The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-11-30
Sew Orleans Correspondence Chicago Journal
THE LOUISIANA ELECTION.
Incidents that Occurred the Night Before

The story of the election in Ouachita
Parish grows interesting as it advances.
The night before the election 1t was
found necessary to get a ballot-box from
Monroe, the county seat, to Logwood,
some twelve miles distant The hazard
Gus duty devolved on Ben. James, a col
ored Deputy United States Marshal.
About 2 o'clock on a moonlight morning
he started on horseback from Monroe,
expecting to reach Logwood in time for
the opening Of the polls. He never
reached there. With the precious box
strapped to his back, he was galloping
along the lonesome road, and was three
miles from Monroe, when three horse
men rode out of the timbers and com
manded him to halt and dismount. They
as Ned what he had in the box; if il was
not full of Republican votes2 He said
there were ballots in it as well as other
things which he had put there for con-
venience in carrying them. The ballots
were to be used by the voters of Logwood.
Ii was compelled to surrender his pistol.
and then was at the mercy OF the blood
thirsty bull .dozers. One Of them aimed
a gun at him. lie started to run, the
bull.d fired. and Ben. James arm
hung shattered by his side.
WOUNDED AND BLEEDING
he kept running, and got into General
Pargoud's field, when two shots overlook
him and he dropped One of the bull
dozers went to where he lay and said,
you, Ill fix you" and fired ball
through his jaw into his cad, where the
ball is now. They left him for dead. He
revived after q while, and crawled to ne
gro quarters on a plantation near by.
Thence he was taken under guard to
Monroe, where he fingers, a MANNED and
mangled victim of Democratic Reform"
On the Friday preceding the election.
700 bull-dozers, armed with Winchester
rifles, shOtguns and improved Colt six
shooters, invested
THE TOWN OF MONROE
threw out pickets and defied negroes to
come in. They patrolled both sides of
the river and all the roads. Word was
sent by Republicans in Monroe to the
negroes outside to come into the town
and they would be protected and cared
for until the election was over. Nearly
200 pushed through from a meeting at
St James School house The Mayor of
the town, named Endom, himself q bull
dozer, issued proclamation calling upon
armed banditti to disband. He enforced
it against the colored men, although it
was not made to apply to the bull-dozers
who were encamped near the graveyard,
not far from the town. He ordered the
colored voters back to their wards, as the
townships are called in these parishes.
The Republicans had located four voting
places in Monroe so that the negroes
might vote there and be protected by the
squad Of United States troops stationed
in the place. A citizen is entitled by
law to vote in any part of the parish, so
it was perfectly legal to locate the four
boxes in Monroe. But even that was of
no avail. The negroes in the parish were
not allowed to vote. The bulldozers
followed their own sweet wills, and par
ish which ought to have given 800 Re-
publican majority, went 900 Democratic.
Now the Democrats are bowling about a
"fair count"