The daily gazette., 1876-11-23

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republican form of government.
The Situation i'm LOUISE
| ana.
DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS EXCLUDED
| FROM THE COUNT.
| Especial Dispatch to the World
New ORLEANS, November 21.-The
Republican report that comprise might
be reached in this State by which
Nichols should be counted in and Til
den counted out, has no foundation as
far as the Democrats are concerned.
Five of the Tilden electors have $500
majority, whilst Nichols has but 5000,
and counting out the larger number
would necessarily etface the smaller.
The Republican plan is not developed.
The opinion grows that with all their
willingness to reverse the result they can
scarcely accomplish it by any process yet
suggested. There is no doubt that they
are attempting to tamper with the parish
returns and to falsify them, but as the
count at the polls was public and the re-
suits known, this device can easily be de
tected. George l.. Smith, Republican
candidate for Congress, is bringing the
returns for Caddo via Galveston, Tex.
The notorious Morey, so tho roughly ex-
posed by the Gibson committee last
spring, is known to have made up the
Madison Parish returns. The Tensas re-
turns were kept in private Republican
committee-room at the St. Charles Hotel
until yesterday. The correspondents of
Republican newspapers now here admit
that their instructions are publish all the
stories they canget hold oil on the Repub-
lican side and to insist that the Return
ing Board will count Hayes i'll. They
have taken their cue from the Matthews
Noyes-Garfield committee, who declare
that the bald, naked power of the Re-
turning Board to alter the returns at will
is conclusive and binding on the country.
The pretense that Hayes has carried the
State is definitely abandoned. Ex-Gover-
nor Wickliffe, Democratic elector-at-
large, this morning applied fer admittance
to the Returning Board.
In the Returning Board to-day Judge
Spotford protested against the exclusion
of the Democratic counsel, against the
exclusion of press reporters and against
secret sessions to decide contested points.
Mr.. Zacharie protested against the ex-
clusion of United States Supervisors. Mr..
Wells again announced that no Louisi-
ana Democrat should be present. On tho
other hand, Republicans are constantly
admitted, and committee of Repubh-
cans is sitting in an adjoining room in
full communication with that in which
the board sits. A protest was also pre-
sented supplying the names of the five
electors omitted from the Republican
tickets in the Fourteenth Senatorial
District. When the parishes were taken
up for canvass part of the Republican
plan was revealed. The Democratic
Parish of Bienville was passed over be-
cause one Republican official had enter
ed protest. This is not so-called ''bull-
dozed" parish. East Baton Rouge,
Concordia and Catahoula were also laid
over. The question in West Baton
Rouge is that of the deficient electoral
tickets. In Concordia, one Radical fac
ton accuses the other of intimidation.
Other parishes passed over are st. Charles,
De Soto, Iberia and Plaquemines. The
parishes canvassed were Cameron, Cal
casieu, st. John Baptist, st. James ,Pointe
Coupee and st. Bernard, the results of
which vary but slightly from the publish
ed returns. Fifty colored men, constitu-
ting a delegation from Ouachita, attend
| cd this morning in parlor p. at the St.
Charles, and were received by the visitors
| from the other States these delegates
| were all genuine, honest and intelligent
men, mostly laborers and contractors
Several were preachers and schoolmas-
ters. They were very courteously and
kindly received by the distinguished
gentlemen present, to witt Governors
Palmer and Bigler; Mr.. Smith, of Illinois;
Mr.. Perry Watson, G. w. Julian, of In
diana; Samuel 1. Randall, Messrs. Lamar
and others. The colored men represen-
ted the several wards of Ouachita. Each
of them was then interrogated by Cover
nor Palmer and other gentlemen of the
delegation as to the condition OF their
several wards, the circumstances OF the
election on the 9TH of November, their
previous political relations, the causes of
their change from the Radical to the
Democratic party, and particularly as to
whether the election was peaceful or
otherwise, and whether any intimidation
or other improper influence had been en-
ployed to control their vote. They had
all been prominent members of the Re-
| publican party, and some had been pre-
sidents of Republican clubs. They all
gave as the reason of their change that
they discovered the Republican leaders
to be hypocrites and deceiyers, and that
the stories told to them of danger to their
rights in case of Democratic success were
false. They had suffered greatly from
misgovernment and had invariably been
cheated in their dealings with the Re-
Ipublicans. One old man, who said he had
once belonged to Jefferson Davis, said
that when he Joined the Republican party
he had quite an amount of money but now
he found himself penniless on account OF
Republican swindlers. One intelligent
man, Richard Darlington, who had be,
longed to Senator Downs, declared that
he had always been Democrat. All Of
these colored men declared that the elec
(tion and the campaign in Ouachita were
absolutely fair and free frbm intimida