The New York herald., 1878-07-08
WILLIAM PITT KELLOGG

w ILL ~ M I'll n CLLooo
WHAT HE CAN SAY 10 rhE POTTER coNMIT-
TEE-THE REAL FIGURES OF THE LOUISIANA
RETUESs-PREPosTERous CLAIMS oF TIE
DEMocIArs-PRooF OF INTIMIDATroK-wnY
SHERMAN COULD NOT HAVE WRITTEN THAT
MYSTERIOUS LErrER-
From the Chicago Tribune, July 81
''Do you think Mr.. Sherman wrote that letter."
said Tribune reporter 10 Senator Kellogg last even
Ing.
'No, and for reasons: First because il Is I'M
probAbehe is too discreet; and, second, he lid me
no mover wrote IT,"
you are TO testify before the Potter Committee.
you mott"
'lt is uncertain, but suppose so."
''W hat points Will you maker"
81 can tell better when l xnov .aeir line OF In
quiry."
"rcll me somethng"
.'s,t down. said the Senator. Then he went on:-
's. THESE questions ~ to whethor Mr.. Shor.
man wrolc tho letter TO Anderson, As 10 ths
Anderson. " eber agrsemcut-wnetner me los.
limony given by Mrs: jerks, Anderson or
Weber true-th.y import little. nc real
question involved In the ipvssgation, disclosed
by the resolution OF inquiry, is whether thors was a
conspiracy by which the parishes OF East aud est
Fslicaua declared by the Returning Board to DO
repub the democrats were entitled to them.
never have doubted that there was deliberate
term:ntton on the part VI the democratic party 10
tue election OF 1876 carry the State IN The lace Of
The facts they kuew 10 exist, that the republicans
largely IN the majority II they allowed 70
voie.n
"Have you figures to show tbat!"
POLITICAL srATsrIcs
"Yss." Here he pulled some memoranda from his
vu s.Ih Iha nj ha Stafa
1874 and 1876, indeed at every election since re
CONSTRUCTION, showed very large repn olcan majormy.
Tue plan OF campaign u 1876 Inc part Of tho
crats disclosed by tner conduct was by intimda.
ton aud Violence In several largo republican pur.
isnes-parlshes that had been uniformly republican
since reconstruction. IN TACT among the most reliable
and strongest republican parishes IN tue S,ate-to
destroy the republican majority IN bolh parishes;
to bring about condition OF things tha, there would
be majority, AZ least " count for the republicans
There more ess violence and intiEi-
datlon fifteen or seventeen parishes, but
there were five par she's knowa 10 be repuo.
llcan that were especially selected Tor the pur-
poses ol overcoming The republican majorites W
violence These were East and West Felicinia, East
Baton Rouge, Ouachits aud Mo0rehouse 70 Illus
trate ths DETERMINATION iii take the Arst two West
Felicina is the Mississippi River, adjoining the
Mississippi line; directly east Is East Fecinia. SEE
been The nrst registration since the war ~as taken
under Federal auspices Ia 1851 II showed 529 white
GA co!oieo. The vote oi Governor IN 1868. when
Wurmoth ran. republican, 1,1S3; democratic,
SAG. The vote Tor electors in the same year, when
seymour against Grant, and when the repub.
Leans apstained IRON voiing because kughls OF lhe
White Camula mad possession VI the State. and when
terrorism was sucn that ess than SUU republican
we're poiied III New Orleans, wusTe tho repuO-
licans had registered vote oil over l4,O0O-at that
Eslcinia Toe population, ny tue census VI
le'o OF this parish Was 4.ivo wultcs and
oi 1870 was republican. !, 273; deulocratic, SO3
Tue reg gistratiyn OF 1872, whcn made under Tue
rcgs,ratiou officer in the parish
WAN ths republican, party. showed y LOO aud 2, 35d
cratic auspices cxcusively. Tho vote was:-Kelio-g
(rep) 900; McHeury (dJD.), 65S. In thai vote
Governor oeth parties ana ooIh returning Do'ris
agreed, neither tue registration the result uci.s
dlsputcd. the registration o. 1874 showed SO waite
SoI coored Tho vote Of 1874, winch dts.
putoa ny eiinsr party, ,wus:-kepublican 6SS; ueMu
cratic, $40. The rexistration oil 1876 showed l,UU
whie 10 =, i27 colorsd. The vote IN year IL Wi
remcm oersd showed republican, ..ne; democratic,
l72S-more imam 700 over Tho entire whte vote IL
the parisn.
