The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-01-13
Prophecies FULFILLED.

PROPHECIES FULFILLED.
An ABLE metropolitan exchange, in
speaking of the conspiracy to deprive
the people of the Republic of the'right
to choose their President, recalls some
of the prophecies which prominent Re.
pnblicans have foreshadowed. Three
weeks before election day the following
prophecy issued forth from the St,
Louis jail, where the Republican editor
of the Gl0be-Demoerat was then consned
for whisky thieving:
No man elected by the process re-
sorted to by the Democrats of South
Carolina will ever be allowed To take his
seat ~ President of the United States.
This IS our deliberate Judgment.
| Two weeks before election day James
6, Blaine, in a speech at Buffalo, nre-
iicted Tilden's election in case New
York went Democratic, and then, turn
ing to his Republican auditors, asked,
viii you allow him 10 be inaugurated
in thai event p
Two weeks before elecsion day Sena-
tor Newton Booth, of California, in the
course Of talk with reporter of the
San Francisco cArosicis, said:
In the way matters stand at present.
in case the final declaration Of the
choice for President depended upon the
| acceptance OF the vote of one or more
| of the Southern States to which troops
had been sent, the House would inevi-
tably refusa to allow it to be counted in.
and an appeal 10 force would be neces-
sary in order 10 settle the matter.
Reporter--What do you mean by
| torce2
Senator Booth-Physical force-war.
Think 1t is remarkably for
tunate for the country that we have a
| Republican President who is also com
mander-in chief ofthe army, so that in
the event of any serious complications
the Government has at its head man
who will see it protected There are a
good margreasons s0hy he Democrats should
not Be suffered to gam co,tro9 Of The Govern
mSJaf
Two weeks before election day Mr.
Mara. Halstead editor of the strongest
Republican newspaper in the West, and
a.elose personal friend of Mr. Hayes,
ventured on prophetic ground His
language was so remarkable that we
reproduced it here
IF New York should happen to go
Democratic, the probability is that there
would be disposition on the part of the
Republicans TO throw ont the voice of
those Southern States which were car
ried for Tilden by the intimidation OF
the blacks. ] have heard the sueges-
ton made that it would be moral PERU.
rs'in Niee-President Ferry and Presi-
dent Grant il they should consent to
allow the electoral vote of States to be
cast for the restoration Of the Southern
Confederaey. when they knew that a
majority OF the people of those States
had been practically disfranchised, and
when they had in their hands the legal
proof of that fact
Now, if the presidential election
should turn upon the votes of say
4 Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida. OF
Louisiana, it would be impossible to
avoid a desperate dispute between the
two legislative Houses OF the govern
ment. The way is already prepared by
the declarations of Republican Senators
for Mr.. Ferry, acting viee-president, to
assume the entire responsibility oi
counting the electoral votes The
House will not, of course, consent to
this. The next thing is the position oi
President Grant. Grant is the com
inander-inehief of the army and navy
of the United States. The very practi
cal question would arise whether he
would sustain Mr.. Ferry in the Senate
imagine that the weight of inference is
that he would. Perhaps he would dc
it by proclamation, That is what in the
Spanish-ADerican republics are called
pronasciamientos. The situation will bt
exceedingly difficult. if not hazardous
Trouble would come upon us in a more
i dangerous shape than it did sixteen
years ago. THERE'S sort of Mexican
miasma in the political air"
The Son, in commenting on these
paragraphs, remarks that at the time oi
their utterance these Vaccinations were
generally regarded as the yoicings ol
demagogy or of folly. In the light o.
subsequent events they show that two
months ago the leaders Of the office
holding party had already determined
Upon desperate programme in case o.
defeat at the polls. Whatever ths
result of the election, they were not tc
be disturbed IN the enjoyment of peace
and power. To retain place and power
they were prepared TO resort, if neces-
sary, to Mexican methods.
1t viii be seen that the programme
of the eonsfirators, as indicated by
Senator Booth and more explicitly by
Mr.. Halstead. has beer carried out thu,
far TO the letter. After all questions oi
TACT, t,of legality, of constitntionality, O.
policy. and of moral right have beer
exhausted. the issue is narrowed down
to question of troops. Senator Booth
expressed his satisfaction that the
military power was in the hands of q
man who would not hesitate to employ
it. The conspirators counted upon this
even before the election. From the
very FIRST the success Of the audacioul
scheme has depended upon his Mexican
habits OF thought. his carelessness o.
| civil law, his dogged fidelity to the
Einserests Of friends and favorites. Gran,
is main-stay of the conspiracy.
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TE1As has the railroad mania, the
Stateis being gridironed with railroads
Luckily there Is method IN the ms MIA