The daily gazette., 1876-11-11
The Herald's Warning.
NOKU KLUKING OF RETURNS.

y. Y. Herald complains of the cumbrous
and dangerous method of counting Presi
Dental votes, and urges the people to
avoid excitement. 1t warns "the politi-
clans Of both parties, "not to attempt vio-
lenee or to .tampsr with the election re-
turns, and says "the people will stand no
Ku Kluxing of election returns this time
They mean to have peace and fair play.
If the Democrats have carried Louisiana
The people will not allow Governor Kel
logg and Mr.. Packard, with too con.
venient Returning Board, to Ku Klux
the vote. They were allowed to do it in
1872, SO far as the result had only local
importance but the Senate refused to ad-
init the Senator elected by their fraud
They did it again in 1874, but public opin.
ion forced Republican Congress to con-
denim the fraud in the most positive and
conspicuous manner by unseating some
of the members of the Legislature who
were Ku Kluxed in by the Returning
Board. We beg the New Orleans Re-
publican managers TO remember that their
previous frauds are well known here in
tected and exposed in Ku Kluxing elec-
ton returns they have need to be con-
spicuously fair and upright this time. All
their acts and proceedings will be watch
ed with the most jealous eyes by honor
able men of both parties in the North, and
they should remember that the presump-
ton lies fairly against them because
they have already been detected in the
same trick of which they are now sus-
pected.
80, too, in South Carolina, we warn
the adherents of Governor Chamberlain
against attempting to Ku KluX the cleo
ton returns. They cannot hope to sue
ceed, for they will be exposed, and their
own party in the North will disown
them. 1t is very well understood here
that the South Carolina election machin-
cry has been constituted in Il suspiciously
unfair and partisan manner. Judge
Mackay, of the Supreme Court of the
State, himself, a Hayes Republican, but
opposed to corruption, has opposed the
manner in which Governor Chamberlain
arranged for a count of the vote. There
is Il Board of State Canvassers the majori-
ty of whose members are candidates for
election on the same ticket with Cham
berlain, and are thus, by monstrous
perversion of fair dealing, allowed to
canvass and decide upon the votes of the
State and declare whether they themsel-
yes are elected; and not only this, but of
the niney-six Commissioners of Election
in the countiesseventya are Chamberlain's
declared partisans, and forty are office
holders who hold their places by his APP
pointment.
eve do not desire to bring odium
upon Messrs. Chamberlain, Packard and
Kellogg; but we warn them that they are
known here in the North; the honest men
of both parties regard them with just
suspicion, and they have need to play
not only with common but with very
conspicuous fairness. If they have car
ried Louisiana and South Carolina so be
it; but they must satisfy the honest and
fair-minded men of both parties in the
North of that fact, or they will be dis
owned and execrated by thier own party.
There must be no Ku Kluxingof the cleo
ton returns. Whatever INSCRIPTIONS
politicians might wink at, the main body
of the Republican party in the North is
honest and patriotic and will tolerate no
Injustice"