New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-26

in each parish or county, and the super
; visor in each parish appointed three comma.
sioners. To these were added three free
holdera. who, with. the commissioner, as
sisted the supervisors Of the parish in
counting the votes Of the precincts. And
cheat Kellogg, but that Kellogg could not
cheat WarmOth or McEnery. One could
cheat. The organization Of the election
throughout the whole State originated with
and was controlled by Warmoth. 1t is
not denied that WarmOth meant fraud, and
that he had the power to effect it. There
was one circumstance which afforded great
facility in carrying out this fraud. Almost
every Republican that came to the polls to
be registered had mark on him which
said, II belong to the Republican party"
he was a colored man. There were some
white Republicans, but they were not SO
numerous that they were not known, so
that it was an easy thing to make it diff
| cult to get registration, or to secure the re-.
quisite identification between the voter and
| his registration papers.
| 1t appears, then, that the McEnery party
had the purpose to cheat, and had the or
gained machinery to effect their end. 1t
looks as if, after all, the Republican major
| ity was too great for them. WarmOth
knew that it was of the first importance
that he should satisfy the public that Nc
Emery had majority, and how easily he
could have done go. Instead of maneuvre-
ing to get facile board of canvassers, in
stead OF resorting to legislative bill.
which he, as Governor, had carried for six
months in his pocket, and signing it so az
to create a mem Der OF the canvassing board
that suited him, all he need to have done
was to call in twenty honest men in the
State Of Louisiana, Republicans and
Democrats, take them to the State
House and there say, "Here are the
returns; add them up in the presence of
these interested parties" 1t was only a
added them up, showed the result, and If
any one standing by said "those returns
are talse,' all he need have done was to
send to the supervisors of the parish whom
he had appointed, and request him to bring
the ballot-box, and say, There are the
any one charged that the ballot-box had
been stuffed, or that there had been votes
abstracted, all he need have done was to
send for the. poll lists and say, There are
the poll lists; they correspond with the bal
lots;" and if any one charged that the poll
parish, all he need have done was to send
justice of the peace to that parish; every
man who had there voted had inaorsed on
his registration papers the fact that he had
voted, and, if living man, he could swear
how he voted.
NOWS NAr. Ere6lOeut, Wn60 one Dent on
fraud has it in his power to prove to a
demonstration that his candidate ia elected
and shirks the investigation, it is moral evil
dence, irresistible, that the investigation
would have proven that his candidate was
defeated. ..
Mr. Carpenter-Will my friend allow me
q word at that point?
Mr.. Frelinghuysen-Yee, sir. II
Mr.. Carpenter-The Senator does not
claim. of course, that there is any law au-
th0rizng any such investigation, or that
anybody would have been indictable for
perjury who should have come before that
that town meeting which he imagines and
Mr.. Frelinghuysen-That is the best an.
swer which can be made. But it is a matter
perfectly immaterial whether the twenty
honest men, ten Democrats and ten Repub-
lcans, whom he might have selected, were
officials or not; the effect of their determine
ton would have been the same on the pub
lie. There is in the case nothing that re-
quires any oath; it is q matter of adding up
the returns. and q matter of ocular demon.
stratiOn whether the ballots correspond
with the returns; and whether the poll lists
conform with the ballots in the box; and
the only situation in which an affidavit
could be required is that of charge being
made that in some precint the poll list was
false, and you would seek the voter with
his registration paper with him, to ask him
how he voted. Some one could have been |
found under their laws to take such afi-
Mr.. President, did not Warmoth know
that investigations would prove his candi-
late not elected? At all events, is there
Affirmative proof that McEnery was elected
On which we can remove Kellogp} But
instead of doing all this, Mr.. Warmoth
comes to Congress, not to ask that his can
2idate may be installed in Offices but he
nrppn IN ovy hat II, l.
n office. That would lead to investigation.
He asks that we will order new election.
And the wonder is that in the Senate.
among those who thought it uncOnstitu- L
ional to set aside the State government
when the hands of those who had sworn
lostlhty to the United States government,
lmOng those who thought it unconstitu-
iOnal to set aside those mOckeries Of gov
rnment that Andrew johnson had erected
low hold it to be constitutional at the
Instance of Mr.. WarmOth to 90 into Louis
ana and to regulate the domestic relations
# that State.
MIR: President, views similar in some re.
poets to those which have expressed are
ct forth in the report of my friend from
Wisconsin; for he agrees with me a. to the
'lci0us character of the elections:
"A careful consideration Of the testimony
onvlnces us that had the election of No
ember last been fairly conducted and re
urned Kellogg and his associates, Q Legis-
ature composed of the same political
'arty would have been elected. The col.
red population of that State Outnnmbers
he white, and in the last election the col
red voters were almost unanimous in their
Import OF the Republican ticket. Governor
varmoth, who was elected by the Repub-
canE OF that State in 1865. had passed into
pposition, and held in his hands the en-
ire machinery of the election. He ap-
Ointed the supervisors of ropistratjon
nd they appointed the commission'
rs OF election. The testimony shows
systematic purpose on the Dart 4
those conducting the election to throw
very possible difficulty in the way of the
olored voters in the matter of registration.
he polling places are not fixed by law, and
t the last election they were purposelv
Established by those conducting the election
{ places incOnvenient of access in those
arishes which were known to be largely
republican; so that in some instances voters
ad to travel over twenty miles in order to |
each the polls. The election was generally
Onducted in quiet, and was perhaps unusu-
lily free from sturbaDce or riot. Governor /
armotb, who was the master spirit in the /
hole proceeding, seems to have relied uDon /
raft rather than violence to csrry the State
Dr. McEnery. In the canvass of votes. which
etermined the McEnery government to be
leeted, the votes of several Republican par.
hes were rejected"
Mr.. President, / further submit that. as
light be expected from the circumstances
eferred to, we have nothing amounting to
violence that McEnery had any majority,
nd for these five reas0ns-first, the cues
on mas at best been only incidentally ex-