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

voters was kept Dy Guo Stdto COtAuisSioA'
ers, also violation Of law.
WILLIAM S. WILSON.
Sworn and subscribed before ne this
eley3 nth day Df December, 1872.
E. b. MENTZ,
Assistant Secretary Of State.
NEW ORLEANS, December 10. 1877.
I. William f. Davis, United States su-
pervisor for the second ward, parish OF Or
leans. during the late registration, do
solemnly swear that about 1000 names, re-
turned by the Metropolitan police as not
found or fraudulently registered, were not
erased from the books Of registration, as
the law directs
WILLIAM F. DAVIS.
Swoca 70 before me December 10, 1872.
GEORGE f.. BOVEEy
Secretary of State
10 tb. Honorable Committee Of :he Senate of
Louisiana Oh Elections and Coutestet Elec-
tIons
The petition of c. +. Glaudin respectfully
represents that he was candidate tor Sen
ator from the first senatorial district at the
general election held November 4. 1872,
said senatorial district being composed of
the first, second and third Representative
districts Of the parish of Orleans; that pc
titioner believing himself to have been duly
elected over all other candidates for the
said position Of Senator, presents this his
petition FOR the consideration of your hon
orable body
Petitioner states that since the adjourn
ment of the Senate, on the fourth of March,
1873. he has instituted an inquiry into the
manner in which the election was held in
said first senatorial district, and has OBJ
tanned from various official sources evidence
bearing upon the election of petitioner,
which show various frauds committed to the
prejudice of petitioner, and fraudulently in
favor OF opponents to the extent Of 272S
votes.
Aud your petitioner further shows that
had it not been for the complications caused
by the litiganons as to the status of the
returning boards. he would have adduced
the proper evidence of such alleged frauds
before the proper returning board, and
have established the fact that he had been
duly elected by majority of the votes
legally cast: and he respectfully submits to
the honorable committee the following COM
parative table of legal and illegal votes
cast for Senator. first senatorial district at
the general election OF November, 1872,
compiled from official sources. from which
it will appear, that had fair. legal and une
trammeled election been held and the legal
votes actually cast, been properly and truly
counted. and properly brought before the
returning board. the petitiones would have
been declared elected By . majority OF the
ballots of qualified voters.
Table showing the number OF iega; and L.
legal votes cast at the general election of \ -
mber 4. 1872. tor Senator from the first sen
atorial district as shown BY the testimony Of
Il. p. Blanchard and others. in the case of
Kellogg Va. Warmoth ct ais. in the Knitted
States Circuit Court.
iEssr.s:..
Tota! vote. as returned by Fusion Board:
Giaudin.. ................. ..3lo4
NanSneld. .9aa0
Certificates of deceased persons voted upon
by Fusion manpuators ................ Goa
COlored voters fraudulently stricken from
registry. .......... ...s............ $93
Fraudulent votes, on surrendered registra.
ton papers of persons removed since 1870.
cast fer usion candidates. .............. .'2s
Total fraudulent Votes 70 DO deducted from
count of Fusion candidate. ................ Z22s
Votes to be added to count of Republican
diGate. of colored trauduleptly
stricken from registry. a98
Booths vote, IS per fusion returns a.3.
From which are to bs deducted fraudulent
votes cast for Fusion candidate. above
GaVmerated...... ......'.........-........ NSo
L aving the legal vote received by Booth 2O1a
G.a'idins vote, AS per Fusion returns ...... .lUa
To which are 10 be added. cOicred men
Making Glaud;n's legal vote. ............ 800.
Against Booth 5 legal vote.... ........... 20D3
Givip. Glaudin q clear majority os..... 1899
Petitioner further respectfully shows.
that even had he not received majority of
the total number of ballots cast. az he has
already shown. yet the number of frauds
committed to bis reiudice, and in favor of
his opponent. would have the leg al effect of
invalidating the claims OF all in whose
favor SAID fraudulent practices were ,nade
Use Of.
Wherefore, petitioner prays that this. his
petition. be !avOrably considered, and that
he be duly declared entitled 60 his seat. as
having been duly elected thereto by q ma
jority of all the legal votes cast at the gen
eral election of November 1. 1872. in the
fSs: senatorial district.
c. +. GLAuD1N.
SWORN sfArE3ENr OPP q. T.. BLANCHARD,
STATE REGISTRAR OF VOTERS Under WAR
MOTH.
United States Of America. district of
Louisiana, State of Louisiana, city of New
Orfeans.-Be it known that on this second
day of September, A. ID. 1873, personally
before the undersigned United
States commissioner in and for the district
of Louisiana, duly commissioned and sworn.
Brainard p. Blanchard. who being duly
sworn deposes and says: That he was ap-
poiated by Henry G. Warmoth, Governor
of the State of Louisiana, to the Office of
State registrar OF voters, being also. BY
virtue of said office, ey -officio supervisor
of registration in and for the parish of
Orleans; that he filed the said Office
during the years 1870, 1871 and 1872:
that in the last named year he was in
full political sympathy with the Liberal
and subsequently, upon the
fusion of the Liberal and Democratic par
tie, with what was known as and STYLED
the Fusion party, and in conjunction with
Others of the same political party he de-
vised plans for carrying the general cleo
ton in the State of Louisiana on November
4. 1872, in favor of the said Fusion party
and their candidates for Presidential cleo
tors, Congress and State and municipal
officers; that, with this object in view, he
to take advantage of all the pow
ers conferred upon him by the acts of the
General Assembly of the State Of Louisiana,
numbered, respectively. acts Nos 80 and
lO0 approved March Is, 1870, and known
as the registration and election laws of 1879.
That In frrtherance of this scheme he
caused careful compilation to be made of
the lists of deceased male persons over
twenty one years of age who had died since
the close Of the registration in 1870, which
lists were required by law to be furnished
to him by the sections OF the various cenle-
teries in the parish of Orleans, and that
said lists SO compiled were carefully col
lated with the registration books, and the
registry number and the election Or. cinct
III which the deceased was registered were
noted. That instead of carrying on. to the
full letter the provisions of section seven
of the registration law above referred to
he caused to be erased from the lists of
registered voters only the names of such
electors as were we'll known in
the community, aud in cases where the
deceased was an obscure parsonage la
large majority of the whole number