New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-18
InY TELEGRAPH TO The 1RIBuSR.1

NEw-ORLEANs, Nov. 1.-THE Returning Board
will meet AT noon tomorrow The only business
it is likely 10 transact will be the election OF
member to fill the vacancy which exists There ~
some gossip aloat to the choice to be made but
tins is treated 10y both parties matter of indf-
ference. If Democrat is chosen and the selec-
ton will probably DO made from that party,
he will only be able 10 protest against
any proceeding which may not please
his party and to refuse to sign the reports OF the
board He will not bc called upon to manage the
Characterization Of witnesses, during the con-
sderaton of all contested counsel for the Re-
publican and Democratic State Committees Will be
present. The general impression here is that the
Returning Board will consume the entire time be-
tween now and the day which the electors are
required 10 meet and cast their votes in canvassng
the returns Oh the national ticket and the result on
the State ticket may not be officially known until
some time after that.
1Tbe representatives OF both State Committees are
busy preparing testimony bearing on the election IN
| "budozed" parishes and if the Returning Board
hears one-haf Of it ITS labor would hardly be con-
pleted before the 4th Of March. The evidence IL
similar to that with which the public has been made
familiar during or after every political canvass in
| the South for the last eight years. On one side
there are the old stories of political murders, whip
are wholesale denials and nominations Sew
| eral earnest, persistent efforts to trace up
| stories of political outrages and find out
| Just what basis there has been for them, and
| the memory that similar reports made by
these same Republican politicians of Louisiana have
in 50 many instances eyaporatcd into thin air before
the searching investigation of a Congressional Com
| mittce make me slow to credit those | hear now.
There may have been resolute reign of terror
| throughout whole sections of this State az Gov.
| Kellogg in his dispatch to The TRIBUNE has said
there was and there are certain facts in connection
with the election which, taken by themselves, seem
| to give color TO the assertion But safe advice to
those who desire to get at the facts is to suspend
| judgment until testimony on the question has been
submitted to the Returning Board
| say that the Democrats will put in a general de-
| NAL. They will do more than that. They will at
tempt 10 show that the result in the parishes where
the Republican majority has been greatly cut down
OF entirely overcome has been due to the political
conversion of the negroes There in this
| city 20 or 80 negro politicians who say and are ex
pected to swear before the Returning Board If they
have chance, that they canyassed the counties IN
| which these revolutions took place, in behalf
of the Democratic State and National tickets that
wherever they went they had large meetings of
colored people, and that they formed the Democratic
|
stances numbering 100 men EACH they went to the
polls and voted Democratic tickets. They deny that
there was any intimidation that colored Republic
cans were prevented from voting they pleased
The Democratic Committee also assert that they
have voluntary affdavits by Republican officials
living in "buildozed" parishes positively DENYING
the assertions of Gov Kellogg in his dispatch to The
TRIBUNE, and declaring that the election far
and free one. Besides this, they explain
the total absence of Republican votes in one
OF TWO parishes by asserting that the Republican
managers in this city prevented any Republican
tickets from being sent TO those parishes aud issued
orders TO their friends there not TO vote They say
they can prove these orders. They say finally that
they can produce original copies of the instructions
of a United States official to his subordinates at the
polls. In which Che latter told that they were
expected to carry their precincts by given maorties,
and that If they did not do it, they might expect
nothing from the Republican party.
This is brief synopsis Of the controversy in this
State AZ presented by each side. How far there Is
evidence to sustain either remains to be SEEM Tho
| See seventh Page.