New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-14

A Washington dispatch, January 10, to
H. Chicago Inter Ocean says.
Mr.. Crapo, Of the House committee to in
Mitigate che LouisianR election, has just
turned from the field of the committees
bcr, and was in his seat to-day. Hardly
H. his return generally known before
NOR was in circulation that he had come
M convinced of fair and honest cleo
"a of the Democratic ticket In Louisiana,
"a would join with his Democratic asso-
htes In o report to that effect. This rumor
(. Grape emphatically contradicts: On
a contrary, it may be said that IT he
euld render Judgment upon his present in
rmation he would decide unhesitatiDgly
favor of the Republican ticket. DOR
the greater part of the time
sent by the committee in the State
n Crap3 has served on a subcommittee,
q other members of which were McMahop
Ross, specially charged with the inveE-
alton of 0 aRchita parish and in its vicln-
For week, however, he sat with the
II committee in New Orleans examining
action OF the Returning Board, and
bon the question of the fairness and hon
" Of that action his opinion will be re-
we'd with great interest. Mr.. Grape ex
aeses his belief that the testimony adj
ced before the board was sufficient, he
lieved, to justify their finding. He adds
n much testimony has been taken by the
ngressional committees which was not
odueed before the Returning Board, and
hich, 10 his opinion, renders It doubtful
either certain polls excluded by the Re-
rning Board ought to have been thrown
These polls, however, if counted, would
q change the result, the number of votes
inr small. The failure of the board to
the vacancy which the law directs
ould be filed by Democrat he regards
very unfavOrable for the Republican
e, and 1t is quite plain that he DOES not
nsider the explanation of that failure to
satisfactory. AS to the result OF the in
etigation by the subcommittee in Qua
IA parish, Mr.. CArpO entertains no doubt
Il fhe Republican vote was materially
luced by intimidation. By the murder
Dr.. Dinkgraye, on August 81, the Re-
blicans of Ouaohita, nearly all of
! m negroes, were deprived of their
Dsf leader and organizer, and al
hugh the Democrats endeavored to
IN that the murder was the sequel
fatal quarrel which took place six or
en- years ago, yet the negroes throughout
4 parish regarded it as the beginning of
Il upon them, and the effect was precisely
\ at IL would have been had Dinkgrave
IN killed for the ayowed purpose of intim-
tion He thinks there ia some reason to
trust the story Of Eliza Pinkston, though
gas firmly believed by Captain Hale, the
~ officer commanding at Monroe, and by
I officials at New Orleans. The record of
z raers and assaults, however, is such as to
gs no doubt Of the fact of atrocious viz
I. BE- toward the blacks. Mr.. Grape has
st OF seven murders and thirteen as.
= it, ali Nf them upon black Republicans,
ording to testimony before the snb-oOm.
: tee in 0nachita. The national Issue, Mr..
7. hpo observes, seems to be secondary with
Y Louisiana people, the main struggle
ng over the State government. The
y te people bitterly hate Kellogg, Pack.
v v and other associates, and do not care SO
y y CD to elect Tilden as TO overthrow the
ested local government. The intense
J. ike Of the local government is not, he
! aks, altogether without reason. They
nestly desire Tilden's success, however
y ewing that it would put an end to the
- H. publican State government.