The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-24
THE PIGEON-HOLE ELECTION LAW

Can Kellogg resist the temptation to sig
has pledged himself by official proclamation
not to sign?
Can he resist the pressure Of his partisan
urging him per tas a netas to sign that cleo
ton acty
Our opinion is, that he cannot resist thu
temptation; and that he can no more resis
the pressure blind fatality leads him t.
the unholy consummation reckless of conse
quences.
The reason why he cannot resist the temp
tation, and the pressure il simply because the
law Of elections, it now stands has two
provisions in it. which make it extremely
difficult to stuff ballct-boxes and to falsity
returns
! Act 1872 (Nov. POI, section $, provides that
''1he election at each poll or voting place
shall he presided over by three commissioners
of election. residents of the parish for at least
twelve months next preceding the day OF cleo
ton who shall be selected from different po-
litcal parties, and be Of good standing i'll the
party to which they belong.
Section ~ of this act provides: e. That inn
mediately upon the close Of the polls on the
day of election. the commissioner Of election
at each poll or voting place shall proceed to
count the votes and after they shall have so
counted the votes and made Il list OF all the
persons voted tor, and the offices for which
they We're voted for and the number of votes
received by each the number of ballots con
tanned in the box. and the number rejected
and the reasons therefor. Duplicates Of such
lists shall be made out, signed and sworn to
by the commissioners of election of each
poll" etc
Now these duplicates are required to be
made up and filed within twenty-four hours |
of Registration, as regards New Orleans; and
as regards the country parishes with the Clerk
Of the District Court.
The Conservatives to be entitled to one COM
missioner at each poll, and the counting to be
done Immediately at the polls, in the presence
Of the public and within twenty-four hours
The official returns of the commissioners to he
made out and actually filed That cannot
suit Kellogg, nor the Radical party Such a
thing as fair election in Louisiana
'annot be tolerated; for that would insure the
lefeat Of the truly loyal" and be death
'low to the usurpation.
Therefore Kellogg will sign the pigeon-hole
ct of election-by sheer temptation. II the
emptation is not sufficient then, by the
PRESSURE, he shall sign that bill. /
Prepare for this people Of Louisiana ; for, i
Kellogg resists the temptation and the I
ressure, then he is prodigy. He will have {
iven lie to his past record. But, we r. peat ,
he cannot resist either the temptation or !
ne pressure. ,
N. B.-A little bird whispers to us that
ellegg will not SIGN the bill after all. Not S
e. But that he will take little trip across |
le lake, and leave the bill where the little !
egro Lieutenant Governor Antoine can get d
and sign it. Then he will come back and II
ulster and rave about it, and swear that q
ntoine signed it against his wishes, and he n
III publish letter to that effect, and then Il
!, and A-toine will drive down to the lake a
gether and laugh over it between the cock u
lis and the whisky.