The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-06-07
THE oSKALooSA HERALD.
LEIGHTON & NEEDHAM, Editors.
THURSDAY. JUNE. z. 1877.

In one column of last Thursdays DAY.
export Gazette, is an article pitching into
the Chicago Tribnne for disappearing
James G. Blaine last year, claiming that
no honest paper can afford to misrepre-
sent the facts and mislead its readers;
and in the next column of the same Go
zette we find the following-as gross
Misrepresentation as was ever printed:
I'm Louisiana, the returns of the popular
vote, as made by the parish officers, gave Mich
oils, as Governor, a majority of nearly nine
thousand votes, while under the Constitution of
nat State, only the Legislature possessed, or
uld claim, the power to correct that I'M
s,t> aimed the election and claims Of Nichols, as
aga INST Packard"
First, the fraudulent returns from the
highest sources, never gave Nichols but
SO, 274, and packard 78,43S-less than
5000 difference. Second, the Legislature
neuer did and nerer has declared Mich
oils the Governor. On the contrary, a
full majority of members of both Houses
of the Legislature, returned by the re-
turning board, declared Packard the le-
qalty elected Governor, and also elected
Kellogg U. S. Senator That this is true
weciteou readers to the debate in the Sem
ate on the admission Of Kellogg, before
his case was referred to the committee on
Privileges and Elections. Senator Blaine
then said that the same returning board
that returned Hayes and Wheeler, re-
turned Packard and the legislature that
elected Kellogg Senator Morton quoted
| from the record and read from the Con
stitution of Louisiana, to show that it was
the duty of the Legislature to canvass the
vote for Governor and Lieutenant Cover
nor. He showed that there sodS q quorum
| Of the Legislature present tohen the U0tes
for Governor and Lieutenant GOOernOr
aoere cGnUGSsed, and it SoGS declared by the
Legislature that Packard received $500
majority.
Senator Morton in his recent letter
which the Gazette applauded the first day
of its issue, says:
at aUds shOtcn by the journals Of the LegislG-
re that each house Of the Legislature tDttch elect
cd Kellogg had quorum Of members, ceTtlhed as
such by the returning board. This board was en-
powered by the laws of Louisiana to examine
| and count the vote, and determine who had been
| chosen members ofthe Legislature, and to trans
fhair Aofar ain.fi 20 n
State. The Secretary of State was directed to
make a list of the members returned as elected
| by the board, which he was to transmit to the
Secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House
of the former Legislature, and the Legislature
was to be organized only by such persons as
| were named in the list furnished by the Sec
| Ietary of State. 4 quorum OF persons OF each
| House thus certified as elected met on the day
| fixed by law and organized each house of the
Legislature, and the tlUO houses met the net day
in joint convention, in accordance Nth the prOUi-
SiOs of the constitution, and canvassed the votes
| for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and de-
cldred s. u. Packard to haze been elected Cover
| nor, and G.. C. Antoine, Lieutenant Governor
Afterward, on the day fixed by the act of Con-
gress for the election of United States Senator,
majority of the totOle number Of members so re-
turned as elected met in joint contention and elect
ed William Pitt Kellogg to the Senate"
The above from Senator Morton, proves
Ed Russells position false, and as Rus
sell has already endorsed that letter, it
makes him prove himself a falsiGer.
What then is his intention in publishing
such things as we quoted at the begin
ming of this article? Certainly it can
have but one object, and that is to de-
ceive such of its readers land we pity
such) as take only his paper. If the
cause of the administration can only be
defended by such gross misrepresenta-
tons, then it is time for it to go under.