Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-12-27
THE FARcEyENDED.

By our dispatches published this
morning it would seem that the Louisi-
ana Returning Boardl has concluded its
labors, and the result reached is the
ousting of the Conservative candidates
who were duly elected by the people and
the seating Of: their opponents who were
as certainly defeated. As to the un-
mitigated scoundrels who perpetrated
this 'villsiny, We do not propose to say
much. They are not worth it. There is
not malefactor now expiating his Of
lenses in any of the prisons Of the vari-
Gus States that is not the superior in all
the qualities that 60 to form good cit
izen to the majority Of the members OF
the Louisiana Returning Board. We
know from experience what kind Of men
they are and also know that robbery and
perjury come as natural to them as it
does for fish to swim. But enough of
them. They were hired to lie and swear
to; those lies, and they have done it.
There is, however, another side to this
question, which carries with 1t the gravest
consequences, and that is, the fact that
under pretencs of law three irrespon-
sible perjured wretches meeting in New
Orleans are allowed to SET aside the ex.
pressed will of the people 81 Louisiana
and in its stead substitute action of their
own. At this present moment three miser.
able outcasts, with whom no decent man
would be known to associate OF
would allow to enter his doors,
are endowed with the privilege Of saying
whether this man shall hold on Office Of
the other shall not. 1t is no mattel
what number of votes were polled or re
ceived by each candidate. This Board
; Heaven help the name) throws out thi
precinct, alters some other, arranges an
other one, until the men it desires ar,
declared elected. This is actually the
truth, and equally SO that the army and
navy Of the United States are prostituted
to the purpose Of enforcing the decrees
OF the rascally triumvirate who form the
majority Of this board! Now in all sober
earnestness, is it not time for this vii
lainy to cease? Is it not time for the
voice of the people as indicated at thu
polls to be respected? If it is not, the,
ct once place Louisiana under militar,
rule. Govern it by force of arms-b,
federal authority exercised through it
soldiery. That would be honorable, de
cent and Ineligible. But to maintain
this mockery of local self,government, j
an outrage, crime, disgrace to tn
whole American people, an insult to hu
mainly, and if allowed to continue vii
more surely sap the existence Of a gov
eminent supposed to be controlled b
the people, than anything else, no mat
ter how dangerous or menacing. Eithe
the people OF Louisiana have a right
elect their own officers or they hav
not. If they have, let them do il
and respect their decision. If they hav
not, say SO, and do not permit this dar
gerous mockery OF the exercise OF th
right of suffrage any longer. Do not Il
three hired scoundrels sit in conclay
and murder, deliberately assasinat,
strangle the liberties that one hundre
years ago our torefathers were sheddir
their blood to assert. A few more wore
and we have done. The administratio
0 party this fall received one of the mo
= severe rebukes ever endured by ar
}. political party since the birth of the R
: public. Now, we would ask them wheth
n they can procure reversal OF that We
g dict by defying. trampling upon and vi
lating the sacred principles that form Il
q very foundation Of the political existen
a Of the Republic. If they do, let them {
on, and when 1876 comes, the year Of Il
- centennial, when the thoughts of Il
citizens Of the United States will be ca
). ried back to the history OF the strugg
"a Of their fathers, and to the principl
"a that those heroic men died to establis
) Then, in that year. when their antago
:. lists point to Louisiana. with the liberti
:. of its citizens under foot, suffrage ma
no o scoff and tool, once prospero
Ia State governed by q set Of men who
~ law is plumber and whose only aim is
- retain the fruits of their robberi
A. When they see the arms Of the Unit
,d States disgraced by being made the all
at of men to whom by comparison Neva
IA stage robber is an angel of light. VIII
this is pointed out to the people a
they inquire who has done this thir
Il. and the answer is the administration a
III its supporters. How long do they thi
as they will be allowed to retain the re-
to of government? For, recollect there
no hired scoundrels at Washington "
M call themselves q Returning Boar
~ to defeat the wishes Of the Poop
! -nder such circumstances, will the v
1854 be affirmed? We leave tn
1ces to answer, if they have 81
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