The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-09
PROPHECIES FULFILLED.

An able metropolitan exchange III
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 he
publicans have ioreshadowcd. Three
weeks before election day the following
prophecy issued forth from the st.
Louis Jail, where the Republican editor
of the GloJc- Democrat was then confined
for whisky thieving
No man lectcd by the process re-
sorted to by the Democrats of South
Carolina will ever be allowed to take his
scat as President of the United States.
This is our deliberate judgment.
Two weeks before election day James
G Blaine in speech at Buffalo, pre-
dicted Tilden's election in case New
York went Democratic and then, turn
ing to his Republican auditors, asked
win you allow him 10 be inausurated
in that cventY
Two weeks before election day Sena.
tor Newton Booth, of California, in the
course OF u talk with a reporter of the
San Francisco Chronicle said
In tho way matters stand at present,
in case the final declaration of the
choice for President depended upon the
acceptance of tho vote of one or more
of the Southern States to which troops
had been sent, the House would inevi-
tably refuse TO allow it to be counted in,
and an appeal to force would be neces'
sary in order to settle the matter
Reporter--What do you mean by
force2
Senator Booth-Physical force--wsr
" think il is remarkably for
tunate for the country that we have a
Republican President who is also com
man ler.in chief of the army, so that in
the event Of any serious complications
the Government has Mt its head man
who will see it protected. There are a
good many reasons why tho Democrats should
not Be suffered 10 gain control Of he Govern
p1snt.
Two weeks before election day Mr.,
Mura. Halstcad, editor of the strongest
Republican newspaper in the West, and
close personal friend of Mr. Hayes,
venturcd on prophetic ground. His
language was so remarkable that we
reproduced it here:
If New York should happen TO 60
Democratic the probability is that there
would he disposition on the part of the
| Republicans to throw out tho voice OF
those Southern States which were car.
ried for rilden by tho intimidation OF
the blacks. | have heard the sugges
ton made that IL would be moral PERU.
ry in Vice.President Ferry and Presi
dent Grant if they should consent to
allow the electoral vote of States to bc
cast for the restoration of the Southern
Cunlederacy, when they knew that q
majority OF the people of those States
had been practically disfranchised, and
when they had in their hands the legal
proof Of that fact.
Nov, il tho presidential elcciio ion
should turn upon tho votes of say
Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, or
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
tho declarations of Republican Senators,
for Mr.. Ferry, acting vice'president, to
assume the entire responsibility Of
counting the electoral votes. The
House will not of course, consent to
this The next thing is the position OF
President Grant Grant i, the com.
mander.in chief of the army and navy
of the United Staies The very practi
cal question would arise whether he
would sustain Mr., Ferry in the Senate,
imagine that the weight of inference ia
that he would, Perhaps he would do
it by proclamation. That is what in the
Spanish. American republics are called
pronunciamientos The situation will be
exceedingly difficult, il not hazardous.
Trouble would come upon us in more
dangerous shape than it did sixteen
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miasma in the political ait"
The Sun, in commenting on these
paragraphs remarks that at the time of
their utterancc these Vaccinations were
generally regarded o, tho voicings Of
demagoey or Of folly. In the light Of
subsequent events they ehov that two
months ago the leaders Of tho office.
holding party had already determined
upon desperate programme in case of
defeat OF the polls. Whatever the
result Of the election, they were not to
b disturbed in the enjoyment of peace
and power. To retain place and power,
they were prepared to resort, il mecca.
sary, to Mexican methods.
" will bs seen that the programme
OF the oonspira,ors, 40 indicated by
Senator Booth and more explicitly by
Mr., Halstsad. has been carried out thus
Tor to the letter. After all questions Of
faotof legality, Of constitutionality, Of
policy, and Of moral right have been
exhausted, the issue ia borrowed down
TO question of troops. Senator Booth
expressed his satisfaction that the
MILITARY power was in ths Aaads Of .