The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-12-08
LOUISIANA FOR HAYES.
The Returning Board CGsan1s
Hayes In by About 1000 ma
1OrIIY.

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New ORLEANS, Dec. 5.-Tbe de-
claration of the returning board
gives the lowest Hayes electoI
3,437 majority and the highest
1869. 1t is understood that the
entire Republican State ticket has
been counted in by $500 majority.
and q good majority in the legis-
lature.
At $50 p. m, to-day, the Sec
rotary of State personally served
on Gov. Kellogg the following no.
tificatlon:
/, p. G. Deslande, Secretary of
State for the State of Louisiana,
do hereby certify that the return
ing officers of the election in said
State on the 7th day of Novem-
Der, 1876, have returned to me as
Secretary of State, according to
law. the following persons as du-
ly elected electors of President
and Vice President of the United
States for the State of Louisiana
at such election, to wit: For the
State at large, VIM. p. Kellogg and
Henri Burch; first district, Peter
Joseph; second, Lionel A. Shell
don; third, Morris Marks; fourth,
Aaron B. Levissee; fifth, Orlando
II. Brewster sixth, Oscar Jefferson.
Accompanying the certificate was
q statement of the aggregate votes
for Presidential electors, as certi
fed to ~ the Secretary Of State.
The vote for Governor and Lieu
tenant-Governor was also returned,
the total being for Governor, L. B.
Packard, 74,624; Francis T. Mich
oils, II, 1913. Lieutenant-Gevernor,
G. C. Antoine, 1869; L. A. Arltz,
71,O93. The clerks of the return
ing officers had not, up to mid
night, completed their duplicate
copies of returns for FORMULATION.
In the office of the Journal it is
understood, however, that four
Republican Congressman, viz:
Darrall, third district; Smith in
the fourth; Leonard in the fifth;
Nash in the sixth, have been re-
turned elected; and Gibson, Dem
ocrat, in the first, and Ellis, Dem
ocrat, in the second. The returns
for all these officers, State and
Congressional, will be promulga-
ted tomorrow.
THE SUBJoINED STATEMENT
Of the grounds acted upon has
been obtained from the counsel of
the returning officers. The re-
turning board of the State of Lou
isiana claim:
1. That under the provisions
of the law they are returning Of
ficers of ali elections held in said
State; that there is in law and in
fact no returns of any election
held in said State until first exam
ined, canvassed and compiled by
them; that statements furnished
by commissioners Of election are
simply statements of votes purpo-
ported to have been lost, and that
uutil the fairness and legality of
the voting at that poll or precinct
have been passed upon by the re-
turning officers no validity is at
tached to any such statement. In.
strict compliance with the laws of
the United States and of this
State, the returning officers Of the
State of Louisiana have proceeded
to examine, conVass and q compile
statements of the votes purported
to have been cast in this State at
the general election for President
and Vice President, held on the
7th day of November last, The
vote purported to be cast in the
parishes Of Grant and East Fell
ciana have been
IGNORED ENTIRELY
in the official canvass. In Grant
parish not one form of law was
observed. There were no lagal
or commissioners of
election and the vote taken was as
informal as the votes taken on
railroad train. In East Felicina
the returning officers were unable
to find one poll to which, from ev-
ldence before them, they could
testify that a full, free and fair
election was had. In the parish
of East Baton Rouge the return
ing officers canvassed and COM
piled the votes of three polls sit
uated in the city of Baton Rouge,
where there was
MILITARY PROTECTION
afforded. Also three other polls
Immediately on the river,
where there was comparative i'm
from intimidation. The
evidence as to intimidation by |
murder, hanging, whipping and |
other outrages as affecting the
vote at the other polls was so con-
:lusiYe that the returning officers !