New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-23
SOmo ThipGp Well Settled.

While the contest over the presidential
result remains undetermined, certain facts
and conclusions can not be too strongly en-
forced
/. Upon their own showing the friends Of
Mr.. Tllden have no hope of his success save
in the unquestioned acceptance of the re-
ported vote in the disputed Southern States
without any scrutiny of its character.
Whether 1t is manifestly fraudulent or not,
they insist that it must be counted. Whether
ther ia the most conclusive evidence of III
timidation or not, they insist that it shall
not be reviewed. 1t is not certain that
even upon their own pan of denying any
inquiry into the fraudulent Element OF the
vote they could succeed-there may not
have been enough fraud to change the re-
salt. But it is reasonably certain, by their
strenuous urgency on this point, that with
such an inquiry they have no hope Of sue
cess. They stand arrayed to-day against
any scrutiny of the vote.
2 The law uh9uestiOnab'y invests the
Returning Board OF Louisiana ard Of the
other disputed States with tie authority
which tie Democrats so vehemently resist.
We have quoted the provisions. They are
now f. millar TO the public mind. They ex-
plicitly direct the board TO inquire into
facts which destroyed the purity and free.
dom of the election end TO throw out any
this any longer ID TO contest what is clearly
established. The Democratic position rests
upon " nat they want the law to be and not
upon what the law is.
3. The power possessed and exercised
under this law must be used with q full
sense OF responsibility to public opinion.
If it be abused, the party temporarily
protiting by it will suffer. Any wrong on
the part of the returning boards will recoil,
just like any wrong at the ballot box,
Whatever action they take must have tie
clear warrant of fact and right. If the
Democratic party is injured in public
esteem by it's plain frauds in the election,
SO would the Republican party be injured
by any abuses in the returning boards
4, 1t is vital that the true and honest re-
suit of the election, whatever it is, shall be
firmly and uncompromisingly enforced.
There is no &c nse and no manhood in the
impul,o which wonld yield anything of
right for the sake of avoiding any appre
hended trouble. That would be the surest
way of bringing on trouble-troutls now
and trouble through all the future. Let it
once be understood that, by the threat of
disturbance, defeated party can make a
successful party surrender what it has
fairly won, and there would be DO end Of
conflict.
S. The declaration of the result fairly
made in accordance with law will be re-
speoted and carried out. All threat OF re-
sistauce is mOonshine. There is no Buchanan
now in the presidential chair. There are
no FIoyds and Cobbs in the Cabinet. There
are no Twiggs in the army. So long as
General Grant is the nations executive the
law will be enforced, and the men who are
vaporing SO loudly will never throw them
selves against the nations arm upheld by
that firm and intrepid leader. Never fear.
These are plain facts and obvious con-
illusions. They point to an honest count,
fair declaration and full acceptance OF the
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