Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27
TELEGRAPHIC.
THE LOUISIANA MuDDLE,
Both Sides Present Their Writ.
ten Statements Before the
Senate Committee,

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j ten Statements Before the
Senate Committee.
i New ORLEANS, Dec. 19.-The Sen
ate Committee met at noon. Th,
/ Chairman said the statement Of tn,
clerk of the Returning Board was de
fcctive, not giving a detailed accoun
of the votes rejected only giving th,
aggregate number. 4
i Mr.. Morcy, of the republican coun
sci, suggested that the statement o
Eaton Logwood, who was about I,
Idle of wounds received in Ouachit.
lparish, be heard. It was decided t
take the testimony at his residence
The evidence was materially th,
same as sent Nov. 28th.
i Adjourned.
/ The republican counsel's Statement
to the Senate Committee alleges it
ability to prove IA
| First-That the State election wa.
at certain polls and precincts nulli.
fed by violence and intimidation.
| Second-That the State laws were
lcnacted to meet such condition OF
affairs. They declare an election thus
held null and void, and vest the Re.
turning Board with power to examine
into the facts where such condition
of affairs exist, and, if proven, to de
clare void any such election.
Third-The returning officers ac-
cordingly examined and found in
certain parishes that the election was
nullified by such q state Of affairs,
and declared the nullity.
Fourth-At the recent election T.
600 to 5000 republican voters who
wished and attempted to vote the re-
pu blican ticket were put in fear OF
their lives and terrified systematical.
ly, and by outragcs prevented from
casting their ballots; five or six hun
dred republican voters were thus
forced to vote the democratic ticket.
Fifth-Thus was the right to vote
of 5000 of the 1900 to 10000 color
ed persons denied or abridged.
Sixth-Such abridgment was in the
whole or part of the parishes of East
Baton Rouge, East and West Felici-
ana, Ouachita, Morehouse, Richland,
Grant, Livingston, Franklin, Sabine.
Claribone, De Soto, Jackson and
Nachitochcs.
Sevcnth-This denial and abridg-
ment was the result of conspiracy
for the violent suppression of enough
republican votes to enable the con-
spirators carry the State for the dem
Ocrats. Armed men carried out the
conspiracy.
Eighth-This conspiracy and the
resulting acts were committed by
white democrats.
Ninth-The purpose was to coerce
sufficient republican voters to vote
the democratic ticket to secure an ap-
parent democratic majority in the
State.
Tenth-A preconcerted conspiracy
is shown by Patton's confidential cir
cular issued by the Chairman of the
State democratic committee by the
selection of those parishes for bull
doing which skirt the States of Mis-
sissippi and Arkansas. and render
violence easier. They were strong
republican parishes.
The democrats have denied these
outrages, or attributed them to the
negligence of local officers, knowing
the local officers were powerless BY
the same terrorism. Under the State
law the returning officers alone can
make returns of elections; neither
Supervisors or Commissioner of reg
lstration can make and declare re-
turns.
Twelfth-The defeat of such law
lessness spread into the surrounding
parishes.
Thirtecnth--In East Feliciana the
horrible murder of John Gair, ex-
Representative and Sergeant-at-A Arms
of the House of Representatives, un-
der the pretense that he killed man
who is now alive, and was tied to a
tree and shot to death, was crime
committed by the democrats.
Fifteenth The assassination of
Senator Twitchell, in Red river par
ish, was purely contrived by the dem
ocrats for political ends. Finally the
counsel call attention to the parallel
between the affairs Of 1868 and 1876,
rcmarking that few democrats now
deny the outrages of 1868, which have
passed into history.
The protest is signed by Hugh j.
Campbell, Chairman of the Commit
tee.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 19.-The dem
ocratic counsel's statement to the
Senate committee of their case con-
tains the following points:
First They received in the late
Presidential election in Louisiana a
majority of the legal votes of about
5000.
Second-That the election so far as
the democrats were concerned, was
fair, peaceable and full, and the dem
ocrats all attempted to secure such an
election.
Third-On the contrary, the repub-
licans and their leaders, having pre-
viously determined and conspired to
carry the State unfairly, therefore did
many unlawful acts.
Fourth-The republicans appoint
only republican Supervisors and al
most exclusively republican Clerks of
Registration, refusing democrats re-
peated demands for representation.
thus preventing the detection of
frauds.
Fifth-They usually sent out COR
rupt men as Supervisors in county
parishes, sometimes selecting United
States officials living outside the coun-
ties in which they acted.
Sixth-These Supervisors in sew
eral parishes impeded the democrats
from registering, practically denying
registration in some cases, yet afford
ing the republicans every chance to
register.
Seventh-These Supervisors often
refused to strike Off the names of col
ored republicans clearly proven in
the revision to be fraudulent, and on
election day greater part of such
men voted, increasing the vote ofthis
State fully 1850.
Eighth These Supervisors COM
municating freely with the re-
publican commissioners, receiving in
structions to commit frauds, with
promises Of reward if successful.
Ninth-The republican leaders and
voters devised means of intimidating
democratic voters by threats and cor
rupt practices, causing wholesale ar
rests of white voters just before the
election, thus causing terror and de-
priving the democrats of many voters.
Tenth-The leaders and Supervi-
sors connived to prevent the casting
of a full vote in several parishes.
Eleventh-They illegally appointed
numerous Deputy U. s. Marshals at
great expense to the Government; ; al
SO deputy constables, who surround
ed the polls and inundated voters.
Twelfth-They spent money for
partisan purposes by commissions
ing many U. S. Marshals exclusively
among republicans, and employing
clerks to write and copy affitlavits for
the Returning Board; also by sum-
moning many republican witnesses
and paying large mileage.
Thirtcenth-They closed the courts
against redress in an unheard of man.
ner.
Observation-Disclosures leaders be-
fore and after the election conspired
to count fraudulently votes cast, to
reverse o large democratic majority
| on the face of the returns. Public