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FACTS ABOUT LOUISIANA
HELLOGG,S Plot TO GET CONTROx
OF THE JUDICIARY.
A Hayes Eiector Anxious to Sell Out for
sjOOOO-A Majority Of 5000 for TiIden
After Throwing Out Bulidozed Parishes.

Hayes Eiector Anxious to Sell Out ror
sj0,OOO-A Majority of 5000 for TiIaea
Aner Throwing Out Bslidozed Parishes
WAsUINaroN, Jan. 1.-The Louisiana
Democrats who are here think that the investi-
eating committees In that State will not nnish
their work before the 18th OF January. They
have come here to represent their party during
the organization OF the legislature, and to con-
sult with members of the party In wsshineton.
They represent the condition Of AFFAIRS in Lou.
isana as dlscouraglng In the extreme. They
say that Kellogg aud his crowd are preparing to
do what they have done twice before, viz; lea.
isate the present judiciary OF the 3 ate
out Of existence, and pass new ia0
under which the Leeislature itself can appoins
Judges. These Judges were voted for at The
November election and the Returning Board
has not declared the Republican candidates
elected. this being the oDly exception In the
whole list Of candidates passed upon by the
Board The plan adopted by tho Legislature 10
simply to repeal the act under which the Judges
we're chosen. This annuls the election Of all
the candidates voted for In November. The
Legislature will then renew the act In precisely
the same terms, not changing o single word, o.
even punctuation point. one OF tho gentie-
men men mere says & tnat ,ne Sonserva,ves " hou;
Hayes and Nichols, the Democratic candidate
Tor Governor out Kellogg aud Packard Insisted
on keeping the State Government In their pos
session.
In regard to the charges that money was Of
fered to the Hayes electors after they we're dee
clared elected, he says that there is some truth
in them. In one case case At least, that OF iseSlssss ss
spopsibo man in New Orleans. did offer
Lss',s s he S Ss s"s a Sr do
when II was afterward reduced TO $4,000, bus
the man who made the offer mad no money and
MA atanf Agta Nwna anarly at
| that he made a public statement that be bad
| received such on offer. The Republicans got
and compelled tho whole body Of electors Co
| meet aud cast preliminary vote for HAYES bs-
| The gentleman who gives these facts declares
| that there Is no Republican politician In Lou.
| isana who cannot be purchased.
The same gentleman says he thinks that the
| House investigating Cominittee viii present .
| clear and convincing report to Congress. show
| majority claimed. This committee Ia going to
| the bottom Of the whole case, including all the
acts OF the Returning Board, while the Senate
committee has confined Its inquiry thus far On.
| trely 10 the violence In the five bulldozed
principal violence occurred. Hut, il their vote d
thrown out, II sti leaves illdon over 900 ma
| jority. lie says that considerable violenos
but very little OF 1t has been political. The Re-
| publican Investigators are taking evidence con-
| corning all the violence that has occurred FOR
| several years. Anything whatever IN the shape
| OF violence Is made To appear AZ reason whr
| the hcpuUncails were Cuohteu out VI eioo-
| tion. IL has been in possible for anv conseva-
| tive employer to discharge oolored employees
| for cause for the past six months without being
| charged With an attempt to iutimidate. IL IL
impossible even to nek u negro to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket without being charged with in,im-
idation. In these bulldozed parishes there have
been no public schools for nlOrs than u month
| In the year for several years. The school
| funds have been squandered by toe Republican
| politici ms, white aud black, who have had con-
troll OF them, society has been at loose ends. and
the young men nave grown up without much
| knowledge OF or respect for any laws, wSfch
have been practically abolished by the carpet-
| bag rule.
| All the gentlemen here sustain the state ments
| heretofore published concerning the number Ut
| negroes who voted the Democratic ticket. They
| say that n0wuere was this moro general than In
the parishes of Ouachita and Morohouse, where
the tgTeAtest amount of violence occurred.
They say that The colOred men who voted
the Democratic ticket ire generslly vii.
/ ling to l.ht to maintain their rights.
I They toll good story of the Hepub.
| lican member Of the subcommittee which
Is taking the testimony in these parishes, mr
| CrapO Of Massachusetts. when he went there
he talked privately with as III nv negroes as he
could get hold Of. lie asked them all how thor
voted. ana, e. his great su prise. one after an
other told MIN that he voted the Democratic
ticket. \ very Interesting report IS expected
frcai lhis sub-commltie ee.as iLLiaiJ Is very fsu
| n. H..