The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-01-04
MISUNDERSTANDING OF The WASH
INGTON CHRONICLE.

MISREPRESENTATION OF THE WASH
INGTON CHRONICLE.
Warmoth claims 1896 majority for
Greeley in Louisiana, while the actual
count Is, according to the election
board, ID ,624 for Grant.
b The Washington Chronicle makes
count" referred to is the count made
by the DurelI board of canvassers. 1t
is not denied that that board actually
made such a sscount," but what is any
compilation of votes worth, in legal
sense, when it is made without the
election returns certified to by the re-
turning officers who alone are author
lied to make returns Of the votes cast
And this is precisely what the Dufell
board did. The vote Of 1870 and por-
tions of tho census returns were about
the only tsreturns'' tho Durell board
possessed or desired. The official re-
turns of the November election this
board mover saw Their 1gures are
exclusively their own and an absolute
fOrgery-as much so in fact u.s. if the
financial editor of tho Chronicle had
made the compilation. The vote GER
tilted to was not polled and no such
election held. There are no superyi-
sors, commissioners or constablcs who
were present at such an election aud
there is not in the entire State Il single
Vnfnr IF iY,fn
PRAYED, who will swear that he was
present when the Durell election was
held. How any "actual COUNT of such
an election can possess authority or
virtue, it is the Chronicles business to
explain; - the facts arc as we have
stated.
The Chronicle continues:
AS the registered vote of the State
showed II majority of 10000 colorctl
votes, which of the above showinys
bears upon it's face the stamp of proba
bilityf
We answer that the registration of
the State showed no such negro MT
jority. The negro majority in the to-
tai population of the State I'm 1870, ut /.
time when hundreds of whites were
absent, was only 3,7G4, or, in voters
about $50. Since 1870 tho proportion
has altered in favor of the whites. 1t
is, therefore, absolutely an imposition,
if the registration made tho showing
represented by the Chronicle, now OBJ
served by us for the first time and new
or heard before of. Tn fact and to be
specific on Il point 80 prominently cm
ployed in tho Radical interest us this
oneof pretended negro domination,
we can state authoritatively that nei-
thor the registration lists of 1870 nor of
last year, wore kept so as to tell the
color or race of tho voter. Tho books
OF this parish are our authority for this
statement, which any ono may verify
for himself. What these books will
show, however, taken together with
the poll lists and tho concurrent owl
dence OF all who arc informed, is, that
hundreds Of voters, known not to be
white, were registered in 1870 whom
no one knew or knows, who never have
voted or been found by either sheriff
or tax collector. Their names arc still
carried on tho lists, and, we suppose,
properly belong in tho 20, 900 buck ram
supernurneraries discovered by tho Ions
of the Chronicle.
Tho Chronicle proceeds with It's as
scverations:
In the one case WarnOih counted
the votes, and manipulated them thro'
the creatures of his own appointment
In tho other case 81 board Of sworn, rcp-
utable men acted.
Now, it so happens that tho facts arc
directly the reverse. Gov. Warnaoth
selected in tho main for supervisors
men who were mis- enemies and old and
good citizens, who conducted both the
registration and electiua and made tho
count in the presence OF Federal super
visors. Tho returns liled in Now Or
leans correspond exactly with the
count thus made. Not 4 single Fcde-
rnl supervisor has as yet produced cyi.