Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-03

prevail. It recites the outrageous conduct of the
same returning board in that respect in 1874,
ana howits action had been condemned by: the
Eorty-third Congress, giving instances where |
they had counted in officials without color of |
rlght-men whom the Congressional committee
had caused to be turned out and their places |
given to Democrats, the Democrats knowing |
y they not only could gain nothing by in
some show of justice by avoiding anything |
which might be made pretense for alleging it. |
The report then recites the efforts that were |
made throughout the State by Democrats to
conclliate the black vote, showing by the evil
dence of Republican witnesses as well as the
testimony OF gentlemen of character, as we'll
as Gov. Whitefeld, how the planters combined
with the negroes to get up clubs of both colors,
and referring to the promises and assurances
MADE to the negroes even to equality in cara,
The leaders having Joined the Democrats, the
whole mass of negroes came in and became
quite enthusiastic supporters and thus the vote
in some Of the so-called bulldozing parishes
was the very largest cast.
The report states that after the Democrats
had conciliated the negroes in East Feicians.
Kellogg wanted Anderson, who was supervisor,
to have no election, and Anderson fraudulently
ran away with that view to furnish an excuse
for throwing the parish out. The parish was
thrown out because the supervisor of registra-
ton absented himself on election day, notwith-
standing other officers held the election and
made one return of the vote. The Democrats
in East Feliciana knowing that they had cap
tured the negro vote, hired Anderson to 60
back and hold an election. The Republicans
then hit upon new plan, and directed their
friends in the parish not to vote, so as to pre-
tend intimidation and exclude the parish.
They sent out word to their followers MOTTO
come to the polls, refused to permit any tickets
to be printed and circulated and
iuhfo Inv r;a%a
votes were cast, and four hundred and ffty-one
which Anderson had prevented from being reg
lstered, made about twenty-three hundred votes
cast, all Democratic, but not one Republican
would vote, though urged to do so. The whole
vote of the parish at the previous elections, on
both Sides had not exceeded twenty-five hun
dred. The Republicans, who purposely with
held casting any vote at ALL subsequently,
made claim that they had been inundated
and could not VOTE and the returning board, on
this pretext, purposely prearranged, excluded
the vote of fhe parish.
The report then refers to the supplementary
papers obtained from Anderson and Dan
Webster, both of whom were known by Re-
publicans to be for sale, that after these SUI
pervisors had made returns that there was no
| violation in the parishes, they were induced to
make supplementary protests, and that they
both confessed they did this because of reward.
In other parishes where officers had seen and
certified to q perfectly fair election, Kellogg by
the pressure exerted procured like false reports.
The report then goes on to state how the re-
turning board having got possession Of such
unlawful protest proceeded to take the evil
dence of United States officers, and money be-
ing used to bring ignorant negroes from the
interior fields into great city where they were
herded together. taken before officials and had
athdavlts written, drawn for them, to which,
| upon making their marks, they received their
fees and and were sent home. The process of
! manufacturing these affidavits is set forth to
| show how the negroes were imposed upon. and
how worthless the afidavits were. As an illus
| tratlon OF how utterly reckless the returning
board was in considering evidence, it points
out that in East Feliciana only twenty-four
witnesses to any kind of disturbance could be
| called. The disturbances to which they testi-
fed to had arisen from cotton seeds and other
thefts by negroes and their suppression, which
had been conducted by leading Republicans
had nothing to do with politics, and although
this and the fact that the election was entirely
peacable and Republicans purposely refused to
vote, was shown by twelve hundred witnesses,
and although four-ffths of the negroes in the
parish actually did vote with Democrats the
returning board threw out the whole vote.
The report points out great many other in
stances of what it styles the fraudulent, out
rageous and desperate character of the return
ing board, and shows the impossibility Of their
considering the testimony before them, as they
had more than could be read by man, reading
into consultation. The next day their intend
ed decision was known, and indeed, never had
been in doubt, everything connected with
them being travesty on justice and showing
how absolutely abased and unscrupulous they
were.
The report states that the returning board
would never have SO outraged the people but
for their encouragement from the visiting
statesmen and the support which they and the
troops gave them.
Then follows details of how the same visitors
were deceived by the local managers and in
nocently co-operated in the frauds of the re-
turning board while others did not It refers
| very briefly to the alleged bargain by which
Hayes had 5000 votes less than Packard got
counted in, while Packard went out and
mentioned Sherman's offers to prove intimida-
tion, but points out that whenever the COM
mittee offered to receive it the evidence was
not produced, and they were met by some sham
| excuse for not producing it; how they had ex-
amlned many of the witnesses that were before
the returning board who, in almost every in
stance, recanted and explained how they came
to make their false affidavit in the first place.
and how such statements as they made before
| the returning board were totally unfounded.
1t then refers to the Sherman letter, in re-
| gard to which it simply states the facts as they
| stand, showing that letter was actually writ
ten, and largely influenced political action in
louisiana, whoever signed it, inviting atten-
| tion to the attempt in the interest of Sherman
| by Mrs. jerks, whose husband and brother are
employees of the treasury department, to in
duce the committee to produce forged let
| ter.
The Florida portion of the letter is followed
| by list of all persons connected with the
| election there who have been appointed to
office, and the Louisiana part by still longer
list of persons in that State appointed to office,
The third part of the report deals with the
forged Louisiana electoral certificates. 1t tells
how the Vice President having refused tho fret
certificates, the Republicans secretary manu-
featured another, antedating it, and made it
in paper and printing to resemble the one pre-
viously made; how having very little time to
prepare it, and it being impossible to get all
| the electors to New Orleans to sign it within
that time, it became necessary te forge the, sig
natures of two absentees; that thus there were
put to tho triplicate paper eighteen forged sig
natures, which were attached on December
10Th, in small upper room in the State build
ing then in charge of Conquest CLARK; on the
making of this second certificate, it was con-
cealed until it was produced before Congress:
how when it was referred to the electoral com
mission, it was not read but ordered printed
and the printer was charged and the electoral
commission were served with the printed COPIES
of the forged certificate, perfect in form, and
no copy of the genuine but defective certifi-
cate; how, after the commission had given it's
decision the record of the commissioner was
changed that the forged certificate, copies of
which were really before the commission, was
suppressed and the record made to show as if
the genuine certificate had been considered and
passed upon; how this was not accident but
design, and that not only in one of the pub
hshed records of proceedings of the electoral
commission, but in both, although made
months apart; how the Republican managers
were informed by Kellogg that there was some
thing wrong about the second certificate, and
how, all the way through there lies the thread
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