The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-18
LOUISIANA.

CldllC COLlAllAllOE az OnG NAOIh lilo
morning had prepared a reply to the
Republican letter of refusal. which in
substance is as follows:
They admit that they have no official
powers or right to interfere with the
internal affairs of the state Of Louisiana,
but they are here at the request of an
organization, of a great political purity,
where they meet representatives Of the
opposition selected by the President
himself for the same purpose, and as he
says in his army order, for the sake of
seeing an honest count of the votes ac-
tually cast. They assume this as the
mutual object, since the question has
become national, and they insist that
the people of the United States can only
be satisfied with a fair and honest count,
and further, that proper respect should
be paid to the fact that the people of
the United States have elected Tilden
10y u majority of over n hundred
thousand.
In reply to the statement that the
vice president has authority to count,
they take direct issue and assert that
congress itself, consisting of the senate
and house, has been solely invested with
such power; that for thirty years a pre-
cedent has established this right; the
senate invariably appointed n and the
house two t~ellers, to whom the duty has
been delegated. They emphatically
deny that the Constitution Of the United
States ever contemplated delegating
such grave and arbitrary powers to any
one individual, and that the right and
responsibility belong to congress itself.
They also deny that the returning board
of Louisiana can be safely trusted with.
the manipulation of the returns of the
election, having been already virtually
set aside twice by reports Of congression-
al committees comprised of leading rep
resentatives of both political parties,
and once by the rejection Of the officials
decided to have been elected by the
board, and the more so because the
board as at present constituted is pre-
cisely the same with but N exception,
it consisting of two U. S. officials and
candidate for Office at the late cleo
ton.
The above is more in the form Of a
protest than a letter, but the Democrats
assert their intention to appeal for and
demand a representation at the official
count, and are equally firm in the ex-
preston of their belief in the successful
issue of their efforts. 1t is very evident
that they intend to stick to the last and
will exhaust every remedy before de-
feat.
The Returning Board.
New Orleans, Nov. 1.-THE return
ing board meets again tomorrow, at
noon, and will begin business in earnest.
The members appreciate the magni-
tude of their responsibility, and say
they will do their duty fearlessly and
impartially, keeping within the strict
letter of the law, and present to the
American people a full statement of the
case.
On the face of the returns the Demo-
Gratis have a small majority; but the
board will throw ont the vote where
negroes were kept from the polls by in
timidation.
The city is very quiet to-day, and the
Republicans are confident that the
board will count in fair. There is no
doubt but what they will. Republicans
and Democrats have alike come to that
conclusion.
The Latest Aduices.
New Orleans, Nov. lit is stated
tonight, on good authority, that the
returning board, when it meets to-
morrow, will reply to the application
Of the Democratic committee, allowing
five members from each party to be
present during the ~canvassing of the
board
Business continues extremely dull,
! with no prospect of Improvement until
this present political dispute is adjusted
and the election of president conceded
by the opposing parties.
This has been the quietest day in
| New Orleans since election. On re-
ception of the answer Of the Republic
can visiting committee, yesterday af-
ternoon, the Democrats began the pre-
paration nf their reply. Several drafts
were made and discussed, but none was
adopted until late this afternoon. 1t
was delivered to the Republicans this
afternoon. The best men in both par
ties have come to the conclusion that
concert Of action between the visit lg
committees is almost out of the ques-
ton. The gentlemen who have come
from the north, are, OH the whole, as
fair and judicial in their habits as any
who belong to any party, but the ex-
element of the presidential campaign,
IN which mostly all of them were en-
gagged, has been so great, and the stake
for which both parties are now playing
on the soil of Louisiana is so large,
that u majority of them find it impossi-
BILE to forget that they are p%artisans.
The outcome of the formal c%orrespon-
dence now in progress, therefore, will
probably be that nj agreement will be
reached, but that u few representatives
of each party will be designated to re-
main and witness the count of the vote,
and that the remainder will return
home in a day or two.
The returning board will meet at
will be likely to transact will be the
election of a member to fill the va
cancy which exists. There is some
gossip afloat as to the choice to be
ma1e, but this is treated by both par
ties as II matter of Indifference.