The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-16
THE FIGHT OPENED.
SUITS FEMEHs BH THE CANDIDATES
OF THE CITIZENS RsARTY. CON-
TESTING THE LATE
ELECTION.


Administrator OF Police, filed the following
lengthy petition:
That one j. Octave Landry. Registrar Of
Voters for the parish Of Orlean did at some
time during the period prescribed By law for
the registration Of voters for the year 1873,
prior to the said election, .oorruptIy enter into
a certain unlawful conspiracy and combina-
tlon, and by the use OF his powers as Regis
trar of said parish did obtain and effect the
fraudulent issuance Of q sufficient number of
the election of certain candidates upon the
mocratiC- Conservative ticket. That up to
and prior to the twenty first day of October,
1878, the said Landry permitted and effected
Gates Of registration, and from that date to
the day OF election there were also issued,
from the various registration Offices In the
different wards Of the city of New Orleans,
fraudulent registration papers to the number
of $500 or more.
That all OF said fraudulent certificates were.
issued toRersons acting in tho interest Of the
so-called Democratic Conservative party, and
were voted for said party.
That the said Registrar, J. O. Landry, did,
during the period prescribed for the reeistra-
tion, appoint certain deputies, or clerks Of
TMhgstfitaton, M ait nn for tho various yards in
est and for the carrying out Of the
purposes Of the said unlawful combination
and conspiracy, large portion Of which ap~
pointees were paid by the Democratic Con-
Oreans and that said clerks Of registration,
in many Instances, where persons in changing
residence from one ward to another, obtained
; aaw registration papers, did fail to cancel the
| old papers surrendered, but retained the same
uncance1ef, z 80 - hat said papers were after
wards illegally used mid Kotet on election day.
That having thus issued GsGQ Or more illegal
and fraudulent registration psaReFs, that
| in the wards of said city did proceed ru9>
| revise the registration, and did Illegally and
| fraudulently strike therefrom the names OF
between three and four thousand legal voters
legally registered, and did, by said arbitrary
| and illegal actions in contravention and vio-
| lation Of the rights Of said parties, deprive
said persons OF the right Of voting, which per-
been allowed SO to do. That said officers of
| registration did neglect and fail to obtain O.
| proper list Of deceased persons in the parish
! Of Orleans, in order to erase from the regis
| died subsequent to their registration, whereby
| q large number OF certificates of registration
| Of persons deceased were voted in the interest
! OF the Democratic Conservative party.
| That the lists Of registered persons for
| each poll, required by law to be prepared and
| furnished by the said registrar we're in fact
prepared by employees OF the Democratic
Conservative Parish Committee, and con-
| tracted to be paid for by the said committee.
That the said books were not prepared ac-
| reoiIoHooo ~ v,ntorr ,znrn ~ lan,J ~ n,,
as required by law Whereby the process a Of
double voting and repeating number OF
| times in the various polls, was facilitated and
practiced in the interest Of the Democratic
| Conservative party, and that in many other
respects said fists were deficient in the forms
required by law
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