New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-03

| Republicans, and this return tells us only
| 40,973 colOred men voted for Kellogg.
Subtract this 40,973 from the 1882 colored
| voters in the State, and the fact comes out
that this Warmoth board suppressed 3l,869
colored votes.
ANY WAY YOU FIX IT.
ANY shape you give the figures defeats
McEnery. Admitting what nobody claims,
| that the white is equal to the cOl0red VOTE
then the $4,000 white Republicans trans
| ferred from McEnery to Kellogg gives the
latter 30, 900 ma ority; the further deduction
of at least TO- 900 unnaturalized whites from
| McEnerys column swells that majority to
10000.
FOUR BANNING FACTS.
Four general, uDdenied and undeniable
facts satisfy all impartial observers that it
was the Democratic programme to carry
| the State by fraud:
The alliance with Warmoth. "These
fingers are worth a United States Senator
| ship" was the basis upon which I" an ALI
ance with infamy which is infamy itself "
| was made.
g 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
ers of election were all from one party
all Democrats: an outrage unparalleled in
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.
A Sumner.
McEnery claims to be elected Governor
of Louisiana by 1897 majority over Kellogg
~, % 81 4 = IL
Warmoth or Lyceum Hall returning board,
consisting of five persons elected by pre-
tended Senate without 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.
A CURIOUS REVELATION.
At the election two years ago, in 1870. the
Democrats carried sixteen parishes by an
aggregate majority of 1868. These same
sixteen parishes now give, according to the
return of the Warmoth board itself, an ag-
gregate Democratic majority of only 7l0l.
Upon their own showing, the Democratic
loss on their own ground is 262 votes. This
shows that the transfer of the election ma
chinery to their hands was of no legitimate
benefit to them and was only useful as a
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 we're all carried by the Re-
publicans two years ago ~ an aggregate
majority of 81, 6l5, the Warmoth board now
ret an aOUraCGta DpmOcratio ainrityy
of 1856. At an election, which showed
large Republican gains in every other State
in the Union, an astonishing Demo
cratic gain of 34,l7l in the opposite
direction is claimed in the exclusively Re
publican parishes of Louisiana by board
which admitted Republican gain in the
exclusive Democratic parishes of the State.
MENERT SENT UP IN 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, l5ossier,
Caddo, DeSOtO, Iberville Madison, Natchi
toches, PlaQuemines, Morehouse, POiRte
COupee, Rapides, St. James, st. Martin and
st. Mary. From these parishes the War
moth board returned 1858 votes for Nc
Emery, and only l4,5lS for Kellogg. Ma
jority for McEnery 3lS0. But the popula-
ton of these same parishes is only 67 $40
white TO l45, 900 free cOlOred. 1t is known
that many of these whites voted for Kel
lOgg, and that every cOl0red man desired |
to vote for him. 1t is also known that many
Of the whites are unnaturallzed foreigners; |
also that the proportion of white voters i'll |
given population is smaller than Of col |
orCd voters. Yet taking the same ratio of |
ro fva fnrh hath Gp1nvpl md xxyhi-a Nd |
admitting for the sake OF argument that all |
the whites were voters, and voted for Nc |
Emery, division of the population given |
above by five. leaves us l3,j4 white or |
McEnery voters, 10 29,044 colored or Kel- !
logg voters, or Is, $50 c0lored or Kellogg |
majority This is the story of seventeen |
parishes. The 5000 to $4,000 cOlOred voters |
within their limits alone, who were denied |
vote, swamp the entire majority McE1ery |
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 atfiiavits, 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 atfidavits are given with
each parish. The parishes mentioned are
only specimens where frauds have been
already proven. The evidence regarding
outrages in a large number of instances is
not yet collected.
THE FRAUDS IN CADDO PARISH.
Population-White, 1913: colored, 1879
Registrati0n-W hItc, 1919: colOred, 3l39.
Warmoth returus-McE Emery, 1917: Kel-
logg, 1876.
Aflidavits-United States Supervisors L.
Logan, II. G.. Logan. Legardy, Whitm0re,
Hamilton. Mr. Gilbert and several hundred
others swear:
The Mooringsport box, at which 4Oi men
voted. OF whom $40 were cOlored Repubii-
cans was taken on election night into the
house of one Hecoy, from which the United
States supervisor was elected, and stuffed.
Only eighteen Republican ballots were
allowed to remain. Intimidation was so
rampant here on election day that the
United States supervisor was thrown out
Of the voting room, and only with the ald
of United States soldier was enabled TO
stand at the window and perform his duty
by taking the names of the voters as they
entered. When he and the squad of sol
ders stationed there were leaving next
morning they were followed by a crowd of
Ku-Klux, and were fired into several times
from the woods Commissioner HeCox, j.
c. Moncure and A. IL. Leonard are under
heavy bonds for alleged connection with
this affair.
Every United States supervisor. was in
Inundated. One, Mr. WhitmOre, was vio-
leutly driven from Harrison's store, and
contracted sickness from exposure i'll fee
ing for his life. A. H. Leonard dragged a
coIored man from the polls, saying: Come
| away; you can't vote here. You are going
to vote against me-" One Rogers drew a
| pistol on United States Deputy Marshal
| Logan al the polls. One Harris threatened
to kill some colored men for voting the
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