New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-01

Four general, undenied and undenlable
facts satisfy al! impartial observers that IL
was the Democratic programme to carry
the State by fraud:
|. The alliance with Warmoth. " These
fngers are worth United States Senator
ship" was the basis upon which 81 an ALI
ance with infamy which is intamy itself
was made
3 After the alliance the Democrats pro
tested against the signing, by WarmOth, OF
their own election law which they had
forced through the Legislature to prevent
fraud.
3. Throughout the State the commission
iers Of election were all from one party
ali Democrats; ali outrage unparalleled Ii
the history of Louisiana or any other State.
4. Throughout the State the federal in
spectors were driven from the presence OF
the ballot boxes and the State vote was
counted in secret exclusively by Democrats
for the declared object of committing fraud.
SUMNER.
McEnerv claims to be elected Governor
Of Louisiana by 9j97 majority over Kellogg
by virtue Of the returns declared by the
Warmoth or Lyceum Hall returning board,
consisting of five persons elected by pre-
tended Senate without q quorum. Two of
those five returning officers, S. NJ Todd and
o. +. Hunsaker, swear their names were
forged to that return, and that they did not
sign it on account of the frauds it contained.
The very authority upon which McEnery
rests his claim thus strikes down that claim.
CURIOUS REVELATION.
At the election two years ago, in 1870. the
Democrats carried sixteen parishes by an
aggregate majority of 1858. These same
sixteen parishes now give, according to the
return of the WarmOth board itself, an ag-
gregate Democratic majority OF only 'lOl.
Al. 81, fIa t1n
loss on their own ground is 2b2 votes. Ibis
shows that the transfer OF the election ma
chinery to their hands was of no legitimate
benefit to them, and was only useful as
means to fraud. 1t indicated the fairness
of the Republican victory two years ago.
1t shows that it was the programme to let
the Democratic parishes alone and carry
the crusade Of fraud into Africa.
PREPOsTEROUs DEMOCRATIC CLAIM.
In the remaining thirty-six parishes of
the State, which were all carried by the Re
publicans two years ago by an aggregate
majority of 81 6Ij, the WarmOth board now
returns an aggregate Democratic majority
of 1856. At an election, which showed
large Republican gains in every other State
in the Union, an astonishing Demo
cratic gain of 34,I7l in the opposite
direction is claimed in the exclusively Re-
publican parishes of Louisiana BY board
which admitted a Republican gain in the
exclusive Democratic parishes OF the State.
MENERY SENT Up IN A BALLOON.
A comparison of the population OF seven
teen parishes with the return OF the War
moth board completely eXplodes, OF itself,
every pretense McEnery can set up to be-
ing fairly elected. Those seventeen par
ishes are: Avoyelles, Assumption. East
Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, BOssier,
Caddo, DeSOto, Iberville, Madison, Natchi
toches, Plaqucmines, MOrehOuse, POlHte
Coupee, Rapides, St. James, St Martin and
st. Mary. From these parishes the War
moth board returned 1853 votes for Nc
Emery, and oniy l4,5l8 for Kellogg Ma
iOrity for McEnery 3lS0. But the pOpula-
ton of these same parishes is only g. $40
white to It's, 800 free cOlored. 1t is known
that many of these whites voted for kel-
lOgg, and that every COOred man desired
to vote for him. 1t is also known that many
of the whites are unnaturaIZed foreigners
also that the proportion Of white voters IN
a given population is smaller than OF col.
orCd voters Yet taking the same ratio OF
one TO five for both colored and white, and
admitting for the sake of argument that all
the whites were voters, and voted for Me
Emery, q division of the population given
above by five, leaves US 1854 white or
McEnery voters, to 29,0ii colOred or kel-
iogg voters, or 1850 colOred or Kellogg
majority This is the story of seventeen
parishes The Is, 600 to $4,000 colored voters
within their limits alone, who were denied
a vote, swamp the entire majority McElery
claims in the State, and buries it more than
5000 votes out of sight, to say nothing OF the
monstrous frauds in the other parishes.
THE SWORN EVIDENCE.
Below is given a condensation of some of
the sworn atfi 1avits, reports and statements
on file in the United States District Court
MANY of the details of fraud are omitted
for the sake of brevity. No rumors, sur
misses or mere assertions are Incorporated.
| The names of some of the prominent per-
sons making the atfidavts are given with
each parish. The parishes mentioned are
only specimens where frauds have been
| alread[; proven. The evidence regarding
outrages in a large number OF instances Is
not yet collected.
THE FRAUDS IN CADDO PARISH.
Population-W White, 5ol3; colOred, lJ,1 90
ENTHUSIASTICALLY l5i9: cOloTed, 3l39
Warmoth returns-McEuery, 1917; kel
AIfidavits United States Supervisors L
Logan, H. c. Logan, Legardy, Wh!tmore
Hamilton, Mr.. Gilbert and several hundred
others swear:
The MoorjugspOrt box, at which 4Oi mel
voted. Of whom 80 were cOlored Republi
cans, was taken on election night into tn
house OF one HecOz, from which the United
States supervisor was elected. and stuffed
Only eighteen Republican ballots were
allowed to remain. Intimidation was 81
rampant here on election day that thu
United States supervisor was thrown on
of the voting room, and only with the ale
of a United States soldier was enabled {
stand at the window and perform his dut'
= by baking the names of the voters as the.
entered When he and the squad OF so
diers stationed there were leaving mex
morning they were followed by crowd Q
Ku-Klux, and were fired into several time
= from the woods. Commissioner HeccX, .
r c. Moncure and 4. H. Leonard are undo
f heavy bonds for alleged connection wit
/ this affair.
= Every United States supervisor was il
c timidatcd One Mr.. Whitmore, was VIZ
7 lently driven from Iarri=on's store, an
Y contracted sickness from exposure in ttc'
: ing for his life. a. Il. Leonard dragged
: colored man from the polls, saying: Con
t away; you can't vote here. You are goin
to vote against me Ole Rogers drew
pistol on United States Deputy Marsh.
Logan a, the polls. One Harris threatene
to kill some coiored men Tor voting Il
> Radical ticket.
; EVERYWHERE in the parish there was ii
elimination against Republicans. At Tia
/ rison's Store colored Republicans did n
y dare to speak 10 white R5puo!lean.
j. Shreveport the whites were ali allowed
! vote. bat between 600 and 100 Of the color,
' men who came to the polls were kept bac
( aud did not Get to cast their ballots.
Z, the clefiug of the polls c, W. Heating Toe
u the names Of SO Of them who had stot
there all day, ana had To; been allowed
vote ~ Spring Ridge, after the white ms
- had voted. the process of swearing evel
i cUluroj voter as TO the correctness OF h
10 registration papers was commenced, viii,
= so delayed the polling that large mum he