Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-03
LOUISIANA.
Address of tho Democratic Com
mittee to the People of the
United States.
THE TILDEN ELECTORS CARRY
THE STATE BY OVER 5000
VOTES ON A FULL CAN.
VASS

vASS.
rEw ORLEANS, Dec. l.
The Returning Board met as usual;
little was done and the board ad-
| ioui ned till tomorrow.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. l.
The committee Of visiting Demo-
Gratis issue the followi ny address:
NEW ORLE ANS, Dec. /.
To the people of the United States:
On our arrival here, in casting q out
| for approaches TO the officers who
control the elections in this State, we
| discovered that they were all Of one
| political party; that the Governor haO
| appointed none but Republican Super
visors OF Elections, and that the Re-
turning officers constituting the State
| Board were of the same political school.
Influenced by these inauspiciOuy =
| roundings, our thoughts and hopes
were turned toward the eminent gen.
tlemen who had been selected by the
President to lie present and see that
the Board of Convassers made a fair
count of tho votes actually cast, and
on tho 18th of November we invited
these gentlemen to meet II confer
with us. This co operation was de-
clined, hut nevertheless we have roa-
| son to believe that to this correspond.
enco may be attributed the invitation
TO us on the 18th ult., by the Return.
ing Board, to attend and DO present at
its meetings a. spectators and witness
s4s Of itx proceedings. Through this
courtesy and tho services Of u
competent photographer. we became
possessed Of oil th0 essential papers
and we have been furnished with a
certified copy of the duplicate state.
ments Of votas made by the Commis-
sioners Of Election 1T each place OF
voting in the State, and from these
statements it appears that tho Tilden
electors received the following votes,
viz:
McEnery, s3,7l2; Wickilf, $3.50;
st. Martin, 1876; Poche, 1888; Dee
blanc, S3,667: seay, S3,S42; Cobb, 49,.
$40; Cross, 1862.
The Hayes electors received the fol
lowing votes, to wit:
Kellogg, 77,l52; Burch, TIA; 10
seph, 1859; Sheldon, 1884; Marks,
1921; Levissee. 1880; Brewster, 49,
457; Jefferson, 1886.
The result OF the vote for Presiden
tial Electors az disclosed on ths fac.
of the returns opened by the Returns
ing Board in our presence for the Til
den electors: McEnry, S2,223; st. Mar.
tin. 82!9lk9; l)eblanc, S2,O65: Cobb, 81.
959; Wicklitf, S2,346; Poche, o2,O36;
Seay, 81 ,242; Cross, S2,l09.
For the Hayes electors: Kellogg,
77.023; Joseph, 1862; Marks. 73,087;
Brewster, 1920; Burch, 76,9S3; Shell
don, H,67S; Levissoe, 75,l57; Jefferson,
1850.
In most cases the returns opened by
the Returning Board correspond pre-
cisely with the certified copies Of the
statements of tho Commissioners OF
Elections furnished US. The most ma
of the Supervisors OF East Baton
Rouge, Tangipxhae and Orleans 10
forward the statements Of votes from
all the voting places in their re.pec.
tive parishes. In thirty.fivc out OF
the thirty.eight States in the Union
these figures would be conclusive evi.
dence and no one would claim that
Tilden and Hendricks were lot entitled
to the electoral vote Of the State, but
in Louisiana a tribunal has been set
up which on former occasions has
O~verthrown ths will OF the people a.
expressed at the polls, for which tho
power 10 now claimed in its discretion
to change the result of the popular vote
al the recent election. In view, how
ever, Of the returns and the law and
facts which should control the return
ing Board, with which we have made
ourselves familiar, we have no heslta-
ton in saying that the result shown by
the votes actually cast cannot be
ei. anged without a palpable abuse OF
the letter and spirit of the law govern
ing the returning Board and manifest
perverSlOn Of tho facts before it. Ir
regularities have been committed In
some instances by officers conducting
the elections in making the returns,
hut they are about as much on q
side a. the other. As to intimidations,
violence or other illegal means pro
venting . free and fair election, there
Is evidence OF both sideH, but not Of
such . character rs to affect the gen.
efal result. In most instances acts Of
violence proceeded from mere lawless-
nexs, ii in the cass Of Henry and Eliza
Pinkston, and had no connection with
politics.
It is . significant fact that In tho par
shes whers IL is alleged that tbs vo.erS
we're kept from the polls by %intiMitia.
ton the total vote Of such parishes
was as large AS at any time h~eretofore.
and the whole State is 1,500 above any
vote heretofore cast, and an honest and
fair canvass of the returns oven under
Louisiana law car not materially re-
duce Tilden's majority as shown on
the face OF the returns. Signed by
Jno. M. Palmer, Lyman Trunibull,
WIN. Bigler, Geo. b. Smith, Geo. w.
Julian, p. H. Watson.
A Tribune N. 0. special says no one
in Now Orleans seems to vechanged
his opinion in the last two weeks in
regard to what the report Of tho board
will be. Republicans and Democrats
alike expect returns for Hayes and
Packard. the only question being the
size OF The majorities and which polls
shall be rejected in order to bring
about this fesult. The Republicans
think that the evidence OF intimida
ton il ample to exclude every poll In
five bulidosed parishes and some in
others, hat it Is probable that those in
tina large tOwnS of thasa Narisilaa