The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-11
WARDS SPEECH.

Ar late moment we find our COL
umns so crowded. thac we can only
find space for Wards speech q notice
If which we give elsewhere:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENrLEMEN-1
am called. mon tonight, and thank
Won tor the honor of addressing this
audience. am not much Of an orator
bnt I am pretty solerable worker
when I know am in the right am
a good Republican, hut have come
over to night to join She Conservative
ranks fon thts purpose 0f helping to
form a good government. { have been
charged with leading % riot in Grant
parish aud have neveu mad an opp"ro
tunity fai,lys before nows So come out
aud saddle shc blame where ie properly
belongs, Yon may say "Why do you
come out at this iaie hOug and join the
Conservative ranks I" Bus ! will frat
tell you ABOUT the Grant massacre aud
you will thrl1 see why J leave the Re.
publican party and ioir the Conserva-
tives.
The rioS took place on q Sunday,
Easter Sundays Apply H. 1874; AMI,
frat ut all, wauP y0'o to- understand
how that massacre was got mp and
how it was sad,lied upon me, and how
bore it all; naturally I locked upon
the Republican party a. one great
household family, and did not want
tn break it up; l thought l would en-
dure it until they made the nOmina-
tions for the next f"us years. We
have endured terrible government
for the past four years. known as Ke'.
lugg's government which is 40 corrupt
Iand rotten ~ ain.
Now, gentlemen, WAS elected to
| the Legislature in 1872 for the parish
of Grant at \ time when there were
two Legislatures sitting ie Loni ,inna,
known as the McEnery and Kellogg
Legislatures, and boti, continued to ait
until twG days before the time for
botle So adjourn. wa~ returned a
! member af that Legislature by the Re-
publican party altl,ougls there were n"
true eetnrns, and ! believed she party
made up she Legislature.
was the e,nlS one from GranR par.
| ieln 9eturned to dhe Legislature S the
men who ran on the ticket with me
I for the other Offices were naturally Re.
publicans. 3 had them all appointed
hy Nc. Kellogg, and ] had them con.
firmed by the Senate which was re-
cognixr,l at that time. About three or
-four weeks after the Legislature ad-
j"urneds Mr.. Rutland and Mr.. Richards
came down from the parisl, 1T Grant,
and they brought down new set Of
! names, who we're appointed to every
parish office Mr.. Kellogg issued com.
! missions to every one vt them. and al
We had fwO acts Of aff1cers for every
! office regularly commissioned by KEEL
l"pg. At that time B was in town, and
when y heard Of j. went tight down
tn NJ. Kellogg's nffic-, who was at that
| very time signing these commissions,
said to him !, Governor, are mt you do
ing wrong. you are issuinR two sets al
commissions tor the san ufficcs. Now
you have two regularly commissioned
sIeriffs, you have two Judges, two
sets Of Police Jnrorso two Cons,abl-s
is not that wrongi SWELL" said he,
'ti,ose "liicers | appointed a month
ago have never qnali6-d.' I said to
him, "Governor, would it not be bet-
ter I" refer to the SecretaFy Of State,
and see II The oath has ever been fled y
Nj. Drslonde brought the bmks aud
proved thar every one Of them was
properly qualified. and Was exercising
the duties of i,is Office. Mr. Rutland
then said to the Governor, ''the people
don't like them. and ii y"u don't
change them there will b.. hell I" pay"
1 Mr.. Rutland then took hi. hat and
| went "ff, and Kellogg said: Hold on,
Judge, yOn &" up there and se'tlr it,
and you can tell Nash to 60 ahead and
will for~ard l,is commission" He
was app" nted, for l saw his commits.
sion. Well, t,ese were the orders
Kellogg gave to MIR. Rutland. 1t did
not 60 up to C"ltax for two weeks at
forwards. and when got TO Colfax
Mro Hadnot was there with abon,
twenty men to settle up the diffrren.
ces t'etw en- the two sets Of officers
Dan Shaw, who was the Sheriff fra,
appointed by Mr.. Kellogg. came to NJ,
house and said there il going to h
trouble to morrow; said what for
He said Mr.. Hadnot ia coming to town
here to take possession Of tile office
and ! am going to deputise thirty 81
"rty men t. protect the peace.
; MIR. Shaw depn,ised these menf anf
then Mr. Hahn"t came int" Col'ax viii
his memo The way it was settled
did not know, bnt it seems the ,rontle
commenced at COlfax with the two
shrr,ffs that Mr.. Kello. e appointed
with the Instructions to ~ up thor,
and raise q fight, and make pnlit,ca
capital out Of the dead negroes for hi
party.
! Well, the white people. with NJ,
Kcll"g9's authority came into Cola,
tn take possession If the Offices. an,
Mr.. Shaw the Republican Sheriff
summoned all the cnlortd people IT, re
sist them. 5" the white and cOlore,
people we're brought together in con
f1lct and n'nny colored men were kill
ed. 1t WAS brongh, about directly b,
Kellogg. who planned the mo- meni
aud knew what the c~n. sequences wer
going tn be. Ihad no more to do y it
it than any Of you gentlemen.
came down to New Orleans before tn
fight commenced, as l knew the tr"n
HE was coming. Before left l wen
to MI, Shaw and said: "Yon are gOin
I" have trouble. what are yon going :
dot" He said he and Nasl, " ere g0iD
t" have all the colorei men summone
! t" his side. "Now," said he, "you ~
a Republican,, and must 20 down I
Kellogg and have him fix the matt.
e up s" ! saw Kellogg, aud said ,
hmm II waa oil tl,r.,r,,l, tJ,a 800, as.