New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-06
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL Of THE UNITED STATES
sFrGCIAL JOURNAL or NEW ORLEANS,
Facts and Figures.

There are q good many well-meaning
Democrats who believe that their party
has been choused out of q victory fairly
won, simply because Democratic papers
have never given them the facts in the case.
They believe, from their lack of informa-
lion, that Tilden was justly entitled to the
votes of Florida, LOuialana and South Car
Olina, and consequently had decided ma
iOrity of the electoral vote, and that their
claim to a meiOriGy of the electoral vote is
given moral strength because Tilden re-
ceived a msioritv OF the popular vote. As
to The electoral vote: On the face of the
verified county returns Hayes carried
Florida by over 900 votes, The Democrats
claim q majority of ni0ety. and this can
only be reached Dy including some legal re-
turns As to South Carolina, a committee
of the House of Representatives, a majority
of whom we're Democrats, reported that
the Hayes and Wheeler electors had car
the face of the returns, Tilden
had a majority OF something over six
Thousand. The law OF Louisiana provides
that, whenever IN airy precinct or county
there is snch violence or intimidation as to
prevent fair election, the vote of such
division shall be thrown out. Ia five par
ishes in The State, which usuallv give Re
publican majority of about $500 the TiIden
men created a reign of terror, and sue
oeeded not only in overcoming the Repub-
lican majority but in getting q Democratic
majority nearly as large as the average Re
publican majority. Ia one of these parishes,
East Feliciana, where the Republican vote
is usually about 1000, only two votes we're
cast The TIlden plan OF campaign was to
have disturbance and intimidation only in
Republican counties, 30 that if the vote
should be thrown out the loss would fall on
the Republicans The law of Louisiana was
expressly framed to defeat such dsmna-
bic mode of electionet ring as this, and it
did defeat it. On national politics Louisi-
ana is a thoroughly Republican State.
AS to the popular vote, Tilden has plu-
rality over Hayes of about $50, 900 votes;
but about that vote these things are to be
neted: Hayes carried the States that did
20 into the secession movement, excluding
Delaware, Kentuky, Maryland, Missouri
and West Virginia, by 8 majority of nearly
100000 Naturally, the States of the South.
ern Confederacy went for Tilden, and they
gave him his majority. Another point ia
that Tilden owes his large msjorities 10 the
States of the old Confederacy greatly to
the suppression of the Republican vote,
Another point is that Tilden owes his pop
ular majority to the suppression of votes in
the States he carried in the South, and TO a
fraudulent excess of votes in the
States he carried in the North. Count
ing one voter to every four aud one half
of the population, and comparing the
result thus reached in each case with the
vote actually cast, we find that in nine of
the Southern States the vote cast fell 366 ,S52
below the full vote. Taking the four States
in the North carried for Tilden, and We find,
making the comparison in the same way,
that the vote actually cast in those four
States was 100, 500 in excess of the full vote
They cast that many more votes than they
had according TO the accepted canOns of
calculation. Intimidation and frand made
in these two sets of States q difference
against the Republicans of 497 45I. Take
that from the Democratic vote and it would
leave Hayes quarter of million ahead on
the popular vote.
Another thing to be noted is that the Re-
publican electors represent more voters
than the Democratic electors. The States
carried by Hayes have leo 900 more voters
than the States carried by Tiden. Hayes
carried more States than Tilden, and the
Republicans have a majority of the States
In the next Congress. These are facts that
sensible Democrats should consider before
joining in the howl of the disappointed of
fce-seekers.-LOuisUiHe Commercial