Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
The Disputed States.
From the New York SUM-

CFrom the New York SUM-
The States that are now in dispute be-
tween the two political parties are three,
namely, Florida, Louisiana and South Car
olina; all Of them, it will be noticed, South
ern States, and all Of them since the war in
the possession Of the Republican party.
There can be no moral doubt how these
three States have now voted. They nus
all have gone Democratic by ample MAORI
ties of the people, because there is no
reason why they should not have shared in
that general ~reaction which has successfully
wrested from Republican control all the
other Southern States. In this general re-
action Louisiana, the worst ~plundered and
outraged, perhaps, of all, fully Joined four
| years ago by choosing a Democratic State
Government by a large popular majority.
This Government was, however, overthrow
by fraud and force. The first agent Of the
conspiratoTs, who had previously been in
power, was the so-called Returning Board,
a body consisting OF five members, who
assumed not merely to canvass the votes Of
the State but to alter them and reverse
them at their pleasure. In 1872 this Board
pretended to canvass the returns and to de-
clare the result. although there were actu-
ally no returns before them; but the people
of the State refused to submit to their de-
cisiOn, as the United States Senate has since
| repeatedly lone in refusing to admit the
claimant of a seat in the Senate whose claim
grew out of a declaration OF the same Board.
! President Grant, however, sent down SOL
diers to Louisiana, who enforced the decla-
ration of this Board by turning out the law
fully elected State officers and installing
those whom the Board had selected. This
Board is now to pass upon the returns Of
the present election; and, although, as we
have said, there is no doubt in the minds of
intelligent men of either party that the vast
majority of the ballots cast in the State is in
favor of Tilden, it is believed by the Re-
| publicans that the declaration Of the Boa1d
will be in favor of Hayes, and it is upon
this expectation that the Republicans set up
their desperate assertion that Hayes is
elected.
Next in importance is the State of South
Carolina; and here, too, there is no reason
to believe that the State has not followed
the example of ali the others by giving q
majority in favor of the Democratic candi-
has been conducted by Wade Hampton, an
original Union man, we'll known to all the
people of the State, colored as we'll as white,
and in whose personal character all have
the highest confidence. The Republican
candidate, Chamberlain, is q carpet
Dagger from Massachusetts,, and the
people, reduced to extreme poverty,
as they are, naturally revolt against
continuing him in power. 1t
is true that Gen. Grant, violating the law,
has sent troops there to overawe the cleo
tors and compel the timid to vote with the
Republicans; but this outrage has been met
with such fOrbearance and prudence that it
has not produced the effect designed; and
Hampton and Tilden have been voted for
by a majority Of the people. This result.
however, Zach Chandler and Jay Gould, at
this moment the leading spirits Of the Re-
publican party, propose to set aside; and
this expectation is one OF the supports on
which the assertion that Hayes will be de-
clared elected has to rest.
In Florida the case differs somewhat
through the addition to the people OF that
State of a considerable body of naturalized
citizens, Cubans by birth, who have been
driven to Our shores by the civil war in that
Island, and who have settled in Florida,
where they can most conveniently pursue
the manufacture OF tobacco, to which they
were trained at home. A great effort has
been made by the Administration to enlist
these Cubans in support of the Republican
candidates., and one among them, a man
who had fed from the city Of New York on
account of crimes in which he had been
detected here, such as fraud and forgery,
was appointed to office by Gen. Grant.
and was nominated as a Republican candi-
date for Congress. But this attempt to Sc
duce the Cubans failed. They know too
well the unfriendly conduct OF the Repub-
lican party toward their native country: and
they have voted for the Democratic candi-
dates. A large proportion Of native citi-
Zens have also voted With them, and the re-
suit is a solid Democratic majority in the
State. This, however, Mr.. Gould and Mr..
Chandler likewise propose to reverse; and
every application of bribery and fraud will
be attempted to effect this purpose. because,
unless they can succeed in it, Hayes can not
be declared elected.
This, then. is the sum Of the case. There
are three disputed States. To declare
Hayes elected he must have the votes of
them all, but Tilden is elected by the vote
of any one of them. This renders the
problem of Gould and Chandler difficult.
II HY,t n,o Nta+a yraro in ic,nr,+n fh1;r ,,-o
cess would be more practicable: but to car
~ all three, through fraud, is a much more
troublesome scheme.