The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-11-16


to prevent the legal authorities in Lou
siana from making fair return, and t
give that State to Tilden by violence, AM
even murder, if necessary. This is VIII,
President Grant has ordered troops T.
New Orleans to protect the officers il
the discharge of their duties.
Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, throws con
siderable light upon the matter, in thu
following, which appeared in the papers
last Saturday:
New ORLEANS, Nov 10.
Gov Kellogg furnishes the following
statement to the Associated Press regar
ding the election:
Very few official returns have been re
ceived outside of the city by the Secre'
tary of State the proper custodian. Tn.
official statements have been received
and published here OF fifteen Republican
and thirteen Democratic parishes, be-
sides the city, twenty-eight out Of fifty
seven of which may be called tolerably
reliable The other parishes are estima-
ted by each side, and the State is claim
ed according to each estimate by both
sides. The Democrats only claim the
State by estimating the Republican par
ishes of East and West FeGciana, East
Baton Rouge, Moorehouse, and Ouachita,
as having given them, as they claim,
nearly 1000 majority. No one can dis
pute that these parishes were oyerrun
and intimidated by armed bands of the
White League, before and on the day Of
election. These parishes have always
been largely Republican. The registra-
tion in these parishes is: white, 3,69S;
black, S,7O9. They gave me 5000 major
ity in 1872, by the returns of the fusion
Democratic Board, and they gave the Re
publican candidate 5000 majority in
1874. as is conceded by the Democratic
State Committee. In Ouachita, q Depu-
ty United States Marshal was killed on
election day, the polls taken possession
Of, and run by the White League. In
East Feliciana not a single Republican
vote was allowed to be polled. The Re-
publicans were not allowed to run a tick
ct This parish is next to the Mississip-
pi line, and has been turbulent, more or
less, since the Democrats got possession
Of Mississippi. In this parish got over
900 majority in 1872 and in 1874 the Re
publicans carried the parish by more
than 1000 majority.
The vote claimed by the Democrats in
these parishes was procured by intimida-
tion, violence, and assassination, and the
proof Of this is overwhelming and per-
fectly conclusive. Notwithstanding the
claimed vote in these parishes, conf
IDENTIFY believe that we have carried the
State. The Democrats never claimed to
have carried the State by but about 1000,
in 1874, not counting Carol Parish which
gave US over l,SO0 majority, but where
they always alleged frauds and refused
to concede but about 900 of this majority
to US. They admit that we have gained
in the city alone, 2.400 votes over the
vote 1874. They admit that we have |
carried Iberia, ST. Martin, Assumption, |
Rapides, Caddo, Webster, and Lafou icle, |
alre -Gy Leard from, which they |
carried in 1874. They admit that we |
have increased our majorities in Bosslea,
Madison, Tensas, Concordia, Natchito-
ches, Plaquemines, and st. Charles. OF |
course none of these are official. There
are only about twenty parishes accessi-
BILE by rail or telegraph, and the official
vote of several of the remote parishes
cannot be had for five or six days. The
result will probably be close, counting
the vote in the five bulldogged parishes,
as the Democrats claim it. Not counting
these parishes, while the Republicans
will be deprived of legitimate majority
OF nearly 1000, in no contingency Can
the Democrats have carried. the State. 1t
will not be denied that, with scarce an
exception, in all the heretofore Republi-
can parishes, except the five bulldogged
parishes, the Republicans have gained
over their majority Of 1874. Neither can
it be denied that the colored people vot-
ed the Republican ticket with, if possi-
BILE, m ore unanimity than ever before
When the results of this election are in
vestigated in detail. and | am rejoiced
that in the pending exigency, they will
be, the Republicans of Louisiana their
trials, their difficulties, and the injustice
they have labored so long under, will be
better understood and appreciated by
the people Of the North. All we want is
q fair and full hearing. We want this
whole matter probed. TO the bottom We
have been reviled and slandered for four
years, and wo are happy that at last the
occasion is about to arise when we will
get q hearing, which will be listened to
and needed. | have heard that several
prominent gentlemen are coming here,
drawn hither by the exigency growing
out of this election. / am glad of this
| telegraphed Secretary Chandler, last
night, suggesting that several gentlemen
Of prominence, who have the confidence
Of the country, be sent here. Such men
as VIM. M. Evarts, ex-Gov. Dix, Bristow,
Senator Blaine, George +. Hoar, Gen.
Logan, Stanley Matthews, or such gen.
tlemen. If the North wants a true dis
closure of our affairs, let men come whose
will be guarantee that they
come to find the truth, and not to manu-
facture newspaper and sensational arti-
cles against US.
The statements of the estimated re-
turns referred to are the votes cast for
the State ticket. The vote for Hayes
was considerably larger in some localities
than that of the State ticket.
The Governor said that the Democrats
generally admit that Leonard Smith and
Darrell are elected to Congress, and that
the Republicans have carried the Legis-
lature. He said that he had just receiv-
ed a dispatch from Smith and one other
gentleman, from Shreveport, that desper-
ate efforts are being made by the Demo
Gratis in the parishes up Red River, to
to change or DESTROY the returns