The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-20
Election Notes.

1fyou want to know the result of the cleo
| just go to headquarters and you will find
doubt.-Boston Advertiser.
The New Orleans Bulletin, a violently
| Democratic paper, admits that if the colored
| people of Louisiana voted the Republican
ticket the correctness of the estimates of the
Republlcan committee cannot be disputed.
at the recent state election in New York
two constitutional amendments were adopted
taking the prisons and canals out of politics.
This is decidedly the best result of the New
York election.
1t would be dificnt to decide which is us
ing the more incendary and reckless language
at present, the southern or the northern Dem
ocratlc press. One class reads as II il were
edited by George Francis Train and the other
by Daniel Pratt.-Nelo York Tribune.
The impartial voters of Coal township,
Perry county, Ohio, last week, Tuesday, dis.
tributed their ballots for presidential candi-
dates in the proportion of 1877 votes for Peter
Cooper, 1866 votes for Mr.. Tilden, and 164
votes for Mr.. Hayes.
Peter Cooper's banner county seems to
have been Butler of Kentucky. The vote
there stood 449 for Tilden and 44S for Cooper.
The citizens of the county think they are en-
titled to branch Cooper Institute, and they
seem to be justified in their faith.
Philadelphia seems to have produced the
genuine centennial voter. His name is Phil
ip Sheppard, he is one hundred and two
years old, and he lives in the fourteenth ward
of the Quaker City, where he, his grandson
and his greatgrandson all voted for Hayes
last week Tuesday.
The Democratic plan of counting the vote
seems to have been this: "Don't wait for
any returns but manufacture figures enough
to establish plausible claim. Then if the
actual returns don't agree with the figures
basis is secured upon which to shout
"fraud" till the last minute.
The term "Bulldozers," which is 50 vari-
ously printed in the New Orleans dispatches
is the name applied to an organization of
armed white men, whose ostensible business
it is TO keep the negroes from stealing the
cotton crop. On election day, however, the
"Buldozers" go cunning for negroes who
manifest disposition to vote the Republican
tickes.
The high moral tone of the Democratic
party crops out continually. The New York
correspondent OF the Cincinnati Enquire
telegraphs to that paper: "The Democrat
leaders here claim to have made satisfactory
arrangements with Pinchbeck, the mullato
leader of Louisiana, whose influence is said
| to be paramount with the two negro members
of the Returning Board. There is beam of
| light for the Democracy from this opening"
1t looks more like beam of darkness.
1t cannot be too frequently impressed on
the public mind that, if the conduct of elec-
tions in the south is to be made the subject of
complaint, the only party which has right
to complain is the Republican. The sixteen
Southern states owe almost soly to negro en-
franchisement the possession of the twenty
one votes added TO their representation in the
electoral college by the appointment of 1871.
In most of these states the Democracy WELD
this additional power, while virtually disfran-
chising the element to whose admission the
franchise was due.-Ne,o York Times.
If elected at all, Mr.. Tilden was elected by
the Southern white vote, which has intimi-
dated the Southern Republican vote, with
that Of the two great cities where the Demo-
cratic majority is made up of the ignorant
un-American vote, and where fraud abounds.
We deny that as against the overwhelming
vote of New England, of the West and Noreh-
west, of Pennsylvania and the entire rural
part of New York, such an alliance, although
| it may cast lawful majority of votes, repre-
| sents in any true sense the country, or that
defeat by such an alliance proves that the Re
| publican party has indeed lost the confidence
of what is Justly to be called the country.
| George w. Curtis.
Mr.. Robert Colston, of Jersey City flights
| is a voter whose pame is well worthy of mem
tion. A few days prior TO the election he
a. xubi Tod tJ,.
amputation of his left arm. As soon as the
operation was over he began to display the
| most intense anxiety lest he should not be
allowed to 60 over to jersey City, he being
| at that time in st. Luke's Hospital, New
| York. and vote for Hayes and Wheeler. He
| repeatedly gave expression to his anxiety, and
| at length the attending physician promised
that if he would be quiet until election day he
| should be taken to his voting place and al
| lowed to cast his ballot On election morn
| ing he was placed in carriage and carefully
driven to his home in Jersey City. He cast
his vote and then returned to the hospital,
| where he is still confined, fortunately none
the worse for his trip.
Tho conservative and well-informed South
ern correspondent OF the Cincinnati CONNER
cial telegraphs to that paper from New Orle-
ans that Tilden's hopes all hang on Florida,
as Louisiana will certainly be counted for
Hayes by majority not less than 1,100. This
will be done, he says, by throwing out the
vote of the five intimidated parishes, and
adds: Thousands of individual affidavits
from these parishes, setting forth fully the
facts of intimidation, have already been filed.
The board will consider them, and take all
the facts carefully into consideration. They
will also bear oral testimony, and go for the
bottom facts. The black registered vote of
Louisiana is more than 10000 in excess of the
white registered vote. After making all al
lowances for errors and black Democrats, it
is plain that the state is Republican on fair
vote. The Democrats only have the majority
because they revolutionized five parishes by
intimidation. This will be so frlly and con-
clusivey set out before the Returning Board
that there can be no doubt of the result"
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