The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-11

and pleasure There is another Ii St. Josep
Itself. We had our targets and practiced o
heard any OF the members Uf our club ga
that they intended TO carry the eleetion Wa
at Poll One on election day from until
o'clock. The election was quiet and peaeeabls
saw no oolored man deprived Of hls right &
vote | think the coiofed men made NOR
money last year than ever before, hay
about sixty hands who go to the field on tn
place work. There we're none of them driver
of. There was no trouble ON my place. b,i
~ TIE neighborhood there was great deal o
ttouble- armed negroes riding about the par
ish. On Mr.. Jas. 0illespie's place they wpr
armed, and also on A. COINS place / saw band
OF them, and they themselves told me Their,
were three hundred of them. and that thei
were going to the lower part Of the parish t
take part In O fight, and were determined Il
destroy ut. Joseph
To Mr. Cameron There were about fort,
men IN our rifle club There were no Repub
! lean members. / do not know OF whte
| Republican In the parish. The last meeting
the armed negroes two or three days after this
| Fairfax trouble. The largest sutlad saw
was composed Of about twenty-five men.
saw four or five bands In one day. saw
derstood. we're State militia. One Of these
squads was under command Of Capt. Me-
Cam.
LAFAYETTE THARP tUoboREDl
recalled by Senator Garland. Witness was
shown letter and identified 1t as his, and
said Ii was written to Mr.. Jimmy Marx. n
was public talk all over the district that Mr.
Jimmy Marx was coming to see me because ]
said had all the names Of the men who were
alter me at the church In my pocket. | was
IN Shreveport and wrote the letter as com
promise, aud 1t was a compromise too.
Witness then, under instruction, read the
letter, as follows.
SHREVEPORT, La, November 10, 1878.
Master Jim.
Sir sit to let you know that what you
heard that / said about you being with them
is all false. never said no such thing In nv
life. l was there. Of course, when the men
came, but to tell who they was In the night /
cannot, but was SO badly scared il it had been
day don't know whether ] could told who
was there. But IL Is oil over now. You must
be mad with me. thought you understood
me that day ct the speech. that as far az /
or to work al together against the white peo-
pie. Old Mars Jim understood me. for told
him II was elected would not work against
you all, and everything you wanted me to do
ell you had TO do was 10 tell me and I would
do Ii. And you bet would have done IT, too
You would have done 1t. even II yo,i are from
Washington. Times were skttish and rough
there.
TO Mr.. Cameron did know the men who
stepped over me. My object In writing the
U,
too.
II. o. ROGERS.
] reside In Shreveport. Am city marshal.
! have been In Shreveport for eight years.
and never saw more quiet and peaceable
election. There were but two disturbances
one by District Attorney Leonard, and the
the other by Judge Foreman. Judge Bore
man made what we considered an inuendary
speech. He said that in 1880 he would give
us Grant, aud have troops marching through
81 n. tx.l. ~
roasting In the houses, and rats living In
them. He made the speech to 400 or 300 peo-
pie. j tapped him on the shoulder and told
him he could not make any SUCH speech ON
election day
District Attorney Leonard, who had been
drinking, think, started OUT of restaurant
and shouted, "Show inc the Cd d-n s-n Of
b-h who Is afraid TO vote the Republican
ticket" | told him he must not make use Of
such language. He had five or six men with
him, and they said could not arrest him.
! said thought | could without even blow
Ing whistle. He put his hand on his pistol
pocket. | had reason TO believe he was arm
ed ] did not arrest him, but gave him to I'M
detstand he must not use such language
Saw Leonard wave his hands to the negroes
at the polls, and they left. No one was.intet-
fered with In voting. | would not have per-
mitted II.
Il. TBMPLEr0N.
have resided Id Caddo parish since 1857.
| was at Caledonia on the day Of election. In
the evening there seemed to be considerable
uneasiness am0Dg,the colored men. They, on
three orlfOur occasions, rushed into Madison
Reams' house. ] was talking to Mr.. Norwood.
and remarked to him, or be TO mo, | don't
remember which, "that 1t was very strange,
and that there must be arms In there" The
attention Of the commissioner was called to
II, and he asked the deputy sheriff. think
his name was McNell-to investigate It, and
70 take the arms, and stack them; He adj
vanced towards Reams' house, followed by
several gentlemen, who may have been sum
moned as q posse. They oil got into the yard
and then the firing commenced. Immediately
after the deputy sheriff came by bleeding and
said that he had been wounded, and then Mr..
Norwood passed and fell badly wounded. [
left shortly after that. did not see the firing
because a corner Of the church concealed the
building from mo. / am satisfied that IL was
brought ON by the negroes, because every
time there was any talk about the polls they
would rush into Reams' house.
To Mr.. Cameron-Heard that eight negroes
were killed during the following night.
saw no arms before the fight. II there were
any In the stores there, j knew nothing OF 1t.
! did not hear Of any. There we're not more
sheriff when he VENT to1Reams house. do
not know that the negroes were pursued. i
reside five or six miles from Caledonia The
Sunday evening before the election l saw
trs,, bands loa negroes ,s armed They said
Smith, who had burned some cotton gins
There were some ten or fifteen white men
about the poll when the firing commenced,
but after that some five or six came across
the river from Bossier. do not know that
they we're armed. / understand that Clark
and White were taken from the steamer Dam
!ibe on warrant. don't know Of my own
what became Of them. / can only
tell what the constable said under oath.
Mr.. Teller-Well, never mind that; you
don't know IL Of your own knowledge7
Witness continuing, to Mr.. Cameron-I
know nothing, excepting what the constable
testified to. / know Of two colored men who
were arrested; one was turned loose, and the
other Joe Parker, was turned over to me to
conduct safely home. Since the death OF the
Old Line Wings have been Democrat.
d. A. SIMPSON.
Live In Caddo parish am farmer was
1t the two meetings at Spring Ridge Short
!y before the Republican convention met, Mr..
Leonard told me that he had picked out GER
tain young men to run on the Republican
ticket, and asked me to support It. I told
him / would not. We took advantage of the
Information to tell the colored people that
MIR. Leonard had chosen the ticket and said