New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-29
THE EUsTIS DILEMMA.

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1872, by a large majority, must be con
coded, or the Democrats must admit thai
they have sent Mr.. Eustis to claim q sea-
in the United States Senate on wholly IN
sufficient, if not fraudulent papers. Either
the three Senators participating in the
ballotinp for Mr.. Eustis must be admitted
by the Democrats to be de j,re Senators,
or the balloting which took place IN the
House is lacking the primal necessity to
even the form of an election for United
States Senator, viz: That q majority o.
the members elected to both branches OF
the Legislature shall rote at such election.
Governor Warmoth, Dr.. McMillen and
the astute and energetic committeeman,
Messrs. Cavanac, Zacharie and Mari,
demonstrated to the complete satisfaction
Of all the Last Ditchers, that the fatal
weakness in Mr.. Pinchback's claim was,
that it was not legal Senate which took
part in his election; that pretended
quorum was manufactured by the arbi-
trary and illegal swearing in Of the
identical Republican Senators who now
claim to represent the body in which they
hold seats in the supposititious election
which is designed to Gust the very in
yidual who administered their oaths OF
Office. This claim that they we're not
legally Senators, and that the 1872 cleo
ton under which they hold has never
been passed upon defnitively, has time
and again been reiterated; and in Marrs
most unctious and impressive style was
reafirmed by the Democratic Convention
at St. Patrick's Hall three weeks
ago. Even so earnest a Republican
as Senator Edmonds, Of Vermont, has
been SO impressed with the apparent truth
fitness of the charge that Messrs. Greene,
Alexander and Blackburn were not COM
petent to complete quorum in the body
which elected Mr.. Pinchback, that he
bases his opposition to that gentlemans
admission mainly upon it. The issue re-
solves itself, therefore, into this simple
proposition: Either the Democrats must
drop their charge Of usurpation against
the incumbent Senators from the nine
tenth, twentieth and twenty fourth dis
tricts, or they can not avail themselves Of
the votes Of these gentlemen to complete
such total as is essential to tie election
Of Senator. The United States Senate,
as We have sufficient reason to believe, is
determined that the Democratic claimant
must appear at the bar with clean show
ing on this point. That body will not
permit plea Of fraud to be entered by
the Democrats against NIr. Pinchback,
and at the same tine let the accusers take
advantage of the same alleged fraud to
boost their own client into the much COW
sted place.
If Mr.. Eustis and his supporters elect to
not withdraw his CLAIMS, but admit that
Messrs. Blackburn, Greene and Ale1an-
der are full fedged Senators, competent
TO be the very pivot upon which their de-
nand for representation in the United
States Senate turns, then let US hear no
more tulminations against the "usurpa-
tion." They clearly estop themselves
rom ever again claiming the election Of
McEnery, for if the Republican ticket
carried the eight parishes constituting the
senatorial districts designated, even such
,imbls and sprightly manipulators Of fig
Tres as the "Forman board would find
impossible to clip Governor Kellogg's
majority down very low in the thousands.
Unlike our Bourbon Democracy, the
United States Senate has so far devel-
'ped none Of that peculiar attribute
popularity ascribed to the great bird Of
he desert. The members Of that august
,ody not only realize what they are about
themselves, but have an eye upon what is
,oing on around them. We need but re-
er, in proof of this, and as par
icula1ly applicable to the points
lerein raised, to the exceedingly
ust and mastery analysis Of the
louisiana election returns made by Sena-
or Frelinghuysen. It is fall Of sugges-
ion for those Democratic mathematiciars
gho, in their self-conceit, imagine they
an make even figures lie to serve their
nds, and may intimate the trui.,essness
# again attempting to seize the govern
nent of this State by fraud. The dis
inguished gentlemen from New jersey
aid:
But again, take another view Of these re-
urrs. There are ffty-e:ght parishes in
louisiana. In twenty four - Ascension,
3ienvllle, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Cameron,
Carroll, Claiborne, Concordia, East FeIic!-
ina, Franklin, jackson, Jefferson, Lafay-
,tte, Livingston, Ouachita, Pointe Coupee,
Red River, Sabine, St. Bernard, st. Charles,
1t. John Baptist, Tangipahoa. Tensas and
are those where there is
lot much difference between the two boards
# canvassers in the result, in those twenty
our parishes by the Forman board
here is an aggregate of 5000 Demo
cratic votes and 5000 Republican
votes. giving Democratic majority
IF A76. According to the Lynch board
the Republican vote was 81, $50, and
the Democratic vote 1887, giving Repub
lican majority Of 1873. The Forman board
gives Democratic majority of 476, and the
Lynch board a Republican majority of 1873,
40 very great difference for such an cleo
lion; average it, and call it majority Of
1000 for Kellogg. The vote was close, and
the registration was correspondlngly 60.
The white registration was $3.50. and the
Dcratic vote and the white registration. the
Republican vote and the colored registra-
ton correspond.