Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-01-17
The Election I'm Louisiana.

The Democracy has already conceded
the Electoral vote of South Carolina and
Florida To Mr. Hayes, and is not inclined
to insist upon the farce that was played in
Oregon. This leaves Louisiana us the
only State where there Is any contest. In
tina. State the Democrats claim that the
Returning Board has counted them out
by fraud, and the Republicans claim that
the Democrats carried the State for Ill
den, on the face of the returns, 10y the
use of violence, terrorism, intimidation
and other Illegal practices that are in.
cluded in the term " bull-doZing.' The
settlement of the questions pending as
represented in these two claims, is very
simple II is the duty Of the Returning
Board Of Louisiana under the election
laws of the State to throw out the votes of
those parishes where ii is established by
competent testimony that intimidation
was practcod TO such extent that voters
were afraid to vote or were prevented from
exercising their rights by violence. In
pursuance of their duty under the law,
and upon the warrant of sufficient and
competent testimony, the Returning
Board has thrown out the votes of bull.
dozed parishes, some 10000 or IL 900 in
number, and the Electoral vote of the
state has been declared by the consttu.
iionnl authorities, under the laws of the
State, 10 toe for Hayes and Wheeler. The
whole question may he summed up in the
declaration that, If there was no violence
practiccd, the Democrats are entitled to
the State, If there was violence practicea
the Republicans are entitled To It., and the
Returning Board was right beyond any
shadow of doubt in throwing out the votes
of those parishes where the yiolenCcM WAS
practiced
Upon this point, Mr.. Rcdheld, the &C.
compliShed correspondent of the Cincm.
natl Commercial, contributes some very
valuable and convincing testimony. In
estimating the importance of his t2-ti.
mony, il should be remembered that Mr.
Redtcld Is one OF the most thoughtful
and Impartial correspondents in this
country. His SympathieS as wen as his
votes have chiefly been Democratic. AT
the outset, and until he Went 10 Louisi-
ana, he believed that Tilden had been
elected IN Louisiana, or, rs he Suys him
self, that the Democrats had carried
that State by 50 large a majority that
whatever intimidation there might have
been would not account for it--thAt is.
that The majority was larger than the
uum6cr OF votes they had gained by lall-
doing, He went to Louisiana firm in
this belief, but came away just rs firm in
his belief that, in fair and free election,
Louisiana is Republican State 10y from
ten to eighteen thousand majority and
says: am convinced thai HAYES Is
The man who is elected. / believe he
would have carried Louisiana rs certainly
aS he carried Vermont, II the election
(and The conduct of the voters previous to
the elcctionl had been As iair in the former
State rs in the latter" What the conduct
of the voters was previous 10 The election
may be seen by the following extracts
from his letter to the Commercial
The tive "bull-dozed" parishes were car
ried by murder, wutppings, intimidation and
seica Of terror. There were, during the
campaign, Ia those parishes, fully forty Re
pubieaus murdered. They were killed 10
inhmldate the rest and carry the election.