The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-09-15

AND SUPPRESS THE ENlDENCE Of llo
FRAUDULENT TlTLE-TUE MOUTH OF
WITNESSES TO BE CLOSED WITH FED
EEAL pAr-E. a. BURKE's MISSION.
Washington, Sept. &c. A. Burke
of New Orleans, who managed the
Democratic campaign in that city,
and lad charge Of some OF the de-
tails of thc Democratic case before
the Senate and House investigating
Committees, has recently been in this
city several days. Burke was one OF
the parties to the famous conference
at Wormlcy's Hotel in this city just
before the completion of the electoral
count, at which Senator Gordon, aud
Ellis and Levy, two Democratic
REPRESENTATIVES from Louisiana met
Stanley Matthews, Jas. A. Gar
field, and other Hayes Republicans,
to obtain from them an understand
ing as to what course Hayes would
pnr>ur toward Louisiana and South
Carolina if he was counted in. An
an,r. merit MAS made il writing and
ontru>'' /" Bnke. The abandon.
menr parkud and the recognition
of,h, Nichols Government vas IN ac-
cr,.Iance with this aSlrrn' H. and
Bnlke acted in concert "lh the
Wa,ne MacEeash Commissions, wn Oh
was sent to New Orleans TO assist the
Democrats in capturing enough Pack
ard members Of the Legislature
to make quorum of Returning Board
Legislators, aud thus enable the com
missioucrs to report to the President
that there was but one legal Legis-
lature in Louisiana, and that that
body recognized Nichols as the legal
ly elected Governor.
Burke is not a native of Louisiana,
but went to New Orleans during the
corrupt Warmoth regime, and held
an important office under the chief OF
carpet. bag kuaves. Subsequently
Burke acted with the Warmoth re.
formers in 1872 and when kellogg
was counted in, he was left out in the
cold by the regular Republicans.
, He is smart, active, and unscrup-
lous politician, who had learned the
e dark aud devious ways of the carpet
bag villains by his association with
them during Warmoth's rule. He Of
fered his services to the Democrats
who, 10 order to fight the devil will
4 his own devices, accepted his protfer
ed assistance. So long as there was ;
formidable Republican organization
in Louisiana Burke was tolerated
but not respected 10y the great mas;
of the respectable people of New Or
leans. Now that there is no lon@e
any Republican party in Louisiana
Burke naturally looks out for new
political organization with which t.
oppose the decent and respectable
element of New Orleans, which he !
pleased to term the Bourbon faction
Of the Democratic party.
The MacVeagh commission wa
conltantly assured by such fellows a
Burke aud Jack Wharton that, if tn
Administration would abandon tn
Packard Republicans, split in tn
S Democratic party would naturally o(
# cur before another general elcctio
was held, and that II liberal part
would he organized which woul
/ take off enough of the lower class
Democrats to give them, in conne'
ton with the negro voters, control
the city and a preponderating neg1
y vote in the districts this new or Al
ministration party woald be able
carry the State. The appointment
Jack Wharton to be United Stat
Marshal was in accordance with tt
49, programme. Burke still claims to
S y" in full accord with the Democrat
o va and announced, when here a few da
w ago, that lie would manage Jud
nsr Spoford's case this fall before t
ash Senate Committee on Privileges a
Elections but, at the same, ho h
had interviews with the President a
. his friends, and assured them that
Z was working we'll in Louisal
. 7 Among other things, he told the
facto President a most welcome pit
of news, fit only proves true.
said that the prosecution of We
et,'' and Anderson would not be push
'hr because an arrangement had be
a 'o Of made by which the witnesses, "
cits we're to prove that the forgerics
and the returns from Vernon parish "
lest made to the order Of Wells, wo
by ~: testify. Without these import
the whine, SIS Burke said the case agai
''''' w. I'D Anderson conld not
arg il, o:', and the Attorney Gene
... tt ne compelled to eater NJ
y.o>equies in their Gases. He
asked whether or not there "
other witnesses in New Orleans
= could prove still more than the
~ gerics ID the Vernon Parish retu
WI and he admitted that thc'e we
score of men who had mauntactu
the testimony for the visiting sta
men and the Returning Board,
he advised that these fellows be ia
=, care of, as Wells and Anderson
4, handed by dismissiug tho le'
crowd from the Custom-house
giving the dangerous gang their
ces. Thus strongly re enforced,
lsted demands of Well and Anderson
hike of course be respected. Indeed, $
and man never thought of not resp
49,, ing to the demands of the EXP
N. Mr dent makers, but he wanted the
w. sure to be great so that he would
have to insist that the dlscha
should be made in the face OF
civil service rules. Just how the
L. gramme which WIS agreed upon
be carried out is not known yet,
s ane TO-, of course there will be comm's
W. Hay es does nothing without a
mission.