The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-21

ton law the police jury appoints Comm
siOners Of Election The law requires III
three Commissioners shall be appointed al
one clerk for every precinct. to be select,
from opposite parties. The Republica
sent a formal written request that propo
ton OF republicans BE- appointed to the
oihces. No attention was paid to this r
quest, and except in two or three iLstanc
no Republicans we're appointed, and thel
exceptions were 10 the cases Of two or thr,
Ignorant negroes, who could neither rea
nor write. With this exception these ele,
tion officers were Democrats The day b,
fore election the Returning officers an
United States Supervisors we're sent I
every poll in the parish. Ga the mornin
OF election at shreveport crowds of negroe
were in The streets before the polls wer
opened, aud it was noticed that
NOT WHITE MAN WAS VISIBLE.
At each polling place three boxes WEI,
found. The LUui.ians Law requires tha
the sheriff, who il the returning officer O
elections, -halI furni-h a box al each pre-
cinct. The commissioners had placed thres
boxes at each precinct, and they told the
negro voters that they wanted the vote fol
,;v. - ,ts 80
for the ward tick., in ,be third n,o,ss,.
ell to the commissions rs against such vio.
lation Of the Law, and notified the negroes
In attendance to d-p,>it their entire ticket
10 the box d--i isuar.d To rec~ive the sheriff
vote, no mater what the Democratic cleo
tion ctiic-r- might say. The negroes gath
cred at different boxes in large forces, de-
claimed not to b- abl. To find their names
at the parricul .r b,.-, " here rb.y appl,ed
cursed IN, m ,i,l-ntly r. Coming ,n vote
v here th-ir maine. w.r. =, .n.,r,d and
fairly drove them ON the ,,rI. Ibese
negroes were much ..,, I'd witw.s
not the purpose TO l~rmit them 10 vote
At about $50 A N rn- Unr.d States Su.
peryisor came from Summer nv. n,,-c;nc,
eight miles from, snr.v,,sr, .,,,,,y ,ha,
The COMMISSIONS. ha,i :. r.i.,..j IN r, cogniza
him as u United Sr..-, f,i,,r and ,b.t he
had been forcibIy i ,,-, ,,,n IN. noII;no-
place by a de,.iry .i,-firi Who AZ ri n,ds,
orders from IN. commissioners There
we're still No white men on tie stree, and
told the n. groes they evid,nt were not
going to he allowed To vote that
THERE crpr,rSr ro,,,
49,, nhh'
'nu '"ey "o'.'" 10 oet'sr 10 go TO their
ioineS'-a al all eV, MS 10 keep on the street
"''r ", - ''e same ehect 10 every
bout 10 o'clock There w.r. ,s,.rod
hen 800 names. of which only si,fv ws,e
white men. Soon after large crowd of
White men came from Tensas and from
eiyhboring marshes
There was serious trouble at a noJIino-
lace called Wille,'s SchooI-Hous. There
,ere registered there 3l2 neproes and twsn.
y-two whites. The polling bo. was nIacsd
n hill near the Arkansas line When
he river ia high il i. necessary IN ,r.ysI
fty miles to reach This Rolling nlaca f-om
he different paris Of IN. n.risb Pm, ,b.
Yater this vrar was low and il w.s No..
lie negroes 10 arrive throngb a sw.nn o..
inariiy impas-.bl. The c,nd;d,,o e.,
heriff. accompani,d bv osO ot m. an ,.a.
.tered p,yro.s xent tbropyb ,b., s.,.n,
lis poiI. Ttev had IN w,lt ,h;r,rlGro
lilies ard carry one Jav's nrov;.;,ns Th.1
armed the Itch, H.. .Iao,;o, -. ~.
oIlirg place. Duriny the n;abt soma IS
~ armed wb;,. D.,,oo..,
,oked down upop the CROWD bu, J;5 NO,
tack it on account of its great numbers
he next day
o CoMMIssIpSERs OF ELECTION APPEAR
I'm
,t.r a.. Las, ,h.
.;s-;a,, a, ". ,, so'Is 'H.n eiec,eu ,0m-
ar Ti, "u ,-c " noiu ah eiec-
= ,h.r h., ru i;I ~ p.niican votes.
ns ~, - f"an'i', Vi Pro'is-
, So ~. ,t ~ s'"'eu !" march nome
;o" "" ,,hP P' ieas,nS 'ne tnree o0m-
..,, y, 49, ai,;.I au anu iouI "hite
Nv ., ,;f,n ~ pI oeiock
,wn - ,aI,;nn -. S :a, came
\ fv'ns P'a0e WIN dra"h
"a - "e A' "nirh was
- r'I ~ - s"e = neice hsht was
80 1,ni .T anu 'he
,wn ~ LiiI go u ,t '"eS hau come
. t. ' nu .ne. we're s?lhe 10 XIII
:, rh,' .n ,sos ,,S. innediateiy
oh f;r. Nh E :. o.eu ~. -. ns ;",s armed armed
~y ,ii-ap,~ar.d ia the q d,rkne..
AT the polling place known az Campo
clio violent scen.s were enacted. The
epublican candidates for the Legislature
ere
IT PERMITTED TO APPROACH THE POLLS,
umber. Of R.publ,caps who won, there n
,te were driven ..,v and ON con;ro
eek passed ar fr, onrnt ip,erv.lIs 6Iss of
hire armed men who had picke,rd tho
ad Ii was with great dificultv that
were allowed to pass these picket. nm.
ii. sled Constant threats were ,,.5, ,ha,
.ir live. woulJ be t,ken Tn. Dsno.
attic pewsps,~rs admit ,hat two ub;,s
IN and fiy. or ,ix NEGROES wa,a t;IIsJ