The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-09-30
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Memphis Avalanche. September III
In sustaining kellogg in louisiana Presi-
dent Grant but repeated the act which sent
Joseph Brooks and Clayton's gang to the
wall in Arkansas. There appears little rea-
son to doubt that if the truth could be reached
McEncry in Louisiana and Brooks in Arkan-
sas were elected in 1872. But it is one thing
TO elect and another to get counted in. The
Returning Board in Louisiana declared Kel-
logg elected Governor, alleging that ten
thousand eolored men who desired to cast
their ballots for him were not permitted to
vote. In Arkansas the votes of sufficient
number of counties and civil districts were
thrown out to reduce Brooks majority TO q
minority and declare Baxter elected.
The administration Of Kellogg has been ex-
ceedingly unpopular in Louisiana. The
white people (carpet-baggers excludea) re
gard him the chief of a band of public rob
bers and an usurper whose official existence
they have recognized simply because 1t has
been uniformly recognized by the national
authorities-in q word. because they could
not help themselves. On the contrary the
administration OF Governor Baxter, who,
like kellogg, was Illegally counted in" is
and has been popular with the masses He
has given the State good. honest govern
menf and has defeated the schemes
of the same brood of plunderers to whom
IN Louisiana kellogg has alone looked
for support and sympathy, and in whose in
tereStS his administration has been conducted.
Hence. though both were elected by fraud
Bakers official career is generally Endorsed,
and kerogg's almost universally detested by
the country.
After Baxter had been in undisturbed pos
session for fifteen months, Brooks suddenly
seized the Arkansas State-house by . trick,
was sworn in as Governor by the notorious
Chief Justice Mcclure, himself in the plot,
and then maintained in position by force.
After kellogg had been in undisputed pos
session in Louisiana eig hteen months, he was
suddenly disposed Of by an armed force, and
ID. b. Penn, who No doubt, received 8 major
ity Of the legal votes cast for Lieutenant Gov
ernor in 1877, but who. like Brooks in Arkan-
sas, was counted out, installed as acting
Governor In the absence of McEnery.
The President settled the question in Ar
kansas by reinstating the Illegally elected
but d< faeto Governor Baxter. He has Just
settled 3 similar question IN Louisiana by q
proclamation which viii reins.ate the lie
,ally chosen but dc fuete Governor Kellogg.
In the Arkansas case popular sympathy is
with, while IN that Of Louisiana it is against
the man who was counted in" as Gov
ernor. though defeated at the polls. Natur-
ally sentiment ignores legal forms. Il ap-
plauds the Illegally chosen Baxter because be
proved himself worthy of confidence, snd it
denounees the Illegally chosen Kellogg be-
,ause he proved himself unwor ~ OF public
respect
This parallel hetween the struggles in Lou
isiana and Arkansas has been drawn for the
benefit OF the not small 6 ass whose ympa-
thies-ever active IN beha of the oppressed
not unfrequently cloud their conceptions Of
legal forms sud necessities.