The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-23

One OF the Louisiana Bored Return
ed-SenatOr Mcdonald Tells Hi,
Opinion OF Things IN Louisiana
He Believes the Returning Board
VIII be Unable TO Count Hayes In
AStrOpg but Probably Unsuccess
full Effort TO be Made.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati En-.
Quirer.
INpIANAPoLIs. November 2l.-Sena
tor J. Il Mcdonald returned from New
Orleans, and has the following to say in
regard to the situation in the Pelican
State In the first place, he WAS furnish.
ed most satisfactory evidence by the ne,
groes themselves that thousands OF
them have voluntarily and freely
voted for Tilden, and was further
surprised to learn how systematic
were the efforts made by Kellogg and
Packard to impress Northern Republl-
cans with monstrous stories about intim
idations. Such alleged tumults and ter
rorism, circumsta ntially worked up and
highly colored, were related to both Re-
publicans and Democrats Of the various
parishes where they had been located,
and he heard many OF them say that they
heard the first OF these enormities when
they arrived in New Orleans. In COZ
sequences, the Northern missionaries,
simp on unsupported testimony OF the
Radical ring men at New Orleans, have
come home filed with nightmare
and indignation against the Democrats,
and he felt con hdent that the investga-
tion would knock the bottom entirely
out OF these partisan fabrIcations. He
stated that the election law requires the
Commissioner OF Elect ons or the Super
visor Of Registration to atfiS his protest,
IN writing, 10 returns when made first TO
the Board OF Canvassers. This Is taken
as pri,na fdcie evidence Of intimidation
or irregularity, hut no er pdrts charges
can legally be heard unless the poll has
been thus legally contested. The Sena
tor thinks this one OF the strong points In
the Louisiana muddle. He does not
think 1t possible that enough parishes
have been thus legally contested to
overcome the present Democratic ma
i,rigy. This will be closely watched by
the Democra ic Committee now there
He had seen it stated that tho Repub-
can blunder on the electoral ticket IN
some of the parishes. was not large
enough to have any effect on the general
vote. out this was mistake. Five Re-
pubIican electors had been yictimized as
follows: West Baton Rouge, Cos; Con.
cordia, SIS; lbervIlle, 449; Nstch,oches,
5S4 Total, 2,253. These figures had
been furnished Senator McDonald by the
chairman of the Democratic Com
mi,tee before he left ON Sun
day. KelIogg's claim that these
tickets should be made to include the
whole Electoral ticket on the ground OF
good intentions was simply absurd, for
Senator Sherman had 50 admitted, and
other Republ cans had sgroed with him
He doub.s the report that Pinchback had
two colored members of the Board under
his control. He also believes it incredI-
BILE that any compromise will work which
will give the Electoral vote to Hayes and
the State ticket 10 the Democracy. Pinch
back and Warmtu.h would agree to this
il it resulted in decreasing the Repubil-
can Legislature; but, on the other hand
Packard and Kellogg, who run the State
Government. could never listen TO the
scheme, which would virtually Danish
them from the State OF louisiana.
The votes must be canvassed and re-
turned before Congress meets or the
State will be thrown out, and this would
secure Tldeu'S election. Members OF
the Honse had already planned to send
a competent committee to investigate the
Returning Board the moment the House
WAS organized. He could not see that
the members of the board were at all ex-
ercised about the feeling at the North
and while giving free run to their wish
to count Hayes in by fraud, he still be-
lisyed their own State laws were strong
enough to ruin their plans and give a
verdict in favor of Tilden. He had no
d ht that Florida would lin the Demo-
cratic column IN several days.