The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-24
III. v. r..
His Special from Louisiana.
Read What a Radical Has to
Say About 1t.
To the Editor OF the Commercial:

| To the Editor OF the Commercial:
New ORLEANS, November ~, IL P. N
So far the Board has completed
eighteen parishes, except twenty pre-
cincts laid aside for future deliberaton On
account of charges of intimidation. 1t is
singular that no official returns have been
received from fifteen parishes, although
more than half OF these returns are known
to be in the city, and have been
ior weeks. The Democrats openly
charge that these parishes are held back
for purposes of fraud. The Republicans
make no defense, and give no reason.
The Democrats have duplicate returns
from all of these parishes, except two,
certified by the Circuit court the clerk and
Supervisor, Immediately after the cleo
ton. Any attempt at alteration at this
late day would, therefore, be detected,
The Board found, to-day, in one pre-
cinet of st. James parish, that thirty
Democratic tickets had been voted with
only FIVE electors. The Board refused TO
count the electors not voted for thus
establishing precedent which will oper-
ate against themselves in the case of the
200 Hayes tickets voted in the -Four.
teenth district with only three electors.
Further along, in Lafourche parish, it
was discovered that over 400 Republican
tickets were voted with only Hayes and
Wheeler upon them. The Republicans
were startled by this discovery, as 1t makes
nearly three thousand votes the several
Hayes electors will lose by the omission.
However, Kellogg and Packard, and
other leading lawyers contend that the
Board can count them just the same,
thus carrying out the voters intention.
The Board took the case under consld-
Grafton.
Additional colored Democrats from up
the country were brought to the Northern
Democratic headquarters to-day. Gen.
Garfield and Job Stevenson were present
at the interesting interview. These men
made lengthy statements of deep Interest.
The sum OF their speeches was that they
had acted with the Republican party for
eight years, and the State was going from
bad to worse and taxation Increasing.
This additional taxation the whites were
taking from colored mems wages. One
was President of a colored Republican
club and he took the whole club into the
Democratic party at once.
The Northern Democrats were highly
edited by the manifestations of repent
ance.
One of these blacks afterwards fell into
Republican hands, and being assured thst
his name would not be revealed, told
quite different story. He said they were
all Republicans at heart, but voted the
Democratic ticket simply because that
party could protect them and the Repub-
licsns could not. The Republicans left
them to contend alone with the united
white population, which they could
not do. AS he expressed it, they
went into the Democratic party
for shelter, although the very
name was hateful TO them. But in the
Democratic ranks they found shelter and
protection, which the Republicans could
not or would not give.
Another OF these men, who owns prop
erty and is leader of his people, was to-
day offered lucrative position in the
custom house if he would charge all OF
his Democratic declarations to lntimida-
tiou, but he would not, rs am informed,
He said he had enough Of the Republican
party, which leaves its black triena un-
protected, and would hereafter act with
the white people.
II. V. REDFIELD.