The daily gazette., 1879-03-04

fraudu'ently took In place of the true re
turns. 1t then deals with the conduct O
the visiting statesman, and PARTICULAR
that OF MIR. NOyes, as cdntrasted will
that of Gen. Francis G. Barlow, who's
fidelity to all his obligations, and integ
ri y, independence, fairness and truth til,
report specially commends-
THE FRAUDS IN LOUISIANA.
In regard TO Louisiana, The report be.
gins with a reference to the anomalous
power p,s ,essed by the returning board
which, 1t says, never before existed else
where. Under it the electors and the re-
turning officers held the grossest power
over the receiving and counting of votes
Under the pretext that the colOr-line di.
vided the political parties, They had used
thls power to fraudulently count the
state for the republicans, and had been
exposed by the republican committee OF
the Forty third Congress, which had re.
ported that, the whites and blacks of the
State being equal, and some of the blacks
and all the whites having voted for the
democrats in 1874, the State had neces-
sarily been carried by them, although
cou nted for the republicans. Hereupon
the republicans set about false census,
In which they made it appear that there
were 25,OOO more black voters in the
State than white, and as illustrating the
fraudulent nature of this census the re-
port refers to the fact that while this
census reported but $1,000 colored men,
women and children in New Orleaus, it
made out of them nearly $1,000 colored
voters. 1t then instances the fraudulent
r. oyi al frafi hot Ii.
fraudulent census, whereby it was made
to appear that the registered republican
voters exceeded the white voters in the
STATE ore than %, 900, while actually
there were no more, and the refusal of
the authorities to correct this false regis
tration in cases where its falseness was
pointed out.
From this the report recites the direc-
sion by the republ eau authorities to the
supervisors of parishes, req quiring them
to return the vote according to the CEN
sus-that is, stating that the colored
adults by at CENSUS in their parishes
were many, and that they expected to
return republican vote corresponding
to that, If they ever expected any reward
or preferment. Notwithstanding this
organized fraud, says the report, when
the elections were over the democrats
had majority, as retained by the repub-
licaD election officers, of some ten thous-
and, the vote polled being the largest
ever polled in the State, and largest in
proportion to the population then that
of other States. The republican officers
made returns Of the votes accordingly
and declared that the election was per-
fectly peaceful and fair. The republi-
cans, in order to overcome this majority,
then usurped power not given to them.
In support of this the report ditss Il . find
ing of the Hoar, Wheeler and Frye COM
mittee that the returning board had no
power to discard votes where protests
as required by law had not accompa-
MED the returns, no instance of which
existed at this election. Notwithstanding
this the returning board decided to dis
card the necessary number OF democratic
votes. As a pretext for this usurpation
they obtained protests from certain
parishes, which they pick out as the pari-
shes in which to pretend intimidation
had take place. These parishes were all
largely OF negro population which the
democrats had fairly carried.
THE QUESTION OF INTIMIDATION.
The report then deals with the question
Of intimidation, and argues that it was
mpOssi BILE for the democrats to gain any
thing by it, because the returDing board !
had been created on purpose to neutral |
ize any such action by throwing out |
v votes in localities where 1T should prevail |
10 recites the outrageous conduct of The |
same returning board in that respect in
1874, and how its action had been con-
iemned by the Forty-th,rd Congress, Civ
Iug INSTANCES where they had counted in
IN Off icials without color of right, men
whom the congressional committee had
caused to be turued out and their places
Kiven to the democrats. The democrats
knew that not only they could gain moth
ing by intimidation, but that they could
only hope for some show of justice by
avoiding any thing which might be made
a prelense for alleging 1t.
EFFECTS OF CANCELLATION.
The report then recites the efforts that
were made throughout the State by The
democrats to conciliate the black vote |
showing by the evidence of republican
witnesses AS well as by the testimony of
gentlemen of character like Gov. Whit
field, how the planters combined with the
negroes to get up clubs of both colors,
md referred TO the promises and assur-
ances made to the negroes, even to
equality In cars, theatres, Sc, far out
the republicans. The leaders
having joined the democrats, the whole
mass Of the negroes came in and became
quite enthusiastic supporters, aud thus
Jne vote in some of the so-called bulldoz-
ed parishes was the very largest ever
cast.
THE EAST FELICIANA CONsPIRACY.
As to the conspiracy in East Feliciana
parish the report states that, after the
democrats had conciliated the negroes
here Kellogg wanted Anderson, who was
.he supervisor, to have no eleclion, aud
Anderson fraudulently ran away with
hat view, to furnish an excuse for throw II
ng the parish out, as Grant parish was
thrown out, because the supervisor of
registration absented himself on election
lay, notwithstanding the other officer
ne Id the election and made one return of
he vote. The democrats in East Fell
,iana, knowing that they had captured
he negro vote, hired Anderson to 60
pack and hold the election. The repuD-
leans then hit upon new plan, and di-
.ected their friends in the parish not to
vote, so as to pretend intimidation and
exclude the parish. They sent out word
o their followers not to come 10 the po lis
efused to permit any tickets TO be print
ID or circulates, and exercised their in
luence to withhold their own vote en- |
irely. Eighteen hundred registered
'otes were cast and 450 more which An
lerson had prevented from being regis
cred, made about 2300 votes cast all j
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