Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-12-30

the State carried their threats Of personal violence
into effect by killing some Republicans, whipping
and ill-treatlng others, and compelled the parish
officers holding Office under the present State Gov
eminent to abdicate their Offices. This was par
tcularly the case in all the Red River parishes
most of the Teche parishes and in the parishes be-
tween the Red and Ouachita Rivers.
| All the above acts, resorted to by the WhHe
League organization to carry out their purpose,
were clear violations of both State and tnlted
States laws and would subject the perpetrators oil
| the acts to Imprisonment in the Penitentiary, SO
odious are they to the sense of the people. Ihese
acts of intimidation, which prevented q falr, irec
and peacabe election in the Parishes OF 81 Mary
| and Grant, were so general and overwhelming
| that the Board felt compelled to thr'w out every
| box in these parishes and in many other parishes
where there was satisfactory proof that mtmiua-
| ton had been used at designated polls, so as 10
prevent a fair free aud peaceable election at sucA
| polls, and they were excluded from the coihpia-
| ton as the law requires When the friendS Oh u
| poitical party such as the White League organi-
cation is toward the Democratic party, snail clear
" and generally violate the laws OF the country 10
control election in their interests, IL Is put JuSI
and proper that, when they are shown TO nave
brought such acts to bear on an election, they
should not be permitted to profit by them, ana
such is the intention of the law. Inc BOARD,
however, in this case did not exclude any poll
from compilation except on satisfactory PROOF thal
such violation had been perpetraed and that II
of voters to change the result Of the election.
There were no returns of the election from the
Parish of De Soto by the Supervisor of Reglstra-
tion as the law required. Persons interested pro-
duced the Clerk of the Court with such papers as
were by law intrusted to him, and offered them as
the returns from the parish The board decided
that they could not receive, canvass, and compile
such returns. The parties in interest applied to
the proper Court for a mandamus to compel the
Board to receive the canvass and compile those
returns but upon trial tle Court sustained the
ruling of the Board. The same principle was
acted upon in the Terrebonne case. There was
no Supervisor in the Parish of Winn, the one ap-
pointed for that parish having been expelled from
The parish, and an unauthorized person assumed
to act. They could not recognize such lawless-
ness.
The Board has adjourned subject to the call OF
the President. Gov. Kellogg states that the re-
turns show three Republican and three Democrat
ic members of Congress. The House Is nearly II
not quite tie, as Gov. Hahn and other Conser-
vatiye Republicans will probably remain neutral,
The Constitutional Amendments are declared
carried by about 10000 majority. Bienvlle Par
ish, which gave Grant and Kellogg 600 votes IN
1872, and Dubuclet no vote this year, is not
counted; and Grant Parish, the scene OF the Col
fax massacre is also thrown out, though 1t gave
a small Republican majority.