Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25
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ton laws of Louisiana will make the
little we have to state Ineligible.
It appears that the Board has con-
scented to count undisputed parishes
in the presence of the Republican and
Democratic committees, but that all
disputed questions shall be settled
with closed doors. In other words.
the Witnessing committees are only to
be present when there is nothing to
witness.
1t is reported that the Canvassing
Board is to be manipulated in the in
terest of Warmoth and Pinchback |
against the kellogg interest. Does
not this give some glimmering of a |
hope that thieves may fall out and
honest men come by their own?
A circular has been sent to saperUi-
sors of registration (see our LEADER to
the following effect, the names and
numbers only being changed for other
parishes:
NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. q, 1876.
TO the Supervisor Of Registration,
Parish of Assumption, LG.-Dear Sir:
1t is we'll known to this Committee,
from an examination, that the vote in
your parish is 2,200 and the Republi-
can majority is 900 You are expected
to register and state the full strength
of the Republican party in your par
ish. Your recognition BIO the next
State administration will depend upon
your doing your full duty In the premi-
ses. And you will not be held to have
done your full duty unless the Re-
publican registration in your parish
reaches 2,200 and the Republican vote
is at least ?, 100. All the local candi-
dates and committees are directed to
aid you to the utmost in obtaining this
result, and every facility is and will be
afforded you; but you must obtain the
results called for herein, without fail
Once obtained, your recognition will
be ample and generous. Very re-
| spectfully, your obedient servant,
ID. j. NJ. A. JEWETT, Sec'y."
Assumption went Republican, as an
ticipated, and the supervisor will no
doubt claim his reward.
If any doubt existed before, this
shows plainly what supervisors are for;
to secure not only Republican ma
jority in the parishes in which they
act, but to see to it that that majority
exactly comes up to a certain stand
ard.
Grant and the military section of
the Republican party evidently con-
templates the transfer of the dispute
from Louisiana to Washington as
soon as the count" is over and in an
ticipation of this are filling the capital
with regiments of soldiers.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %.
Not much change in the situation
at present. The Louisiana Returning
Board has commenced its sittings, and
the pressure brought to bear upon it
has forced a certain amount of public
ity. The committees of observation
from both the parties North sit in
permanence with the board, though
the latter claims the right of retiring
for consultation whenever it may de-
sire. The parishes not contested tally
in their numbers very closely with the
reports of the Democratic executive
committee, but several parishes are at
present passed over on the pretext of
intimidation reported by the parish
supervisors. The board has adopted
one outrageous rule, that wherever
intimidation or not is proved at one
voting precinct, the whole parish vote
shall be thrown out; which is about
as reasonable as it would be to throw
out the vote of all Montgomery county
because there had been a row at Wood
lawn, or any cross roads polling place.
An advantage gained by the opposi-
ton is that Ex-Governor Wickliffe,
one of the Democratic candidates for
elector, has made good his claim to be
present at the sittings of the board.
In Florida some advantages have been
gained also. Injunctions have been
obtained from the circuit court of Tai
lahassee restricting Gov. Stearns from
counting the vote, and ordering the
board of eanvassers to proceed imme-
diately with their work.
Altogether the one ground of favor
BILE anticipations is the intense inter
est manifested in the proceedings by
the people of the whole United States
and the publicity thus given to the
proceedings. 1t is true that Kellogg
and Packard, Warmoth, Wells and
Pinchback are as hard crew of pi-
rates as ever lived by murder and rob-
berry, but the steady gaze of the human
eye Is sometimes too much for the
courage of the most ferocious of the
brute creation, and the light of public
attention converging from millions of
eager eyes upon the council of the
Board at New Orleans, and sternly
demanding strict justice, is force
which the most hardened cannot en-
tlrely resist; and symptoms of hesita-
ton are visible very different from the
logged audacity with which in former
times the same board set aside popular
votes rather enjoying than intimidated
by the storm of public Indignation they
had provoked, when it was only the
down-trodden white people of the
State whom they were trampling on.
1t is now the people of the United
States who are looking on, and already
the conspirators have been made to
feel the difference.
FRIDAY, NOV. "a.
All the favorable symptoms of yes
terday have vanished. Gov. Wick
life, admitted by an act of the Louis
lana board to be present yesterday is
excluded to-day, and the canvassing
board in South Carolina has acted in
direct contravention of the injunction
of the Supreme Court of the State, by
giving certificates of election to all
man, have 90 oIootoA