The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-03-13

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political parties, they had used this pow
er to fraudulently count the State for the
Republicans, and had been exposed by
the Republican committee OF the Forty
third Congress which had reported that
that the whites and blacks of the State
being equal, and some of the blacks and
all of the whites having voted for Demo
Gratis in 1874, the State had necessarily
been carried by them, although counted
for Republicans Herenpon, Republicans
set about a false census in which they
made it appear that there were 20 OOO
more black voters in the State than white
and as illustrating the fraudulent nature
of this census the report refers to the fact
that what this census reported but 5l lOOU
colored men, women and children IN
New Orleans, it made out of them nearly
25 900 colored voters, 1t then instances
fraudulent registration that was based
upon this fraudulent census, whereby II
was made to appear that registered Re
rublican voters exceeded white voters in
the State more than $4,000, while, actu,
ally, there we're no more, and the refusal
of the authorities to correct this false reg
istration in cases where It's falseness was
pointed out. From this the report re
cites the direction by Republican author
tiles to Supervisors of parishes, requiring
them to return votes according to the
census; that ia, stating that colored adults
by that census, in their parishes were 30
many, and that they were expected to
return Republican vote corresponding
to that, if they ever expected any reward
or preferment.
Notwithstanding this organized fraud,
saws the report. when the elections were
over, Democrats had majority as return
ed by Republican election officers ofsome
ten thousand, the vote polled being the
largest ever polled in the State, and lar
ger in proportion to population than that
Of other States. The Republican officers
made returns of the vote accordingly and
declared that the election was perfectly
peaceful and fair. The Republicans, in
order to overcome this majority, then
usurped the powers not given to them,
In support of this the report cites the
finding of the Hoar, Wheeler and Frye
Committee that the Returning Board had
no power to discard votes where protests
as reu1ired by law. had not accompanied
returns, no instance of which existed at
this election. Notwithstanding this, the
Returning Board decided TO discard the
necessary number of Democratic votes
As a pretext for this usurpation, they OBJ
tanned protests from certain parishes
which they picked out as parishes in
which to pretend intimidation had taken
place. These parishes were all largely
of the negro population which Democrats
had easily carried.
THE GU ssTIoN OF INIT dIDATIoN.
The report then deals with the ques-
ton of intimidation and argues that it
was impossible for Democrats to gain
ANYTHING by it because the Returning
Board had been created on purpose to
neutraize any such action by throwing
out votes in localities where it should
prevail. 1t recites the outrageous con-
duct of the same Returning B )ard in that
respect in 1874; aud how its action had
been condemned by the Forty third Con-
gress, giving instances where they had
counted in officials without color of right,
men whom the Congressional Committee
had caused to be turned out and their
places given to Democrats, the Democrats
knowing that they not only could gain
nothing by intimidation, but that they
could only hope for some show of jus.
tice by avoiding anything which might
be made pretense for alleging it.
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made throughout the State by Democrats
to conciliate 9he black vote, showing by
the evidence of Republican witnesses, as
well as testimony of gentlemen of char
acter like Gov. Whitfield, how planters
combined with negroes to get up clubs of
both colors and referring to promises and
assurances made to negroes even to
equality in cars, theatres, ETC., far outrun-
ming Republicans The leaders having
Joined the Democrats whole mass of me-
groes came in and became quite euthusi-
astic supporters, and thus the vote in
some of the so-Called bull-dozed parishes
was the largest ever cast
As to the conspiracy jim East FeliCiana
parish, the report states that, after the
Democrats had conCiliated the negroes
there Kellogg wanted Anderson, who was
Supervisor, to have no election, and An.
derson fraudulently ran away with that
view, to furnish an excuse for throwing
the parish out as Grant parish was
thrown out, because the Supervisor of
Registration absented himselfon election
day; notwithstandin this the officer held
the election and made one return of the
vote. The Democrats in East FeliCiana,
knowing that they had captured the ne.
gro vote, hired Anderson to go back and
hold an eleCtson. The Republicans then
hit upon a new plan and directed their
friends in the parish not to vote so as to
pretend intimidation and exclude the
parish. They sent out word to their fol
lowers not to come to the polls, refused
to permit any tickets to printed or CirCu-
lated, exercised their influence to with
hold their own vote entirely and 1900
registered votes were cast, and 450 more,
which Anderson had prevented from be.
ing registered made about 2,300 votes
cast, all Democratic; but not one Repub-
ican would vote, though urged to do 80.
The whole vote of the parish at previous
elections, both sides, had not exceeded
$500 The Republicans who withheld
casting any yvote at all subsequently made
claim that they had been intimidated
and could not vote, and the Returning
Board, on this pretext, purposely pre-
arranged, excluded the vote of the par
ish.
The report then refers to supplement-
ary papers obtained from Anderson and
Dan Weber, both Of whom we're known
by the Republicans TO be for sale. That
these Supervisors had made returns that
there was no violence in their parishes,
they we're induced to make supplement.
airy protests, and that they both confess
ed they did this because of reward In
other parishes where officers had seen
and certified to a perfectly fair election,
Kellogg, by pressure, exacted like false
protests.
MANUFACTURING EVIDENCE.
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