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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE l,Ol ISI VVA (Ol Xf. YVtijcii .flonua Sot a Count ol Volt's t itt by Hie People, but Niifh an are Aectlea to Kltet Hujcm. New York, 17. Tribune New Or-loftua: Or-loftua: Tbe luteal returns nf the election elec-tion received iu tlna city show that the republican majorities are in tho JiKgre,;ate emaller than they liave been auppoaetl to lie. Tho politicians o( both parties have heretofore cun-eeded cun-eeded in privala that the retult would depend entirely on the deciuion of t i 10 returning board in regard to the vote of Gve pariahea in which it is auscrted intimidation and fraud were most resorted to. If tbeee, or any three of them, were counted as polled, it was supposed that tho democrats demo-crats would curry the state; if they were all thrown out, the state waa almost universally conceded to the republicans. CJrave doubt now exists ex-ists in regard to there being aro-j republican majority in the remaining remain-ing parishes, even after the omission omis-sion of tbo voto iu K.ist and Wist Feliciana, East Baton Rouge, Oui-chiu Oui-chiu and Morehouse parishes. A table prepared by prominent republicans republi-cans of this city, who have excellent opportunities for obtaining correct information, make tho state very close without the voto of the parishes named, with the chances rather in favor of the democrats. It must not, however, be concluded that the prospect pros-pect of the democrat carrying tho statebaa been improved. Enough of the vote in the bulldoggcd counties may bo accepted by the returning board to give the republicans a majority in several of them. The impression which seems to have eone abroad that tho returns from an entire parish in each case wili be rejected is erroneous. erro-neous. In each parish there are several sev-eral voting precincts, and tbe citizens are by law allowed to choose at which nf these they willdepooit their ballots. United States soldiers were Btationed at most of the county seats, and at those points it is ad mi ted that the electiou was generally quiet and tho negroes voted without molestation. It was in the county precincts tiiat the intimidation is said to have taken place. Tba returning board passes upon the case of each ballot box separately, sep-arately, and it is not at all certain that the vote in the large towns and tbe county Beats in the disputed counties coun-ties will be thrown out, or that any attempt will be made by the republicans repub-licans to disputo the legality of the election in those places. The negroes ne-groes from tbe country generally Hocked to tba towns to vote. Tne counting of the town boxes and the rejection of those from the country coun-try may give several of the disputed dis-puted parishes to the republicans. Besides this there will be complaints of intimidation in certain precincts in other parishes not named, and the throwing out of particular boxes may reduce the democratic or increase the 1 republican imijnrities in them. From this explanation it will be seen how difficult it will be to forecast from tbe returns received what the true result i of the count will be. The republicans 1 are fully confident ,bat the returning board will declare the vote of Louisiana Louis-iana to have been cast for Hayes and Backaid, and tho democrats apjitr almost unanimously to have armed t the same conclusion. The laLUr, at the same time, assert that this re-ult can only he brought about by unfair means, and unless the evidence of violence and intimidation which is produced is of a more convincing character thau they expect, they do not propose to accept tbe decision of the returning board as final. In other words- they do not intend to allow the vote of Louisiana to be counted for Hayes on the second Wednesday of next February unless the case made up here is so plaiuiy against them as to make all assault upon it hopeless. When the truth about tbe Louisiana election comes to be known, if it is ever fully revealed, it will be found that the question is not which party is in the right, but which has been the less to blame. Politics and politicians in the state have become no better, and probbnly no worse than they were in 1S72 and 1S71. I believe that both parties have resorted to expedients this year, as they have on former occasions, which cannot be defended, and as I have said, when tho Louisiana cane is made up for the American people lo pass judgment upon, the question will not be which party is right, but which has been the least wrong? |