THE HAYES-TILDEN CONTEST.

THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION Although the action of the returning boards in South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida, gave Mr.Hayes a majority of one vote in the Electoral College, the Democrats, who were largely in the majority in the National House of Representatives, were evidently not willing to acquiesce in the declared result,--claiming that Mr.Tilden had been fairly elected and that he ought to be inaugurated.
Hon.

Henry Watterson, of Kentucky,--who was at that time a member of the House,--delivered a fiery speech in which he declared that a hundred thousand armed men would march to Washington to see that Mr.Tilden was inaugurated.

The situation for a while looked very grave.

It seemed as if there would be a dual government, Hayes and Tilden each claiming to be the legally elected President.