Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-02-15
The Progress of the Count.

| III TIE house. DeinOcTate DitleTiy ute
nounced il and talked as if they would
not abide by it. On the Democratic
side there is a member named Nathan
T. Carr, of Indiana, who was one of
the few of that party who voted
against the compromise" After lis
tening some time to the abuse his
fellows, who had favored the compro-
mise, heaped upon the Commission,
he said;
He doubted not that under the pail
pable facts and Governors certificate.
Florida should have been returned for
Tilden; but he held that the Demo
cratic majority had no moral right to
complain that the commission render
ed partisan decision for Hayes.
Though this decision was contrary
to the facts and the will of the people,
yet the wrong is chargeable further
back than the commission namely,
on those who established this partisan
| tribunal. When the Democratic na-
iority of the House adopted this law,
with the full knowledge that the ma
iority of the commission would be Re-
publican, governed by Republican
/ Judge, called by Republican interests.
warped by Republican bias, and NOV
ed by Republican motives, they delib.
erately abandoned every claim which
the democratic masses asserted to the
the control of our national affairs.
The commissioners have done no
more nor less than what could or
should have been expected or requir-
ed of them. You erected political
tribunal, invested it with political at
tributes, and gave it political
questions to determine which it has
settled from a political standpoint Its
members being Republicans, they be-
lieved that the Republican candidate
for the Presidency was and ought to
be elected. In making their declar-
alton, that they have been true and
loyal in their political sentiments,
education and associations, no legal
wrong can attach to them; but when
you Democrats deliberately put such
power over such questions in the
hands of a tribunal so constructed,
you committed a bold and daring
wrong to your pretended political
friends, and assuredly to your political
associates, whose political sentiments
and rights you betrayed and abandon
ed to your political adversaries; and
| rise to remind the Democratic ma
jority that in common 2ecency your
votes on this measure have
estopped you from INDUCING in one
word of criticism against the decision
of that tribunal it is your own child ;
you brought it into being you gave
it life and power and you alone are
responsible for the result. 1t is no ex-
cuse for you that you did not antici-
pate such result; that you expected
higher and better things from your
founding. You had no more right
to expect tribunal so constituted TO
produce a different result than to ex-
pect thorn bush to bring forth figs
nor will so weak an apology save you
from the just condemnation which
Iyour betrayed an d outraged
; constituency will forever heap upon
your treacherous heads. daughter
and applause.)
Here, then, in the name OF the Dem
ocracy of the whole country, absolve
that commission from all charges save
it may be, that of an honest mistake
and in the name of the same great
power / denounce the majority oil
this House as being responsible fol
this wrong, and for being recreant-
ignorantly and corruptly recreant--
to the confidence which has been re-
posed in them. and faithless to the
trusts confided to them. applause
This was an unmeroiful scoring Of
his Democratic brethren. The Ian.
guage shows sturdy honesty in Carr.
He believed Tilden was elected and
he would not join in compromise
even though the appearances were
that it would give him his choice. i
there should come decision by the
commissioners Objectionable to thu
Republicans the same language would
be applicable to them, in the Senate.
A "eompromise" is process for put
ting Oft the evil day, and the longer
il is put off the worse it is for those
who are engaged in it So far the
count looks favorable for the liepnb
licans
When Florida was disposed of IL
the joint meeting on Monday, Other
States were taken up in alphabetical
order. Georgia was counted ii votes
for Tilden. Illinois was counted p
votes for Hayes. Indiana was counted
Is votes for Tilden. Iowa was count.
ed IL votes and Kansas votes fol
Hayes. Kentucky was counted IL
votes for Ti,1en. The next cartifi
cate opened was that of Louisiana. The
first one was that of the Hayes electors
certified by Governor Kellogg. The
second one was for the Tilden Elec,
tors, certified by McEnery. 4 third
one was opened certifying eight Elcc
tors and every one of them named
John Smith. The members of the re
turning Board who made it were alst
named John Smith and the Governor
aud Secretary of State who certified
10 it were John Smiths. The candi
dates for whom they voted were
Cooper and Carey. It's reading pro.
voked much merriment. A long lis
| of objections to these certificates were
presented, and the Senate withdrew
| This is the state of the count at the
close of proceedings on Monday Il
may take a long time to settle the