New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
The Duncan gang of bulldozers in the
third ward Of East Baton Rouge main
tsined, ON election day, their we'll won
reputation SIS negro intimidators. Taking
possession of . room adjoining that in
which tbs election commissioners estab-
lished the polls, by violent demonstrations,
rendered moro savage by frequent potar
tions Of whisky which was in plentiful sup
ply, and by exhibition of Winchester raee,
shotgrns and other weapons, these champi-
ons Of a Stree, full and fair election" suc-
ceeded in carrying the poll unanimously for
the reform Democracy, excepting the votes
of the four Republican commissioners. A
protest was made, but under threats Of the
the most murderous character the commits.
sioners were compelled to continue these IL.
legal proceedings to the end.
In the tenth and twelfth wards resolu-
tions were passed several weeks ago re-
quiring all tickets to be voted open and ex-
posed, and this order was rigidly enforced.
These with many more facts condemna-
tory of the Democracy will be fully proven
before the Returning Board, to which the be-
leaguered and maltreated Republicans turn
appealingiy for justice.
We have Democratic admissions that the
West Feliciana Regulators had guards sta
STONED at the polls ''taking down the names
of cOlOred men who voted the Republican
ticket. and threstening them with visit in
= few nights" Ex. Governor Wickliffe,
leading Democrat, had to personally inter-
fere at his poll, and put q stop to this bull
doing game.
Do our distinguished visitors realize what
these promised visits implied A bitter and
bloody past shows that they mean, to the
poor black, murder, the torch and the lash.
For nearly year the Democracy, in their
determination to crush ont the Republican
party in West Felieiana and the adjoining
parishes, have been paying midnight visits
to the colored people, and unmarked graves,
hsmes in ashes, wasted fields and refugee
widows aud orphans are the damning re-
suits. L. it by these means the great men
gathered here would have q President
electedi II not, let them at once prepare to
denounce to the American nation the bar
barous atrocities Of the Louisiana Democ-
raoy.
Ben James, the colored deputy marshal
who was shot while conveying the ballot
box and papers to the Logtown poll, in
Ouachita parish, on the light preceding the
election, is reported to have made dying
declaration seriously involving leading
Democrats. His was the sixth or seventh
murder of Republican leaders in that
parish on the eve Of the election, and yet
she Democrats are heartless enough to
boast of their ricto,y! Wait till the judg.
ment day.
The tone of the Democratic press
throughout the State exhibits conviction
that the success they claim depends upon
their undisturbed enjoyment of the fruits
of their intimidation of Republicans.
Threats of the most direful character are
Illuminated in advance of any action by the
Returning Board; and if these bulldozer
councillors and leaders were not held in
check BY a wholesome dread of Fedora
powder, there is no doubt but the blood
thirsty promptings of their hearts would
be carried into execution. We yet have
government, however, whose power and in
clinstion to do right and protect the weak
even Louisiana Democracy hold in respect
The New York Sun thus allays Demo.
cratic fears concerning the Florida election.
1t is to be hoped it will not alter it's opinion
when the State is announced for Hayes:
There is no danger that the vote of Flo
rida will be rejected or changed by fraudul-
ent cOntrivances, for the election machinery
of the State is in the hands of honest men
who are the friends of Governor Tilden.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the eleventh
contains dispatch from number of bank
and insurance directors, denying the truth
of Governor Kelloggs dispatches, and as
serting Democratic victory in Louisiana.
1t is very likely that in this case ''the wish
was father to the thought" 1t has not been
forgotten that our banks and insurance COM
panies, not loug ago, subscribed 81 o,oOo
to bribe the Legislature into legalizing sew
eral millions of the rebel State debt, and
that only the firmness and integrity OF q Re-
publican Governor and Speaker stood be-
tween them and the fruition Of their hopes.
Continuance of Republican rule is an effec
tual bar to this nefarious and illegal scheme.
Can it be wondered at, that it's promoters
desire q changel
The New York Herald thus philosophers
on the unfortunate political muddle in
which the country now seems involved.
Reference is made to this State:
Roth parties claim the State, and when
the presidential election is found to depend
on the electoral votes of one State temp.
tation is presented which the ordinary frail
virtue Of political parties can not % e1-
pected to resist. The country must accept
the official action of the State autnorluee
until it is demonstrated to be wrong, ana
the only body entitled to pass on Ine sum
ciency Of the demonstration is Congress
of which one branch is controlled BY the
Republicans and the other by the Demo
srats. and which can not be expected to
agree on q question which go profoundly
affects party interests. 1t ia to be deplored
that there is Q possibility of dangerous diff
ferences arising between them.
The following is an extract from letter
of one of the best informed politicians OF
Nississippi:
Today (thirteenth) we have q new Con-
oresaman made. Chalmers has been
s:eounted in" over Lynch, who. instead OF
getting the $4,000 majority to which n ne Is
entitled. is ruled as defeated by 5000. Show
me Returning Board that can beat that .