The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-01
The Southern Representatives
not Responsible for the
Eight-by-Seven.
One Manly Inference from Mr.. Tllden,
In November, Would Have Placed
Him nc the Head OF the
Government.
The Democracy Of the North Taken 10
Task for Accepting ExpedienCles
agreeable to their District and
for Want Of Nerve,
special TO The Herald


Special TO Tho Herald
CoRsIcANA, March 81, According
to previous announcement, Colonel
Roger Q. Mills spoke here to-day to a
large audience, filling the OperahOuse
to its utmost capacity. His speech
was enthusiastically received, and was
cheered vociferously throughout.
Having been introduced Colonel Mills
said:
Fellow citizens;
After tho election In Indiana In
October had satisfied the Republican
leaders that their party would be over
whelmed with defeat In November,
they, for the first time, announced the
right OF the vice president to open the
certificates, count the votes and de-
clare the result Of the presidential
election. II they adhered to the line
OF precedents established at the Begin
ming and followed throughout the his
tory OF the government the will OF the
people, express ed ut the ballot box,
would 10 carried into execution, and
the administration OF the government
would be committed to the hands of
the Democratic party. This result
they did not intend 10 permit, II they
could prevent 1t without u resort To
force. The most plausible plan to
prevent 1t, and to retain the govern
mont in spite Oh the people, was to
cover their treason with a mask of as
sumed constitutional right In the vice
president, one of the chosen conspra-
tors, to open the certificates from the
governors, count the votes as sent and
aggregate the same, and declare the
result, The execution OF this conspir.
acy was deemed to be entirely safe,
because II was all In their own hands.
In the execution Of this most sacred
power, oonlded to him as they held,
he was not permitted to instituteany In
quiry or hear charges OF any frauds,
but strics and religious regard for
the rights of tho States demanded
that their certificates should be- held
infallible. 1t had been arranged by
the oonspirators that these certificates
should come from Chamberlain,
S'earns and Packard for Hayes, either
by fair means or foul, This whole
plan, IL must be evident to every man
who is not blind, was to flank
Democratic House Of Representatives.
If the House Of Representatives was
to pass On the electoral vote In
conjunction with the Senate, as II had
done ever since Washington was
inaugurated, tho conspiracy would
prove miserable abortion. Therefore,
it was essential, In the arrangement of
the plan, that everything Democratic
should be carefully avoided. The
frauds were to be shaped and formed
by the Infamous Radical returning
boards In South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana. They were to be submitted
to and inspected and approved by the
Infamous Radical governors OF those
States, held over the people by
military violence, and certified by
them to the vice president. SO sacred
YVES the reverence for the rights of the
States by this party that they would
not permit the vice president
to entertain any charges Of
fraud against these certificates i'm
pressed with the great seal of the
sovereign States! Such was the plan
to overthrow the constitution and
laws, formed by Edmunds, and Blaine
and Morton and Chandler, with whom
the president was in perfect accord.
On the 7th OF November the election
came off, and Tilden and Hendricks
were elected president and vice presi-
dent Of the United States. In the
largest popular vote over given by two
million, they received over quarter
OF million majority. OF three hun
dred aud sixty-nine electoral votes,
they received one hundred and ninety.
six, aud Hayes and Wheeler one hun
bred and seventy-three. The Repub
lican press not in the o0unsels of the
conspirators, yielded the election. The
New York Tribune conceded Mr..
Tilden one hundred and ninety-six
votes. The London Times came out
and forecast the administration OF
President Tilden. Mr.. Chandler, the
secretary Of the interior, was In New
York with his confederates, as we
learn from the public prints, where he
could have easy access to the ears OF
the gold Kings, wl.o have had, this gov
eminent by the throat ever since the
Inauguration Of Grant. From the
price asked by Wells for his perfor-
nance in Louisiana, 1t required
money as well as loyalty to party, to
make the conspiracy q success. On
the Sth of November Mr.. Chandler
telegraphed Mr.. Morrill,. secretary OF
the Treasury, that Louisiana had
undoubtedly gone Republican, and at
the same time the associated press
dispatches from the same city, says,
"Cdaious Republicans claim Hayes
election, and they count on Louisiana
AMI Florida"
All the rest Of the world was In an
agony Of doubt to know how Louis
lana and Florida had gone till Decem
Der, yet Chandler and his co-co1spira
tors knew In New York the morning
after the election, and on the mex
morning the 9th he knew, and the as
ISOLATED press agent at New Yort
knew the whole result, for, OF
the 9th he telegraphs tina
"Hayes has one hundred ant
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