The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-04-27
THE OUTRAGE ACCOMPLISHED,

a strict party vote, declared Mr..
Hunt not entitled to his seat from
the second district of Louisiana,
and has voted in his opponent. who
was beaten by over ten Thousand
The committee has de-
cided in favor of the Radical con-
testant in each of the other dis
tricts and the decision in them will
doubtless be the same. just be-
fore the election in 1868 the Radi-
cal organs, seeing their defeat GER
tain, advised the Radicals to stay
away from the polls under the pre-
tence that they feared violence
would be perpetrated by Demo
Gratis upon the Radical voters
They gave this advice in perfect
confidence that if needed and the
Democrats should be elected, the
Radicals would be given their seats
by Radical Congress. The adj
vice was only partially taken a
majority of the registered votes
was cast, and the Democratic can
didates were all elected. No sen
sible man questioned the fairness o.
the election at that time, and the
House of Representatives itself re
cognized it by counting the vote
for Seymour and Blair which was
cast at the same time.
But it was determined in advance
that the Radical candidates fol
Congress should have their seats
All the expense incurred in send
ing to Louisiana a Congressiona
Committee to hunt up Radical ties
timony, all the labor, anxiety and
suspense undergone by the elected
members, and the contestants, were
only part of the preconcerted pro
gramme preparatory to registering
a decree already foreordained
The farce of making speeches an6
going through vote could deceive
no one. Mr.. Boyd, Radical mem
Der from Missouri, let the cat out
Of the bag when he said to a Radi
cal who rose to make a speech
"Oh, Stevenson, it is no use tt
make a stump speech about it, but
just tell us the Radicals name an(
we will vote him in without max
ing any more fuss" 1t had al
ready been settled as the common
Law of this Radical Congress thai
no one whose seat was contested by
a Radical should be admitted NJ
matter how large a majority he hat
obtained. l.
Most people, however stupie
they may be, generally give some
pretense of a reason for their acts
which has some little plausibilit,
in it. The reasons given for TIT
exclusion of the Louisiana member
are so ridiculous that we are sur
prised that any set of men shoult
not be ashamed to avow them
The charge ofviolence can be con
clusively shown to be without foun
datioD. 1t. is a little strange tina
the alleged violence occurred Gnl,
in those parishes where the adyic
of the New Orleans wirepullers hat
time to reach. In the parishe
where they did not hear of the Ney
Orleans determination there was
quiet election and full vote
But even supposing that all TIL
registered voters who did not vote
were prevented from voting by vi
olence, the Radical claim of thei
ability to carry the State is sti
without foundation. In every dis
trict but one the Democratic can
didates had clear majority of til
registered voters, so that the
would have been elected if ever
man in the State who did not yot
had gone to the polls and vote
for the Radical candidates. Thes
are facts which cannot be got owe
and the merest logical tyro can al
swer the reasoning of the Radical
who have elected the Democrat
members from the House of r,
representatives..
A much more honest way woul
have been to acknowledge thu
the Democratic members were e,
cluded because they are Democra
and the Radicals admitted hecaus
they are Radicals. This will
the case as long as snch a CORFU
party as the Radical party has
majority in Congress All Il
signs point to splendid Democra