The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-11-18

rights in such positive and unmistakabl,
way that very soon the bold conspiracy
melted before the peoples wrath like snow
fakes before the morning sun. In the
meantime, Thaddeus and two Of his COW
ardly companions, overcome with terror
jumped out of the back window Of the
capitol and fed into the darkness, which
protected them. The storm then passed
on, the democratic governor was inaugu.
rated, and all was quiet on the Susgue-
hanna.
THE STRUGGLE IN LOUISIANA.
Our special dispatch from New Orleans,
reviewing the situation in Louisiana, is
from a regular staff editor of the Tines,
now on special duty there, and we regard
his statements as the most reliable likely
to be received by any Northern journal.
He is thoroughly familiar with the chief
actors on both sides, and is experienced
III observing the sinuous ways Of the KEEL
log-Packard- Pinchback combination, whose
studied perversion of the ballot in that
State has been pointedly condemned by
both branches Of Republican Congresses,
We therefore present his concise report of
the situation as entitled to the fullest
credit 1t shows that the vote of the
State, as actually cast, is for Tilden by
fully seven thousand; that the majority
would have been doubled had not the
Kellogg registration arbitrarily disfran-
chised thousands of legal voters that
Kellogg election officers have purposely
committed Irregularities to furnish a pre-
text for rejecting the vote of polls or par
ishes; that in some sections improper and
illegal measures were employed to prevent
colored voters from voting or to make them
vote the Democratic ticket; that the cleo
tion was the most peaceable ever held in
the State that New Orleans is not turbu-
lent or even excited that there is no APP
parent necessity for the additional troops
there; that the return board can do as IL
'oiH, and means to return the Hayes cleo.
tors, unless restrained by the omnipotence
Of the earnest desire of the country for au
honest election, and that The army is there
not SO much IN tie interest of peace, as to
defend The Kellogg return board.
1t is now too late to question that the
vote of Louisiana, as actually cast by her
people, gives Tilden majority of from
seven to ten thousand. This vote, it must
be remembered, was cast in State where
Kellogg officers controlled the election
boards, and fraudulent voting for Tilden
was substantially impossible. 1t is not
pretended that the votes computed for
Tilden were not cast, or that they were
cast by illegal voters; but it is alleged that
the blacks wee intimidated aud the cleo
ton made to defeat the will of the legal
voters by compelling colored men to alb
stain from voting. 1t was on this pretext
that Kellogg set aside the returns in 1872;
and for the perjury and fraud that he en-
ployed in doing so, both the Republican
Senate and House of Representatives
turned his tainted commissions and their
bearers from their presence. In 1874 he
again made his return board set aside the
returns on the same pretext of the intimi-
dation of colored voters, and Mr.. Wheeler
went there with other Congressman, speci-
ally commissioned to inquire into the KEEL
logg frauds, and turned out Of the Legisla-
ture the pretenders who had been falsely
returned by the Kellogg board and who
had been seated by Sheridan's bayonets
cleaning in the very halls of legislation.
Thus did two Republican Houses and two
Republican Senates teach the whole world
that the Kellogg return board was an un-
speakable infamy, that commenced its work
in unblushing perjury and ended it in the
fraudulent subversion Of every attribute of
popular government. ....
Now this same return board is charged
with the revision of the returns in State
on whose vote may depend the choice of
President Of the United States. The old
charge of intimidation comes up as it did
in 1872 and in 1874, but it is not now
credited to any such extent as to excuse
the modification of the returns in any es-
sential respect. Our staff correspondent,
who has made careful inquiry into all
these allegations, doubtless telegraphs the
truth and the whole truth, when he says
that there were no cases of violent intimi-
dalton, but that there, as in Philadelphia
and in every contested region of the North,
the votes Of idlers were bought by both
sides, and laborers were Influenced more
or less BY their employers. On the same
principle there is not an election held in
Pennsylvania that the defeated party, if
in the custody and control of returns,
could not defy the will of the people.
The same evidence could be had by either
party to order, and thus our elections be
made mockery of oil government and
Haunting lie to the world. If any, in the
heat of inaamed partisanship, still doubt
that Kellogg is now preparing the way for
deliberate fraud that shall overthrow the
plainly expressed popular will of the ma
ton, let them read his defiant statement
to our correspondent yesterday that "all
hill cannot prevent Packard from being
Governor" and then let them turn and
carefully peruse the extracts we give from
the Republican Senators and other trusted
leaders on the Kellogg iufamies of the
past. If there are those who, after look
ing squarely in the face the systematic de-
bauchery that Kellogg is about to summon
to reverse the solemn verdict of the Union,
can hope for justreturn in Louisiana, it
must be because there, as elsewhere, crime
will shrink from light and truth and must
bow to the imperious demand of an honest
people for an honest award of the highest
and hottest trust of earth within the gift
of free government. We shall not des.
pair of the triumph of right in. this ase,
because to do so would be to despair Of
the Republic. -Phila. Times, Nov. Is.
ga fair count or free fight" is the way
the st. Louis Times sums up the situation.
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