The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-11-01
TIE INsOLENCE or OFFICE.
Michael Hahn Loses His Temper and
Vituperates.

! Michael Hahn Loses His Temper and
Vituperates.
COLONEL PATRONS GRAPHIC AND HIS
ToRICAL PEN PIC
TURES.
Rooms STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, !
DEMOCRATIC CoNs. PARTY,
New ORLEANS, La, {
Oct. II, 1876.
Hon. Michael Hahn, State Registrar of
Voters: -
SIR-1our communication of even
date herewith has just been handed
to me. / am surprised that simple
letter from me setting forth the not
unnatural apprehension, on the part
Of many voters, that the failure to
attach the date to the stamp of "vo,
ted" on so many registration papers
of 1874 was trick, should have clio
tied from you such reply. Do you
not know the fact that our expert
ence in these matters in the past,
and our observation in the present,
justify our fears. In your reply you
enter into an elaborate defense of the
Radical party, and express indigna-
ton that it should be thought capa.
bic Of resorting to "subterfuge." l
can hardly believe that your indigna-
ton was real, and I think that you
were indnlging vein of ironical
pleasantly when you penned the fol-
lowing paragraph:
L have not seen anything in the
conduct of those at present charged
with the administration of the registra-
ton and election laws in this State, or
on the part of the political committee
opposed to yours, that would justify
ouSti "ppi SiiSAoloHSs VII lhC will I'll y
every person with rare and insignifi-
cant exceptions) from the Governor
down, manifest but one anxiety, and
that is to have a free, fair and honest
election"
Are you serious? If you are Sc
rious, regret very much the neces-
sity which compels me to dispel the
allusion under which you are labor
ing. I regret it, because do not
like to smirch an innocence as beau
tiful and refreshing as it is rare in
the party which has the honor of
numbering you among its members.
Are you not aware that you have two
men in your employment, trusted and
confidential agents, whose infamies
and political harlotries are as well
known and as widely extended as the
broad limits of this great country
who have been sold from hand tc
hand until their rottenness stinks il
the nostrils Of every decent man
from Maine to Texas? Need I men
ton the names-Blanchard and Cat
lin-arcades ambo2 Who employed
them to commit the frauds now be
4 ing perpetrated, the like of which
were never known in any civilized
country?
Is not the Governor, to whom 70,
refer, aware that thousands upor
thousands Of fraudulent registration
papers have been issued, and ar,
now in the possession of creatures o
your Campaign Committee, owe
which presides another innocen
!, creature who is also anxious for g!
free, fair and honest election2'
Are not both you and he aware tina
the inventive genius of the shrewd
est and most INSCRIPTIONS scoun
drels in the United States have beef
employed to devise ways and mean
to prevent "a fair, free and honest
expression of the popular will? II
sir, you do not know that ever,
word I have written is true, then in
deed, you must be as innocent a
Mary's little lamb.
The census taken under the auspi
; ces and by direction Of your prede
f decessor in the Office of State Regis
trar Of voters-and let US admit, 70
the sake of argument, that that cen
sus was taken in the interests of
''free, fair and honest election
shows that there were in the paris
of Orleans 15,4S5 colored voters, an
a colored population OF $1,000, i
round numbers. Are you not awar
that at the present rate of register
ing colored voters (?) that Their
will have been issued by the 2Sth c
October twenty four thousand regis
tration papers to colored people i
this parish? Study these figure
we'll, for they may again appear t
3 your vision as avengers which ma
strip from you the last shred Of hor
est reputation.
:, Are you not aware that the funt