The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-18
THE INVESTIGATIONS.
Compiled from Associated Press Reports, unless
Otherwise Designated
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The Senate Committee, on the Sd, ex-
amined Robert Wilson in reference to the char
acters Of Capts. Theobold and Phillips, and
Walter Wood, Of Ouachta charged with murder
Gus acts of violence; witness said their charac-
tiers were as good as any in the larish. A. Burke;
Committee, sta'ed that, i'll the hundred
i,!.s .s "a; and Lengthy eerrsspondsnce
no complaints were made of intimidation
or violence in Ouachita, and the Democrats knew
the only hope of success lay in pc aceable cleo
tion; the committee knew the Republicans had
towns, to enable the Returning Board to throw
out county polls without affecting the Repub l.
can woes: Justice Leonard, Of the Supreme
ored people in Ouachita during the Campaign:
Republican meetings were interrupted; coiOred
men told him they had hid in the woods, like rah
bits. Dis rict-AttOrney GOrham ties flied to intim-
dating the colorcd people and interrupting
Republican meetings. The sub committee ex-
amined some ten witnesses, primo pally colored,
limitation in East Baton Rouge, showing u reign
of terror among the blacks there. The House
Committee by party vote. reported President
Orton, OF the Western Union Telegraph Company,
to the House a. In contempt in refusing to
answer the second subpoena. Several Witness
es were examined in relation to the cleo
ton in st. Tammany and COncordia Parishes,
who testified to intimidatiOns Of cO.Ored Demo-
Gratis by Il ose Of their own color. The sub-com-
mittee examined some ten witnesses. mostly col
ored, In reference to Livingstone Parish, all Of
timdation. and the bad character of Davidson,
United States Supervisor; also, that George
Whites house was burned because he was be
lieved to be Il cOw-thiet.
Chief Justice Ludeling, of the Supreme
Court of Louisiana, testified before the Senate
Committee, on the 18th, to the general intimida-
tiOn of colorcd Republicans in Ouachita, by means
of armed bodies of Democrats. and said his
nephew, DR.. Dinkgrave tax-cOllector, was killed.
hs believed, by members Of the Democratic
party, for organizing the Republican party; he
ney Harris were assasslnated on account of
their politics. Joseph Duvjgneaud (attorney) Of
New Orleans. testified that he visited Ouachita as
and such terror existed among colOred Republi-
cans that . meeting At Gradys sehool-house was
abandoned; several negroes told him they had
committee heard further evidence relative to East
Baton Rouge. Lieut.. Roe, Third Infantry, q
toned at Baton Rouge, knew Of no Intimidation;
to
e. Young testified that there was no intimidation
John e. Conrad stated that he vieited the parish
during the election. and saw or heard Of NO tnt'm-
idation. Before the House Committee Judge
Dibble, member OF the Republican State Commit.
tee, denied the atements that were made that he
instructed the Republicans to delay the voting
vote at the pole back Of the city, where they lived
in order to avoid collision; he also denied that he
had told them to vote double. Col. Zacharie, OF
the Democratic State Committee, testified that
in canvaseing the State he foundmany colored
men dissatisfied with the Republican party.
The Senate Committee on the 5th exam
ined three colored men in regard to the election
in Morehouse Parish, all Of whom testified that q
large number Of colored men voted the Demo-
cratic ticket at the last election. and there
intimidation. Two other witnesses also testified
70 u fair and peaceable election in. Aorehouss
hot nhuAnf
voted the Dsmocratic ticket. The sab committee
the Third Infantry. IN regard to che election In
East Ba on Rouge, whose general testimony was
To the eject that Il was fair and peacsable Testi
mony of = similar nature was given by other wit
nesses Before the Houee COMMITTEES, J. b: Har-
ris, Of Point C0upee Parish, Liberal Republican,
testified thai he had accompanied Packard into
East Baton Rouge, East and Wet Felicisna, and
found the colored Republicans felt they could not
vote their ticket with safety in the country, and
that Republican speaker there were jeered ut ard
insul ed. but we'll treated in Richland Parish; he
thought the natural Republican majority in the
8 ate is t0,OCO and that NO considerable number
Of colored men voted the Democratic ticket Of
III ir own choice. D. B. Gorham, Of Nacht-
teches, and Di.trict Attoine testified that