The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-11-15
OUR HOME ELECTION.

and has resulted in the closest vote
in our parish, in the State, and in the
Nation that has fallen under our OBJ
servation. We recall a contest for
the Legislature in 1910 between T.J.
Wells and c.. H. Blanchard in which
the vote in this parish was tie, and
was decided by the Parish Judge, but
since then there has been no election
decided by 80 votes which is Pack
ards majority over Nichols. W e
Law the situation in the State and
Nation before our readers elsewhere
and propose here only to discuss our
home affairs.
We had in this parish at least
three hundred white voters who were
registered, and who after taking that
trouble failed to vote, when the fate
of the State and almost of the Ma
ton was trembling in the balance.
If these votes had been cast for the
party of honesty and reform VIC would
have carried this parish by two hun
dred majority. There were two rea-
sons for this fRll of of the white vote,
The first and most important is, that
one of our white voting precincts was
abolished entirely and another abol.
ished and put where we lost nearly
one hundred votes.
We refer to the Big Island and
Paups Store boxes. There is nc
doubt but that those two changes lost
us more than a hundred votes and
that the establishment of the Burnt
Down" poll for their especial benefit
gained the Radicals more than hun
dred votes, in Ward which had reg
isterd more fraudulent young ne
groes than any other. This manip
ulation of the polling places made
difference of at least two hundred
against US. Another, and fruitful
source of the loss of white votes wa!
the disafection produced among thu
hill voters by the Independents, so
called who sowed dissensions wher'
all was united and by disparagemen
of our local ticket, lost to Tilden ant
Nichols two hundred votes withou
gaining any benefit for themselves
Out of registered white vote o
about 1850 there was cast for Mich
oils 1859 votes, against solid negr
vote of 1929 for Packard. The hon
est, true people of the parish know
where the blame lies for their defea
by so insignificant majority, ant
they will not fail to visit their dis
pleasure upon the heads ofthose VIII
have aided their enemies directly o
indirectly. They have watched close
ly the actions of the croakers and OF
fee seekers in this the hour of thei
sore trial and they prefer TO form
their opinion of the status Of tie,
gentlemen from their actions rathe
than from their empty professions o
loyalty to their cause, while thei
sympathies and their aid were boil
given the enemies of the peace an
prosperity of the country. A day
reckoning has come, when social re
cognition and business profits will b
given by the people to their true an
tried friends alone and when are thos
who were rot of and with them, hear
and soul, must look to their new al
lies for the comforts Of society an
remuneration pecuniarily. The fgh
was too fierce, the contest too close
for the people to tolerate those VIII
imperilled their success and assiste
in the triumph of their enemies.
We have learned another lesso
from the campaign just closed whic
nothing but an actual trial and fai
ure would have made us believe
And that lesson is that all our plec
ges and promises, all our guarantee
of protection and peace, and all on
appeals to the reason of the negr
were made in vain and that the has
lies of the designing carpet Dagger
and corrupt negro leaders were eager
ly swallowed by them and were e
fectual in uniting them against Us
They stamped a blue cross with
ring around it on their ticket an
told the negroes that it was "God'
Ticket" The horrible blasphem
was not condemned by their preach
ers and numbers of them have bee
) heard since to boast that they vote
Goods" and "Christ's' ticket. The
| told them if the Democrats won, th
! negroes would be put down and pac
: died as they used to be in SLAYER
times and thew we're fools enough t