The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-02-12
a way of doing things which did not

was in Rapides parish a fraudulent
count for McEnery of at least 900 votes?
Answer-I would rather you would ex-
cuse me from answering that question.
Question-If you do not answer it You
will see the inference that may be
drawn. Answer-Y0u can draw your
own inference.
Question-Don't you think, before
starting what you admit to have been
so Objectionable a step as, under ordin-
airy circumstances, the founding of a
white mans party would be, with its
tendency to stimulate those rae antagot
nisms, from which you have suffered sd
much, you ought, at least, to have in
formed yourself whether in your own
parish there were 900 cOlOred votes cast
for the Democratic ticket n r1972? An
swer-I had a pretty general idea of the
way the election of 1872 was conducted,
without going into detail.
Ouestion-From that general idea,
were there 900 cOlOred votes cast for
| McEnery, or were they fraudulently SO
| returned? Answer-Well, the general
| idea | had upon the subject was that
Governor Warmoth had a way of doing
things which was not exactly fair.
Question: also understand that in
| the parish of Natchitoches in 1879 the
colored registration was 1875, and the
| vote for Kellogg only fifty-fye? II that
be so would you not infer that either
1890 voters must have refrained from
voting or that the returns were fraudu-
lently made? Answer-Well, Mr.. Pier
son, who was Warmoth's supervisor,
was on the stand, and he can tell you
how it was done.
Question-Do I understand you to say
that the official votes returned orcounted
| for McEnery in 1872 were to a large ex-
tent fraudulently returned and counted!
Answer-I a not say.
Question-DO you believe that the
votes returned or counted for McEnery
in 1879 were to a large extent fraudu-
lently returned? Answer expect there
was some irregularity.
Question-You believe that? An
sWer-If you press me on my oath, yes,
sir. I preferred not to answer the ques-
ton because I had nothing to do with
the politics of that year.
if an intelligent Conservative white mar
| like you believes that the vote returned
and counted for McEnery in 1872 was to
q large extent fraudulently returned and
counted, it is a little steep to take up
| arms and plunge the State into civil war
for the sake of establishing that man in
office? Answer have always believed
that the white men were in a majority,
| and in spite of the frauds Of Warmoth
in 1879 the white people honestly carried
the State.
Question-D0 you think the returns
| on either side were sufficiently authentic
| to base a revolution upon2 Answer
the official counts and returns were not.
Question-Then if the count On Meth
| er side was to be relied upon, how would
you have had President Grant act so as
| to get at the result? Answer-I don't
| believe he could have done it. I blame
| Congress more than the President.
To Mr.. Wheeler: Question-What
could Congress have done? Answer
| 1t could have sent down a committee.
Question-Do you suppose it would
have been practicable for a committee
of Congress to have gone Over your
State, parish by parish, and settle the
fact of all the claims of fraud or intimi-
| dation and determine what would have
been the result of a fair and free cleo
ton going behind the returns OF both
| sides? Answer think not.
| Congress do? Answer-Restore the
| SUdDuS It's AU Co DCLotOD uICkA 4SSlsCN HE
midnight order and let the people fight
it out themselves.
To Mr.. Frye-Governor Warmoth, in
| 1872. appointed Greeley men as super
| visors all over the State; had a congress
sional committee gone to Ranides and
neighboring parishes they would have
found many Irregularities; can't say
that In Rapides there were 900 fraudu.
lent Democratic votes think that nine.
| tenths of the unnaturalized persons re-
side in New Orleans; believe there are
$4,000 aliens in Louisiana, and but few
of them are Republicans. Mr. Frye
read several editorials from the Cauca-
sian, and asked witness If such extreme
| ideas were his opiniona, and he replied
in the affirmative. One of the articles
| called President Grant an Infamous
| drunkard and knave and other bad
names; another item can be construed
| directly into a revolutionary advice; ii
asserted that no defeated Republican
should ever take his seat in Rapides
parish1. My associate editor participa-
ted in the Grant parish massacre; the
| Republican newspaper Office was mob
bed and the material destroyed; the per-
| sons who did it were employees of a De-
| mOcratic paper; my father, r. T. Hunt
| er, is n last ditch Democrat.
To Mr.. Hoar-We were prepared to
use force II it was necessary to seat our
candidates had our members been re-
fused their seats in the Legislature and
the government backed by the police,
there would have been somebody hurt
had not the United States troops been
on hand,
To MI. Frye-Fifty-nine eolored men
were killed at Colfax and two white
men died; the Caucasian praised the
men who took part in the Colfax mas
sacre; | approved of it, as did most Of
our people; my paper counseled resist
ance to the United States troops in q
certain emergency had not the Colfax
affair ended as it did, not less than 9
thousand niggers would have been killed
later,
MALLEABLEGLAss-THE SECRET DIS
coyERED.-After all the labor and mon.
ey that have been expended in futile
efforts to discover some process whereby
glass can be made malleable, it is al.
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