THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4972, 28 February 1877, Page 3

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN AMERICA.

(From the Chicago Tribune.) The long suspense's over, and Hayes is elected President. The majority of the Electoral College have cast their votes for him. The sealed packages containing the votes have yet to be opened and counted by the President of the Senate, and the result officially proclaimed. But the votes have been cast—lßs for Hayes and 184 for Tilden. This is the vote as cast by the States : THE VOTE OF THE NOKTH. For Hayes—California, 6 ; Colorado, 3 ; Illinois, 21 ; lowa, 11 ; Kansas, 5 ; Maine, 7; Massachusetts, 13; Michigan, 11'; Minnesota. 5; Nebraska, 3; Nevada, 3; New Hampshire, 5 ; Ohio, 22; Oregon, 3 ; Pennsylvania, 29 ; Bhode Island, 4; Vermont, 5 ; Wisconsin, 10. Total, 166. For Tilden—Connecticut, 6; New Jersey, 9; New York, 35 ; Indiana, 15. Total, 65. THE VOTE OF THE SOUTH. For Hayes—Florida, 4 ; Louisiana, 3 ; South Carolina, 7. Total, 19. For Hayes, 185. For Tilden—Alabama, 10 ; Arkansas, 6 ; Delaware, 3 ; Georgia, 11 ; Kentucky, 12 ; Maryland, 8 ; Mississippi, 8 ; Missouri, 15 ; North Carolina, 10 J Tennessee, 12 ; Texas, 8;Virginia, 11 ; Weßt Virginia, 5. Total, 119. For Tilden, 184. The same vote was cast for Vice-President, and Wheeler elected. There will undoubtedly be a long, angry, fierce controversy in Congress over the result in the Electoral College. An attempt may be made to prevent the votes of Colorado from being counted, for the express purpose of cheating Governor Hayes out of his election, and letting in his opponent. There may be strenuous efforts to reverse the declared result in Lousiana, and

give-the election in that State to the bulldozers;* There may be something desperate done to steal the vote of South Carolina, and hand the State over to the tender mercies of the rifleclubs. And other things may be attempted. Failing in all efforts to change the verdict of the great jury, resort may be had to revolutionary measures through the aid of the dominant majority in the House of Representatives, by some such desperate plan as that proposed by Clarkson N. Potter, of New York. Potter proposes to have two Presidents, one elected by the Electoral College and the other by the Democratic majority of the House of Representatives, and then let them fight it out, Mexican fashion. The probabilities now are that there will be a stormy winter at Washington, and that the country will be kept in as great a fever of excitement as the politicians are capable of creating. The wisest thing everybody can do is to keep cool, and agree to support the President-elect—B. B. Hayes. '