The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-11-09
KcllogE's Majority 1874.

A Fair Election and Square Count.
Election day in Ascension parish
was a very quiet day indeed, and had
it not been for the peaceful crpwds of
men gathered around the various
polling places no one would have sup
posed it to have been any extraordi-
| nary occasion, much less one fraught
with SO much Importance to the State
and her people as it really was. Each
citizen seemed to vie with his neigh
Dor in conducting himself decorously
and contributing a share toward Sc
curing and maintaining the peace and
good order that prevailed throughout
the day in all parts of the parish.
The turnout Of voters was not Il
full one, if we are to estimate the to-
tai number in the parish by the regis
tration lists or the expectations of
candidates as expressed before the
election. There was no bitter party
spirit exhibited at any of the polls by
persons who attended them to cleo
tioneer and distribute tickets, and we
may we'll suppose from the great
amount Of scratching upon nearly all
the Fusion tickets lin many instances
the names Of Republican candidates
being written in place Of those elased)
that the white voters of the parish
did not regard tie success of the Fus-
ion State and parish tickets-espec-
tally the former-of quite as much
Importance as the campaign orators
endeavored to induce them to believe.
The colored citizens, almost to a man,
voted the straight Republican ticket,
the only exceptions of any magnitude
being about a hundred and fifty who
scratched the regular candidates for
Clerk of the Court and Sheriff, voting
for Mr.. Octave Terrio, independent
aspirant for the former position, and
for Messrs. Gustave Miller and Chris
tan Kline, independent and Fusion
candidates for the latter office. These
discriminating voters were nearly all
residents of the Donaldsonville ward,
and were led to cast scrat-lled ballots
by the long continued and assiduous
moral suasion of the interested candi-
dates. Mr.. Albert Armant, independ-
ent Republican candidate for Repre-
sentative, also received some votes,
but with these few exceptions the
colored electors voted their tickets as
they take their whiskey-" straight
The Supervisor of Registration was
Oh hand at the Courthouse at P.
NJ, to receive the ballot boxes, and
by o'clock in the morning of Tues
day the boxes from all the polls had
been brought in by the Commissioners
of Election. The counting of the vote
began half an hour after the closing of |
the polls, in the presence Of three free
holding citizens of the parish, the !
Commissioners of Election, U. S. Sup
ervisors, deputy marshals and consta-
bles. the doors Of the Court House be
ing kept constantly open and ingress
refused no one. The counting was
continued night and day until We'd
nesday afternoon about 2 o'clock, at
which hour the last box was "gone
through" The only respites from the
weary and tedious labor of counting
taken by the State and U. S. Supervi-
sors were, recess of three hours
Tuesday evening, and another Of two
hours Wednesday morning.
/, Thursday the Supervisor Of Regis
tration mailed to the Governor Of the
State an official statement Of the re-
suit of the count, taking second