The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-01-04
PROPHECIES RECALLED.
The PIot to Count in Hayes Under
stood Before the Election.

stood Before the Election.
THE conspiracy t" deprive the people
nf this patton Of the right to choose their
| President was fare>hadowed by pronli-
nent Republicans even before'the earliest
voter had thrown his ballet on the morn
ing Of the 7th of November. The predic-
tions of Mr.. Blaine, Newton Booth,
Muras Halstead. and others, have been
I verified 80 fully by the course of events
up to thisl time, that we naturally recur
e, their languagei"r light OF the further
development of the plot.
"'rfree, weeks before electio" day the
following propecy issued forth from the
St. Luuis Jail, where the Republican ed.
itor of the Globe Democrat was then con.
fined for whiskey. thieving:
"Ne man elected By the process resort
ed tc by the Democrats of South Carolina
will ever be allowed to take his seat as
| President of the United States. This is
our deliberate Judgment .,...
Two weeks before election day James
G.. Blaine, in speech at Buffalo, predic-
ted Tilden's election in case New York
went Democratic, aud then, turning to
his Republican auditors, asked, "Will
you allow him to be inaugurated in that
event?"
Two weeks before election day Senator
Newton Booth, of California, in the
course. of. talk with reporter of the
San Francisco Chronicle, said:
"In the way matters stand at present,
in case the final declaration of the choice
for President depended upon the accep-
tance of the vote of one or more of the
Southern States to which troops had been
! sent, the House would inevitably refuse
to allow it to be counted in, and an APP
peal-to force would bcnecessary in order
to settle the matter.
"Reporter-What; do YOU mean [ BY
force? a:S$ :
Senator Booth Physical for ,-war.
** I think it is remarkably
fortunate for the country that we have a
Republican President, who is also COM
mander-in- n-chief of the army, so that in
the event of any serious complication
the government has at its head a man
who will see it protected. There are a
good many reasons why the Democrats
should not be suffered to gain control OF
| tnsgoyernment."
Two weeks before election day Mr..
Murat Halstead, editor of the strongest
Republican newspaper in the West and
a; close personal friend of Mr.. Hayes,
ventured on prophetic ground. His Ian
guage was so remarkable that we printed
| it at the time, and we reproduce it here:
eff New York should happen to 60
Democratic, the probability is that there
would be disposition on the part of the
Republicans to throw out the vote OF
those Southern States which were carried
for Tilden by the intimidation of the
blacks. I have heard the suggestion
made that it would be moral perjury in
Vice President Ferry and President
Grant if they should consent loallow the
electoral vote of States to be cast for the
restoration Of the Southern Confederacy
when they knew that Il majority of the
neuple of those States had been practi
1-cally DISTINGUISHED. and when they had
in their hands the legal proof of that
fact.
"Nnw, if the Presidential election,
should turn upon the vnles say of Mis-
sissippi, South Carolina, Florida or Lou,
isiara. it would be impossible to avoid a
desperate dispute between the two Legis-
lative houses of the government. The
way is already prepared, by the declara-
tions of Republican Senators, for Mr..
Ferry, acting Vice President, to assume
the entire responsibility of counting the
electoral votes. The House will not, Of
course, consent to this. The next thing
is the position of President Grant. He
is the commander-in.ch of the army
| and navy of the United States. The
very practical question would arise
whether he would sustain Mr.. Ferry in
the Senate. imagine that the weight
of inference is that he would. Perhaps
he would do it by proclamation. That
IS what in the Spanish-American repub-
lies are called pronuaciamientos. The
situation will be exceedingly difficult, il
not hazardous. Trouble would come
upon US in more dangerous shape than
it did sixteen years ago. There is sort
of Mexican miasma in the political at
mosphere." =,
At the time of their utterance these
Vaccinations were generally regarded as
the voicings of demagogy or of folly.
In the light of subsequent events they
show. that two months ago the leaders OF
the Office holding party had already de-
termined upon desperate programme
in case of defeat at the polls. Whatever
the result of the election, they we're not
to be disturbed in the enjoyment of place
and power. To retain place aud power,
they were prepared to resort, if necessa-
ry, to Mexican methods. ..
It will be seen that the programme OF
the conspirators, as indicated by Senator
Booth, and more explicitly by Mr.. Hal
stead, has been carried out thus far to
the letter. After all questions of fact, OF
legality, of constitutionality, of policy,
and of moral right have been exhausted,
and the issue is1narrowed down to q
question of troops. Senator Booth ex-
pressed his satisfaction that the military
power was in the hands of a man who
would. not hesitate to employ it. The
conspirators counted upon this even be.
fore the election. From the very first
the success of the audacious scheme has
depended upon his Mexican habits OF
thought, his carelessness of civil law, his
dogged fidelityto the interests of friends
and favorites. Grant is the mainstay oil
the conspiracy.-Ne,o York Sun.
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The LOCAL NEwsPAPER.-Wm. F.
Switzler, one of the oldest and most re.
spected of Missouri editors, has presented
the following sensible view of the value