The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-11-18

The Returning Board Deter
mined To Force Matters.
Text Of the Stirring and Patriotic Answer
of the Democratic Delegation to the
Republican Delegations Note Re.
Iusing a Conference.


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NEW ORLEANS, November 1.-THE
,ituni.n here e. unchanged. The
Demoeuls have carusd the state b,
1000 majority on the state ticket.
Three It,dcn clecior, have majority
OF 1000, and five lilden electors have
@ majority Of over 5000, This is ow-
ing to The nct That the names Of
live OF the Hayes electors
were not printed on Republi.
can tickets ia four parishes. The Re-
turning Board met yesterday aud re.
organized, ylccung Madison Wells
president They propose to count in
She Uayy4 electors and the entire Re.
puuIwn icI,et, aai win do i'm spite
OF the Northern sentiment or oppoi-
lion here, roere Is intense excite.
meat here but suppressed The inn
pro~siou ia that the Northern Demos
Gratis WON stand it. RAW.
NEw ORLEANS, November 1.-THE
following explains Itself:
TO tho uonoublcs John sherman, Stanley
Matthews, james \. Garfield, ". y. Kelly,
John \. kass,n, E. W. stoughton &. IT.
win pity, j II. Van Allen, Eugene HElc,
N, =. Quay, William CumOHci, II. f.
Noyes dob T.. stevenson, John Coburn,
/. Wallace, John futile, VI, \, McGrow,
j. 4. Chapman, ". Il smith, AbuCr ray-
Tor, j, r. Havon, j. NJ. Bonrdsley, e, H..
rnrweu, CORTLAND Parker, sidney Clark
&c. Wilson;
GENTLEMEN We are in receipt OF
yours 10 our letter ot the llth inst, in
which you inform IA of your determi.
nation not to confer with Us for the
purpose Of exciting such Influence a-
we may possess in behalf Of such u
canvass Of the votes actually cast ut
iNu recent election in Louisiana rs 10y
iie fairness ana imPdftiuIlty shall com
maud the acqu'esccucc and respect O
all pu;tioa We sincerely reEre this
| failure of chr attempt to secure the 60
operation % all the citizens rom othe
states IN The iurtherance Of the pun
pose which, rs we supposed, hat
brought them hither ut this juncture
! We regret il all the more because you
refusal to confer and cooperate will
us appears to be based upon n serious
lnisapprehensiOn of the language nc
less than the spirit of our communities
ton. IL can hardly have escaped
your notice that our statement OF the
result to he obtained by the cooperative
action which we sought to bring about
was simple reproduction OF the lang
uage Of President Grant, Mt whose re-
quest We understand you are here, in
his recent order to General Sherman.
That language was deliberately, used
no doubt. In the act about which, as we
conceive there can be no dispute,
the first and most essential perqniste
To nm honest and just declaration of
iheresults of the recent election in
Louisiana is fair aud impartial can
vGss of the votes actually cast. And
Il seems to Us that you do the president
great injustice in surprising that he
speal,Iug UrvoteS actually cast, he meant
to include votes illegally east, ns you
certainly do us injustice 10y the
jpputation of n desire to insist
uppn so narrow aud vicious an
interpretation. In our judgement
the expression Of votes actually
east, Of necessity desguate4 votes le-
gally cast, and AS II consequence OF
such votes only, did we desire to Sc
cure fair and impatIal canvass. we
beg leave to say therefore, that you
ara mistaken in the BELLE
that we sought ,uudulY to narrow the
basjs on which we invited your co
lucrative action; aud you are no less IN
error In attributing 10 us purpose IL
interfere with the llgally constituted
authorities OF this state In the dis
charge of their duties-to claim rights
md tn arrogHte to ourselves powers
winch we do not possess. In Writing
our letter we were fully aware tha
hoth tho organization and the action
whether judicial or ministerial, OF thu
Returning Board of Louisiana wer'
b,yond any authoritive control from
without, and that 1t would be TN
heiyht of arrogance and folly to at
tamnt to alter the laws Of Il State o
which we are not citizens, or to obtrud
our Interpretation OF these laws upoi
those whose duty 1t is to administe
them; but we had supposed, never
,heless. that there was an In
auance which might be right
fullv exered even b citizens of thi
,eu1blic who are strangers in thI
state. and we had taken II for granite
that your presence here in response /
the suggestion of the president was
recognition OF this fact, We ha
snpnosed that it was not improper fc
no In remind the authorities OF tn
state by our mere presence at leas
that there are certain rules Of fairnei
md Justice which underlie all const
utIons and laws, and upon who's
observance must depend the acqule
/. oence Of the people OF all parties 9