The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-04

various pretexts; but the negro parishrs,-the
fehrianas. OuAchitn. Baton Rouge, nnd More;
made the grrptcet gains. md n ON which. thpre-
fore. the most Democratic votes were rejected.
TX PARrE ArFtDAv1rs.
The Returning Bnnrd having thus secured
the necessary false and fraudulent protests.
proceeded upon tho examinations and TX parte
ulliiavta. witch they permitted TO be brought
iu To- hcur allegations in respect Of those par
ishrs where it wns important to exclude the vote
in or,lrr to rpvcrsr tie will of the people and
count the State for IIuve-.
Ev pnrto statements VI nprrehension from in
trudution can always be procured in eye ry
community. Those ara daily occurrences, =
tn" strret. somc row In barrnom. some sorinl
unrtv clustering IN their Guns, some fellow
WheS fnr,isb l cSlnT for nrocnJpg to be-
alarmed. TIM most triilng nssnult the com.
mon"si personal dim 'ulty. the smallest net Of
viol"n", no matter Nhlt thor origin. nor TOW
nlsolutrlv disconnected with politics. can thus
tr ulndr ~ appear ~ the result ni political ac-
ton. Besides. nothing il cusirrthnn 60 get up
disturbances, TO promote rows. and to procure
white mon to rurpus"ly threaten n"grncs ,
nothing custer thHn TO prrv"rt tn" effort OF tho
ueoule To- protect their own property AMI de-
fend Themselves against mnrnud"rs into organ
I'D movements Cor narty inlim idmion.
Once have It settled that tho election OF n
President. with all the enormous patronage
and power connected with that OH -. depend
upon eX pHrte nfIldavits Of this Kind. and they
Will bo forthcoming In any community.
REPUBLICAN ADVANTAGES
In this contest the Adm nistration party had
every advantage: they had the control OF n
class NJ ignorant md rrckless negroes they
had numbers vi deputy mnrshals To send int,
the pnrshcs for tho witnesses; they had the
local machinery there with which to collect
them; they had the funds with which To bring
them personally 10 NV Orleans; they had thu
visiting statesmen to fortfy them with their
assurances and they had. hesd"s. the advnn-
tugp OF making the frat stntempnt
or course 1t WIS very dfll ult tn meet these
charges ms they wore produced. A man cnn tell
more LES IN m hour than can he disprov'd in q
DIV. the Democrats were compelled 10 send to
th" parishes lo ascertain what the charges RE-
frrrrd To, and 10 find persons acquainted with
the facts tn furnish tho proofs to contradict
these charges. In many cases the ptlidavits
we're produced before the Rnturhing Board ut
80 late day that It was almost Impossible to
charges IN time.
BY great diligence tho Democrats did succeed
In fully answering them. Tint they should
hnv" been able to 40 completely and so quickly
meet tho false chnrges against the conduct Of
the ele' tion cnn only be- explained on the theory
mat there did prevail thr9ughout the state u
free. iul fair. aud praceune election. and TINT
all pretences to tho contrary were uniounded.
THE TELIcrANA CONSPIRACY.
As tho purpose Of the Democrats was 10
propitate the negro vote. their attention was
the greatest eXress OF nesrp population. md It
turned cut after the election that their Ell 'rts
had been successful. In Nv" i've principal negro
parishes. instead ~ tho Republicans having a
majority of 3019. rs hal hren thu case in 1874.
the Democrats had majority a. $500. That this
WIS likely - be- the result had become apparent
before the election. and the mportanc" OF OK
ending the votes of these parishes thus hernme
eyiicnt. This was especially tn" case with Eaet
Frlicann where the efforts ut propitiatnG
the Republican colorod vote had been
most suecrssiul. Kellogg hoped to SECURE this
ut All. That would hav. enahled the Rspuhli-
Guns 10 rlnim that Elsi Telicnna was Il pub
liran parish. and would have given q H"puhli-
can majority, and that tho rufiinnly Democrats
had Wy driving away The virtuous Anderson.
Prevented that result. THIS g meme WAS aciu-
ally carried out ia Grant Parish. where the
Board excluded the returns from tho whole
parish nude 10y the other election ofi'er- $3.50
Democratic yot"-l. lecause the supervisor abe
s.ntet himself during the election. In Fast
F"li"ann it was only defeated by the dctrrmi-
nii2n 81 The Democrats to have an election
THIS WIS rep rifd 10 Kellogg and required
change Of Programme.
Accord ngly. u was suggested by some
Observation-Disclosures claims tho credit NJ it.
that sincn they were IN such n great minority
entirely. and then claim the NJ s"uce ~ Repuh-
llrnn votes MS evidence that Republicans had
not hcen p"rmiitei 10 ,ote, md Hs thus proving
IT,. extent of tho intimdMion.
Thrreupou. the leaders ~ tho party gave out
privately that no Republicans need vote: that
there was no usc going ~ Oh" polls M ALL " md
Arc. 10 vote =: "tfe Ir5erarnms was 10 "' law ",
10 ticket. So as 20 have the par sh thrown out
ant the like. THIS direction was dissrm mated
everywhere throughout 10 pur sh. and men
w"r" on hand on .l'"''on day On XIV" Nh" nccrs-
nN .aodInelv niroit N appr,rinttnc such sug-
c,-tion4 No Rrruhli.nn tickets wer. print1d
or disfrihut.d anil Rppuhl cans stood nrouud
the rol's res sting the solicitation " Democrats
90 vote 'puhlicnn tickrts which the Democrats
wrote ont Tor and ~ rod Thorn.
testi ii tn hv many ctiz"ns OF tho most res pect-
ahlr rhururter-0 olorc,i anil whitr-nnd no one
NJ he persons ~ 1rget trfh ne thug has come
IIi1rard 10 d,nv A. Il wis understood that. I'm
tursuun.e OF the direction from " below New
or rnn-l. no Republican should rnsi Ills vote
arl it.w,- Intended by thus withholding votes
THAI he olniin of intimidation should DE- set w
md % parish rNr.uIrd This plan wis car
ROT uut m Tn-t ,f.ianA perfectly and ia West
ItH-iunn Ia u degree
When the olo ton was oyer neither tho
United Siutes surrryisors az tho election nor
the military officer In chnrge ~ the troops
there nor any human being ut nll tho Reuuhli-
eun officials in those two paris os uudV any
rrrt.ns. whatever that NJ. election had not
been perfectly inir and free. The kilograms
nrd r'rorts o. the pepuh'i'.n Oh .iul organ in
w Or.nuuA unuoun "i! the same far' dnv ufirr
day A.I r-pn tho sup,rVI.nr ~ i - fnliri-
ana. and Wrhrr. the supervisor 90 West Frliri-
ana. Irlt their parishes Il.rl ing the freedom
AM fitlruns~ OF the er'tipn, uul that there WINS
not tl. slightest ground for protest and neither
of tirn nrcom panied tho returns they Ior-
wurded with any protest whatever.
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