The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-11-19
A FAIR REPLY,

One i, V. Smallcy, II writer of some
note for the New York 7ubmc, has
taken it upon himself to PROFOUND n
few leading questions to the Philadel-
phia Times being in substance ms fol-
lows: /
Suppose the Presidency should hang
upon the vote of Louisiana
Suppose ii should prove true, as Ill |
legged, that in two or three of the old
ku.klux parishes tho Republican vote
was wholly wiped out by the practice
of the Mississippi plan"
Suppose the Returning Board, eXer-
cising the power it unquestionably pos
sesses under the laws of Louisiana,
should throw out the vote OF those
counties.
Suppose tho result of such action
should be to give the electoral vote OF
the State to Hayes and thus make him
the legally chosen President OF the
United States.
What are you going to advise your
Democratic friends to do about il?
The able editor of the Times does not
hesitate to reply to these intewogato'
ries--that reply we subjoin, commend
ing it to tho careful perusal of our
readers.
"The answer to Mr. Smalleys several
interrogatories is very simple, and we
give it in a single paragraph
If such number of legal voters OF
Louisiana, who desired to vote for presi-
dent, rs would clearly give the electoral
vote of tho State to Hayes upon an hon.
est return, and thus make himthe legal
ly chosen president ofthe UnitcdStates, u
have been forcibly restrained from vo-
ting, the country would cordially sus-
tain the lawful correction of the return
and the right of Hayes to the Office.
lie who would attempt revolution in
such case would be Justly cxocratod by
every patriotic citizen,
But, when the vote of Louisiana is
coniessedly honestly returned as il was
actually voted as is the case with the
returns which give the State to Tilden
by from eight to ten thousand majority,
there must be absolutely credible, CON
elusive and lawful evidence to set aside
legal return and confront pop
ular majority of three hundred
thousand of tho American people
The Kellogg return board did, in
1872, just what Mr. Smalley suggests
that it may do now. 1t fabricated
thousands of aflidavits of unknown
and not even living blacks, and on II
foundation of falsohood and perjury
reared the frauds which II Repubica l
United States Senate rejected, unde,
the lead of Edmunds, who declared
theHi " ohWiio upun NlNlllNWlluU, anu
which republican house revolteC
against when it elected from their seat
the creatures who bore Kellogg's con
mission
The same return board repeated tn,
suggestion of Mr., Smalley in 1874, re
jected the Democratic legislators hon
estly chosen, and certified in like per
jury and fraud, tho election of ma
jority Of Kelloggs dependents. Again
arepublican congress revs|ted, and Mr.
VIM. A, Wheeler, now republican can
didate for vice-presidcnt, was ono of
committee that visited the State oilici
ally, examined into the Kellogg return
board frauds, found them to DO utterly
without even plausible pretext and he
was tho author OF tho "Whecler com.
promise" by which he drove the pro
tenders from their seats with their
} fraudulent certificates, and seated a
majority OF Democrats because they
were "the legally chosen" members.
With what painfully prophetic Ian.