Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-11-09
THE ELECTION.


IL from unofficial sources. This stated
result so far as such result uould be
claimed astonishes no one, as 1t was
openly ayowed at the commencement
of registration, that such would be
case, law, justice, facts, or any thing
else opposing, to the contrary not
withdrawing, the only question being
as TO the majority, which it would
look most polite to claim, In this we
think rather a mistake has been made,
not that it Is Of much consequence, rs
well be hung for ap old sheep ~ y
lamb, 10 most Ut these elected, tby
tho registrar, not the voters OF 10
pides) personally 40 one can laitly ana
without prejudice have any objection
40 certainly have not, and politics
does not or ought not 10 apply 10 Judi
eial or pafocbial officers, whose best re-
COMMUNICATION ought TO 30 unbleinsh
cd regulations and uhdoubted qualiii'
cations for the several positions they
aspircd to, and these requirements as
far as we know are possessed by nearly
all the candidates for said Offices, of
which we are now speaking alone. be.
ing perfectly willing to let National
and State candidates take care OF
themselves.
1t is then the measures that have
been used and not the men proclaim
ed to be elected, that we object to
and protest against, as measures not
only unusual and liberal, but direct
ly contrary to law, both National and
State, and liable to severe penalties
by each. Let us commerce with the
State laws regarding registration and
election. and then turn TO the Nation
al ones, quoting n section of part of q
section of one or two of each, which
have been violated, with the most un
blushing, and considering the penalty
for so doing, the most inexplcablt
effrontery. The last paragraph o
section - of the registration laws 0
Louisiana, reads as Follows:
Each Supervisor and Assistant Supervise
of Registration shall attend mt his office 70
the purpose of revising and correcting TIN
II.
until twelve o'clock NJ, aud from two oclocl
until seven o'clock, +. NJ, each day, from tn
, time fixed by law for the opening of the Office
of registration until the close thereof
The first part of section 20 SAM
law, also as follows:
26. Gsnc. 26. The Supervisor Of Regis
tration Of each parish shall keep his office, OK
cept in the parish of Orleans al the court
house of the parish.
The last paragraph Of section 8
contains the following plain talk.
If any Supervisor or Assistant Supervise
Of Registration shall refuse or neglect 10 pei
form any of the duties prescribed by this law
lac shall. upon conviction, DC deemed guilty q
misdemeanOr, and shall hc sentenced fo
. every such oiense 10 pay fine not exceedin
one hundred dollars, or TO undergo an in
prisonment not more than one year, or eithc
or both, at the discretion Of the Court.
These are all the quotations we hav
time to make from the State laws o.
Registration, for to enunerate an
prove by extracts, ali the violation
in letter aud spirit that have bee
made, would take MS as long as it ha
done TO count and manipulate tn
votes.
We proceed ROW TO the laws Of ele'
ton, making only Que extract, an
then pass to those of Congress, quo
ing exclusively from the acts of 1877
which some of our liberal friends COZ
tend repealed the act of 1870, whic
' we quoted a short time since, thong
. even if it had which we deny, we can
: see what cause there is tor exultatlOl
as it seems TO us only lIobson's choic
Z Section 53, Election Laws of Louis
ana is as follows:
5S. [SEc. S. Immediately upon the clio
J. of the polls on the day of election, the Coz
!. missioners of election, at each poll or yotir
place. shall seal the ballot box by pastir
e slips of paper over the keyhole and Il
opening in the top thereof and fastening d
same with sealing wax on which they sh;
impress seal, and they shall write the nam
the Commissioners on the said slips
paper; and deliver said ballet box to, &
- Supervisor of Registration for the parish, WI
= shall keep his Office open for that purpo
from the hour of the close of the election unt
all the votes from the several polls or votil
. places of the precinct shall have been receive
l. and counted.
J. We now come to an act of Congre
r. passed February 2Sth 1871, to amen
s not to repeal the act of May 31st 1871
h part of which we have alreat
E copied. Section 8 of said act (that
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SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That
: shall also be the duty of the said superviso
of electian and they and each of them. A