Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-11-17

( lOl1ty Is about SOOO.
\ TRAINED CORPS OF PERJURERS.
| New Orleans Pcayune, 15thl
I And still another plan Is being ConcOcted
! by the Radicals to defeat the will of the
/ people expressed at the ballot-box. and con-
| tinue indefinitely their lease of power Since
I the arrival of our northern friends. they re-
/ cognize the futility of attempting to boldly
! throw out by wholesale the votes of entire
/ parishes, asserting, as a pretext, unsubstan-
tated by proofs, that intimidation has been
practiced in those localities. The impracti-
cability of tins plan Is now becoming evident
! to their partisan minds, and in case their eN-
pectatiOns from this source may not be real
ized, subsidiary method is beng discussed.
and viii probably be brought into requisitiOn.
only, in the event. however, of the first fail
ing of success. This new plan, which is not
yet fully matured, Is to fall back on the
second district court naturalization lists of
/ 1874, and manufacture pleas by which at
| least five thousand men viii abe de-
clared fraudulently naturaliZed. 1t Will
/ take a considerable amount of swearing,
but there seems to be no lack Of mercenaIy
periurers incorporated into that emmently re-
spectacle Organization-the Republican party
Of Louisiana. Sufficient evidence is easily OBJ
tanned, showing that the Radicals have a
trained corps of periurers, who the more and
the greater the false Oaths they take, the
larger the fee they obtain. This plan Is pro-
posed to be executed in the parish of Orleans,
and those citizens, the majority of whom re-
Ceivcd their naturalization papers from Judge
TssOt, are the victims. These are the facts,
/ the evidence sustaining which will be adduced
before the Democratic State central commit
tee to- day.
THE NATTER THEN STANDS THUS:
There was clear majority of over eight
thousand votes cast for 1ilden and Nichols.
which will be shown to the satisfaction of the
world before the returning board. 1t is
proposed by the Radicals to throw out the
vote of Morehouse, Ouachita, East Fehciana,
West Feliciana- -thirty-nine hundred and
one Democratic majority. They have
changed their minds about East Baton
Rouge, as it is considered wiser to count it in
for themselves and return their members of
the Legislature. Ballot-box Stuffing in Avoy'
elles and DeSOlo will reduce the Democratic
majority five hundred etc. 1t IS now one
week since election day, and the Radical
commissioners of election for the parish have
not yet filed their statements with the secre-
tary of state. Who will say that the super
visOrs of the wards require week to prepare
their consolidated statements? Yet the super
visor of the ninth ward Is the only one Of the
seventeen who kas filed his consolidated
statement.
TALK WITH MIR. LAMAR.
New Orleans Times, 15th.l
On Tuesday morning a representative of the
Times waited upon Senator l.. Q. G. Lamar,
Of Mississippi, to ascertain if he had re-
manned in the city a sufficient length of time
to form an opinion concerning the political
situation, and if 50, did he care to make that
opinion public. To these queries Senator
Lamar replied:
81 have not formed an opinion, but have
sent dispatch which Will be published The
substance of that dispatch may thus be given:
| find that the ballot-bOxes show a Demo-
cratic majority of some seven thousand votes.
A portion of these returns are based upon
the official certificates of Democratic super
visorS. To others, Republican supervisors
have refused to affx their signatures. ScYe-
raj parishes have vet to be heard from.
In these cases, the Democratic committee
have taken the Republican majority of 1874.
The Democratic party claims that by emitting
the vote of the parishes in contest, they have
a majority of three thousand. The Repuhli-
cans claim that after a revision and elimina-
ton, they have majority Of about one thou
sand five hundred | have not had time to
prepared
for formal interview. These, however, are
the facts as | understand them, and as they
viii be published as emanating from me-
Mr.. Lamar telegraphs from here to a friend
that the people of New Orleans, though pro-
fomdly agitated, are quiet, and there Is not
the slightest purpose to disturb the public
peace. He says the proposition to place the
counting of the vote under the supervision Of
honorable men of both parties from Il dis
tance meets the cordial concurrence of the en-
tire community.
RALLY OF COLORED AFFIDAyIT-MAKERs.
The corridor in the customhouse leading to
the marshals office was crowded on Tuesday
morning with the men who acted as deputy
marshals on election day, in this city. They
were there for the purpose of receiving the
cash for their services on that occasion. Those
of the first, second and third wards Will be
paid Wednesday. Witnesses are still arrIv
ing from the parishes which the Republicans
the purpose of testifying before the returning
board about the intimidation and violence
which it Is claimed were practiced in
these parishes As fast as possible after
their arrival they are taken into the
room lately occupied by Commissioner
Southworth as courtroom, and the
substance of their testimony reduced to writ
ing. Nothing new, as far as can be learned
has developed itself about the returning
board Mr.. Wells has not yet arrived in the
city On inquiry at the surveyors Office, at
the custOmhouse, it was learned that he was
not expected in the city before Wednesday or
Thursday. No action in regard to the board
Will probably be taken until he arrives. 1t
was rumOred that the board intended to meet
Tuesday, but the rumOr could not have been
well founded. They claim to have nforma-
ton at the customhOuse that five of the bal
lot-boxes Of the parish of Terrebonne were
opened, after they had been deposited in the
clerks Office. by Democrats. and the ballots
recounted.