New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-13
W1s THERE Az HONEST ELECTION IN

LOt INIdNIf
Every citizen has right to demand an
honest election 70 well as an honest count III
Louisiana. If in any part of the State there
has not been free and legal election, he has
the right to demand that the wrong shall DE
rightcd rs far as possible, so that President
NAV not be imposed on the country by force
or fraud in violation of the VIII OF the
people. The case of East Fcliciana is not the
only one that requires attention. In thll
parish there was q colorcd population OF 9'''o
and white population Of only 4,lOG III lS'o,
and at the last election the Democrats had
sl7 and the Republicans Less votes, ma
iority of Sal: and yet Democratic dispatches
assert that 1,713 registered votes were
"polcd. of which Hayes go: three and Illden
tbe rest. The Republicans RETAINED
" from voting" Gov. Kellogg asserts that the
Registrar was driven out of the parish, ana
that no legal election was held, Democrats
voting as they pleased, while 81 no lie
"vublican ticket was allowed 10 be put
"in the field" Which is the obvious
truth 7 In Ouachta parish the population
was 1923 c0orcd and 3,7j9 white, ANA 'he
vote in 1874 was 1904 Republican aud 900
Democratic. Yet the Democrats now claim
1.O7O majority, and Gov. Kellogg refers 10
the official report, by the army officer stationed
thrrc. of tho assassination OF the leading Re
pnbhcan of the parish, and also a>S,rts that
during the election the United States Marshal
i'm charge of one of the boxes was shot, and
the box destroyed. These statements are capa-
bic of easy proof or dsproof If they are true,
do thcy not show clearly the nati.rc OF the
D. NOT nI
were pursued. GOV. kellogg Asserts, IN More
house, West Fclici.na, and East Baton Rouge.
Thfsc parishes all have col"fcd population
greatly in the majority, have registered more
than twirc rs many color d a. white votes,
and have hitherto given heavy Republican
Iuaioiilics. Now the Democrats claim mHJor-
tbs of 52S IA Norchou,c, 100 in West Pc
Hciana. and 800 in East Batos Rsu@c. Is not
tho statement OF Gov. Kellogg apparently th"
true explanation of returns which. from such
parishes. would otherwise bc incNplicablr1
Fortunately. tho Democrats themselves fur
ui>h the most conclusive proof OF Tn" character
If the elections in these parishes. They te!e-
graph a statement OF the mUorlties which
they conccic in the Other Republican parishes
which proves:
|. That even 10y their own admission the
Republicans gain largely III the cclorcd parishes
in which tho election is admitted 4" have been
free from violence, and especially in liver
parishes adjoining those il which there Is the
greatest complaint and appearance oi fraud.
II. That even in the co'orcd parishes carried
by bloody work in former year, the Rrpuo-
hcans now gain largely excepting III Grant.
la Caddo, Bos,icr. Rapidcs and De Soto the
result this year proves that the colorcd voters
who were said Ia have been converted III
1874 were only driven from the polls,
III. That the coior,d population j. quite ~
strong rs ever in lis attachment T. the Rcpub-
l-an party, wherever II ha, bon permitted To
vote freely. That these fact, my i" clear,
we give a table oi al tn paIi .,.rS in which
the colorcd population largely prraominat's Is
shown by tno census of 1870, with the vote
ard majolity according TO tie Democratic
CONT in 1874, and the majuli';"S now re-
ported by tic Democratic committee. The
H.puhlicaus claim much larger majnr;ic5 IN
several parishes. To show the position more
clearly, the river parishes arc arranged Ill
geographical order. from north to south