The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-29
LETTER FROM CARROLL.
The Contested Election Case.
Benham and Bob Anderson Burnt in
Effigy!:
The People Hopeful.

The People Hopeful.
PROVIDENCE, Dec. 18th, 1874.
A merry Christmas to you Messrs. BULLE-
TIN, and prosperous closing up Of the year is
the earnest wish Of your numerous friends in
Carroll This week has been full to the brin
of business and legal hustle. The election
frauds perpetrated here by the Benham fac
ton on the I'd day Of November last, were so
bold and unscrupulous that public indigna-
ton has been loudly expressed throughout
the parish, and Nicholas Burton. candidate
for sheriff, Hon. NJ. DuBose, candidate for
Parish Judge, with the other anti-Benham
candidates for the various parish offices,
brought suit in the District Court, contesting
the election of Hicks, C. E. Moss, Jr., and
others. This suit came up for trial on
Thursday the 18th inst. The Cor
oner, John Asbury, rabid Benham-
ite, acting in the capacity of sheriff: Messrs
Montgomery and Delony appeared for plain
tiffs; Leonard and Kennedy and DeFrance and
Austin appeared for defendants. The regular
list of Jurors was soon exhausted, and tales
men were called by the Coroner until a jury
of twelve men were impaeled, eleven Of echom
had roteI the Benham ticket. On Friday morn
ing the case was taken up, and the first thing
plaintiffs called for was the ballot-boxes and
tally.sheets, but none could be found. The
clerk was ordered to produce them by 10
o'clock next day, until which time the case
was deferred At 10 precisely on Saturday
morning the clerk put in an appearance, but
no boxes or tally-sheets He told the Court
that r. K. Anderson, the State and Parish
Tax Collector, and his special deputy had the
boxes and tally-sheets, and the said Anderson,
like the boxes and tally-sheets, was non COM
atib,s IN s,oanpo, or some where else.
Now let it be borne in mind that Mr.. Ander-
son is the plant creature of Geo. c. Benham,
and an officer that employs two or three depu-
ties himself, and the purpose Of David Jack
son, clerk of the court, in making him spe-
cial deputy to take care Of the ballot bores and
tauy sheets, is too plain to be misunderstood
it was in fact a necessary step toward the con-
summation of the frauds and forgeries that
figured so conspicuously before the Returning
Board as the pretended vote of Carroll.
Anderson, boxes and tally sheets could not
be found. The trial went on. Testimony as
to the frauds in the First Ward was abundant.
Defendants, rather than produce the boxes
and lists, admitted illegalities in the Other
wards, and the case, after any amount of ora
torical display, was, with clear, lucid and
impartial summing up by his Honor Judge
Hough, delivered to the jury. who retired
During their absence, the confidence OF thu
Benhamites, in favorable verdict for thei
side, cropped out in various ways but in less
than ten minutes the jury returned and thei
verdict was:
ave, the jury, find that the election o
the parish officers shall be referred back to tn
people,"
And more crest fallen crew than the fraud
ulent co-workers Of Benham was never seen
This rebuke, given to them by eleven Of thei
own followers under oath, is as complete I
conviction of crime as was ever shown to tn
world. And by this verdict, We, of Carroll
have hope once more that right and justic'
will prevail.
The feeling here against Benham and hi
chief co-worker, Anderson, is very bitter
About 10 o'clock last night they were burned
in ef6gy in the center of the town, amid tn
lieers of the assembled crowd. The would-b'
| 0oD 1obo1o1.
i "BENHAM, THE BALLoT-Box SUFFER-,
while his partner in crime and shame Dor
the placard:
| ''BOB NO BOND"
i During this term of court it was discovere
that r. X. Anderson, parish tax collector, wa
collecting the money from the people
Crosby, without giving any bond whatever
and though the grand jury failed to find
bill against him, the people have determine
: not to pay over until the law is compile
with.
The District Court adjourned to the sprin
term on Wednesday, and we are now in tt
!, midst of the Christmas festivities, and til
fact that Benham has been overcome by a
/ honest colored man adds considerable to Il
, ioyousness of the season.
The cotton crop is gathered and will SOC
! be all in the market. Money is more abp1
dant among the laboring classes than at an
time heretofore, one of the effects OF Wi
! curtailing of the credit system this yea
8 Your firm vindication Of the peoples righ
), has been warmly applauded throughout Il
State, but in no parish more earnestly tbs
= among us of CARROLL.
= To accommodate those Of our citizens WI
IS wish to see the procession of the "Cowbe
:; llions," Get. D., S. s. and other societies,
IS Mobile. New Years Eve, the New Orleal
% and Mobile Railroad Company have decid
to put on special trains, as per notice in g
t. other column. Fare for round trip is or