The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-17
The Frauds in Carroll Parish.

AhC II 0uWS Al O8l VA L 8IlDue
Capt. W. B. Brockett, of Madison parish, hav
ing written and telegraphed Gov. McEnery rela
tive to the frauds practiced in Carroll parish i,
the recent election-his letter and telegram hav
ing been already published-now gives us thi,
particular statement Of facts which can be estab
lished by the most irrefragible evidence:
In the first place, George G. Benham, Radca
candidate for the Senate in the Seventeenth Sena
torial District, and tho especial champion o.
Frank Morey, Radical candidate for Congress
had entire control Of the Police Jury, and
through it appointed his own exclusive friends a.
commissioners Of election, and procured the Ap-
pointment Of one Lackey as registrar of Carroll
parish.
| On the day of the election at the First Ward
Precinct, being one of the largest in the parish
known better as Goodrich's Landing box. the
commissioner put the ballot box In the second
story Of building and made the voters hand up
their ballots to the window on the end OF pole
| or long cane SO that no voter could see what be-
came Of his ballot after it was thus handed in,
| The room in which these ballots were thus re-
ceived was occupied exclusively by the friends OF
servatives excluded therefrom, and no member
! Of the Conservative party was admitted to the
| room where the ballots were received.
At the Burch's Bend Preclnt, Ward Three.
count was made at all At the polls and no returns
made out or signed. r. K. Anderson, Tax Col
| lector, and one of Benham's rikers, and com.
missioner at that poll, took the box and keys
home with him, saying the law did not require
the votes to be counted at the polls. For three
or four days after the election this box continued
in the possession Of Anderson, and no count
made Of it so far as the public is aware.
The ballot boxes, the ballots, the tall sheets,
the list Of voters and all reco Dis of the election
are kept from the public by Benham and his
friends, and the clerk Of the court Of Carroll on
the 10th Of November, 1874, certities that las
shown by certificate herewith), said boxes docu-
ments, records. etc. had not been deposited
with said officer as the law requires, and up to
the present time the public have not been
ADVISED as the law requires as to the result Of
the election in Carroll parish.
By this outrageous and fraudulent manipula-
ton OF the election records in Carroll parish,
George 9. Benham and his friends have gained
absolute and exclusive control of the returns of
said election, studlously concealed them from
the public, has manipulated and tempered with
them here in the city Of New Orleans, as can be
proved, and all this for the purpose of having |
himself returned elected, over his colored Re. |
publican competitor, J. A. Ola, who is elected by
over 1900 majority, and for the further purpose |
OF having his friend, Frank Morey, returned as |
elected, over Capt. Spencer, who is elected by |
more than 1000 majority in the Fifth Congress
sional District.
In connection with the above we give the fol-
lowing affidavit as another evidence of the man
ner in which Radicals conduct their political CAM
paign:
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of Carroll. ( |
I, Thomas j. Galbrsith, Deputy Clerk of the
Court in and for the parish and said State, being
Chief Deputy and in charge Of the Office Of the
Clerk Of the District Court Of said parish, and Of
III the records and papers appertaining thereto,
10 hereby certify that there Is not now nor has
here been on deposit since the day of election
IN the I'd dag of November, 1874 in said Office,
ist Of the names of all persons voted for at said
election, the Offices for which they were voted,
he number Of votes received by each, the num-
ser Of ballots contained in the boxes or the num-
Der of votes rejected signed and sworn to by the
commissioners Of Election in each poll nor hae
my document or list OF anv character connected
nth said election been deposited in said office
Tor has any Of the boxes containing the ballots =
asst in said election been deposited lR said Office,
kept the First Ward boz, which has since been !
AIKEN out.
Given under my hand and the seal Of the Thir- j
zenith District Court, on the 10th day Of Novem-
er, A. d. 1874. T. J. GALBRAIrH,
Deputy Clerk. ]