Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-11-11
This count leaves the following

North Carolina. ...... 10 Ter nessee .... IL
se05 Tds:i i 70; TiId:n: IL Is.
That journal, the day previous,
threw up the sponge, and declared it
"highly probable Tilden was elected
with three more votes than were
required for choice" but it was
doubtless unaware of the machinery
to be employed to bring about a diff
ferent result. What these appliances
are we can form some idea from the
p, .srahme mapped out by Chandler,
the arch-conspirator, in deliberate
plot to subvert the will of the people.
If decisive majority had been given
for Mr.. Tilden-one that could not
be counted out by any subterfuge
known to their lax code of political
morals-the alternative was to have
been one more desperate, but no less
available from the horrors it would
involve and the ruin into which it
would plunge the whole country.
The question, as considered by Chan
dler, Cameron, Morton, Boutwell, and
other party leaders, was whether they
should go to the polls with Hayes, to
meet certain defeat, and try to create
a disturbance as to the result, and
count him in anyhow, or whether, re-
membering that possession is nine
points of the law, they should take
the holder course-withdraw Hayes,
substitute Grant, and with Grant and
those Northern States which cannot
be affected, but may be depended on
to 60 any lengths, precipitate the ap-
pearance of civil war in the South,
throw the whole Southern territory
under military subsection, and so
carry the Southern States by sheer
force of arms, trusting to sectional
passion to sustain them against the
unorganized and unarmed masses of
the people. The former alternative
was accepted, and we confidently be-
ieve that the devilish machinery is
now in motion to secure by usurpa-
ton what was lost by the arbitrament
of the ballot.
This is no sensational view of the
situation. The Record Union, which
is presumed to be reliable authority
on questions of Radical policy, ex-
presses the opinion that 'sin the event
of q close election, and especially of
an election turning upon the vote of
one or two of the Southern States,
there will be serious trouble. In
deed it is difficult" says that journal,
"to perceive how such o conflict of
purposes could be arranged without
q collision which must lead to meal
culably serious consequences, for
should another war be inaugurated
it would not be between the North
and South, but between the Republi-
can and Democratic parties, scattered
promiscuously through both sections,
Under the circumstances it is clear
that decisive majority on one side or
the other alone can prevent trouble;
but it is also necessary that if that ma
iority is Democratic it should be OBJ
tanned otherwise than from q solid
South, for the North will assuredly
never submit to an Administration
foisted upon it through a violent sup
preston of the colored Southern
vote. On the whole it must be con-
cluded that the only safety for the
country lies in the election of Hayes
by very decisive majority. for his
strength lies in States the vote of
which cannot be disputed by the
Democrats, and if he is elected he
will be President-which is perhaps
more than could be confidently as
serted in the case of his competitor. !"
This is plain language, and there
can be no doubt as to it's meaning. It
means war, rather than . surrender
Of the spoils Of Office. Let US hope
and pray that these bad men may be
checked in their mad career, for If .
conflict should be precipitated by
their hot-headsd course, the horrors
Of the war Of the rebellion will sink