The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-11
statement by Governor Kellogg.

NEW ORLEANS, November H. Gov.
Kellogg furnishes the following state
ment 10 the Associated Press regarding
the election:
Very few official returns have been re.
ceived outside of the city by the Secre-
tary of State, the proper custodian. IN
official statements have been received
and published here of fifteen Republican
an d three Democratic parishes, besides
the city. Twenty-eight out OF the hity-
seven may be called tolersbIy reli-
able The other parishes are
estimated by each side. The
the State is claimed according to each
estimate, By both sides. The Democrats
only clam the State by estimating the
Republican parishes OF East aud West
Feiiciana, Eat Baton Rouge, Monroe,
Aouse and Onachita rs having given
them. as they claim, nearly 1000 ma
iorily. No one can dispute that these
parishes were overrun and intimi-
dated by armed bands of the
White Lraguers before and on the day
ofthe election. These parishes have nj
way been largely Republican. The
repatriation in these parishes is: white,
3,GJS: black, 500. They gave 1900
mai.iIty in 1872 by the returns OF the
uF,ion Democrali Board, and they
gave the Republican candidate 3 900 ma
ioritv in 1874 MS conceded by the
Democratic State Committee. In Qua
chta, Deputy United States Marshal
wss Killed on election day, the polls
tanrn possession Of and run by the
Waite Lcaguers. In East Felic-
ana, not single Republi.
an vote was allowed TO be pOlled.
The Republicans were not allowed
to run ticket. This parish ia next to
the Mississippi line and has been turbu-
lent more or less since the Democrats got
possession of Mississippi. In this parish
| got over 800 majority in 1872, and in
1874 the Republicans carried the parish
By more than 1000 ma Ority. The vote
claimed by the Democrats in these
parishes WAS procured by intimidation,
violence and assassination, and the proof
of this is overwhelming and per-
fectly conclusive Notwithstanding they
claim the vote OF these parishes, we
con fdently believe We have carried the
State. The Democrats never claimed
TO have carried the State by above
1000 in 1874 Not. counting Carroll
parish, which gave US over 800 ma
jority, but where they always alleged
frauds and refused TO concede but about
900 Of this ma, ority to US, we have
gained. In the city thOy admit that we
have gained above 2,4O0 votes over
the vote of 1874. They ad-
NIT that We have carried Iberia.
St. Martin, Assumption, Rspides, Csddo,
Webster and LsFOurche are already
besrd from, which they carried in 1874.
They admit tina. We have increased our
msiori.ics in Bossier, Madison, Texas,
Concordia, Natchitcches, Plsquemine and
ST. Charles. OF course none Of these are
official There are only about twenty
parishes accessible by rail or telegraph,
and the official vote of several OF the re-
mote parishes cannot be had for five or
six GAYS The result will be close,
counting the. vote in the Bull .nosed"
parishes as the Democrats claim it. Not
counting these parishes, while the
Republicans will be deprived OF legiti.
mate majority OF 4,000. in no contingency
can the Democrats have carried the
State. 1t will not be denied that with
scarcely an exception in all the hereto
fore Republican parishes, except the five
Bull-nosed parishes, the Republicans
have gained over their ma Ority of 1874
Neither can il be denied that the colored
people voted the Republican ticket with,
if possible, more unsnimIty than
ever before. When the results OF
this election are Investigated in
detail. and l ain rejoiced tha. in the
pending eIigency they will be, the Re
publIcans of Louisisna) their trials, their
difficulties and the injustice they have so
long lsbored under, will be better under
stood and appreciated by the people Of
the north. All We want Is fair and
full hearing. We want this whole mat
ter probed to the bottom. We haze
been reyiled and slsndered FOR four years
and We are happy that At least the occasion
Is about 10 arise when We will get hear
ing which will pe listened TO and heard. l
have heard that several prominent men
are coming here, drawn by the exigency
growing out Of this election. am glad
OF this. l telegrsphed 20 Secretary
Chandler last night, suggesting that sew
ersl gentlemen Of prominence, who have
the confidence of the country, be sent
here, such men a. VIM. n. Evsrts, eI-
Governor DIX, eI-Secretary Bristow.
Senator Blaine, George 2. Hoar,
Stanley Mathews, and such gen.
tlernen of the North as want true dis-
closure of our affairs. Let men come whose
reputation will be = guarantee that they
come TO And the truth and Lot 70 manu- !