The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-06
BULLD0ZING.
A Rampant Radical Journal on the Louisiana
Situation.
THE STATE GIVEN Up
Since Northern Republican Sentiment
Can Not Permit Hayes to be Counted
i'm by Fraud.
.Chicayo Trihnne.l

lChlc0yO IrlDrne.t
The democrats claim and insist that they
have 5000 majority in Louisiana. Their
footings of the parishes which they say Til
den carried amount to 29.632, and the aggre-
gate OF republican majOrities by their count
is q $50. leaving Tilden net majority Of
7,773. The official returns of 20 parishes
which have not been contested do q little
better for the republicans than had been con
ceded by the democratic unofficial reckon
ing The gain in those 20 parishes is some
thing like $50 votes, which would reduce the
alleged democratic majority 10 200 IN the
state Now suppose the returning board
shall reject ali the election precincts of
the five bulldOzed parishes if that can be
legally done, the result would be to deprive
the democrats OF 4 413 majority, which they
claim to have obtained in them. But after
the returns are thus purged the state IS still
democratic by 1900 unless the returns from
the other parishes shall prove more favorable
10 the republicans than the democratic I'M
official returns show. The New Orleans Re
publican perceives the difficulty, and says:
80 merely throw out the reputed demo-
cratic maiorities III the above parishes would
not satisfy Justice To do that fully it viii
De necessary 70 restore the republican
strength which has been destroyed by the
civil war which has been waged in them for
the very purpose of setting up this claim
which the democrats now urge"
Dut lllS Is Something tlldI LLC IAepuDAiCail
knows can not be lawfully done. II is
wholly illegal 10 count votes for Hayes
which were never cast for him. The return
ing board has no authority TO reopen the
polls and hold a supplemental cleo
ton for president and governor
and other officers subsequent to the
eth OF November The most that can be done
is 20 reject, not the parishes where
bulldozing was practiced, but the particular
polling precincts of the parishes where
fraud and intimidation are proven to have
been practiced. Thus il may be that the tes-
timony will only show that intimidation
was perpetrated in half the voting places in
East Feliciana. and that in the other half
the democrats got in 600 votes without
bulldOzing; and so of all the other
parishes where bulldozing was done,
many Of the polling places may be found to
have been free of illegal Instructions or in
tinidation, and thus when al the bad pre-
cincts are thrown out the democratic major
ity Of 4.4I3 votes in these five disputed par
shes may not be reduced One-half. In such
case the state vote would have to be certi-
fed for Tilden and Nichols. This is view
OF the chances in Louisiana we have not
lost sight OF for some tine. AS the cas-
stands, it IS very doubtful. But the vote
viii have to be canvassed strictly according
10 law. The republican visiting committee
will never cOuntenance or tolerate any
swindling or raScally counting or other per-
formances. The thing must be done fairly.
The republican party will accept nothing
else than that, and Governor Hayes has
openly declared that he will never take the
presidency if il comes 10 him tainted with
fraud or corruption.