"ihat is pretty CONCLUSIVE that there MAS pull.
doing.
vloLYNcR INriM DArioS
sine figures speak ior tnsrn ,a.ves US to West
Felcana Under The recon acts Coug ress
the rsgis 1857 showed 275 white 10 $50
orsd. ruo vvts Tor Governor IN 1868 was:-Kepu uUil
can, l,2lO; democratic, 374 rhe vote eiecors 70
the year, wncn, said, tow repu oncAns Ia tht
voted. wAs-rcpuoiican, l,2So: Democratic 64s
TINS was one o. Inc very lew parishes ~ the Stau
that ~ tuat election gave repubiicaD najorl.y In,
population OF this parisu by the oi 1870 was
~nte, l, 2ss; cosrsd, .9i5 Inc vote IN Novemb,r.
1870, was-rspuUllcln, I,l74; democratic, 303 rus
registration oi 1872, iuaae under democratic aus
pices. showed OIL white 10 =, ,US4 colored. The
Governor that year, bon partss and botn return.
ing boards agreeing, was-ksi.ogg (repl LAT; No
44s wu,.s 10 isso coiors. rne vote y, tns ssc.,os
Ia tnat year was-repu0ican. 1866 democratic, 5oL
Ia iS14, n wii oe Remembered, .nefo was graas
deal oi violence Ia the Stxe and The Wnie LeaSue
haa It's origin, ana In the September previous
the great rols IN New Oseaas wuen the state govern
mont ~ss for the time being ovortnrowu. BY tue
Registration OF 1870 there 39y 2l3
orsd, yes at the election in November, 1876. the demo-
Gratis caimed several hundred majority the lace VI
tue returns. Look ut tnese Two parishes. Tne DEM.
Gratis claim ed AT tho election 1876 thOus
ana rsaJorty wnen tho registered showed more
Than three coiored 10 white man, there has
always been large republican najVrlLes In those
Isuos ana 10 lace OF the tact tnas over live Dol
cent OF the blacks, wnen allowed 90, inc
republican tckst AS shown in all the o,her parsnoi
where there was lair aud peaceful ia scvsru
OF wuicn, where the nearly equally a!vued
the republicans elected their ticket. To iusLratc:-
In the parishes of ASSUMPTION, L-iourcna
anu Icrrebonne, composing a Senatorial DIstrict,
eectug Que Seuator aud two Representatives. 10 each
parish, wnere tue races arc nearly equally u.vided,
The eocton 1876 The republicans osccied Ihsr Sen
tor and all o the six Representatives upon the lace
tae returns ana W Tue admission 0i the democracy.
In fory parishes, where IT was ndtted all haudi
that the eectlvn was lar and PEACEFUL the covrsd
registration Ia 1915 was 81 999 the white ~ 0J4,
lo,1Oo. Tuose iofty
parishes returned g. 7II republican votes So 2yl
democratic votes, republican majority OF u 353. In
the scyenteen parishes wuere there iesa
Intimidation, five oi then which nave large repubi-
can mnjores icing thoroughly irorized there was
a colorcd registration Of 2i,269 and wnne regis
tratlon oi 2O,32O, eolored majority OF 1,y4y,
almost hall largo NJ the registered cvIvred
majority IN all the rest Of the Stale. But tho
tn ose seventeen parishes showed ony l0,97Q
republicans 20 n, lk3 ucmocrats Thus, with "a eoL
urcd majority Of nearly seven thou.ana registered
tney cast demOcratic majority of ~, 1873 In the
parishes OF East Bitou Rouge Calds De soto, East
Fe,icaus, West FsliciAna, Lafayette, Moorehouse,
NatcuitocDes, Ouicnita aud Webster there 10
1876 10 ia coorcd and 2l2 white registered
"a coloIrd lnaJoriiy oil ,9o2 In tho slne parishes
there Cast, caimed Wy tue democrats, Ia $40
democratic anu S,4sy republican, votes. deuvcraie
majority VI U.02L As TO the Legislature, the aeno
admitted that, upon thu lace OF the relurns
had elected sixty mcinvsrs OF the lower house ans
INDEPENDENT rrpuDItcao