The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-15

LOUISIANA.
1T 90 happens that the parish of Rap |
tides was taken as a sample OF lntimlda-
"tion. Many witnesses from both par
"tIes were examined in reference to It;
"they showed beyond question that there
.swRs free, futi, fair and pesceable cleo
"tion and registration there. There was
"no evidence OF any intimidation OF
"voters practiced or the day of electios,
although i. was asserted that intimida-
"tion OF colored uien before election had
" been effected by threats OF refusal to
"employ them or discharge them if they
"voted the Republican ticket. No evil
"dence either of discharge or OF refusal
to employ was produced. Certain wit
"nesses, themselves every one once
s. holders, testified generally to sucn
action; bu: hardly any one was ao lie TO
specify single instance in which ne
beard Of any employer SO threaten
ling or dischsrglng any voter, or
knew OF any employe beng so threat
ened or discharged. Not one single
"colored man throughout the entire par
"lsh was produced TO testisy, either to
such threat or TO the execution OF
"such purpose, whether before or after
"thG election.
DIS FRANCHISEMENT-A ARRAY OF ELEC'
TIoN FRAUDS BY THE CARPET-BAG-
GERS.
"THe action of the Returning Board"
SAYS the report, " in ne parish Of Rapldes
"alone CHANGED THE POLITICAL COM
"PLExIoN OF THE LOWER HOUSE, bu,
"their action in other parishes was equal y
Objectionable. For instance, in Iberia
aparish. 1t was claimed before your
"committee that the vote of Poll No. l
"in that parish had been rejected on ac-
- count of intimidation, but the papers
produced By the Clerk of the Board
showed no such proof. 1t was
"then asserted that the returns
"were rejected because the accounts
"of the election were not dellV-
"ered to the Supervisor of Registration
"within twenty-four hours after the close
"of the election, which was six o'clock
"on the third day OF November, whereas
ait appeared that on the morning ana
"site1noon of the third OF November
search was made for the Supervisor OF
Registration for that parish, in order to
"deliver to him these returns, and he
"was not to be found until after SIX
O'Clock; but that as soon as he could be
found on the evening OF that day they
were offered to him, and again re-
"cfiered the next morning, and were re-
fused to be received. Yet this same
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other Republican returns after he had
"refused to receive these Conservative
ones OIL the ground that they were too
late: and the Returning Board (al-
"though it had held as to other polls IN
''the State that the returns were MOTTO be
rejected merely because they were sent
''toO late) rejected the returns from this
"po., thereby changing the representa-
"tion of the parish from Conservative to
" Republican. So, in the parish OF
Il De Soto, in which the returns showed
CONSERVATIVE elected by over 1000
majority. it WAS alleged that the Super
'visor Ct Registration had brought the
returns to New Orleans, and had left
them with a woman OF bad character,
who offered to produce them on pay
"ment Of one thousand dollars. The
conservative Committee took legal pro-
"Ceedings to compel their production;
"but the Court held that it had no juris.
"diction to that end. They then caused
"to be produced before the Board the
duplicate Of tho:e returns from the
"office OF the Secretary of State, together
"with the tally sheets poll-lists, &c, led
" here according to law. These dupi-
"cates correspond exactly with the
"alleged result of the compiled returns
(which the said woman had produced;
land of these alleged facts undisputed
"proof was also submitted to the Board.
Nevertheless the Board refused to count
''the vote Tor that parish.
$50 in WINN PARISH, where 404 Con-
Is sentative and l64 Republican votes
1" were cast, upon verbal protest that the
90 Registrar of Elections was not proper
= " qualified, of which the on " proof
was that he had iaiiCd to forward his
oath OF office to the Secretary OF State
although there was no pretense that
- The election was not lair representa-
"uon of the will OF the people-the
= whole vote of the Parish was rejected,
land the case referred to the Legislature
- So in TEEEE BONNIE PARISH, where
"there WAS n Conservative majority, it
twas proved that the Commi siolers of
Election, through misapFrehension of
their duties lnclosed all the returns
ain the ballot boxes, and deposited
them VII tn" C.erk of tie Cow,
with whom I'll" pw required the
boxes to be LETT ne Judge of the
Court thereupon sued mandamus
commanding the Clerk to take the re-
TURNS from the boxes and forward
"thcin to the Secretary of State. which
twas done. Nevertheless, the Board re-
"jscted the returns from these polls,
thereby giving the parishes to the Re-
"publicans, with the result of choosing a
" Republican Senator, two Republican
members of the legislature, and the Re-
publican parish officers"
Can it be possible that the above re-
port cmanates from such orthodox Re
publicans rs Congressman HeAR, of
Massachusetts, Congressman WIN. A
WHEELER. Republican candidate for
Vice President, of Ne,O York, Con-
gresham FOSTER. of Ohio, and Con.
gresham WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS
of Nso0 Jersey Yes, and every
word of what has been quoted will be
found in REPORT No. l0l, Second Session
Forty.Third Congress. This document
was submitted to The House of Represen-
tatives on January Is. 1915, the testi-
mony upon which they based their report |
having been taken in New Orleans, as
late rs the 9TH of the same month.
The report of these Republican Con-
gressmen goes on to say:
In the State of Louisiana there is
Governor in office who owes his seat