The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-16
Concor1ia parish. Did not know what Dick
Smith Was hung for. q
cHAs. W. JOHNSON (ooLoREp).

| Concordia parish. Did not know what Dich
Smith was hung for.
cHAs. W. JOHNSON (coLoRED)
Live in Concordla. At the outset OF the
campaign I was with the Fusion party-the
| fusion of the Democrats and Republicans;
but when It got rough / went in to elect the
Republican ticket. Know nothing about the
| alleged outrages except from report.
Witness then, under the skilfful question
ing OF Mr.. Teller, repeated all the rumors and
reports he had heard. On election day mum.
Der OF colored men could not vote because II
was said that their names were not on the
polling lists. Think there must Rave been
fifty OF them. The election was quiet. 1 saw
no armed men on election day.
To Mr.. Garland-The Concordia Eagle, O
paper edited by a colored man, supported the
Fusion ticket and majority Of the candidates
on 1t were elected. large number Of col
ored men were on the Fusion ticket. / have
testified before the grand jury about the af-
fairs In our parish.
THOs. A. JOHNSON, fCoLoRED),
sworn-Was born and still lives In Concordia
parish. His testimony was In substance and
ing witness. He, however, gave the addi-
tional information that the FrogmoOr
boxes were taken from the commissioners by
o body Of armed masked men. He could not
tell whether the men who took the boxes
were white or black.
MD. RANDOLPH (CoLoRED),
was next placed on the stand to repeat the
story about Frogmoor, and he did it and re-
tired.
CHAs. LINCOLN
sworn-Didn't know anything about the
elections except that some colored men In
Vidalia, parish of Concordia, could not vote
because their names could not be found on
the books.
WI. WALTON
sworn-Am the representative OF Concordia
parish In the Legislature. / was solicited by
the colored men to allow my NE me to be used
as candidate on their ticket | declined
After the Republican ticket was hi the field, q
number Of colored men got together and pro-
pared ticket, placing my name on it as a
Democrat, without my consent. They called
it Inclusion ticket, and left one place, that of
parish judge, vacant, for the Democrats
to fill.
The Democrats accepted the proposition,
and the ticket was placed In the field. think
that in every ward In the parish colored
men were elected. There were some colored
men whose votes were refused on election
day because their names were not in the list,
but both parties suffered about equally, and
it was the cause of many joke, that both
parties were doing about alike. / heard no
because of 1t expressed in the
parish. have heard more about it since |
have sat in this room than l ever heard be-
fore.
To Mr. Teller Heard that number of col.
ored men had started for Waterproof, but
they came back in short time, very badly
scared, and scattered oil over the parish. A
number of them left the parish. / advised
many OF them to stay, promising them work
and protection.
To Mr.. Bailey : The destruction of the
Frogmoor box, II 1t made any difference,
would have made one .of only twenty-six
votes. There were only thirty-five votes in
the box. The fusion ticket was elected by
about two hundred majority
DAVID YOUNG (CoLoRED),
was placed on the stand, to state that he was
nominated by the Republicans for the House,
was in his opinion elected, but was counted
out. "Under the old management we had a
board for the State, now we have
one in each parish" Witness was urged to
tell the method pursued In the process of
out, and disposed OF 1t by saying,
well, we do the voting, and you do the
Mr. BaiIey-Is that the method pursued
under Republican administration
Witness That was the method in a good
many instances.
Witness then told the old story, getting
monotonous by repetition, of the rejection Of
the votes Of colored men and the capture OF
the FrOgmoor box. He Also at the solicita-
ton of Mr.. Teller, repeated all the reports
current In the parish, about the hanging of
Dick Smith and attendant excitement. Knew
personally OF no acts OF intimidation or vio-
lence Had seen and had considerable expe-
rience with congressional committees and the
results of their investigation, andI have mt de
up my mind TO leave the place. leave politics,
or join the worst bulldozers there Is.
/ don't think there Is five straight-out
Democrats In the parish. [ am of the opin-
ion that Mr.. Walton condemned the bull
DOING, but he did not have nerve to speak
against them. He may have been afraid of
being bulldoged himself; / know that good
many were. l have decided it to be best to
make friends with the ward bulldozers and
lay such men as Mr.. Walton on the shelf
because they cannot protect US.
To Mr.. Cortland Witness told his side of
the criminal case against him for embezzling
school funds He said that it was entered
for political purposes, and grew out of the
fact that, authorized by the School Board, he
and others sold certain school warrants. He
had deem called upon to pay the difference
the par value of these warrants and
the amount for which they were Sold
To Mr.. Bailey-The sheriff and the clerk OF
the court tabulated the returns from the
commissioners In the several words. My
brother was the sheriff; the clerk OF the
court was D. w. Wall, colored man. He
was not there, however, but left his deputy.
Or white man. 1t is hard to tell what
he Is. | have not contested for my
seat In the Legislature; In the first place be-
cause care nothing about it, and in the sec
Dnd place ! thought they would treat me In
the same manner as we treated them that is,
give me the goose. We tried to keep In while
we were In, and | think those In. now are
going to do the same.
The committee, after waiting some three
Or four hours for expected witnesses, adj
Ourned until O'Clock to-day.
THE COURTS.