New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-21
POLITICAL MOTHS.

Mitchell, FOrman and Southmayd, givel
before the Louisiana investigating commit
tee, it will be seen that each one of thes'
gentlemen took the broadest ground unde
the election law of 1872, and as members Of
the Fusion board of returns did not hesi
tate to throw out any votes claimed BY
them to have been fraudulently cast. St
James, St. Tammany, Iberville, Terrebonne
and polls in Orleans and Jefferson, were
rigidly excluded by these gentlemen upo1
| the ground of fraud and intimidation
Should the Returning Board Of this year
upon the same kind of evidence Meesrs
Mitchell, Southmayd and Forman consid
cred sufficient in 1872 to exclude votes, re-
| fuse to count fraudulent ballots, we are
certain these gentlemen, as honest men and
good citizens, will stand by and sustain
| them.
The New Orleans correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer relates, in it's issue of
the eighteenth instant, that Marshal Pitkin
had admitted that Louisiana had gone for
Tilden, etc. Upon inquiry being made of
the marshal last evening, he stigmatized
the expressions ascribed to him as ia lse as
was WattersOn's recent charge that Sec
rotary Chandler had written to Governor
Kellogg that "Louisisns must be carried for
Hayes at all hazards" The reader will re,
member how the frank Secretary nailed
Watterson's ear-laps to the wall. The mar
shall said q correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Enquirer had called, accepted for some
time the courtesies Of the Office, and de-
parted, it would now seem, burdened less
with his obligations as a gentleman than
with those Of Democratic co. sip.
The crisis through which the country is
passing will do much to allsy the silly but
popular outcry against Infamous" return
ing boards, Denunciaticn has led to inves-
tigatiop, and Investigation has developed
their necessity IN the disturbed sections Of
the South, and their utility as a guard to
the purity of the ballot in ali places. We
shall not be surprised if the returning
board, in come form or other, becomes an
approved institution in every State of the
Union. New York State, especially, would
be benefited if some revisory power ex-
listed to purge it's returns of the vast and
decisive frauds which the Democracy lO1
up from the slums of New York city. Lou
isiana may yet receive the thanks of the
nation fer having instituted for its protec-
ton returning boards.
Hnvr ca cod %hnA
farce Tor tragedy Of an election in Missis-
aippi will pass unchallenged, sage:
1t is pleasant to know that the Mississippi
Delegation in the next Congress will num-
Der such men as Lamar, Hooker and Chal-
mers.
We might ans er this by another extract
from the same able journal:
Til, re is an air of prematurenees, sort
of proviousness like. which suggests a pain
full fear that tho good deacon's last THU teen
cocktails were lee,ls too strong.
Our predictions that very large numbers
Of white citizen, would vote for Mr.. Pack
ard are true, or else the Democrats are
doing some tremendous falsifyipg regarding
the colored votes given to General Nichols.
All the testimony we have seen tends to
show that the Republican candidates won
several Thousand white recruits, while
nearly all of the colored stre n 9Th lost to the
party was by means of violence or intimi-
dation of some sort.
Now "True American" and Justice" and
Patriot and all the rest of them are
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into the newspapers. Hon. Stanley Mat.
thews is tho especial victim of their melan-
choly but ponderous attacks, and if he
never knew unexpectedly constitutional
law-betore, he must prepare to learn it
now willy-nilly. What lucky thing it is,
by the way, that these Northern gentlemen
came SO OPPORTUNITY and gave these mas
sive brains chance. None Of our old citi-
zens would have stood any more of it, and
without an escapement confirmed idiocy
must surely have ensued.
The evidence of fraud and intimidati ton
perpetrated by the Democracy in the hope
of Selling the government of Louisiana is
being rapidly put into shape by the Repub-
licans for use before the Returning Board
It is most convincing and conclusiye in it's
character, and will not only justify to the
nation the reversal of the manufactured
maiorities OF the Democratic committee,
but create demand for the punishment of
these crimes against American citizenship
which must not again be permitted to go
UNDECIDED by. Murders most foul, the tor
ture OF innocent persons for the mere Of
tense Of Republicanism, that would shame
the religious prosecutions of the inquisi-
ton, robbery and incendiarism. will all
be proven Democratic agents for the
achievement of desperate and revolu-
tionary victory. So far the press has
teemed with allegations against the Re-
publicans. In a few days will be given
proofs that must make honorable men
blush that they are Democrats.
At Homer, in Claiborne parish, there was
Federal protection Of the ballot box. At
not single poll in the parish but that at
Homer was Republican vote cast. Is COM
ment necessary!
Scores of first class plantation hands are
wandering about the streets of Bayou Sara.
having been discharged by their Democratic
employers for refusing TO vote the Demo
cratic ticket. BY this illegal system OF CO.
ercon it was expected to gain the parish of
West Feliciana, but they will fail in that,
and it is hoped will be unable to replace
their faithful labOrers.