Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-03

throwing out votes in localities where it should
prevail. 1t recites the outrageous conduct of the
same returning board in that respect in 1874.
and how it's action had been condemned by the
Forty-third Congress, giving instances where
they had counted in officials without color of
rlght-men whom the Congressional committee
had caused to be turned out and their places
gwen to Democrats, the Democrats knowing
that they not only could gain nothing by in,
tlmidation, but that they could only hope for
some show OF justice BY avoiding anything
which might be made q pretense for alleging it.
The report then recites the efforts that were
made throughout the State by Democrats to
conciliate the black vote, showing by the evil
dence of Republican witnesses as well as the
testimony OF gentlemen of character, as we'll
as Gov. Whitefeld, how the planters combined
with the negroes toget up clubs Of both colors
and referring to the promises and assurances
made to the negroes even to equality in cars.
theatres, ETC., for outrunning Republicans.
The leaders having Joined the Democrats, the
whole mass of negroes came in and became
quite enthusiastic supporters and thus the vote
in some of the so-called bulldozing parishes
was the very largest cast.
The report states that after the Democrats
had conciliated the negroes in East Feliciana
Kellogg wanted Anderson, who was supervisor
to have no election, and Anderson fraudulently
ran away with that view to furnish an excuse
for throwing the parish out. The parish was
thrown out because the supervisor of registra-
ton absented himself on election day, notwith-
standing other officers held the election and
made one return of the vote. The Democrats
in East Feliciana knowing that they had cap
back and hold an election. The Republicans
then hit upon new plan, and directed their
friends in the parish not to vote, so as to pre-
tend intimidation and exclude the parish
They sent out word to their followers not to
come to the polls, refused to permit any tickets
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exercised their influence to withhold their own
vote entirely. Eighteen hundred registered
votes were cast, and four hundred and fifty-one
which Anderson had prevented from being reg
lstered, made about twenty-three hundred votes
cast, all Democratic, but not one Republican
would vote, though urged to do 80. The whole
vote OF the parish at the previous elections, on
Doth sides, had not exceeded twenty-five hun
dred. The Republicans, who purposely with
held casting any vote at all, subsequently
made claim that they had been intimidated
and could not vote, and the returning board, on
this pretext, purposely prearranged, excluded
the vote of fhe parish.
The report then refers to the supplementary
papers obtained from Anderson and Dan
Webster, both of whom were known by Re-
publicans to be for sale, that after these SUI
pervlsors had made returns that there was no
violation in the parishes, they were induced to
make supplementary protests, and that they
both confessed they did this because of reward,
In other parishes where officers had seen and
certified to perfectly fair election, Kellogg by
the pressure exerted procured like false reports.
The report then goes on to state how the re-
turning board having got possession of such
unlawful protest proceeded to take the evil
dence OF United States officers, and money be-
ing used to bring ignorant negroes from the
interior helds into great city where they were
herded together, taken before officials and had
a1hdavlts written: drawn for them, to which,
upon making their marks, they received their
lees and and We're sent home. The process of
manufacturing these af6davits is set forth to
show how the negroes were imposed upon. and
now worthless the affidavits were. As an illus
tratlon OF how utterly reckless the returning
board was in considering evidence, it points
out that in East Feliciana only twenty-four
witnesses to any kiAd of disturbance could be
called. The disturbances to which they testi-
he'd to had arisen from cotton seeds and other
thefts by negroes and their suppression which
had been conducted by leading Republicans,
had nothing to do with politics, and although
this and the fact that the election was entirely
peacable and Republicans purposely refused to
vote, was shown by twelve hundred witnesses,
and although four-ffths of the negroes in the
parish actually did vote with Democrats the
returning board threw out the whole vote.
The report points out great many other in
stances of what it styles the fraudulent out
rageous and desperate character of the retui n
ing beard, and shows the imposslbility of their
considering the testimony before them. az thew
had more than could be read by man, reading
ten hours day, in two weeks, when they went
into consultation. The next day their intends
ed decision was known, and indeed never had
been in doubt, everything connected with
them being a travesty on justice and showing
how absolutely abased and INSCRIPTIONS thew
were.
The report states that the returning board
would never have outraged the people but
Tor their encouragement from the visiting
statesmen and the support which they and the
troops gave them
Then follows details of how the same visitors
were deceived by the local managers and in
nocently co-operated in the frauds of the re-
turning board while others did not. It refers
very briefly to the alleged bargain by which
Hayes had 5000 votes less than Packard cot
counted IN, while Packard went out and
mentioned Sherman's offers to prove intimida-
ton, but points out that whenever the COM
mlttee offered to receive it the evidence was
not produced, and they were met by some sham
excuse for not producing it; how they had ex-
ahmed many of the witnesses that were before
the returning board who in almost every in
stance recanted and explained how thew came
to make their false affidavit in the first place,
and how such statements as they made before
the returning board were totally unfounded.
1t then refers to the Sherman letter. in re-
gard to which it simply states the facts as thew
stand, showing that a letter was actually writ
ten, and largely influenced political action in
LOUISIANA, whoever signed it, inviting atten-
ton to the attempt in the interest of Sherman
by Mrs. jerks, whose husband and brother are
employees of the treasury department, to in
duce the committee to produce forged let
ter.
The Florida portion of the letter is followed
by list of all persons connected with the
election there who have been appointed to
office, and the Louisiana part by still longer
list OF persons in that State appointed to Office,
The third part of the report deals with the
forged Louisiana electoral certificates. It tells
how the Vice President having refused the first
certificates, the Republicans secretary manu-
featured another, antedating it, and made e
in paper and printing to resemble the one pre.
viously made; how having very little time to
prepare it, and it being impossible to get all
the electors to New Orleans to sign it within
that time, it became necessary tie forge the sig-
natures of two absentees; that thus there were
put to tho triplicate paper eighteen forged sig
natures, which were attached on December
29th, In small upper room in the State build
ing then in charge of Conquest Clark; on the
making of this second certificate, it was con-
cealed until it was produced before Congress:
how when it was referred to the electoral com
mission, it was not read but ordered printed
and the printer was charged and the electoral
commission were served with the printed copies
OF the forged certificate, perfect in FORM and
no copy of the genuine but defective certif-
cate; how, after the commission had given it's
decision the record of the commissioner was
changed SO that the forged certificate, copies of
which were really before the commission, was
suppressed and the record made to show as if |
the genuine certificate had been considered and |
passed upon; how this was not accident but |
design, and that not only in one of the pub |
ished records of proceedings of the electoral
commission, but in both, although made
months apart; how the Republican managers
were informed by Kellogg that there was some
thing wrong about the second certificate, and
how, all the way through there lies the thread
of design to impose the forged certificates
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