Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-12-13


aGdsEits as Satisfactory poo, c
intimidation. a. far as possible sup
pressed rebu;.ing testimony, aodig
porei that testimony entirely, allow
Cd iampering With the packages o.
returns TO procure the insertion Of
afiidaEits gotten mp after the re
turns had been duly .ent in. and
then proceeded to throw oot . sui.
fcient number Of votes 70 give the
State to the Hayes electors with a
little margin to spare.
The purpose Of the board was to
effect the predetermined result BY
throwing out as few Democratic
votes as were necessary 20 bring
about that result. leaving of course
Republican majority which would
not by its smallness at once excite
the suspicion even Of Radicals OF
the most violent stripe.
In some eases the Board threw
ont the votes Of entire parishes or
COUNTIES; and this method Of
Wholesale disfranchiseuent was
varied in number Of other couD-
ties by merely throwing on: the
poll. giving Democratic majorities,
allowing the polls in which there
were Republican najorl,ies TO
stand. Thus the Board in the FIVE
so-called "bull-dozed" parishes care
fully preserved the vote Of those
polls in which there was a Repub-
licsn majority, however obtained.
Then the Board invaded such
strong Democratic parishes as Clai-
borne and Calcasieu. In the form
er Of these colored men By the hun
dreds voted the Democratic ticket,
State and national, therein follow
ing the lead Of Hon. Jasper Black
burn, an eI-Republican member Of
Congress and the oldest native Re-
publican in the Gulf States. In
the latter the whites out-numbered
the blacks nearly four TO one,
and in some Of the polls nearly ten
10 one, and some Of the blacks vot-
ed with the whites. Considerable
smashing Of Democratic majorities
/. how much cannot be said advance
Of the detailed statement Of the
omitted polls-was done in these
counties. Both Of these parishes
were strongly Democratic, even
according to the count Of the Re.
! turning Board rascal in 1872, and
went Democratic by majorities Of
LII and 7l6 respectively in 1874
1t is evident, also, from the ag-
gregate figures given by the Board
that they did not allow the mistake.
in Natchitoches, Ibenville and other
parishes, by which several of the
Republican electors lost q good
many hundreds votes, to stand in
the way Of giving each Of the
Hayes electors large majority
According to the face Of the re-
turns, as sent TO the Returning
Board, Kellogg, the highest Repub-
lican candidate, received 77,02a
votes, and Brewster, the lowest
candidate, received 1920 votes
This was the result on these two
candidates, as disclosed by the re-
turns opened by the Returning
Board in the presence of the visit.
ing committees. By the manipu-
lations Of the Board, Kellogg's vote
was reduced 1887; but Brewster:
vote, as returned by the Board
notwithstanding the throwing out
OF sundry parishes, is 74,014, OF
1,744 more than he had as sho,e,
on The face Of tie returns by tn
Returning Board The same re
duction in Brewster's vote as thai
which the board made in Kellogg
vote would leave Brewster with /.
smaller number Of votes than any
Democratic elector has now beer
credited with by the Returning
Board, although t,oelve THOUSAND
Democratic votes haze been wipee
ont Nth the stroke of the pen, OF
one-seventh OF the entire Demo
cratic vote In the State. The mum
Der Of Democratic votes thus thrown
ont is co al, the basis of relativ,
Demo ratio votes, to $4,000 in tn,
State Of New York 10000 In Ohio
and over 10000 in Michigan. I
Is on a scale which, IL carried
throughout the Union, would bull
doze 100000 Democratic votes ou
of existence.
II Is monstrous TO say that here