Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-15
TELEGRAPHIC.
THE LOUISIANA ELECTION
a statement BY Gov. KelIoeg.

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New ORLEANS, Nov. lO.--Govcrnor
Kellogg furnishes the following state |
mcnt 10 the associated press regard
ing tho election:
Very few official returns have been
received outside the city by the See.
of State, tho proper custodian. Tn
official statements have been received |
and published here of Is republican
and l3 democratic parishes, besides
the city--2S out of 81, which may be
called tolerably reliable. These par
ishes are furnished by each side and
the state is claimed according to each
estimate by both sides. The demo-
Gratis only claim the state by cstimat-
ing the republican parishes of East
and West Feliciana, East Baton Rouge
Morchouse and Ouchita as having
given them, as they claim, 1000 ma
jority. No one can dispute but that
the parishes were overrun and intim-
idated by armed bands of the white
league before and on the day Of the
election. These parishes have always
been largely republican. The regis
tration in these parishes is, white, s.
sos; blacks S,7O9. They gave over
5000 majority in 1870 by the returns
Of the fusion democratic board, and
they gave the republican candidate
$500 majority on 1874. IS conceded
| by tho democratic state committee.
In Ouachita the deputy U. S. Mar
shall was killed on election day and
the polls taken possession Of and run
by the white league. In East Felici-
ana, not a single republican vote was
allowed to be polled. The republic
cans were not allowed to run ticket.
This parish ia next to the MISSISSIPPI
ri line and has been turbulent more
or less since the democrats got pos
session of Mississippi. In this parish
l got over 900 majority in 1872, and
in 1874 the republicans carried the
parish by more than one thousand
majority. The vote claimed by the
democrats in these parishes was pro-
cured by intimidation, violence and
assassination and the proof of this is
overwhelming and perfectly conclu.
sive. Notwithstanding the claimed
vote in the parishes, We confidently
believe We have carried the state
The democrats never claimed to have
carried the state by but about 1900
in 1874, not counting Barronne parish
which gave us over ], 800 majority but
where they always alleged frauds
and refused to concede but
about nine hundred Of this
majority to lis. They admit that We
have gained in the city alone 2,4O(
votes over the votes of 1874, they ad'
init that we have carried Iberia, st
Martin, Assumption, Rapides, Caddo
Webster and Lafourche, already
heard from, which they carried il
1874. They admit that we have
matched our majorities in Bossier
. Madison, Tensas, Concordia, Natchc
toches, Plaquemine and st. Charles
OF course, none of these are official
There are only about twenty parishe
: accessible by railroad or telegraph
and the official vote of several remot
parishes can't be had for three or fou
days. The result will probably b.
close, counting the vote in the fiv'
bulldogged parishes, as the demo
Gratis claimed. Not counting thes
parishes, the white republicans will
be deprived of legitimate majorit!
f of nearly 1900. In no contingenc.
: can the democrats have carried tn
: state. 1t will not be denied that, witt
+ scarce on exception, in heretofore re
+ publican parishes, except the tiv
: bull-doggcd parishes the republican
s have gained over their majority II
r 1874, neither can it be denied that tn
$ colored people voted the rcpublica
l ticket with, if possible, more unani
Q nifty than over before. When the re
: suit, of this election arc investigate
Q in detail, and l am rcjoiccd that j
c the pending cxigency they will BIZ
t the republicans of Louisiana, thei
n trials, their difficulties, and the in
: justice they have so long suffered un
IL der will be better understood and ar
r preciated by the people of tho nortl
= All we want il fair and full hear
! ing, we want this whole matter prob
ed to the bottom. We have been re
8 vilcd and slandered for four year
8 and we arc happy that ut last an %
II casion is about TO arise when we wi
!. get a hearing which will be listene
Q 20 and needed. have heard tina
h several prominent gentleman az
i coming here, drawn thither by til
}, exigcncy growing out of the election
y I ana glad of this. photographed Sc,
o rotary Chandler last night suggestin
l. that Smith and ono or two other goi
tlemen from Shreveport say that de
perato efforts will be made by demo
2 Gratis in tho parishes up tho Red Rive
to change or destroy the returns.