The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-12-03

The Appeal naGe to GOV. Nichols
by Citizens, Conserx attye Assoctn-
tion-Ballot Box Fraud.


The Citszeus' Conservative nssocla-
tion OF New Orleans has addressed tie
following letter. through u cJmmittee o
10 Gov. Nichols:
To His Excellency. Gov. Francis 7. Nichols;
The undersigned committee lromf hr
Citizens Conservative association have
been directed To call your Excellency's s
attention tn facts connected with the
election recently held in this city aud
to acts of fraud perpetrated, aud
wrongs committed in that election,
which stand as reproach against this
city, aud call for the Intervention and
action OF its judicial officers.
The events which preceded and fol
lowed upon that election have passed
into current history, are familiar To all
and have justified the pre-existing sus-
picion of the existence of a combiua-
tion of individuals in this city who con-
troll the machinery OF local politics,
aud who are chargeable with the viola
ton OF the rights Of the people.
The denial Of proper representation
to the Citizens association placed the
management aud manipulation of tine
election entirely in the hands of those
politicians who control the primaries.
Thus conducted the election could not
prove other than the result has shown
1t TO be-a travesty upon fairness and
a mockery of justice.
With scarcely pretense at conceal
ment, unsanctioned by any form of
law. wrongs have been committed, and
the boldest frauds perpetrated by the
officers of many Of the polls in the fol-
lowing particulars:
/. In excluding from polls citizens
legally entitled to vote, aud registered
n the law requires.
2 In Knowingly permitting and con-
niving at the voting Of men under as
sumed names aud upon false registra-
tion certificates.
3. In receiving ballots cast upon pa
pers of persons notoriously absent
from the city.
4. La excluding from the polling
booths citizens who claimed she right
guaranteed them 10y the law. of wit
Messing "A proper count aud compilation
of the votes as cast.
8. La falsely changing votes as cast
and the suhsti lution of others.
g. Ia counting for candidates votes
cast for their opponents.
These charges are based upon ALI
davits made voluntarily by numer Us
citizens, aud which viii be duly pro-
duced TO the proper tribunals.
Tue people are uneasy and dissatis-
fed. They feel that justice has been
outraged, and wrong committed which
threatens the purity and sanctity of the
ballot.
These illegal acts, so much ca'culat-
eel to bring reproach upon the hrst
popular administration vouchsafed TO
US after so many years Of misrule, are
the more heinOus because the perpetra-
tors claim To be acting in the name of
the great party of the people. the Dem
ocratic party, which has no more de-
voted adherents than those who com
pose the association which we repre-
sent
We ask, therefore, that your excel
lency will give the matter your earnest
consideration. aud that You may direct
aud urge upon the law officers of this
by law To- vindicate the sanctity of pop
ular suffrage, to insure the future Sc
curity Of the rights of the people, aud
TO brirg the offenders TO justice.
j. ALDIGE,
G. q. JoHSsES,
JACOB HAssINGER,
+. LANCE,
J. G.. PARHAM,
W. 'FowLRR.
w. &. RAYMOND