Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-06

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| LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS FRAUDS.
fsa- coDtfei ssi0seea; seuthauori7s Tells Some
l'eces s 1ntftter'eesttag Tales Out of
! School. i4s''A ~ - ~ ga etl.af.
| Y 100 allu washington Post.l tai y ata1
| I'll tell you where you can get good in
| terview.' said well-infnrmed gentleman 10
the Postlast night. .1,51 2as4. u.
Let us have the information y eagerly re-
sponded; the Post; good interviews are scarce
| during these festive days., }.,sr
well, you go to the Imperial hotel" said
| the gentleman, ''and ask for Judge South
| worth, of New Orleans. He's been leading
| Republican down there for years, and can tell
you all about the schemes Kellogg and his gang
| put through If.3 +. T.. $500. 49, -
/ The Post immediately called at the Imperial
and , sent its card to John p. Southworth, and
4 the messenger brought back word to '.cume
| np,'1' The fJcdge'' was in, he'd, but az the
| hour vas not late, he yielded to an invitation
10 talk, and Tor about one hour his tongue
i Wagged with velocity that. would have nut d
whole sewing society, Or Sorosis itself to shame
! he began upon Col. Pitkin, ex-Unit9d States
marshal OF Louisiana, and delivered himself
thusly:. gfit s9rasi ,4s.sfi II sq,i or, nj ).
He .{(Pl'iirt Pit wants 70 get Jack Whartons
true to his party. Pitkn's doing his best, to
| get Wharton removed, SO he can step into
Jacks shoes. The only thing he can say
against Jack is that he didn't help the Re-
publican party in the last elections EIy God!
(raising up in sbed) there wasn't any fepub-a
ilean ticket to help. There were three tickets
In NeWQrleans; one was the short hairs-that
! was lhe boys, the young floods; then the silk
stockings, they were the old fellows, airy,
rich RI and aristocratic; and then there was the
OF them; the know nothing part of the Demo-
cracy:a Now Jack Wharton ddn't lend himself
to help either ticket. They were all Democrats
and ne was a Republican, so he just laid back
and did nothing. He was sick during the cleo
ton. But # he didn't do anything, he didn't
charge the government for doing nothing as
/ Pitkin did" ]. LOS i.s-$t5a p
"HowWas that?" the Post managed to get
IN as .s'Jedge" Southworth stopped a second to
get breat fora fresh start. why. in 1876,
! pltkln charged the governments for the execu-f
ton Of over two Thousand warrants. and swore
TWO hundred. It was in the execution of the
sewing machine warrants; you've heard Of
them?'I The Post nodded, and instantly the
i ''Jedge" continued. 4Hsl a!gz5,4 #E.H
.Iknow all about Them. for issued the
i warrants. IWas United States commissioner
and knew exactly how many were issued and
how many were executed. Pitkin, as marshal.
was entltied only to his fees for The warrant is
pc executed, but he, charged for every one that
was placed in his hanos and lots OF tfein:
were retuTued to my Office indoised mot found
DE got from the United States treasury $4,7OO.
and some odd dollars when he was legally en-
titled TO only ab.nt $700.''sz as.!4.5T sfil9 FL
Ihe ledge was forced to suspend his much
| ly-intated volume Of talk for q moment to get
/ a swallow of water, and the Post took aivan-
| tase OF the. temporary lull to ask about the
4 seWlng-Elachlne warrants The subject of COL
pltkint was, about exhausted, as that gentleman
was not present to give his side of the story.
Tell us about the seming-machine warrants,
persisted the Post. -,
l. On, we issued warrants for everybody" re-
piled the ''Jedge'' 81 mean for everybody
/ who voted the Democratic ticket. It was a
hurly-buriy hi of a time, and, honestly, it
was /. aWful-perfectly awful But was q Re-
publiean.; and wanted my party town, and I
believed the end justified the means ssi.l. 1
Il how many warrants were issued2''
! ABOUT twelve thousand altogether. I is
sued them as fast as they could be signed, and
you see It was only a few days before the cleo
4
hundred and ask about their cases; nearly all
of them had the number written on their shirt.
cut. Well, I'd ask the mber and tellone Of
the clerks to turn and look it up. Sure enough.
1t woaid turn out that warrants had been issued
for theni,; but my Lord, couldn't remember
where, there were 80 many When it came to
trial, they were there by the thousand. Ny
courtroom was damned all day, and tried
some :of the cases--a few of them 4 didn't
4 hurry myself much. Only two or three hum
dred We're tried out of all 1.-the cases., Vi III
And what was done with the others ?''
Their names were stricken off the poll
books and they cou1dn' { vote. That was the
game;;s don't you see? It was q d-n shabby
thing, but it was politics, and wanted Hayes
and Wheeler to win Ill tell YOU this: The
Democrats bulldozed us (the Republicans) out
OF tour OF i've thousand votes in the parishes,
but we bulldozed them out of over 10000
votes in New. Orleans by those sewing machine
warrants They only got about 1000 CT 5000
majority when they ought to have had at
least $4,000 or $4,000 and would have had.
too, but for those warrants. Lots of men were
afraid to vote, because they saw that we had
1.-THE power and meant to US e it. You see those
4 people had been licked like hi o few years
before and they didn't feel like coming into
collision with the governments or its officers.
1t was.aWful / acknowledge it; and l wouldn't
do it again. But under the excitement and
annety to see nay party win, I wentlinto it."
And as United States commissioner, issued
warrants for innocent men 2" 5r .5g I,,
They were all innocent, as. far as that.
i Nothing was ever done with any of them. We
| only wanted to keep them from voting and we
did it, The scheme was understood by all the
Republican officials, and besides, you must re-
member every officer was a Repu blican then,
and every election officer was q Republican,
! TOO. Kellogg was governor, and appointed
hands, = go =
+ AS the Post was leaving, "Jedge,' South
worth said: "Now, you can publish what say
about Pitkin, and can prove it, but don't I
mention my name in connection with it;sthat
| might spoiitit. u ust keep my name secret,
and In few. days will. give you the whole
history: Of the sewing machine frauds" fg
i The Post bowed itself out Of the room and
said nothing, but en- route to the office decided
that the 'Jedge's' story was too good to keep.
He tells it on himself and nobody else could
! do the job SO we'll. Z .sEt,. M GIa iuaG Il
The '.sewing-machine warrants referred to
will pc remembered by everybody who took
any interest in, the political campaign of 1876
The radical managers of New Orleans, headed |
by Kellogg and Packard, addressed circulars.
ADVERTISING some sewing machine, to every
Democratic, voter who was registered. They
wrote the name properly in the address, but
known the party did not live. Y For instance a
man who lived at 800 Canal street would be adj !
idressee at 200. These circulars were sent out |
by the post-carriers. under orders from the |
postmaster, and with instructions to mark on |
the outside each envelope, mot found and |
return it to the postofdce. This was done, and |
warrants were issued for the parties not found,
a, them Of having illegally registered.
This as, Yves yes done just few days prior
to the election, and before the I
villiany 4s95 could ii be- lt exposed 81 and
corrected it was too late for the outraged party