The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-01-27
THE CONSPIRACY MOVING FORWARD
UNBkOKEN.

)eOplo are SeuSHuS AhChAoaAss.S ~ r
,ress and holding great meetings, ask 4
nc- for an honest count Of the votes cast ),
It the Presidential election, and pro-
esting vigorously against the frauds
by the Republican Return .
nr Boards, the conspirators at WASH
ngton pursue their plot as If they deiied
Ill opposition, and are maturing ,
heir plans in every detail for ils con- ,
They take no heed of fremonstrances. .
They believe there will be- no resistance !
to the conspiracy. They mean to hold
on to power at any cost; ana with the
Of the Government In their
hands, the army and navy, the Trea-
sury. and a thoroughly organized move
ment extending over every part OF the
Union, they believe success to be GER
toin. There area few conservative Re-
publicans who deplOre and condemn
the plot, but who have not thus far had
the courage to declare their convictions
or to stand in the way of the advancing
train.
They remember the fate of Summer,
Schurz, Trumbull, Palmer, and other
eminent Republicans who We're pros
cribed aud denounced merely because |
they opposed usurpations of power, re- |
fused to whitewash glarinS frauds, ana
the party should be carried out in good
faith. Hence they hesitate to take pos |
ition now, and, like the Girondins Of
France, may be swept away by the
coming revolution.
Mcantime, the conspirators are unit
cd, audacious, aggressi We, ana, what Is
more important still, are in possession
OF the Government, which they regard
AS a political estate, and the revenues
thercfrom as the rightfal income of the
Republican party alone. Without
color of Justification, troops have been
brought two thousand miles from the
frontier posts, and are daily drilled IN
sight of the House of Representatives.
and the White House have recently
been connected by telegraph. Supplies
and munitions of war are collected,
and other significant preparations are
openly made.
The intention of this military concen-
tration ut the capital, in advance of the
time for counting the votes ana declar-
ing the President, is not disguised. II
is meant to be II menace to the House
of Representatives; and Don Cameron,
who is one of the most active and reck-
less of the conspirators, has threatened,
in presence of tho President and others
that some of The men who are pursuing
peacablc and constitutional means to
defend their rights may be treated as
s.traitorsv' This threat was made dc
libertely, and it reflects the spirit o
the conspiracy.
Morton, Sherman and others no
only insist that their instrument, tn
temporary President of the Senate
shall count the votes and be an absn
lutte Returning Board, like Wells, An
tlerson and their two mulattO confedei
atcs, but that the Senate shall assum
controlling authority in the proceeding
of the joint meeting and assume to il
>. self a superior position. For example
the practice has been uniform sine
IN Mr.. Jefferson's second election that tn
Senate should go to the House Of Rel
resentatives, for the ceremony of tn
President count on the second Wedne
day of February. The original reaso
for selecting the House was, perhap
that the hall was larger than that
: the Senate, and, therefore, better adap
ed for the occasion, which would
sure to attract a large attendance.
that was a good reason seventy yea
ago, it is much better one now.
ali events, the custom has been cons
Grated by time. and has become one
the honored traditions, with the NOR
force Of law.
1t is now proposed to reverse this
practice without any good cause, al
n to require the House of Represcntativ
= to 90 to the Senate Chamber on
18th of February, where the space
limited and in sufficient. One object
to convey to the public mind AN id
that the Senate has 81 function abo
the House in determining the result
the election, and that the House is or
invited to attend as witnesses. Anotf
object is stragic, and the offspring
Don Camcron's conspiring brain, w
designs in IL certain contingency To
what Grants kitchen organ has deci
ed by authority will be done, name
to arrest the speaker and the major
of the House.
Heretofore the places of meeting
count the electoral votes have alw;
been determined by n joint resolut
4 of the two Houses. They met in
Senate Chamber at the first and sect
elections of Gen. Washington. III
met in the House Of Representative:
best the election OF John Adams. III
AT met i'm the Senate Chamber at the
and second elections OF Thomas Jef
, son in 1901 and 1905. Since then