New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-10

| made out o uup 10 same to be retainer
| cate in his naulo, eneraI election as herein-
anu useu farth That for this PuipI I.nk
after &C. - he nrinted fac-similes OF tnG
c cs IF animate registration coa strle
,'sad IN 1870. which were IN OUT l,e nsed in
of tvne from those intended s ~ ~ nm With
Ia7S in order to have them nloa a. above
| the names of deceased eleo' S,,l;cate GER
s,ated~ That the number OF uup afore-
ss.etss 40 filled up for the purpose ar1 The
niS rSas "a follows, more or less: -, .rd
salu' I'd "a, second ward. 81; thlru ~"A"'
o13-makipg 4O4 fraudulent woes; +ructed
ID Rlanchard testiies that be instI uot Co.
~. s.;.tant supervisors of registration aua
t tho arsh Of Orleans that in all cases S7 IN
persons who had been reglsIereu .hov re-
i,ther wards than those in Wn,cn ~ for
sided in 1872, and VINO snoulo ~ ~ resi.
registration on account OF chanso nonSer
aance to require such persons to suTe o-n 70
The Certificates of registration OF Ioo ~
tbem ithe assistant supervisory, 70 70 ~
.ho,n retnrned to the office OF dePonena.,
Ststa registrar of voters, ostenslbly 1or .no
,,urnosa IF cancellation and erasure on .n9
hooks. but in reality to be preserSe:n ON N
voted on at the ensuing general eiec.'o that
the manner hereinafter set 1ortn, ant in
this course was pursued anu pst of the
notwithstanding tho lorna! Protest "a WV
ITn;tad States stlpervisOrs of election.
Tho certificates of registration SO returned
danonent caused to be examined ana sorteu
ont in his office aud such as were ~
marked or checked in any way Dy tno
United States supervisors OF elections Welo
preserved to be voted upon IN Tue Wat0
from which they were originally issueu;
aud only such were returned 10 inc WAY
ot;cara for cancellation and erasure as were
deemed unfit or unsafe for use by repeating
voters. The number so Cancelled was 70
the following extent only: First precinct ~
second precinct 43, third precinct l0l, max
inc o24 fraudulent votes used by the reissue
to the Fusionsts of registration papers OF
1870 and voted by them for the Fusion
pasty. Ia o,so in.
structed assistant supervisors OF reglstra-
tion in the parish of Orleans, that when
ever they found upon the registry OF 1917
names of persons making their marks
Ky and supposed to be negroes, and not
known personally to them, to procure two
persons, registered voters in their respec-
tive wards, to prepare list OF such
names, and make an affidavit that they
"had reason to believe and did Delieve
that the peraOns named therein were not
residing in the ward on the tenth day pre-
ceding The election, and the assistant super
yisors were directed to erase from the lists
of voters all names put down IN such am
davits, and this was done, although the law
made it the duty of the Board OF Metro
politan Police Commissioners to cause
canvass of the city OF New Orleans, and
prescribed that the names of such persons
as should be reported by them as mot
found" only should be stricken from the
registry list, and resulted in the erasure
from the books of the following number OF
names, supposed to be all colored men,
namely: First ward 1872, second ward 80,
third ward $50; making 498 votes of colored
men and Republicans fraudulently erased
from the registration.
SWORN STATEMENT OF WALTER sULLt LONG,
CHIEP CLERK ca THE STATE REGISTRAR
OF VOTERS.
United States of America, district Of
Louisiana.-Personally appeared before me
Walter Sully Long, who being duly swoEn
upon his oath, states as follows:
From March, 1872. to january. 1873,
was chief clerk to B. p. Blanchard, then
holding the office of State registrar OF
voters for the State of Louisiana. In that
capacity was in the fullest confidence of
my chief, and was aware of all and every
transaction of a political nature in the office
during The campaign of 1872.
The necessity of carrying the election for
the Fusion party was frequently matter
OF discussion between Blanchard, myself
duu OIHoLs, dHu Ljldu VI OPoG dIlOu5 was
finally adopted at my suggestion and carried
out as follows
1. The sections monthly returns of Durials
OF persons over the age OF twenty-one years
were carefully compiled by wards. the re-
gistratlon number ascertained and noted.
and a list made Of them.
III. A thorough examination was made
OF the registry books of 1870, in order to
ascertain the number of names of fictitious
ryata rod hat T.,
ward where the persons having control of
these false registry papers were acting with
the Fusion party, those names were used,
but IN wards where the supervisors of 1870
were not acting i'll harmony with the Fusion
party, particular care was taken to prevent
their using the fraudulent papers, and to
detect any attempt at SO doing.
III. system was established reauirine
all persons who had been registered as
voters in 1870, and who had ubseouently
removed, to deliver up their papers of that
year before receiving certificates of regis
tratlon In 1872. These were sent to the
office OF the State registrar of voters every
week, and were carefully sorted out by nv
self and others, and all that showed no eyi
dence of having been examined by tie
United States supervisors of election were
SET ASIDE 10 be used BY repeaters on cleo
tion day.
~. During the ten days preceding fha
election list was made out by me of the
registry numbers and names of the dead
removed and fictitious persons before de-
serlbed and given to each assistant sunpr-
Slsors OF registration for the city wards.
Two or more persons in each ward. who
were 10 serve as commissioners of election.
were set to work IN king lists of those
names upon sheets of paper similar TO that
designed to he used on the day of electinn
In Keeping the written list of voters re-
lnlred by law at each polling place.
v. Inc poll lists were printed. contain
ing the entire registration of both 1870 and
lo'~. NO erasnres were made until the
Saturday and Sunday preceding the cleo,
ton, when the names that could not he
MADE available for the Fusion cause were
crossed off in black pencil on the Iists for
certain polls in each ward and in nun,her
to correspond with the written Esta If
names before alluded to. VI
1hese preiimlnaries having been com.
Pie'eo, III was mere question of mammal
dexterlty on the part of the commissioner
OF election to get within the box a number
OF ballots to correspond with the names
o.osseo on IN black from the printed lists
The estimate of the number of votes rs'
CURED to carry the election was as foIlovs.
For the first ward, 500; second ward e,n6.
third ward, 1000 ""iu' 'oo'
VI. The number of fraudulent votas ..
tualiy counted, and which can be nrov ad
py my own testimony and tlat of other ner-
sons concerned, is per-
In the first ward
In the second ward ''''.'''.....s 23l
In The third ward. ,............'' %3
iotal.. Observation-Disclosures. 100,
Beyond this the papers given to reneaters
were ABOUT 2ooV. l can not at present 70
member men the exact number, but / think that
t4oo were gwen ont to be used in the First
500 to he anu seS Slx1h Municipal Districts, and
tricts "Au MIRA DIS