Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-03-22

ct testimony, would occupy too muc
IA time and be too great n draught upo
At your patience. For you have hear
h. that testimony discussed timo an
10 again, and its general features are a
a that need be fccalled TO your meme
c RIGS. .H iIrN
5 On November 4, 1872, genera
II election was held in Louisiana for
!, Govcinorand other State officers, mem
II bcrs Of Congress, one-half of the Stat
J. senate and al the members Of tn
@ House Of Representatives of tho State
n There were two parties who had tick
cts in the field, tho Republican party
l. whose candidate ior Governor was vii
liam Pitt Kellogg, and the fusion par
Q ty,. so called, whose gubcrnatorial can
didatc was John EoRncry. Aud oncl
$ Of these partic, had its candidates fol-
I other State offices and for members O
+ the General Assembly. The officia
r returns Of the election showed maiori
ties ranging from nine TO fifteen thous
{ and for the fusion candidates to th,
: Legislature. Upon these returns Oh,
Senate, including the Senator's who
} held over, stood 22 Fusionists and Il
: Republicans and the House stood II
: Fusionists and 80 Republicans These
, facts were abundantly proved before
your Committee on Privileges and
|, Elections, and ] am not nwate that
they nre disputed by any one. (See
report of committee, Carpenters, page
81, t sep. And yet the body Of men
assuming TO be the Legislature Of the
State, who pretended TO elect Pinch.
back United States Senator contain.
cd majority Of Republicans. How
was this strange result broui, ,ht about
You have only TO look at the report Of
your committee anu tho accompanying
testimony to sec. The whole history
is there given in great fullness and
detail. have no time to repeat it,
and therefore let it suffice for me to say
that, under q law of Louisiana, which
your committee found TO be unconsti.
tutional, all election returns were to be
canvassed by five men, called return
ing board that three men, to wit, Jno.
Lynch, James Longstrcet, and George
Il. Bovee, unlawfuIly assuming and
usurping the functions of this board,
pretended 10 canvass the election with
out single official return before them,
and, by rejecting about thirty-one Flu
sionisis, who, according to the official
returns, wcro elected, and substituting
for them thirty-onc defeated Republi-
cans, constituted sham Legislature
containing Republican majority I;
that TO carry this conspiracy into ef-
feet, f. ii. DurelI, District Judge of the
United States, "out of court, late at
night, December 5, and without appli-
cation by any parry" made an order
that the Marshal of the United States
should forthwith take possession OF
the building known as the Mechanics
Institute, and occupied as the State
House for the assembling of the Legis-
lature therein, In the city OF New Or
leans, and hold the same snbicct TO the
further order Of this court, and mean.
while TO prevent all unlawful assem-
blagc therein under the guisc or pre-
'eA, oi authori'y eial'ncd oy virtue Oh
pretended canvass and returns of said
returning officers (that is to say, the
Defei1et board, who had eanvassed
the actual official returns and whose
canvass had been proclaimed by the
I Governor Dursuant 10 law a that in
oon,,l;anoo ,,,;,L .1:a .l
Judge the Marshal s n Packard
takin, TO his aid n bodv of Federal
troons scized m. s,o,s Uo,,se ,bo
.a, - .,I -.
o""'o "'S"' NV" no'u "i"iou Poseess'oh
thcrcoi WIN SAID troops Tor about SIX
weeks that, two duys after the max.
in, of so;d ord,r a. I'll, al naoa,,Lo,,
rs " go o,u,'i :" VIZ on iooe,ivoi
., tho same JuuBc, IN SUIT Drought by
| T.. g.. Antoine, enioined every senator
and membcr clec,.J 90 ,ho ,,;sl,,,,,,,
ii W wv
VINO hau not Dccn returned Dy tho So
called Lynch board from participating
in any maner in tho oryan,vat;o, of,be
assembly that This order wos cnior.
cd bv Marshal paoLa,J .;J,d Ia, L;s
| t, "N~"f', ~
reuoi'u troops, Dy excluding All such
members from the State House at the
time fixcd fo,. tbc assep,bIinr "a Oh,
I,,..;.I..,..
hes'sin'urc' to VII, Deccmoer tnat
consequently no one who was not re-
turned Nv said Ivnch board yvos NOR.
,,;,,oJ -, 80. ~, -
't''" w u""e P"ii W eucn oiSahD'.
ton, and the Republican portion of
those thus returned contninjn,, less
,Lo, ,,,o,.,,,.. - ~ ,c.il. ,-l
'"a" duo'u"i VI tnu iaWluiiN civc'eu
members, assuming 10 be the Lcgisla-
ture of the State and made nretended
or,,a,,;x,,;.,, .' , -. ~. ~.
o's"n'~a',o', US such anu that th's
was lhc body oi mei-thiity-one oi
whom had no color Of title to seats i'm
III, Assnn,bIv ,t,,s no,s,;,,,od b, ~
w. .'s',""'y '".s oo"s,i,u'V" ny ,no
tpil pflQra off a E.doral tul.sa and