West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-04-21
A READY-MADE LOUISIANA REPORT
PHILADELPHIA Times.

BNtte VeAdtioH 10 Ms SuOFtS 70 Sct
commission to hold together long
enough for roll call to go to Lou
isiana. to divide with him the re-
spopsibility for the inevitable with
dra val OF the troops from thai
State. The trouble is to get rep
utabie gentlemen to accept tie po'
siticn for the reasons that commits
sions leave a bad taste in the
mouths of the people just now, and
that the Sherman report made on
Louisiana to sugar-coat the fraud
by which the State was given to
Hayes, has fastened ineffaceab!e
disgrace upon its authors. 1t is
feared by the invited commissioners
that they will be distrusted from
the start by both parties that if
they tell the truth they must invoke
the assaults of mendicant organs
and If they don't tell the truth,
they will BE execrated by honest
men. Apprehending that the del
icatc and exhausting labor Of MAX
ing a report in the Louisiana case
may deter some good men from ac-
cepting place on the commission,
the Times comes opportune'y to the
aid of all such and furnishes the
following as an entirely safe report
On all the disputed points, and it lie
all the more handy as it can as well
be verified and adopted over a din
ner at Welcker's as in New Or
leans. We submit it in detail, so
that there need be no mistakes in
filling up skeleton work, viz:
l. The commissioners appointed
to inquire into the status of the
dual State governments in Louisi-
ana have carefully investigated the
law and the facts in the case, and
respectfully report that nobody OUT
side Of a lunatic asylum or Fede~
raj or State officer seriously dis
putes the fact that Mr.. Nichols
was honestly elected Governor Of
the State by over ten thousand ma
jority.
2. Considerations Of delicacy
have prevented the commission
from presenting to the President
and the country their unanimous
judgments as to which electoral tick =
ct carried the Stale by ever eight
thousand majority.
3. Governor Kellogg, candidate
for elector, ard Marshal Packard =,
candidate 70: Governor, selected
the registering officers for the
entire State ; had registered whom
they chose to have registered ; res
jected whcm they chose 20 rejec'.
and all we're absolutely dislran,
'chised under the law who were
not registered. They therefore de :
cided. in the first place, who should
and who should not vote.
4. The said Kellogg aud Pack
ard, cand dates as before named
selected the Supervisors of election
in every city and Parish in the
state.
S. The Kel!ogg~Packard Super
visors Of election appointed the ell
ection 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 qualifications o.
every voter presented TO them and
accepted or rejected his vote.
6. The election officers thus ap-
pointed by the KelIogg-P ackard
Supervisors, after receiving such
votes as they thought best 10 re
ceive, counted and certified the re-
turns and delivered them to the
said Kellogg Packa'd Supervisors
to be approved AID forwarded to
the capital.
7. That tie aforesaid ellogg>
Packard SunerYisnrs have The rirh