The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-01-12
" no WILL CALL A HALT:
4 Political Opportunity that Comes to
only Few Men.

NHA>s,
in doubt than at any previous time
whether the Chandler-Sherman pro-
grnmme ueeS not mean suicide for the
party. OF course Chandler and John
Sherman and Don Cameron and the
Others who have committed themselves
and their political futures to the theory
that the President of the Senate is Il re-
turning board from whose declaration
there is no appeal cannot afford to
weaken now. There are however,
other Republican leaders who recog-
nize the folly of the desperate policy
pursued since the 9TH of November.
The question seines to he not so much
whether Il halt will be called as to how
it will be called and who will call it.
There is several leaders who could
call Halt: loud enough to bring Cham
dtcr aud the counting-in conspiracy to
Il stand still. ., ..r..a t...
Roscoe ConkliuE'S character aud i'll
t!uence are such that his present atti-
tude of watchful silence has Il good
deal of Significance. He has not yet
said Il word in public which commits
him to any part or portion of the pro-
gramme drawn up by Jay Gould ana
Zack Chandler and announced in the
Senate Chamber by John Sherman. i
The name of Judge Edmunds at tho
head OF the Senatc's quota of the Cotii-
promise Committe has encouraged
some to look for II constitutional set
tsement OF the difficulty. But he has
sufficiently proved on former occasions
that his senses may he swampcd so
deep in partisauship that only car tips
are visible.
Morton Sits beside John Sherman in
the Senate Chamber and stands elbow
to elbow with him in regard to the
powers of the President of the Senate
in the count Of the electoral vote. But
Morton's care is for Morton, and not
for Hayes, and his political agility is SO
great that Il sudden ilip-ilap may leave
! the culogist of Madison Wells stand
ing alone without tWenty-fOur hours
notice. .-
Gen. Butler, who takes II seat in the
House on 5th OF March, and who is nt
all times II power in the party, is
watched with some anxiety by the con-
spirator clique. IIehas not committed
himself further than to take Il decided
position against Sherman's assumption
that the President of the Senate has tho
counting of the vOteS-an assumption
which Gen. Butler vigorously combat
| cd in Congress as long ago as February,
! 1869, when the Georgia case was under
discussion. On account of this record,
and because he is known to have both
brains and Il talent for making himself
heard and understood, the General is IL
source of some aniety to the cOnspira-
! tors. |i. ...
| Blaine is Handicapped by the record
| Of his past transgressions. Evidence
of his jobbery is in the possession of hos
tile Republicans, AS well as of Demo-
cratic opponents. If Proctor Knott
| sta tnr ntrlv ono SiIn n,ffh h,
fence, Murat Halstead and the Bristow
men Of Boston are on tho other, and in
his present delicate position it is dam
gerous for Mr.. Blaine to antagonize
either party.
These are some of the names which
have been mentioned in connection
with the possibility of IL Republican
protest against the programme that be-
gins with Chandeliers cunning and ends
with Grants troops.
The belief gains ground that such a
protest will be made before the 14th OF
February, and that the Republican lea
der who has the bOidncss and indepen
dence to make it will not only be per-
forming IL patriotic duty, but will also
he availing himself of Il political oppor-
tunity that comes to but few men.
'sThe only thing" said Il prominent
| Republican in private conversation yes
tcrday, tthat keeps the mass OF honest
Republicans from dcnouncing this
cOuntiug-iu business aS dishonest as
well us impoiitic is tho conviction that
if the disputed States did not go Repui,-
iican they ought to have gone Republi-
can. Perfectly honest citizens who do
not reason very closely feel in a vague
sort of way that the frauds of the re-
turning boards are justiiiable because
they accomplish substantial Justice. II
Louisiana and Florida and South Caro-.
lima went Democratic, il was, these
honest Republicans believe, q result
not in accordance with tho fitness O
things. And even If Louisiana, Flori
da and South Carolina were fairly
Democratic, some other States, sa,
Mississippi and Alabama, would hav.
gone Republican if il had not been fo
intimidation, fraud or something else
Anyway, they feel morally convincc'
I that Hayes ought TO have been elected
t whether he was elected or not, and 8
they regard the action OF the rcturn,n
boards with eyes for the end rathc
than the means.
Il Lafayette Grover, Governor Of Ore
> gOn is a son of the late DR.. John Grove
of Bethel, Me-, and Il graduate of Bow
dOin College. lie cmigrated TO til