The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-03
Political Notes.

Kenner, one Of the four scouudrols COM
prising the Louisiana returning board,
made some important admissions before
the investigating committee Of the House
Tuesday. The law under which the re-
turning board acts provides, as prelimi-
nary to any action Of the board going be-
hind the face of the returns from parish,
that it shall be accompanied by an affidavit
to the existence Of intimidation at the
polls made by a supervisor of election
The affidavit is required by the law to be
affixed to the returns, and is considered as
n part of the returns, Kenner admitted
that the returns from sixty-six precincts
were thrown out, thus excluding lO,2SO
votes for Tilden, and that there were only
ten instances in which afiidavits Of intimi-
dation came ia with the returns. Accord
ing to this the action of the board in the
case of fifty.six precincts was entirely ar
bitrary aud illegal.
THE LOUISIANA DlscLosUREs,-There
was further damaging testimony against
the Louisiana returning board at Wash
ington Tuesday. Little6eld, one Of the
clerks of the board, thought better of his
refusal to answer questions and made a
clean breast of it. lie confessed that at
the personal request Of ex-Goy, Wells he
had committed Justification and forgery in
the returns of Vernon parish Kenner,
one of the colored members Of the board,
in his testimony was compelled to admit
that the last election in Louisiana was one
of the most peaccable held for years. He
could not say that there were one hundred
cases of intimidation, and yet he and
his associates threw out over ten thousand
votes. The deeper the Louisiana case is
dug into the worse it is found to be.
At Columbia, S. S. on Monday Circuit
Judge Carpenter decided that d. II. Cham
berlain was not legally installed as Cover
nor of South Carolina, and that Wade
Hampton was not legally installed into the
Office of Governor of said State, but that,
as there has been no legal qualification of
his successor, d. II. Chamberlain is law
fully in the possession of the executive
office and entitled to discharge the func-
tons of the same until such qualification
takes place.
The Hewitt dispatches on the Oregon
matter will be a disappointment to those
who look for sensational disclosures. There
is nothing in them that suggests n hidden
wickedness like those of H. Chandler to
Stearns, Mr. Hewitt appeared to be urg-
ing Governor Grover to stand by the law
in spite Of party clamor Y. Chandler
was urging Stearns to give Hayes the
State of Florida "by fair means or other
wise
The n Y. Tribune, one of the most ar.
dent Of tie Hayes organs, does not omit
fling at the outgoing President when OPP
portunity serves. 1t says
The President is making the most Of his
remaining chances for Huency. Two inter.
views yesterday, and two special messages are
coming this week A third term would have
made him prolific writer and a brilliant
conversationalist,
One of the results of the passage of the
Electoral bill will be the evacuation of
Washington by the troops which have been
brought there from time to time since the
middle of November One of the general
officers Of the army stated recently that
the troops would be transferred back to
their old stations as soon as the proper
transportation could be provided.
Wells was willing to make fair return
Of Louisianas vote if the Democrats
would give him million dollars. The
Democrats wouldn't dicker. How much
did the other side pay for the fraudulent
returns ?-Bahiniore Ga=ette.
The long controversy over the Presi.
dency is not entirely without its benefits.
For one thing, the people will come out of
1t knowing good deal more about the
Constitution than they ever did before.
The Florida House of Representatives
has passed bill for the payment Of the
Democratic Presidential Electors of that
State
1t is announced that there are several
legal celebrities who would like Judge
Davis seat on the Supreme bench.