The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1876-12-08
TO TIE CONSERVATIVES PEOPLE OF
LOUISIANA.
ROOMS STATE CENTRAL CON-,
Conservative Party.

New Orleans, Dee 3, 1876.
The Dcmocfatic-Conscrv Central
committee announce to the people OF
Louisiana that the State has been car
ried by Il majority of {s0l0) eight thou
sand and ten, as will appear by refer
cnce TO the annexed tuhulntetl state
ment. These results are derived fro,u
the official returns made ut the polls
from all the parishes i'll the State, sworn
triplicates ofwhich are in our POSSES
sion, anu sworn duplicates in the pos
session OF the cleari>s Of the parish
courts. - .-r.-..
This victory is ali the more to be ap-
preciated, because of the dificulties
under which it was achieved. The en-
tire registration and election machinery
WAS i'll the hands of the Republican
party. The Government, State and
Federal, under Kellogg, Packard, Pit
kin, Casey ana others, eXerted their
combined influence, patronage and
power against our efforts to overthrow
corruption and misrule. Our citizens
were arrested and dragged from their
homes on the most frivolous and shall
low prrieXis, and the Federal soiiiery
we've distributed in every quarter of the
State. Not content with this, an at
tempt was made to diSiranchise, through
the United States Commissioners, in
violation OF the Constitution. % large
portion of the white voters of the city
of New Orleans, which was partially
effected. ...
In the country parishes polls were
opened 1T remote places, without prcVi-
nus announcements, and in many in
stances were not opened at the places
designated by tho supervisor Of regis
traliOn, IN clear violation of luw.
Notwithstanding all this, and much
more could be charged, the citizens of
this great commonwealth white and
colorcd, arose alike against the corrupt
party in power, and cast their ballots in
favor OF honscty and reform.
The election throughout the State
was peaceful and quiet. No outbreak
occurred anywhere.
Our opponents, seeing the magnitude
of our majority, started the bold and
frivolous charge of intimidation rs n
prete%t Ior throwing out It number of
parishes where the most peaceful cleo
tions We're held. AtIidavits with cross
| marks were manufactured at the Gus
| tom II ousc.
! We have fully met all these charges
with abundant and conclusive proof,
! and we have exposed the groSscSt frauds
one the part of the Republican party.
Your iurbcarancc and liberation have
! been great under the wrongs and provo
cations siaiped by you. We ask you
| to bear it stiil longer.
! 1t cannot bc that with the over
wheeling majority in your favor that
| y"u can he deprived of the results of
your victory, save by the grossest and
most glaring Injustice, such as will
Startic and disgust the honest sentiment
! of the whole country without reference
to political parties.
| We have won Il fair and complete vic.
! tory, and is will not bc torn from us by
trickery and fraud. The voice of eieh.
ty-tour thousand people eX pressed fairIy
and openly at the ballot-box cannot bt
stitled by any process that will not beai
on its face Il wicked and shameless
fraud, which the good men Of all par
ties must condemn and undo.
1. w. PATTON,
! President -COnserv,tiv
State Central Committee.
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