The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1876-11-25
Reform Within he Party Interpreted
BY the Action Of Party By the
Name OF Smith.
Returns are Submitted 10 Republican Can
diiates Who Canvass the Vote Before
they are Submitted to the Board
Highandedism on Stiits.

returning board met al HIS. The
doors were thrown open to the men,
hers OF the press. About twenty per-
sons only were ia the room Including
HE Inembers of the board, Representa-
tives of the two committees, steso.
graphers, clerks, etc.
Wells, CsssansvO and KeBn.r w.r.
already present, and Andersen sr.
rived few minutes afier, at about
HISS. when the board was called 10
order.
Governor Wells was anxious 70 open
the d.'or and admit the crowd on the
outside. fbis was done aud the Ecps.
cratic committee on elections va, nj.
mitted behind the bar. followed by
fifteen persons who happened u be in
attendance, aud who were not hoping
for such II concession.
Mr.. Zacharie then filed the protest
that lac had given notice OF on Mon.
day, on behalf Of the Democratic can
didates for Congress.
Tie board conferred some five or ten
minutes, when Wells moved tina, the
board 90 into executive session. Tbi,
was AT once done, and the hall Cleared
The committee of northern RepuhIi.
cans, TO attend the sessions of the
board, has been changed since Mon
days meeting. aud now consists Of
Besrd!ey, of Illinois; Eugene Hale, of
Maine; Van Allen, OF New York;
Stoughton, OF New York, and Garfield.
| of Ohio.
The board sets on all parish returns
IN executive session. During this ses-
sion, the only persons present are the
! two Committees of gentlemen
from the North. The ac-
ton during this session is as follows;
! The returns of a parish are taken up,
| placed on the table where the chair
men OF the two committees, Demo.
/ cratic and Repu olican, are seated by
the side IT the members. These zen.
tlemen are then invited ta examine
them and see whether they have been
disturbed and talnpefed with. The
returns are then opened ana eousoli-
dated. The vote of the parish for
each elector Is called ofi, and the re-
turns are then handed to tue clerks.
who verify the additions made by the
commissioners of election. If these
prove correct, the members of the
board sign and approve them.
J a delegation Consisting 0i fifteen
eo.ored men ffom various precincts in
Ousehita parish called on the visiting
Democrats at Tie st. Charles Hotl to-
day. They had ali been members of
the Republican party. Several were
recently Presidents of Republic an
clubs, aud gave reasons why they had
changed aud led their respective fol-
lowing 10 the polls TO vote the Demo
cratic ticket.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee have copies of Republican Off
cisi returns obtained az the polls from
foriy-eight parishes. The gain on the
| Democratic vote over 1874 in these
parishes foOts up 1855. The total vote
for state treasurer in 1874 was l47..O5.
The total vote for Nichols now Is 100. :
ga, making Nichols actual majority
s,UsD i'll the fOrty-eignt parishs heard
| from, and, including the ten TO hea.
from, taking the vote of 1874 from Re-
publican counts, the vote On five Til
den electors viii, by omission of i've
from Radical tickets, be S5,6s9 while
Hayes electors, eight in number, will
be si.4io, and this, emitting the Re-
publican five, will give the Tilden
/ electors majority OF 9,2iB. These
forty-eigbt parishes returns are sworn
and subscribed to by each Radical
| election official ut every poll in the
! parishes, and are certified to by the
clerk of the district court in the par.
isbes, he being in each case q Radical
and the custodian, after the election.
of the bailot-boxes and returns. How
the Returning Board will overcome
this majority and count Hayes elected
has not been decided yet, but they i'll
do it, and to do it will not elect Dem.
ocrat to fill the vacancy now existing
/ in the board.
The total vote of the State, made up
from duplicate poIl-lists received from
forty-seven parishes. and ten parishes
estimated by the registration this wear
and the vote of 1874, il as follows:
For Observation-Disclosures, 81. 202; Pack
ard, 76,ll2. Total, $50, 224. Totsi vote
in 1874 for treasurer. ll7,Te5. Increase
this year over the 1874 vote, I2sI9
Nichols majority over Packard of the
votes polled, $3.50. o. the Tildep
electors, five have majority over the
highest vote for the Republicans of
9,249. The other two Tilden electors
have a majority of !, o36.
New ORLEANS, November 2s.--The
Returning Board met at ll:SO A. N.
OF the visiting Democrats there were
present Messrs. Palmer, Bigler, Truu
ball aud smith, and of the visiting Re
publicans Steughton, Stevenson, Par
ker, Clark and Farwell, and Julipe
SpofIord, of counsel for the Democratic
candidates, who submitted the follow
ing:
The undersigned, of counsel for the
candidates OF the Con-
sentative ticket, respectfully represent
that they are informed and believe that
supervisors Of registration of fourteen
parishes had not been received bv
your board at the time the board All.
journed yesterday.
That Of these returns there are and
have been for some time a pumter in
the city Of New Orleans in the hands
Of Republican supervisors and Repuo-
iican candidates. for Congress.
That proof OF this fact appears IN
afiidnvits in regard to the parishes Of
ouachita. Lafayette, Baton Rouge Red
River, Franklin and others.
That II appears from these state
lnents that q majority Of these we're
hroaght down the river on the same
ste4mbaat by which e. neral r. c. An
derson, shember Of the hoard, rssei.-
- t,ais sity % Nosdsy ia>k