He had also given instructions to the Attorney-General to use the marshals and the machinery of the Federal judiciary as far as possible in cooeperation with the War Department in an effort to maintain order and to bring about a condition which would insure a peaceable and fair election.

But before the orders were put into execution a committee of prominent Republicans from Ohio had called on him.

(Ohio was then an October State,--that is, her elections took place in October instead of November.) An important election was then pending in that State.

This committee, the President stated, protested against having the requisition of Governor Ames honored.

The committee, the President said, informed him in a most emphatic way that if the requisition of Governor Ames were honored, the Democrats would not only carry Mississippi,--a State which would be lost to the Republicans in any event,--but that Democratic success in Ohio would be an assured fact.