New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-24

VINO employed ulHl, anu Ih0 PiOPi '
were promptly adopted to check IT. Above
all, and emphatically, the people did not
indorse the plot at the polls. Every white
Republican in the State, and every colored
voter who could not be kept away from
the polls under one pretense or another,
voted the straight Republican ticket, and
the sun of the fourth of November went
down on defeated and baflied DEM
ocracy. They had been met man to man.
and more, at the ballot boxes and beaten.
Then came the strategical turnings, the
5tufing of ballot boxes, the printing OF
tickets after the election to be slipped III
at the proper time; the throwing out Of
boxes where there were large Repub-
lican majorities and dozen other lodges
by which they hoped to snatch victory out
Of defeat. The plans were SO well laid that
a compliant returning board had it in its
power to declare anybody elected whom
the Democratic Central Committee wanted.
But here new danger to the wicked
schemes stared them in the face. All the
members were Republicans except Senator
Anderson (who is, however, an honest
man, which IS equivalent 10 saying that he
is worthy to be a Republican,, and Gov
ernor Warmoth, who had been employed
by the Democracy to carry the State N
their interest, at any cost. But the dis
qualification, by reason of being candi-
dates. of Messrs. Pinchback and Anderson,
threw the decision of the whole question,
the integrity of the Republican party, the
the whole interests of the State. for the
time being, into the hands OF General
Heron and Senator Lynch. To their
everlasting honor, it is, and should be for
ever known, that they stood firm for the
right, and elected two other men of ster-
ling honesty-General Longstreet and
Judge Hawkins-as members Of the board.
These officers. thus constituted, carefully
examined the returns and made the
awards Of the election. Governor War
moth illegally appointed another board.
who reported the calculated .eturns,
which had been cooked up by the super.
visors of registration. and which have
been iudicially decided 70 be false and
worthless
Throughout the whole contest. from the
beginning of the campaign, the Repub-
licans have stood firm and met their foes
fairly, and defeated them at every point.
When they bought our Governor. we let
him 60, but did not follow him. When
they rallied their fifty thousand voters at
the polls, we met them with seventy thou
sand. When they threatened mob vio-
lence. we appealed to the constituted
guardians of the peace for protection.
When they usurped the authority of the
State to assemble a body of men as
Legislature who had no authority from
the people. we appealed to the courts,
both State and federal. Our case has
been in two of our district courts, presided
over at different times by four different
Judges: it has been heard in the United
States Circuit Court, in the State Supreme
Court and even in the United States Su-
preme Court It has been discussed in
both houses of Congress. And before all
these tribunals there has been unani-
nous verdict in our favor, with one feeble
exception. Judge Elmore. who mounted
the bench Of the Eighth District Court by
virtue of force and a fraudulent commits
sion from Governor Warmoth, rendered
decision against the legal returning
board, which. however. he had the good
sense not 20 sign. It will be seen
that we have inflicted what may be called
total defeat upon the enemy. and get
they pirate Of the rights Of the people.
They still keep up their show of gov
eminent when they have only Dir. Ell
mo.e's word for it that they are right.
against nearly all the judicial tribunals of
the State and of the Union and both
| houses OF Congress. They meet daily in
Odd Fellows Hall, in open defiance and
contempt of the authority Of the United
! States Circuit Court, and yet the despotic
government does not modest them. They
are TOO insignificant. to be dangerous. and
will wal. in vain, probably. to be dispersed
by force.
We can find i. in our large charity 70
pity the poor deiuded men who have mis-
| olyan 4ban,caIvac and each other for StafeS4
men and representatives of a majority OF
the people of the State. when they are
mere selfish plotters for public position,
and can not count as their political friends
more than one-third OF our voters. But
we do not wish TO have them roughly dealt
with.