The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-09-23

States, confessed by all a fair election,
and the Republicans carried the State
BY 26 900 majority. In the summer the
Kukluxwere organized Between Sept
1st. and the November election they
killed and wounded over 200 persons,
mostly negroes, as shown By the re-
port of the committee Of Congress
THE cRuELTiEs PENETRATED
were never exceeded by the Indians,
nor did that committee examine the
whole State. A reign of terror was
created, Republicans were kept IRON
the polls, and the Democrats carried
the November election by Al 900 ma
jority, making change of o. 900
votes. In some parishes the Repub-
licans east not single vote, In others
two, and in others ten After that
negroes, for some time, were not shot
in droyes but the stream of solitary
dropping murders rolled on. War
moth then young man of character,
and promise, had teen elected Gov
ernor in the spring by the Repubii-
cans, but he turned out to be corrupt,
and engaged in many schemes of
fraud, in which most of his partners
we're Democrats. In 1871, the Re
ministration at Washington rejected
him. Then the Democrats, who had
denounced him as having ruined the
State, took him to their embrace and
formed a coalition by which they were
to carry the State, and he was to be
made United States Senator In the
bargain.
His control of the machinery of cleo
ton, which was all in his hands as
Governor, was counted equal to 20 600
votes Louisiana was VIGOROUSLY Re-
publican as clearly as Vermont or
Mississippi The Democrats believed
that Warmoth could commit fraud
enough TO overcome that majority.
Their entire hopes were based on
fraud. They went into the election
with the full knowledge that they
could only succeed by fraud. 1t was
the
MOST FRAUDULENT ELECTION EVER HELD
in the United States. Senator Car
penter and the majority of the Senate
Committee declared it an organized
fraud and void. Republicans went
into it, knowing they were to be
swindled. When the election was
over they still claimed that they car
ried the State by 4 900 or 5000 majori-
ty, and that if the election had been
fair they Would have had 500 or
1000 majority. 1t was proven before
the State committee that returns from
seven parishes, that were relied on to
elect McEnery, were forgeries out and
out The majority OF the Senate
Committee. through Mr.. Carpenter,
reported bill to provide for new
election, and that nobody was elected,
1 made a minority report insisting
majority Notwithstanding. it seems
majority reported in favor of Mem
emery, they did no such thing They
reported that he was not elected. |
do not say that the Republicans
did not also commit fraud; to use the
language of the committee, they de-
termined to fight the devil with fire.
The Senator then proceeded to dis
euss the composition and the proceed
iDgs of the Returning Board that
counted the votes. The Supreme
Court, three of the four members of
which had been elected four years be-
fore, and were not connected in any
way with these troubles. declared that
the Lynch Returning Board was the
lawful board, and that their decision
that Kellogg was elected was conclu-
sive. The Senator described the in
reference of United States Judge
Durrell and its effect. He did not
Justify the interference of him nor the
irregularities of the Lynch Board, but
that the interference did not
change the question of right or inval
idate what had been done. The Su
preme Court has repeatedly decided
that
THE KELLOGG GOVERNMENT IS THE ONLY
LAWFUL GOVERNMENT.
The President. in five different ways,
has recognized it; the House of Rep
resentatives recognized it by admit
ting a member of kellogg certificate;
the Senate did so by repeatedly refus-
ing to pass the bill for a new ele ;tion.
The Senator reviewed the Colfax mas
sacre. where one hundred colored
men were killed under circumstances
of peculiar atrocity, and only one
white man was hurt. He then sketch
ed the Coushatta murders. For all
these inhuman crimes not a man has
been punished. | am no advocate of
Kellogg. but it is only justice to say
that he has not belonged to any of the
plundering rings, and no robbery or
stealing has been brought home to
him. The Republicans of Louisiana
are net free from fraud l have no
apology for them But they are trivial
when compared with the system of
murder by which their ranks have
been decimated and the whole State
demoralized.
A reign of terror destroys the in
| tegrity Of men as well as their courage.
Their enemies in Louisiana claim that
charges of corruption and misgovern
ment which they make against Re-
publicans shall obscure and hide the
fact that Louisiana has been one vast
scene of murders during the last eight
years Ii the people of Louisiana
would not prove their State to be
blighted they must stop the murder
business. They cannot expect the
government to. We have got past the
| point where it was necessary to IN
ouire who was elected. Government
cannot exist in any State without
| there be some tribunal to determine
who has been elected; without some
thing can be considered settled. The
| kellogg Government has gone on
nearly two years. The seizure of the
State by the McEnery faction was in
the nature of a Mexican pronunei-
mento. If it is tolerated in one State
it will be adopted in others. 1t would
be the introduction of Mexican poll
tics. There is one
1 ron TUT Sny-TE