The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1875-01-02
TIE FARCE ENDED.

honest intentions and virtuous indig
nation at the bare mention Of fraul.
the partisan, corrupt and pcUured
Returning Board who were sworn
to make an honest count of the
returns, have done what everybody
knew they intended to do from the
very beginning, and have with an
audacity that is amazing and impu-
|dence which shows in what con.
tempt they hold the sovereign will
of the people, counted in q majority
Of two for the Radicals in the
House of Representatives. and have
declared elected the defeated can
didates in most of the country par
ishes. Rapides is counted out with
tlIo single exception Of Judge
Daigre whom they declare elected
by only fifty majority, when in fact
his majority was over five hundred,
To arrive at this mathematical re.
suit so different from the emphati-
cal]y expressed wish of the electors
both white and black, it was neces-
sary to throw ont the boxes at Co.
tile, Paups and Big Island. The
pretext in the case of the pauls
Store box We understands to have
been that instead of carrying out
the full figures for the vote Of each
candidate, the vote for each being
the same, the commissioners Of
election used the universally mark
C') to indicate that the vote was
the same. The returns were ac-
companied by the sworn statement
of the commissioners that the
marks meant that tho majorities
were the same. In the case of the
other two boxes we learn that the
pretext was that the returns were
not sworn to although they were
signed by the commissioners and
the tally sheets showed that the
vote was correct and was even bet
ter evidence of that fact than the
oath of the commissioners. These
are but f]imsy pretexts upon which
to attempt to defeat the solemn
will Of the people of this parish,
and it will avail them but little
that they have tried to swindle us
out Of our victory.
The two questions which have
been passed from one to another Of
our people since the news reached
us are: "What are we going to do
about it T. "Will the people stand
itv We think that we know the
temper Of the people Of this parish
we'll enough to answer for them the
second question with an emphatic
No /! they will not stand il! Mr..
Clements who is returned elected
for Sheriff says that he knows he
was beaten and that he will not
be counted in, that he will not re
ccivc a commission. If the other
defeated candidates are disposed to
claim what they know they are not
entitled to have, we think that
there are enough men in Rapides
to eject them from their offices,
should they be installed by the U.
S. bayonets. We tell them now
that they shall not hare the o0iccs.-
Unless they wish to arouse the cou-
chant hon whose spring will be GER
tain. they had better not attempt to
the duties of officers for
which they we'll know they were
fairly beaten. We say this not for
the purpose ofintimidating any one
but only to give them fair warning.
If they attempt it the consequences
be upon their own heads.
In reply to the first question as
to what we will do about it, the on
~ solution that we can discover is
to content ourselves with having
no officers at all for the next two
years. We will have a legal Judge
Of the Parish Court and the Clerk
is in by virtue of the Usurpation
in 1872, but we can have no Court
a Sheriff, and as we do not
suppose the Usurper Kellogg will