Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-06-14
A NEW ELECTION.

0OO0VOx O0tpCoUoG IN INC CVss00
Iot his speech in New Orleans, from
which We have made copious ex.
trscts, expressed himself a. follows,
regardinE the probability Of q new
slecticn bding ordered by Congress
= it, pext meeting, and reiterated
v repeated the aame idea several
times in tho course of his remarks:
And il the case when fully made shall
show what the case actually made did ah0w,
that Kellogg ought to have been elected but
was not, and that McEnery was elected but
elected only by fraud, then shall certain
ly advocate the duty of Congress to wipe
them both out and order new election.
Now if the principal Republican
papeEs out side of the seceedine
States, arc tr'ae exponehts of the
feeling o. Rep ublicsps in the other
States, Mr.. Carpenters ideas on the
subject are generally conceded in,
and to show this We copy extracts
from three of the leading Republi-
can journals in t he Union-The New
York Evening Post, The New York
Times, and Forney's Philadelphia
Press. The first from the Post We
give entire, the next from tho n.
Y. Times suggests q partial election
only, the returns fromIparishes con-
sentsd to, or proclaimed BY both re-
turning boards to be taken as legal
members of the Legislature and Pa
IRISH officers declared to be elected
by them, to be seated; and az we
suppose as q necessary consequence
of such an arrangement, the returns
as to the State officers made then, to
be counted in such parishes, as if a
new election had been held in them
also. This is course which as will
probably be reccllected by gentle
men here, we spoke of as desirable,
and wondered that it had not been
publicly recommended, as if for no
other reason it certainly would have
saved much expense. Of course
even q partial election would have
to. be conducted under Federal an.
thority, Is we do not see how it
could be done fairly under any
other. 81
The thir6.extract from the Phila-
dslphia Press, is still more signiff.
cant, being the concluding para.
gaaph of an editorial on Governor
Kellogg's address, of which the
Press cordially approves generally,
but does not think at all conclusive
OF the legality of his election. For
our own part, we have always ad.
vocated q new election, as the east.
est and fairest way Of settling the
dispute, and because we were GER
tain that if conducted under the
plan recommended, or intended by
Congress, it would again result
in a Republican triumph, with the
additional recommendation of Civ
ing an opportunity of being more
particular and circumspect in nomi'
mating honest and competent men,
to the Offices which are to be filed.
Admitting that Louisiana is un-
doubtedly Republican State, we
cannot understand how Republicans
can. object to plan that would
prove her to Be such by an appeal
to the people, whose verdict could
not then be disputed or set aside on
frivolous or fraudulent representa-
tons; that is of course, if the election
was held by Federal officials.
A Chance for Justice I'm Leuisi.
ana. .
From then. Y. Evening Post, juno 81
Whether the McEnery party is altogether
deserving Of sympathy and resp,ct, for the
position they occupy in louisiana politics,
they are prett, certain TO receiv0 II In the
oourse it is proposed to pursue at tho pres
emit juncture. The Kellogg Cove rnment is
unquestionably q nsurpation if'ever the
Federal Government could be ri GIT in leav-
ing state prey to Internal '1issension
and violence, the President would have
been Justified in leaving tho two factions
to fight IL out among themselves in LQuisi-
ana. No matter what principles may un-
derlie the differences between the two, the
Kellogg party had rcsorted to fiaild 70 OBJ
tain power, and could only, vi, believe,
hs We maintained the possession by Federal
aid. Even with Federal support it is By
no means certain that the usurping govern