The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-22
HAYES INTERVIEWED.
He ANTICIPATES NO TROUBLE FROM
THE POTTER INVESTIGATION.
And Thinks the People Would Resist ANY
Attempt TO Gust Him, Which He De-
clares Would he Revolutionary.

WASHINGTON May 21.-The President in a
conversation last night on the subject of the
Potter resolution said that he did not antcip-
ate any serious trouble, nor did he believe
in any way disturb his tenure of Office. He
| believed that the law under which the cleo
toral commission was organized and acted as
| the advisory agent OF Congress pending the
| electoral count must be violated and the
| strictly constitutional manner of that count
| ignored or overthrown before the investiga-
| tion reaches the portal of the White House
| with the heavy burden of Tilden's weak pre-
| tensions weighing upon their shoulders.
| He said that he had no faith in the asser-
| tions that the statements or confessions of
| McLin and Dennis will amount to basis for
| further exposures OF Republican frauds. The
frequent Investigations, especially the one in
| cident to the Bsbee- Finley contest for a seat
precinct frauds or irregularities. even If
| proven, would not affect his claims to the
vote OF Florida, even if these claims had not
| been asserted and ratified by the vicarious
act OF the Electoral Commission.
| To set aside the decision of the commission
and the official and constitutional declaration
| by Congress that Hayes and Wheeler were
duly elected in 1876, would be revolutionary
in the extreme and would be resisted by the
people. The drifting voters who belong per-
manently to neither party. would instantly
| attach themselves to the government party,
to the party having control of the machinery
OF the government, and having the courts of
justice on its side as the Republican party
would have.
He expressed himself as being satisfied
with the energetic manner in which the Re-
publicanS have begun the work of the coming
fall campaign. He has no suggestion to
make regarding any recent alleged miscon-
struction of his civil service order and will
be content to allow the present system of
campaign collections to be continued free
from executive interference.
When pointedly asked regarding his views
upon this subject. and the policy of permit
ting political State associations to reorgan-
ize, he replied that the civil service order is
still in force and speaks for itself
The President said he had received numer-
GUS letters from the South lately regarding
the pending investigation, among them one
from Gainesville, Fla, the writer of which re-
ports that both McLin and Dennis. since
their return to that State, have publicly sta
ted that the object OF the Potter movement is
to oust the President; but he is not alarmed
by these reports, nor is he alarmed at the
statement recently published that the De-
mocracy relies upon the precedent of his re-
cognition of the Nichols government in Lou
isiana, because it was first recognized by both
branches of the Legislature.
In the event that the next Congress shall
be Democratic in both houses and recognize
IIlden, he holds that his tenure is impregna-
bly, guarded and entrenChed behind the bull
wark of the Electoral Commission and the
constitutional PRONUNCIATION of the fact of
his election by the Congress, which had the
exclusive power to certify finally and irrevo-
cably to the result of the electoral count.