Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-04-04

hiih tho responsibility lOr tnc lnevltu'
bic withdrawal of the troops from that
State. The trouble is to go, reputable
gentlemen to accept the position for
the reasons that commissions leave q
bad taste in the mouths of the people
just now, and that the Sherman re.
port made on Louisiana to sugar.coai
the fraud by which the State was given
to Hayes, has fastened inetiaceabe dis,
grace upon its authors. 1t is feared
by the invited commissioners that they
will be distrusted from the start BY
both parties; that ifthey tell the truth
they must invoke the assaults OF men
dicant organs and that if they don't
tell the truth, they will be execrated
by honest men. Apprehending that
the delicate and exhauSting labor OF
making a report in the Louisiana case
may deter some gond men from ac.
cepting q place on tho commission,
The TINES comes opportunely to the
aid of all such and furnishes the follow.
ing as an entirely safe report on all the
disputed points, and it Is all the more
handy as it can us well bc verified and
adopted over dinner at Welckcrs as
in New Orleans We submit il in de-
tail, so that there need be no mistakes
in filling up skeleton work, viz;
IL. The commissioners appointed to
inquire into the status OF the dual
State governments in Louisiana have
carefully investigated the law and the
facts IN the case, and respectfully re-
port that nobody outside of lunatc
asylum or Federal or State office
seriously disputes the fact that Mr..
Nichols was honestly elected Governor
of the State by over ten thousand ma.
jority.
"2. Considerations of dcicacy have
prevented the commission from pro-
senting to the President and the coun.
try their unanimous judgment as to
which electoral ticket carried the State
by over eight thousand majority.
"3. Governor Kellogg, candidate for
eleetor, and Marshal Packard, candi-
date for Governor, selected the regis.
tering officers for the entire State had
registered whom they chose to have
registered rejected whom they chose
10 reject, and all were absolutely dis
iranchlsed under the law who were
not registered. They therefore decid-
ed, in the first place, who should and
who should not vote.
"a. The said Kellogg and Packard,
candidates as before named, selected
the Supervisors of Election in every
city and parish in the State.
"5. The Kellogg Packard Supervis-
ors of election appointed the election
officers to hold the election in every
precinct or division of every parish,
and they decided where the elections
should be held, passed upon the quail
6catlons Of every voter presented IA
them and accepted or rejected his vote
"6. The election officers thus ap-
pointed by the Kellogg-Packard SUI
pervisors, after receiving such votes
as they thought best to receive, count
ed and certified the returns and deliv.
cred them to the SAID Kellogg.pack'
ard Supervisors TO bc approved and
forwarded to the capital.
~. That the aforesaid Kellogg. Pack
ard Supervisors have the right under
the law to receive aflidavits of inlimi
dation, fraud or mistake as TO the elec
ton, and when such aflidavi,s are mad,
at tbs time, the Supervisors are roquir
cd to report the same as part of the
return, in which case, and only in suct
case, the Returning Board is empow
cred to inquire into tho integrity o.
the return.
IS. That the aforesaid Kellogg
Packard Supervisors did make suct
legal complaint of the returns from
two or possibly three parishes in tn,
entire State, and that all the other re
turns were certified without legal ol
even formal complaint from any
} officer.
20. That the said Kellogg and Pack
ard, candidates MS aforesaid, had tire,
regiments of United States troops t'
protect the voters they had decided t'
allow the right OF suffrage; that saic
troops were stationed in obedience {,
} the directions of said Kellogg ant
Packard that they had all the troop
they called for or desired that the,
had from twelve TO fifteen hundrc,
deputy United States Marshals ap
pointed by Attorney General Taft L
. guard the polls and protect voters II
the cost of the National Treasury
that they had the Louisiana militia il
organized readiness to aid in maintain
ing the peace and protecting voters
that they had swarming constabulu
ry at hand to support them at the cos
Of the State, and TO all of which ma,
be added the cntiro large list Of count,
and district officers, judicial, m ,gistcria
and otherwise, all Of whom held thei
places by the favor Of the aforesait
Kellogg and Packard.
40. That the Feliciana parish, ,wber'
, intimidation is alleged, has been care
fully considered by the commission
and the unanimous conclusion has becl
reached that with two Republicans Il
one Democrat in the parish with al
= the Federal troops asked for; with al
the State militia desired with all th,
I deputy United States Marshals peti
toned for; with all the constabular,
that the aforesaid Kellogg and Pack
. ard chose to have, and with all the dis
. trict aud parish officers to aid the vo
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