Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-07
REPUBLICANS DEMORALIZED.
The Louisiana Fraud Ruins Them TO,
1SSO--Thc Kellogg Misruie.
WASHINGTON Cor. June ~ N. Y. Herald.

Washington Cor. June ~ N. Y. Herald.
The Republicans are more demoralized by
Anderson's testimony to-day than they were
yesterday, though Secretary Sherman's friends
assert that on the cross-examination Of Ander-
son the force of his testimony as to the alleged
letter will be broken down, and they point out
as important, and casting doubt on all that An
derson says about it, the fact that as Anderson
acknowledges Sherman never gave even slight
encouragement to his applications for Office,
but peremptorily refused either to give him
place in the treasury department or to ask Sec
rotary Evarts to provide for him. If the secre-
tary had really written Anderson letter, under
the circumstances alleged, they say it is incred-
iblc that he should not at least have temporiz-
ed with him afterward and tried to satisfy his
demand tor office.
Friends Of the President say that Anderson
did really go to him several times, that, coming
recommended from Senator Matthews and
others and being sober and coming in the char
acter of a Louisiana martyr, the President
readily recommended him for an Office, but
he was tipsy, talked about having his demands
complied with at once, and was dismissed
peremptorily, and thereupon the President
gave positive order that he should have no
place whatever.
But these things do not comfort the Republic
cans much. They do not care about the Presi-
dent or Secretary Sherman; in fact, most of
them would rather enjoy seeing the admins
tration dirtied. What embarrasses them is the
evidence that Louisiana was carried by an Or
ganized conspiracy of fraud. They feel and
privately admit that if further testimony on
this subject is produced by the Democrats, it
will 20 very far to ruin the Republicans in the
and in 1880 hopeless. Farther developments
are looked for with intense interest.
"REMINISCENCES OF KELLoGG's RULE.
The story of the Feliciana parishes, which
have become prominent through Anderson s
testimony, affords curious example of the
kellogg and Packard misrule in Louisiana. The
Republicans always claimed that these parishes
were particularly unruly and given to bull
doing and outrages on the colored people, and
it is a notorious fact that gangs of so-called
bulldozers did infest them, and did for several
| and blacks, but oftener on the COL
| ored people, because there were
slow to defend themselves. These outrages
| were always conveniently charged upon the
| Democrats, and Kellogg and other Louisiana
| carpet baggers took care that they should be
| ascribed to political causes But the notorious
leaders of these rutfianly gangs were Powers and
P. Butler, both leading Republicans one OF
them, Butler, having been Republican assist
| ant of Anderson in registering East Feliciana,
and being suspected Of shooting ut Anderson
to frighten him away from the parish
in order to carry out the plot which
looked to making an election impossible
there, and thus causing the parish to be
thrown out. Powers and Butler, both promi
nent Republicans, were the terror of the two
counties for long time, being at the head OF
organized gangs of mounted ruf6ans Butler
| is said to have killed more than twenty men
Powers was, it is said, originally a Republican
member of the Mississippi legislature, and
| later removed across the border to East Felici.
ana, where he began his outrages. Kellogg
while governor, was often urged by Republican,
IS well as Democrats to send his police up on the
railroad and catch and summarjly hang Power!
and his gang, and thus give peace to that par
of the State, but he never did this. When
however, their misconduct became unbearable,
he made Powers collector of taxes, and thus
rewarded him for having kept the outrage mil
in motion for a good while. The Democrat.
and whites we're of course held responsible il
the North for all the murders and robberie
committed by these two Republican bandits
and the scheme Of throwing out the Felician;
parishes on a general charge of Democratic in
timidation was based on the terrorism whic
had been created by Powers and Butler.