New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-16
POLITICAL NOTES.
The customary salutation each morning
now is: SWELL, who is elected today'"


The customary salutation each morning
now is: "Well, who is elected today"
Senator Mcdonald, General Manson and
other Indiana Democrats were talking
upon Louisiana politics with a Republican,
who was q gallant Indiana soldier before
he became q citizen Of this State, and
whose social standing and moral worth
were fully appreciated by the gentlemen,
when the discussion was rudely interrupted
by Democrat, who coarsely informed the
distinguished visitors that the Republican
was ''giving 'em taffy."
Now, it is the venerable Pic which has
gone into this department of tie candy
trade. In "a Specimen Brick" which it
inhospitably invites tour visitors to chew
upon," it says:
It may assist the gentlemen who have Or
rived here from the North and West, in
their efforts to possess themselves of infor-
nation respecting the character and work.
ings of the Returning Board, to cite the
case of Avoyelles in 1874. This parish
showed q clear Democratic majority of
S6-a majority which the board never
doubted or questioned. One of the boxes,
that at Evergreen. which showed the high
est Democratic majority, was stolen, and,
though the actual returns were afterward
certified to, the board refused to count
them, and returned Republican majority
of g.
This "taffy" lacks all the sweetness of
truth-though truth may not, perhaps, be
an essential Ingredient of Democratic tafiy.
The Evergreen poll box was stolen and
destroyed BY the Democracy, and the
Avoyelies Democrats will be the last to
urge an investigation into the naodus oper-
andi thereof. The actual majority was "af-
terward certified to-" but it was Republican
and not Democratic, and it is untrue that
"the board refused to COUNT these returns,
for it did count them and thereby establish
ed the triumph of the Republican candi.
dates. That the judgment of the Returning
Beard was in accordance with the truth is
shown by the fact that General Souer's ma
jority for the Legislature at the Evergreen
poll in 1872 was over 100, and that in 1876
similar gratifying result is obtained.
Thus the gentlemen from the North and
West" will observe that the Democratic
"taffy" will not do for q steady diet, and in
fact should not be taken at all without
Republican corrective is handy.
"a Dill A Dill! To the rescuew The
Democratic claims to q majority in South
Carolina were gradually dwindling away
until the heart of hope had almost ceased
to throb. In fact, our local ctisftains of
that party began to think that the land of
the palmetto was entirely lost to the
chivalry, and tourney -mopgs would become
lost art. But balm and consolation is af-
fcrded by our old friend Captain Dill. Over
the electric wires he flashes the glad tidings
that
An error in writing the name of one Hayes
electOr, Marcy, in any event gives one cleo
tor to Tilden.
All hail and rejoice! The home of treason
and birthplace of secession is vindicsted,
and one elector will boldly proclaim for the
Tammany reformer. With such an example
might not the Louisiana Democracy well
afford to compromise on two electors, and
let the national jury" 60 home.
A gentleman who takes no part in poll.
tics, but who has had exceptional oppor.
tunities for learning the truth, states that
it is his deliberate and carefully formed
estimate that not less than 100 negro men
and women have been murdered in the
to bring about the condition of affairs
which enabled the Democrats to lay claim
to victory on the seventh instant. just
think Of it, ye advocates of the purity of
elections, who have left home and business
for the patriotic duty of evoking the truth
from the mass of vile misrepresentation
which has besmirched Louisiana Repub-
licanism. One hundred innocent lives taken
barbarously in order to give control of a
single parish to Democratic minority.
If this statement Should be deemed an
exaggeration, let inquiries be set on foot
among the Conservative planters, the mill
tary, or any but the active politicians of
either party, and the facts ascertained will
furnish chapter of horrors that must
appal the ordinary Northern mind-Demo-
Cf8GlC AS VIGIL 6o h0puOAlCdus
The Democrat argues that the months of
terrorism and outrage which made the par
ish of East Felicians a perfect hell for Re.
publicans should count as naught, because,
forsooth, on election day there were no
.:niggers" killed or whipped, and complete
peace was maintained. There was no ne
cessity for bulldozing in November after
the effective and energetic summer cam
paign. The colored people were completely
subjugated, and white Republican victims
had become scarce.
The Radical ticket in DeSoto was twelve
white men and enc negro, and the Radical
vote in DeSoto was twelve white men and
1900 negroes. A square divide Of the spoil
these carpet-bsggers make.-Democrat.
Wrong, entirely, neighbor. The white
men are not csrpet-baggers, but native
Democrats in the main, who characteristic
ally took Office from the negroes as they
would from any other power which could
confer it.
Arrived.