The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-12-15

Democratic majority, for the parishes
of East and West Felicians, Morehouse
and O0achita, OF 3,S7S; and In East
Feliciana, where registered colOFed
voters number 2,127, not Republican
vote for Eiector was cast. In East
baton Bouge, counting 5000 colered
registered votes, and ,S0s whites, the
democrats claim q majority OF GIT,
which, but for the rejection of several
peiis by the Commissioners and Super
VlSors OF Election, would have been
returned Co the Returning Board as
votes actually cast. Ii TO tie Democrat
&c majority from these fear parishes,
as above stated, we add The 5l7 thus
claimed and insisted upon before the
Returning Board, Democratic ma
1orlty OF 4 ,495 Is the result. Of an
election in i've parishes containing 49,
ia colored Republicans ard 5,l34
white Democratic voters, the coneiu-
sion that Intimidation and violence
alone coald have produced this is al
NEST irresistible, aud that such influ-
ences were employed, and supplement-
ed by murder when that was thought
necessary, is established by the proofs
already referred TO. IG but confirms
this conclusion to refer to the vote
no special motives existed for the use
of cruel means to influence the cleo
ton; the Republican majority there
In was 1919. Results also suggestive
OF violence and Intimidation were OBJ
tained BY means most terrible and re-
voting. Organized Clubs of armed
men formed as recommended by the
Central Democratic Committee, rode
through the country at night, marking
their course by whipping, shooting,
woundipg, manning, mntilation and
the murder of women. children and
defenceiess men, whose houses were
forcibly entered whilst they slept, and
their inmates fed through fear. The
pistol and the rifle, the knife and the
rope were employed to do their horrid
work. Crimes like these testified
TO by scores of witnesses, were the
means employed in Louisiana to elect
President OF the United States.
Members of the Board, acting under
oath, were bound by the law, il con-
Yinced by the testimony that riot, tu-
mutt, acts of violence, or armed dis
tarbance did materially interfere with
the purity and freedom of election at
any poll or voting place, or did mate
rally change the result of election
AOtOosS " AeJOOs bOJCS tlHS CAST anu
exclude them from a final return. OF
the effect ofsuch testimony, the Board
was the sole and fnal judge, and it in
reaching q conclusion it exercised
good faith, and was guided by an hon
est desire to do justice, It's determine
ton should be respected even if upon
like proof different conclusion might
have been reached by other tribunals
or persons to guard the purity of the
ballot. To protect the citizen in free
and peaceful exercise of his right to
vote. to secure him against violence,
Intimidation, outrage, and especially
murder, when he attempted to perform
this duty, should be the desire of all
men, aad the aim of every representa-
tive government. If political success
shall be attained by such violent and
terrible means as were reserted to in
many parishes in Louisiana, COM
plant should not be made If the votes
thus obtained are denounced by judi
cial tribunals and all honest. men ass il
legal and void. (Signed.)
John sherman, Ohio. E.W .Stoughton, N Y.
h Van Allen, N Y. Eugene Hale, Me.
y, a. Garfield, Ohio. Cortland Parker, n. Y.
w. ID. Kelley, Pa. Sidney Clarke, Kan.
j. c. Wilson, Kansas.