Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-16
LOUISIANA.
kellogg Gives Detail that Make
it Republican.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 10
Kellogg furnishes the following state
ment to the Associated Press regard
ing the election "Very few official
returns have been received outside the
city by the Secretary Of State, the
proper custodian. Unofficial state
ments have been received and publish
ed here of fifteen Republican and
thirteen Democratic parishes, twenty
eight out of fifty seven, which may be
called tolerably reliable. Other par
ishes are estimated b. each side, and
the State is claimed according to each
estimate by both sides. The Demo-
Gratis only claim the State by estimat-
ing the Republicans parishes of East
and West Feliciana, East Baton Rouge
Moorehouse, and Ouachita as having
given them, as they claim, nearly A.
900 majority. No one can dispute
that these parishes were overrun and
intimidatsd by armed bands of the
White League before and on the day
of election. These parishes have al
ways been largely Republican. The
registration in these parishes is
| White, 3.69S; black, 500. They
gave me 5000 in 1872 by the returns
of the fusion Democratic board, and
they gave the Republican candidate
5000 majority in 1874, as conceded
by the Democratic Committee. In
Ouiaehita a Deputy United States
Marshal was killed on election day, the
polls taken possession Of and run by
the White League. In East Feliciana
not single Republican, vote was al
lowed to be polled. The Republicans
were not allowed to run a ticket
This parish is next to the Mississippi
line, and has been turbulent more Or
less since the Democrats got possession
of Mississippi. In this parish I got
over 900 majority in 1872, and in 1874
the Republicans carried the parish by
more than 1000 majority. The vote
claimed by the Democrats in these
parishes was procured by intimidation,
violence and assassination, and the
poof Of this is overwhelming and per-
fectly conclusive. Notwithstanding
the claimed vote Of those parishes we
confidently believe that We have car
ried the State The Democrats never
claimed to have carried the State by
but about 1000 in 1874, not counting
Barrol Parish. which gave US over
|, 800 ma ority, but where they always
alleged frauds and refused to concede
but about 900 of this majority to us.
They admit that we have gained in the
city 2, 400 votes over the vote of 1874
they admit that we have carried Iberia
st. Martin, Assumption, Raptdes,
Caddo, Webster, and Lafourche,
already heard from, which they carried
in 1874 they admit that We have in
creased our majorities in Bossier, Mad
ison, Tensas. Concordia, Natchitoches,
Plaquemine, and St. Charles. OF
course none of these are official.
There are only about twenty parishes
accessible by rail or telegraph, and the
official vote Of several of the remote
parishes cannot be had for five or six
days. Not counting the five bulldog
ged, while the Republicans will be de-
privsd of legitimate majority of
nearly 1000, in no contingency can
the Democrats have carried the State
1t will not be denied that with scarce
an exception, in the heretofore Rep
ublican parishes, except the five bull
logged parishes, the Republicans have
gained over their majority in 1874
Neither can it be denied that the negro
people voted the Republican ticket
with, if possible, more unanimity than
ever before. When the result Of this
election is investigated in detail, and [
am rejoiced at the pending exigency,
then the difficulties and the injustice
the Republicans Of Louisiana have so
long labored under will be better un-
derstood and appreciated by the peo-
pie of the North. All we want is
fair and full hearing. We want this
whole matter rrobed to the bottom.
We have been reviled and slandered
for four years, and We are happy that
at last the occasion is about to arise
when we will get a hearing which will
be listened to and needed. I have
heard that several prominent gentle
men are coming here, drawn hither by
the exigency growing out of the cleo
ton. | am glad of it. [ telegraphed
Secretary Chandler last night, sugges-
ting that the Republicans have carried
the Legislature, and that desperate eff
forts are being made by the Democrats
in the parishes up Red River to change
or destroy the returns.
William p K elIooo