The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-05-08

Enery's vote 1e97-nearly 300 more than
the white registration. The colored
registration was 1889; and Kellogg's
registration. This shows fraud, not
before, but after the election. It points
to q Justification of returns, for frauds
in keeping men back from the polls
probably would not give McEnery 800
more votes than there we're white votes
registered.
Mr.. Carpenter-How can you tell
whether a ballot was cast by o black
man Or a white man?
Mr.. Frelinghuysen-NO; but my
friends report states that the colored
men were Republicans as a general rule,
and the whites Democrats. Take
Rapides parish. The white registry
was 1011 McEnery's vote was 1860, or
$40 more than the white registration.
In N%atchitoches the white registration
was 1885, and McEnery's vote 1880 the
cOlored registration was 1875, and Kel-
logg's vote only IS. In Bossier parish
the white registration was 578; Nc
Emery 953, or 375 more than tho white
registration; the colOred registration
1895, and the vote for Kellogg 555. It is
perfectly apparent that the fraud was
in the returns as we'll as in the manner
in which the election was conducted.
But again, take another view of these
returns. There are fifty eight parishes
sion, Bienville, Calcasieu, Caldwell,
Cameron, Carroll, Claiborne, Concordia,
East Feliciana, Franklin, jackson,
Jefferson, Lafayette, Livingston, Qua
chita, Pointe Coupee, Red River,
Sabine, St. Bernard, st. John Baptist,
Tangipahoa, Tensas and Orleans-which
are those where there is not much
difference between the two boards of
c%anvassers in the result, in these TWEEN
ty-four parishes by the FOrman board
there is an aggregate of 38,879 Demo-
cratic votes and 38,203 Republican votes,
giving a Democratic majority of 476.
According to the Lynch board the Re-
publican vote was So, $500 and the Demo
cratic vote 33,817, giving a Republican
majority of 1878. The Forman board
gives a Democratic majority of 476 and
the Lynch board q Republican majority
of 1878, no very great difference for
such IN election; average it, and call it
a majority of 1000 for McEnery. The
vote was close and the registration was
correspondingly SO. The white registra-
ton was 52.979 and the colored registra-
ton was 81 ,439. The Democratic vote
and the white registration, the Republi-
a vote and the colored registration
correspond.
Now look to the remaining thirty -four
parishes. BY the Forman board the
Democratic vote is in the aggregate ar
1888; the Republican vote 20,170, giving
a Democratic majority of 7G1s. This
is manifestly a fraud, and is thus shown:
In those thirty-four parishes the regis
tration of whites was 34,786, and that
registration gives a Democratic vote of
27,788. The registration of colored peO-
pie wa 42,879, and that gives a Repub-
lican vote of only 20,170. If the same
ratio of Republican votes wal given for
the $4,000 colored registered voters as
of Democratic, votes given by $4,000
white registered votes, which was g.
788, the Republican vote would be 85,.
600 instead of 20,170.
Now let us see what becomes of Me-
Enery's majority. The difference be-
tween $4,000, the true vote by all the
analogies of this case and according to
the Lynch board, and tho 20,170 that
the Forman returns give for these thir-
ty-four parishes, is 1880. Take from
that McEnery's majority of 9906, and it
leaves Kellogg's majority 1924. Take
from the 1924 the majority which Nc
Emery had in the twenty-four parishes
and it leaves Kellogg's majority 1924.
You may turn this subject any way
you please, and you will find that Kei-
logg was not only the representative of
the will and intention of the people, as
the Senator from Wisconsin says, but
that he had q majority of the legal votes
cast. At all events, there is no afirma-
tive proof on which to displace him.
Shall we turn Kellogg, out of Office,
when all admit that he represents the
will of the people, and when the pre-
ponderance of evidence is that he had
q majority of votes cast, for the sake Of
giving effect to the fraud which was
most UNANIMOUSLY perpetrated in that
election