New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-15
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL or THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL or NEW ORLEANS
The Election In CRddo-Perpetraftan OF
Frauds-Rcpubiican Ballots Taken out
and Greeley Tickets substituted. :

The Election in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of
Frauds-RcpubIican Ballots Taken Out
and Greeley Tickets substituted.
The Shreveport Herad, Republican
weekly paper, published at Shreveport
contains several articles in reference to the
election in Caddo parish and the frauds
uerretrated there. Under the head OF
:. Mooringsp0rt7 is one article, as follows:
IA with every other polling place, with
enc exception. 80 it was at MOOrlHgBport-
Gamblers and members OF the iigbtrtngered
gentry we're appointed, we believe at the
suggtstiou Uf The Liberal party, az commits
eioners OF election. One Henry HecoX,
horse trader and faro dealer, with Messrs.
r. r. Cole and Jim N0el,l was at MOorlngs-
mort as an apt instrument to commit the
frauds which have been developed in the
counting Of that box. When the poiIns
place was opened the United States super
visor of election, Mr.. Fletcher Lsgardy,
presented his commission 10 the SAID
Hecox, who refused to recognize the au-
tb0rity Of a lawfully commissioned 0tEcer
Of the United States, and d1d, by thfeaCs
of force, drive him from the. polling
place. Mr. Legardy then stationed hilnaeh
at the window until the whites urea 70
force him away by threats and other means
g,f intimidation. He not being able to get
urotrcti0n from the civil authorities, called
anon the United States marshal, LOUIS
Davis, for military protection, winch was
afforded him Id the person OF solder OF the
United States army. Mr.. Legardy, in spite
Of intimidation, remained at the window
and saw the Coloreu people en- nasSe de-
uosit Republican tickets with which they
had been provided by Legardy and Comp
son. members OF the party from Shreveport
and those gentlemen who furnished them
gicketg accompanied the COlored people
and saw that the tickets remained 10 their
possession until they presented them
20 one Jim Noel, who received them
for depositing in the ballot box The
United States marshal counted eIghty-nlne
men in one company who came TO the polIs
with tickets furnished them, and saw them
one after another deposit their straight Re
publican tickets for Grant and Kellogg and
Che whole State and parish ticket, without
scratch From eight o'clock in the morning
until three in the afternoon, with but few
favored exceptions, colOred men with Re
publican tickets voted at that box For
forty eight hours before the election day
runners secured the country and informed
the coored voters that the straight tickets
wOuld be distributed in an old field about
three miles from MoOringsp0rt, and request
ed them to be on hand between five and
eight o'clock on Monday morning. Punctual
to appointment, from one hundred and
fiftv 70 two hundred men were on the
ground and received tickets and delivered
% our Shreveport workers Lao Wilkinson
independent tickets. Mr., George Compton,
Ut Shreveport, has those tickets now in his
possession Mr.. Robert Gilbert, at the
head Of eighty-nine men, referred to above,
with a bugle, sounded the order TO march,
and the line moved forward to the polling
place without breaking ranks and refusing
to show their tickets, in spite OF the 1mpOr-
tllnings Of the Greeley men, and those tlck-
cts were seen deposited 1.-THE texture Of the
raper differing from all other tickets) by
Mr. Legardy, the United States supervisor,
who wrote the names fr0In the first vote in
the morning to the last in the evening.
Then the Republicans came in squads from
ten to twenty-five until about three
O'Clock, when but few came. six to
ten now and then from Black Bayou, who
came in flats across the lake. Not less than
300 Republican votes were cast from eight
o'clock in the morning until six O'Clock IN
the evening. During the thiCkest crowd
some Of the respectable citizens of Moor
ingsport requested another soldier to pre-
serve order and system in the approaches
tO the poll, which was granted. Most OF
those old and feeble white citizens who re-
sided some distance were permitted to vote
hv passing TO the window from the side
near the guards. They one and all ex-
arsssed Themselves Satisfied With the
hpandnct "a the Tinted States otfi
cnra Rn+ some maIcontents were the
couaa of much anxiety on tha part
III iii our law-abidino citizens. These
falInws i,nnortunpd the coIored neoDIe if
tbev were Going to vote the Radical ticket.
add without one exception, they all an
swered yes, aud We're greeted with such
cries IA "vou damned rascal, YOU must
leave nv place" and Jake you must not
come f0 nv house for anv more meat and
corn. IL vail 40 / will kill YOU" With such
threats The filthy. t'rum-loving" rUwdics Of
6Io0rinpsport ATTEMPTED to change. by cow
ardly means. the intention OF the coltred
people. Ii was Of no avail, every cOl0red
man. with the exception Of nine who lived
updcr the immediate influence of some of
our citizens voted for Grant and Kellogg
fha ReDublican ticket
m. Harry Wilkinson. independent Re
publican, about three O'clock, said: Well
Davis, you have fairly beaten me. and
give up Mo0ringsport to the straight Re-
Dnbligans by from 20 to 300 majority,
which according to Mr.. Legardy's count,
gaye ninety white for Greeley and
Swenty-nine colored, who had not tile cour-
gre to resist the threats Of the rOwdies.'
When the polls closed Henry HecoX re-
fused til admit the United States supervisor
Sntc, lie room to SEQ the box sealed, but adj
mjtted the United States marshal as citi-
gen. WHO protested as he had done when
eha mills we're opened. against his (HecoX'sl
3ctien IN refusing to admit and permit hils
So norrorm I'M official duties. Ihe United
gtb tstO marshal Jaw the wax. etc. placed
ann tbn 6n. and when he Insisted on tie
S e,P"l sil1 arcomnanyinr tie box Hec0x
"elm.ed eaving In aid not recognize lis ar-
eGmr;t,o ona liz .]id not want anv id M.
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