The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-29
LOUISIANA.
LETTER FROM SENATOR YVES,


New YORK, Sept. Ex-senator West
Of Louisiana, has made public q lettel
dated September 27lh, and Addressed &
Collector Casey, New Orleans, on the DO
litical affairs Of tho State. OF Gov. Kel
, loggs abandonment Of the executive ofilcC
on the occasion Of the Penn revolution
and the Governors imputation Of the In,
territorial bomb proof absenteeism ON the
part Of friends, Senator West says:T 11'
Many are oil the opinion that Governor
Kellogg would have displayed greater
heroiSm and confidence In his own right
to the Chief MsgiStracy had he dismissed
his Inefficient defenders and bravely stood
aloneiD the maintenance oil his executive
rights, yielding them only TO personal
election. II Governor Kellogg regrets my
absence he knows that visited the North
at his written request to lay before The
President the condition of affairs in
Louisiana, and TO solicit federal
support, for his, government, when
10 integrity should DO ihperiled, II he
wants ais political friends who are absent
TO assume the fighting garb they might
prefer some other leader. Generally the
Kellogg administration since it came into
power has been exercised in the true in.
terests of the State. II Is surrounded
with difficulties sufficient to dismAy the
stcuNst1 @tSsDd ith@ 81 lGiafeeeived
sunhIa jhock as 10 rlak6,its most deter.
mined supporters doubt whether 1t Is com.
petent to expect obedience to It's authori.
ty, even with the assistance OF the
parent government 1p regard 10 the
recent conference, the Senator says, THAT
the proposition looking 10 the avoidance Of
fraud in the election is thought eminenlly
just, and ought byIall means TO be adopted.
1t should be preceded by promise and
guaranty on the part OF the Democrats,
to prevent murder and protect life
and admit the iull expression Of
opinion, and abstain from all intimida.
ton Of the colOred people
SENATOR soHURz REVIEWS THE PACKARD.
EMORY NOTE.
MASON, Mo-, Sept. Ex-senator Schurz
day addressed mass meeting here on
State and National politics, and in the
course Of his speech made the following
remarks on the correspondence between
Marshal Packard and General Emory in
Louisiana: ffhhs
l notice that General Emory, with
commendable spirit, repels the idea that
United States troops could be used for
political purposes. No doubt he de-
scribes the sentiments Of honest soldiers
correctly when he says such an attempt
would be resented by them with indigns.
ton. For this | honor him, and should
be the last man 10 cast any slur upon the
honorable spirit and good faith Of the true
soldier; but l submit that Gen. Emory's
protestation does not meet the case. He
says in his letter to Marshal Packard that
he does see how United States troops
can bo used for political purposes. Just
there is the trouble. l venture to say that
Marshal Packard, in his capacity as party
manager, does see many things which
Gen. Emory cannot see, Just because the
latter is an honest soldier and not party
manager. Campaign managers OF the
Packard stamp are apt to see many things
which the honest soldier may find it diff.
cult to appreciate. We remember the
use United States troops were put to IN
the Kellogg usurpstion in 1872. For
weeks they had TO stand guard over
the State House while a State
Government and Legislature were put in
power which had not the least evidence
OF an election by the people, but were
virtually created by an act Of the grossest
usurpation on the part Of Judge Durrell.
The honest soldier may not have seen
the outrageous character Of that proceed.
Ing, or he may have been indignant St il,
but he simply had to obey orders, and
who procured those lamentable orders?
The party managers in Louisiana, and
shong them Marshal Packafa.S They
know how 10 obtain orders for the honest
soldier there, and they may try, on some
plausible pretext 10 obtain orders for a
kindred purpose which the honest SOL
dier will have to- obey, Indignation
or no indignation, or they may use the lat
itude oil their power, to make the arrange
ments themselves and, the soldier will
have to play .. part without being able 10
see through them. Ihope they will not be
as successful as they were in 1872, but how
ever, that may bC, say again; inssmuch as
1t is Of the highest Importance that
the people Of Louisiana not only should
have fair election but also be made to
feel and belieYe that they have one; no
man who was an accomplice In the ilsur-
patton Of 1872, and who al this time Is
the manager Of political party in the
pending election, and especially Of that
party for whose benefit the ,usurpa-
luon 8 in 18B was accomplished
should have the least influence over the
employment Of United States troops in
that election, because such man canno.
inspire confidence. But l go further. We
learn through the papera that the 6ppo-
nents Of the Kellogg government who but
recently alter successful revolution with
u. 900 armed men at their command dpti.
fully bowed down before q ,corporArs
guard under the National flag and
promptly submitted 10 the reinstatement
OF kellogg, have been making an honora.
Bile and loyal effort 10 secure fair elec-
ton. In their conferences with the chiefs
Of the Kellogg party they proposed that
the returning board should be composed
OF two members from each party, and that
the fifth should be designated BY the two
parties together as sort OF an
umpire, and l understand the opponents
Of Kellogg agreed that this umpire might
be taken from the Republican ranks, pro.
vided he have the character Of fair and
just man. This was no csptious demand,
for II Is well known that in Louisiana,
elections are apt 10 be decided, not by
the people who cast the votes, but by the
party managers and their tools, who
count and return the votes. The grant
ing oi such request was, therefore, not
only proper, but absolutely necessary to
produce confidence and good feeling.
Even many prominent men oil the Kellogg
party recognized the evident fitness Of the
proposed arrangement; but, as the news.
papers inform as, there was one man op.
posing II TO the last, even against his party
iriends-one man who strenuously insist.
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