Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-11-23
THE PRESIDENCY.
W. p. Frye's opinion Of the
Louisiana Returning
Board.
0HlO DEMOCRATS IN COUNCIL
Chamberlain Declared Governor
of South Carolina,

LEWISTON, November -. C,I- tc.su.an FIyc,
a member of the Louisiana investigating commit
tee of 1873, publishes communication in the
Lewiston journal, in which he says that his COM
mittee did not condemn the Louisiana returning
board for any fraudulent act or want of fairness,
but that on the contrary the evidence convinced
committee that the members of the board had not
| erred in their findings of fact. The committee
simply found that the board had made mistake
in their construction of the law as to their right
to investigate alleged violence and frauds where
the fact of such violence fraud had not been
certified by the supervisors of the election. Mr..
Frye speaks in high terms of the members of the
| board and says from his knowledge of them he
only fears that in their desire TO escape even the
suspicion of Partially to the republicans they
| will lean too much to the other side.
COLUMBUS, November ~. The Democratic
State Central Committee aud number of repre-
sentative democrats, from various counties in the
State, met here to-day for consultation. The fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That Patriotism demands of every
| good citizen spirit of ready acquiescence in the
result of the Presidential election fairly ascer-
| tanned, and we deprecae all partisan feeling in
| the discussions OF fact and law on which that re-
| suit depends.
| hcsOlNeu, nat IL Is uue 10 the people, and II
| is indispensable to the preservation of free gov
eminent that the President shall not be chosen by
| fraud or force. We appeal to the officers
| charged with canvassing the vote and making re
turns to allay public apprehension and suspicion
| by open and impartial action, thus commanding
the cordial acquiescence of the American PEOPLE,
but sdmonished by past action of the present re-
| turning board in Louisiana that such returns
may be falsely and fraudulently made. We de-
mand Of the Senate and House of Representa-
tves to exert if necessary the constitutional pow
| ers vested in them jointly or severay to the end
| that whoever has been fairly chosen by the peo-
pie should be dec AIRED and inaugurated President
OF the United States.
| Resolved, That we regard the concentrating Of
the regular army at Washington, by the president,
on the eve of the assembling of Congress, as an
act calculated to throw discredit upon the DISPOSE
| ton of the people to obey the law and submit to
the results of the presidential election as legally
ascertained and eXcites unnecessary alarm as to
the stability of the republic, thereby mperilling
peace at home and public credit abroad.
| Resolved, That we recommend to the Demo-
cratic Central Committee of the State to cores
| pond and confer with other State democratic
committees of the country. with view to a full
| understanding of the facts and perfect concert
of action in maintaining the rights of the people
in the late presidential election as determined by
the proper legal authorities.
Speeches endorsing the resolutions were made
by Thos Ewing, George III. Pendeton, and 9TH
erS.