The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-12-25

splators his been marked. Those
persons had no returns, no documents,
no evidence of any kind in their pns-
SESSION, except the statements made
mp by themselves aud their allies for
the contamination of their fraudulent
purposes. A comparison Of the sabu
lated statement published by them
With the genuine 1etnrns, as previous
lg Published, shows that they did their
work in fragrant defiance of decency,
and without even an attempt. TO CON
ceal their fraud and fa!schood from the
eyes Of TIE public. The bill fed by
Senator kellogg alleges deficiency in
his returned vote of about 10000. due
to an alleged suppression of portion
Of votes actually cast and refusal 10
register any portion. The alleged snip
preston was totally false, and was sup
ported by 10 evidence wl,ateyeY-pot
even the simulated cross mark afiiIa-
Wits with which the cnnspirato,s so
literally provided themselves in ad-
vance. The afidayits filed by them
amounted to about 1000 III number, ac-
co.ding 20 their own statement. IF
they had simply added this number to
the total it would have given Senator
Kellogg 81 ,22:3oi votes. against GS, 100 for
! Mr.. McEnery-not eDoHoli to show an
apparent election, even including the
vote Of the three omitted Parslles.-
They, therefore, without returns, with
out testimony OF any kind, without
even adopting aud following any ra-
tional theory of computation, added
I the enormous number of 1860 to Sem
ator keliogg's vote, and, as if to still
further insult the Intelligence of the
people, aud still more fagrantly ex-
pose their own falselood and wicked
ness, they deliberately struck of II,
| li0 from that vote, cast for McEnery.
The returns from the Parish of Bossier
were, for McEne,y 95;', for Kellogg 555.
They report for Kellogg 1l59, for Nc
Emery none. The vote of Natchito-
clues was, for McEnery 1850, for KEEL
ogg 80. They report Kellogg 1906,
for McEnery none. In Assumption
they have added sol to kel|ngy's vote,
and suhtractel 4jl from McEnery. In
Avoyelles they add 5o5 to Kellogg
vote and Subtract .i5l from McEnery's.
In East Baton Rouge they add 1913 to
kellOgo's vote and subtract ia from
McEnery's. In DeSoto they add SIS
| to kellogg's vote and subtract GEO from
McEnery's. In Plaqnemines they add
1923 to kellngs's vote. In st. Landry
they add 5l5 to KeIIogs's vote and
Subtract 5JJ ffom McEneLy's. In Yer
non, where McErery has G69 votes,
they allow him Il2. In VIM, where
McEnery has ~5 votes, they allow him
127. In Washington, where Mcl.nery
has 453 votes, they allow him l9l. III
St. Mary they add G0p to Kelloss's
and snhtiact 500 from MrEnery's. In
onion, where McEnery has I4lS votes,
| Il al.
strike between 5000 and 1000 from Nc
Enery's vote, and in almost every Par
ish they haze changes equally capri
cious and irrational, and returns equal
ly false ard fraudulent: and these arc
the men who based their suit at law
upon the charge that the Governor and
the Returning Officers intended to fall.
sify, to mutilate ard to destroy the
election returns. Those retnrns are il
Iexlstenee. they retain all the iuteg,ity
of their original 'orm--they are unmu
iilated and unfalsifea-they constitute
the only evidence Of the election tina
any law recognizes or that any houes
judicial tribunal would accept-they
have never been in tho hands of lIit
conspirators, And yet these persons
pretending to act rs public officials
have promulsate results SO mon
strously at variance with the ruth tina
they seem to court the notorirty o
falseIlood aud TO revel in the pub!icit,
of frauds. Gentlemen of the Genera
Assembly, the plot against the right
of the people of Louisiana, contrive'
; within the walls of the Custom House
rendered possible of success by the &C
cesstou to IT'S c0unsels of c0rrup
Judge, ready and eager to prostitut
) his judicial functions to the service q
, the conSpirators, has eliminated in tn
: assembling of a pretended Legislature
5 composed mainly of DEFEATED candi
dates, aud protected by the hayonet
, of United States soldiers. The pre-
tended House of Representatives hav
preferred articles of Impeachment
against the Governor and the remnau
: of the Senate, in concert with th
, frauduleutly admitted Senator's, hav
! resolved themselves into High Cnu1
9 of Impeachment. The late Presder
! of the Senate, Mr.. Pinchback, who's
, term ms a Senator expired with the la,
e election, has, by force and in violatio
nf I,v and established n, accidents. cor