The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18
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purpose of holding the Office. Thus the
Governor has entire control Of the ma
chinery
Again the registrar may determine
now manly polls shall DO opened in q
parish. Here we fix the number ofyot-
ing places by law, and we know where
the polls areto be opened. Not Sc there.
They may establish twenty voting places
IN county or only one or two. This
puts 1t 10 the power Of tbs officer to do n
great wrong. Take county in which
they desired small Republican vote.
instead of establishing voting places thst
are easy of access, they may establish
them at the most inaccessible points.
so the result would be tina: counties
which ought to give 5000 Republican,
majority, would not give ovc- 800 votes
and consequently not more than 800
Republican majority. Some men travel.
ed torty-1tUe miles to vote. How manH
of you Wisconsin men would do that
Ii q county was Democratic, they would
establish twenty voting places. They
would put the ballot box under every
mans nose and tease him to vote.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections spent six weeks in taking
testimony, and the proof showed fraud
IN the part OF Governor Warmoth. The
official returns were all sent in. The
proof showed that they had been lamp
cred with in various ways. Alter o full
consideration of all the testimony, il
was the opinion of the committee that
gong By the returns Of that election
McEnery, who was running against
Kellogg, was elected by about 10000
majority, and yet the committee all be-
lleved that although McEuery had that
maj Iritf, there had bten twice that mum.
bet OF Votes unlawfuI.y and improperly
excluded from the polls, in consequence
OF this machinery, 50 that, in the opinion
of the Committee, McEuery, although he
had received a majority of the votes
actually put into the box, could not be-
pronounced legally elected. Governor
without countenanclng systematic fraud.
The case Of Kellogg was jus! as bad, in a
legal pOlat of view, STILL we believed
that i'll fair election he would have
been elected. They had two returning
boards; Warmoth's board and the other
was KeIlogg's board. The Kellogg
board didn't get slLgle return, and
they never had one. The returns were
all made to Warmoth. the Kellogg
board went to work and took testimony,
without a single return before them as
TO the number of votes in Kellogg's
favor. La the same case they took mere
newspaper statements. In one county
they canvesSed 1900 aftidavits of
men who swore that they had been
deprived Of voting. These were counted
as votes.
1t would seem that the only safety for
colored mans vote IS to keep it IN his
pocket, for if he pat it into ballot box
The Democrats will Steal it.
The members of the board stated that
in several parishes they estimated the
vote from their kno Wedge of the political
complexion of the district. 1t was by
such a canvas that Kellogg was
Determined elected Governor of the
State.
After that state of things had existed
tor some time, Judge Durrell, United
States Judge, took 1t into his head he
would ssraighten it out. Kellogg went
into his court and fled q bill compelling
the werner to produce the returns that
had been made. The Judge issued an
order to seize the State House, and
it with soldiers, and after
wards a colored man named Antoine,
filed bill against several hundred
persons who he claimed had been elected
to the Legislature; and In that case Judge
DurraIl issued a two-faced order, in
Vi hch it was ordered that certain names
should not be called, and in the next
that cersain names should be
called.
When the matter came before Congress-
and these facts were developed, there
was considerable difference of opinion
as to what was to be done. It seems to