The Russellville Democrat., 1877-01-04
The Only Way.


 There is only one way to de- clare Rutherford E. Hayes elected President of the United States, and that is the way of fraud, ,lsurpation, and violence, the way of revolution.
 If the question is controlled and settled by the one only rule which common sense, justice, and the letter and spirit of the Con- stitution have provided, and which the nnvarying practice oi the Government has followed without single exception ever being made in any case, then MT. Hayes cannot he declared elected, and cannot possess either the title or the power of President. l That rule is that the electoral votes shall be counted by the two Houses of Congress, assembled together. yet each retaining its distinct identity, and acting by it's own proper organs, officers, and the one House reforming the same duty and exercising the same power as tie other.
 Now, it is certain that If this rule is observed on the present occasion, the House of Repre- sentst;ves will never consent to count those nineteen pretendetl electoral votes in favor of Hayes which result from the frauds of the Returning Boards in South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida. Those nineteen votes the House will not allow or tolerate. It will throw them out for the reason that they do not express the will of the people, but only the will of dozen impostors at Columbia, New Orleans, and Tallahassee, that they are nothing but false hood, forgery, and fraud. Yet without counting these fraudu lent votes, Hayes cannot be de- clared elected.
 h view of this very coutingen cy, the pretence has been sgt up from the first inception of the plot that it Is not the two Houses who count the votes, hu; only the 1 President of the Senate. That officer. alone, VIC are told, has plenary and absolute authority in this matter. H. alone decides every disputed case. From diff ferent sets of electoral certificates he selects those which are to be held true and valid, and those he counts, rejecting and ignoring al others, ai d thus he alone, nith out regard either to the House of to the other members of the Sen ate, decides and determines al q declares who is president, aud from his determination there is no appeal, the House having to other part or power in the cere mony than that of merely being present to silently witness the performance.
 Such is the programme ci those who propose to make Hayes President on the basis of Return Ing Board frauds. This pro gramme they have avowed anu argued for from the very began ming of their scheme. As long ago as the 9th Of November, only two days after the election, it was preached and proclaimed; and what IS more important, it is the one sole method oi carrying the conspiracy out to success. With ont it, the enterprise must bc shipwrecked.
 But this programme cannot be executed by peaceful and re9u 1 lar means. The House of Repre. sentatives is very great factor in the composition of this Gov ernment. It cannot be put aside by any mere noise, and it will never suffer the President of the Senate to usurp the authority oi deciding upon electoral certili cates and creating q President by his own will and pleasure. h order to realize the project, the House of Representatives must be suppressed.
 This can only be done by force and to this end troops are present in Washington. Gen. Grant has l mnIn no set.rnf nr he rnnliro.