Democrat or as
Republican, but simply to try to con-
troll him by sense Of his duty as
citizen to the Constitution and laws of
his country. I have given my adhesion
to the Democratic party because l be-
lieved it to be the party of law and
order, and believe to-day that its sue
cess is firmly iptrenched in both, and that
it only needs that its candidates and its
members should stand by the law as it
is written, in letter and in spirit, in
order to have the full consumation of
its victory in the results of the Presi-
dental election Of Tuesday last. There
fore it is that strenuously deprecate
any resort. no matter how we'll inten-
toned. to irregular methods for con-
trolling legal results. To apply these
remarks to the case in point: Whether
in dealing with Louisiana, South Caro-
lima or Florida. what ! mean to say is
this, The elections in these States have
been held; the votes have been cast;
the ballots are, or ought to be, in exist
ence, and they disclose, or did disclose,
a majority on one side or on the other.
Which way these majorities, or any of
them are, is question Of fact. which is
or ought to be capable Of distinct and
positive proof if the laws have not been
violated. 1t is by that fact that the
American people must stand and not by
any false and counterfeit presentment
of that fact, whether prepared by the
fraud of an official hand or not. Never
was there an occasion more gravely
calling for an utter absence of ANYTHING
like personal irritation or party heat
hut at the same time. never was there
an occasion demanding more deliberate
and grave determination to insist upon
the very truth and right of this ques-
tion, under the authority of the law and
of the law alone Our path will then
be plainly marked oat for us, and we
can and will tread it with an unfalter-
ing step.