The daily gazette., 1879-03-04

and Dan Weber, both Of whom ver,
known by the republica' 9 to be for sale
that after these super visors had made re-
turns that there was no violence 10 thei
parishes they were induced to make SUP
| Elementary protest, and that they botl
confessed they did this because ofreward
IN other parishes where officers had seer
and certified to a perfectly fair election
Kellogg by pressure. exactUd like fal,t
protests.
| MANUFACTURE OF AFFIDAvITs
The report then goes on to state how
tne returning board, having got posses.
sion OF such unlawful protest., proceeded
TO take evidence, United States officers
and money being used to bring ignorant
negroes from the interior fields into a
great city, where they were herded to-
gether, taken before officials and had af.
fidavits written downfor them, to which,
upon making their marks, they received
their fees and were sent home. The pro-
cess OF manufacturing these affidavits is
set forth to show how the negroes were
Imposed upon and how worthless the af
fidavits.
DEsPERATIoN OF THE RETURNING
BOARD.
As Illustrative of how utterly reckless
the retnrving board was in Onsidering
evidence. it points out that in East Fell
cana only twenty-six witnesses to any
Kind OF disturbance could be collected.
The disturbances to which they testified
mad arisen from cotton seed and other
thefts by negroes and their suppression,
which had been conducted by leading
republicans, had nothing to do with poll
tics, and although this and the fact that
the election was entirely peaceable, and
the republicans purposely refused TO vote
was shown by 200. witnesses, and al
though four-fifths of the negroes in the
parish actually did vote with the demo-
crats, the returning board threw out its
whole vote. The report points out great
many other instances OF what it styles the
fraudulent, outrageous and desperate
character of the Ceturning board, and
shows the impOssibility of their consider
ing the testimony before them, AZ they
had more than could be read by a man
reading ten hours day in two weeks,
when they went into consultation, and
how the next day their intended decision
was known, and indeed never had been
in doubt, everything connected with
them being travesty on justice, and
showing how absolutely abandoned and
unscruPuIous they were.
ENCOURAGED By THE VISITING STATES
MEN.
Aho AoPote otosCS tndt tLt ing
board would never have so out ragged the
people but for their encouragement from
the visiting statesmen, and the support
which they and troops gave them. Then
follow details how some of the visitors
were deceived by local managers and in
nocently co-Operated in the frauds of the
board, while Others did not.
HAYES AND PACKARD.
1t refers very briefly TO the alleged bar
gain by which Hayes, who had 5000
votes less than Packard, got counted In
while Packard went out, and mentions
Mr.. Shermau's offer to prove intimida-
ton, but points out that whenever the
committee offered to receive 1t the evi-
dence was not produced, and they were
mot by some sham excuse for not pro-
ducing 1t; how they had examined many
OF the witnesses that were before the
board, who, in almost every
Instance, recanted and explained how
they came to make their false affidavit |
n the first place, and how such state |
nents as they made before the returning |
board were totally unfounded.
THR SHERMAN LETTER.
1t then refers to the Sherman letter, in
'egard to which it sim ply states the facts
IS they stand, showing that a letter was
'ctually written, and largely Influenced
,olitical action in Louisiana, whoever
igned it, and drawing att eDtion to the
'tteinpt in the interest Of Mr.. Sherman
~ Mrs. jerks, whose husband and
brother are employees of the Treasury
Department to induce the committee to
'roduce a forged letter.
REWARD OF THE FAITHFUL.
The Florida portion of the report is
ollowed bv list of all the persons con-
lacfad with tho alactiou thara br h,.o
,een appointed to office, and the Loui-
lana by still longer list of the persons
n that State appointed to office.
THE FORGED CERTIFICATE.
The third part of the report deals with
he forged electoral ceIti ificate, and claims
he republicans believed new electoral ,
eriificate was necessary, and why the
rst certificate was defective Hnder the
onstitution. 1t states that the Vice
resident having refused the first certif-
ate, the republicans secretly manutac- !
ured another antedating it, and made it
Il paper and printing to resem BILE the one :,
previously made; how, having very little
lme 10 prepare it, and 1t being Imp0s-
ible to get all the electors to New Or
cans to sign it within that time, it be-
anne necessity to forge the signatures
t two absentees. that thus there were
nut to the triplicate papers eighteen
orged signatures, which were attached
II December %, in small upper room
n the State building, then in charge of .
Conquest Clarke; how the making of
his second certificate was concealed until {
was produced before Congress; how {
yhen it was referred to the electoral
it was served with two
rinted copies of the forged certificate,
erfect in form, and no copy of the I 7
enuine but defective certificate.
How after the commission had decided
le record of the commission was
hanged, so that the forged certificates,
)pies of which were really before the
was suppressed, and the rec
rd made to show as if the genuine de-
,ctive certificate had been considered a
nd passed upon; how this was not acci- 7
ent, but design; that not only in one of
le published records of the proceedings
the electoral commission, but in both,
though made months apart; how the
publican managers were informed by T
.ellogg that there was something wrong =
bout the second certificate, and how all l.
le way through there lies a thread of
,sign to impose the forged certificates n
pom Congress. and then he suppressed q
so that it discovered the record might
low as if it had never been produced. III
he burles9ue John Smith) certificate \,
mt from Louisiana by mail after the y, y
rged certificate, and suppressed from ', "
e records, cannot now be found, it re- u
lrds as part of the same fraud, its OBJ
ct being to mislead and draw off atten- H
IN from tha forpad cartificata Tho ra