New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-21

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WASHINGTON, December ls, 1876.
If positive dsclasaaious settls asything.
the Democrats have certainly daAnitely ar
rived ct solution Of tho Presidential mud
die. While Democratic 6enatoss openly
sxpress their ignorance Of the State lavs in
the ''doubtful States" governing "retuxas
ing boafds" and the nodus operandi by
which Presidential electors ere chesen in
these States, they 70 on making positive
ASSURANCES that the Returning Board Of
Louialans, the State canvassers In South
Carolina and Florida, are blinded in
judgment by party zeal, and are thor
oughly dishonest mon. They win not ad-
nit that there has been . single case of IL
timidation in any of the above States. In
the face Of facts piled upon facts showing
that the old seek ssiOn element in those
States has resorted to murder and every
o:hsr strocity to put down Republican,.
white and black, they stoutly maintain that
there is no moro trouble in casting Repuo-
licsn vote in Louisiana, Mississippi, South
Carolina and Florida, than there 10 in
Massachusetts,.
The Democratic House Of Representative
vestigate tho recent election trouble. The
House believed that such committees was
all that was nec0sary, and counted upon .
WITHDRAWING report signed by . majority
OF Democrats. A Republican Senate hes
forestAlied this little game, and committees
Of that body "~iil be there to see."
Since this has been done the Democrats
arc proclaiming that ''there 10 less spirit of
an exasperating character" prevailing
among their political associates. They cay
that they are now ut work to settle the
presidential question pacifically and consti.
tutionally. People of too confiding nature
may catch 1t this bait, but while it 10 not
yet too late they mag rest assured that the
object Of such Democratic proaunciamien-
toes II for the purpose Of prejudicing the
public mind in regard to the reiteration Of
truthful Republican documents which viii
again be presented when the Senatorial
committees return from the South.
The greatest game Of political "possum
blsyipg" yet developed ID now being partic.
ipsted in By soma prominent Southern
statesmen in Congress. Men like Ben
Hin, of Georgia, Lamar, Of Mississippi;
John Young Brown, Of Kentucky, and
other rampant ex.Confedeates, Gro try.
ing to keep Northern Democrats, of the
Fernando Wood stripe, and hot-headed
Southern Congressman, who have not such
foresight and cunning - themselves, from
indiscreet utterances and revolutionary
threats, NATL tho time arrives to show their
hands. These Southern statesmen are alto
gether to free with their dvice counseling
moderation to be- sincere. There are many
| Republicans here who are not inclined to
| take into their bosoms the lamb hike pro-
Sessions Of political goodness Of these gen.
tlemen just yet.
The conservative" Republican,. term
which means weakened Republicans, or
:'on the fence" politicians, In and ont Of
Congress have received . shock. Tho 30.
lection Of Batter, Of Hamburg notoriety, az
the choice Of South Carolina Democrats for
their representative in the United STATES
Senate stsggers tho faith Of these ''conser'
natives" in peacefully inclined Southerners
amazingly. ..t
The publication Of important documents
giving educational and scientific in!orma
ton a. the result of iIq airies and studies
of government officers who deal with These
questions has been almost entirely sus
pended eince the advent Of the Democratic
House. Yet the country does not appear
| to understand this fact. Members Of Con
grees are daily besieged with letters from
their constituents requesting public docu
ments, which they have been accustomed
to receive in the past. A prominent Re
publican Representative from Illinois IN
formed me yesterday that ont Of siztee'
letters received that day twelve Of then
we're applications for public documents. b
great is this demand upon members tina
their inability to favorably answer oil re
quests of this character has induced then
to re quest the reporters to come to thei
rescue and set them right in this particula
before their constituents The Democrat
party does not now, nor has il ever believes
in making the dissemination OF usefu
knowled ge universal among our peoples
that the spread Of educational, scientln
and other statistics is very much hampere'
at present.
| It is the chief desire of the leading me-
of both political parties that in the newt
devised projects for electing Chief Msgil
trate, to place the responsibility OF pas'in
and counting the votes in the hands
some tribunal where mons Judgments n
not sxayea by their political opinions. AZ
United States Supreme Court has bee
i looked upon as the furthest off from poht
cal passion and official preferences, Of
Senator Edmunds, the father Of such
scheme. admits that all men, even member
of the highest tribunal in the land, hay
their political likes and dislikes, and wi