Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-03-14

WASHINGTON, March 4.
General Butler says in his report upon the Pot
ter investigation: i have chosen to examine
only the political and party action of both par
ties, their leaders, and their manipulators of the
election in the State of Louisiana, where it
would seem every form of wrong, misconduct
and outrage possible to be done in an election is
alleged to have been committed on one side or
the other The General concludes that
ton by the whole body of Electors of
the State of Louisiana and that the Electoral
vote of that State ought not, therefore to have
been counted in favor of either candidate for the
Presidency; that if any legal election was held
in Louisiana then the majority of the votes ac-
tualy cast in the State were for the Tiden Elect
ors and for Governor Nichols; that in case the
vote of the State is counted at all, the votes Of
the "bull-dOzed parishes, as they were call
ed. were within. the. fair, and just ex-
ercise of the jurisdiction of the Returning
Board to be rejected in the proper exercise of
their Judgment, with the exception of some few
polling precincts not material to the result that
in the parts of the State other than said bull
dozed parishes where full campaign was made
by both political parties the majority OF the votes
were cast for Packard for Governor, and por-
tion of the Tilden Electors, leaving two or more
Hayes Eelectors elected; that such a count
and return would have. given full eX-
P5ebsop nar to e ta state ths as %e4e not
affected by the coercion and violence in favor
of Packard and against two or more OF the
Presidency to filden, as would have been the
case if the whole vote of the State had been re-
jected by both Houses. The declaration by both
Houses of Congress that under the circum-
stances the State of Louisiana should not be
counted for either candidate would have been
tF wSn hsit 1e Teah Teht a. LESSON to 2esfSss
partisana that elections cannot be carried
either by force and intimidation at the polls
or by fraud III returns, to avail the success
full candidate, and if SO carried by either, the
votes would be rejected by the hnal counting
tribunal. On the contrary. under the rulings Of
the Electoral Commission, if they are accepted as
governing the law. every announcement Is gwen
to reckless, strenuous partisans to carry their
States either by force or by fraud That the
Electoral Commission, as constituted, has afford
ed no practical solution of the Constitutional
difficulties attending the count of the Electoral
votes in the disputed States, and that an exl-
gency again arising like that of 1876 will surely
lead to revolution. That the appointment on
the Electoral Commission was wholly beyond and
outside of the Constitution, and its determination
ought to have no legal force or effect. That the
appointing of Judges of the Supreme Court upon
such political formation had done great harm to
the cause of justice by impairlng the reverence
that the people have always justly had for the
integrity of the decisions of that court,
of causes between party and party, and in under
mining the popular estimate of the stern Impair
tiality of the court in all questions 1t will do
equal and exact justice under the law to every
citizen, and in view of its i'll success the expert
ment ought never to be tried again. The result
has shown that it is against public policy and
tends to bring elements of corruption INTO po,
htical methods of action, to send semi-otfclal
partisans of large political influence on one
side or the other, or both, into a State for
the purpose of controlling or advising either in
regard to how its Electors shall vote, or to advise
as to the manner in which the votes of the United
States shall be returned and counted. That the
counting in of Hayes was obtained by series of
gross and unjusttiable irregularities and frauds,
which cannot be too strongly condemned and
reprobated. That if any title to the Governor
ship of Louisiana resulted from the late election
Packard, who was legally elected, duly quail
fed and inaugurated, and had right to the
support of the General Government against the
domestic violence and insurrection, by which
the State and himself were equally deprived of
their Just political rights. That there neither is
nor ought to be any indefeasible title to any
executive Office which cannot be reached, re
examined and decided by the proper proceed
ings authorized by Congress to be taken and
heard ultimately before the Supreme Judicial