The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-19

patch. The Governors office was Connected
with the police stations BY telegraph. and tho
III the stations. and taken To the registration
Office and answers returned. Blanchard was a
cripple, and i, ne e., ASKED me 70 save him tho
thorizlnE him e sign my name TO dispatches
aor aaa pa agreed and went to he
blanchard gave him with my name. Blnnch-
aru topk advantage Of this TO, order the books
70 The Custom House. found the books p the
Ions were being made Ia them
TO Mr.. keliogz-The telegraph instrument
dispatches.
al ID MoN1En
was the next witness. He testified ~ follows:
In 1876 was United States supervisor at poll
poll was quiet and p.ateable., There was AZ
Intimidation or bulldozng. We got through
s eaeon a' w sapped vd f a q
election day; The box was thrown out BY the
Retnraibg Board. There was ~ protest g IT, \,
there were challenges, but both sides accepted
then. end there was NO, trouble az az, ! can
only state from haarsay the reason assigned by
the Returning Board for throwing out the box,
TO Senator y Cameron J, :, Yas NJ, Demoeratie r.
and cannot cay whether or nat II was returned
to the clerk Of The Superior Criminal Court.
There being no other witness present the
committee took recess.
AL q CLOCK inc committees TaHSGhtnhlaQ, anu
MAJOR n. A. BuRRE
was placed on the stand. He testified as fol
lows:
i reside Mt No. 2sb Camp street was re-
siding Ia this city during the months Vt No
vembeT and Decsmber 1876 | had opportuni-
Ing the election. ! was chairman d tie regis
trHtion and election commtee Of the Demo
pary h wh hd
made special CANVASS Of the seventh ward.
and Tsecured the afTl1ayits of two respectable
ritizena to atiliavlts that 2t1 oolored PERSONS
had been frauduenty registered In that ward.
J. discovered. and will produce tho record to
ehpw. that between two and three hnndred-I
will say about three hundred because IL might
have been "a little more or q little lees -about
three hundred registration papers had been
frAndulently issued, that is. the numbers had
been duplicated. 1 maan that they were du-
pllcated numbers. with the names ot other per
had bees properly regis cred and had lost their
original certificates, which could have been
done, but duplicate numba,,s Of papers issued
previously to persons who had been properly
The effect of thus duplicating waste enable
persons holding them to vote them with Less
danger OF detection than II the nnmhers had
been regularly continued seria'tl, III the mum
tion The fraud would probably have been more
easv and sooner detected.
The committees Of which was chairman com
menced proceedings against some OF the par
ties who had traudulently registered. and
would have proceeded against al of them, but
them IN tke supersr Criminal Court, and were
about TO bring them before the Grand Jury Wa
were advised that the Assistant. Attorney Gene
ral, who was the chairman OF The Republican
campaign committee. bad INSTRUCTED the jury |
that they could only Aud when the parties liv-
ing Id the houses In which the accused claimed |
to reside cp,ne before them. and declared to the
contrary. This would have necessitatad extra
and arduons labor and the bringing cf q mum
Der Of families Into court. and the prosecution |
WIS abandoned at least the cases were never |
pressed. We made complaints Of these frauds
visor and to the one who acted Tor him
W. sn 1ni s list q the frauds md de-
ignored, Wooliey was Federal supervisor,
Moore was State supervisor and Gondoh his
Moore although no claimed to have resigned
md londolh protested to be acting in his place.
ccntinpea e a,l ne rlace myset saw him
PHI . large number Of names, GondoIn- vas
there, but Moore was doing the work viii
Oh gentlemen who were entitled 10 vote whose
names were stricken from the books. There
were 1o6 duly registered voters in the seventh |
ward who were refused permission to vote al |
Though they hal attached to their registration
papers their afIidavs that they had been prop |
9rlg reRfstered
10 receive the votes. and the parties we're denied
sreeanse their names bad either been stricken
o s aae had
4 from the books and omitted from the poll lists. !
Under the law when two respectable persons
made affidavit that man had been improperly
registered. The name was stricken from. the
books and omitted from the poll list. Some
names. however, were omitted from the LIST Ter |
other reasons. and when q voter found that his |
name was not on II h. had right 20 20 before
the supervisor and get 4 certificate from him
that hie name was on the registration books. \
Gondotf1 however, ahsented himself from his |
Office On the day OF election and could not Ne
found to give the certificates and voters We're
refused all threuR
MAJ n..r Az, ~,
facts In relation to the Twentieth Senatorial
District he was acquainted with, and he asked
time until o-day to examine papers and make
certain Of dates and figures before being called
npon 10 testify In regard to 1t.
The examination touching that subject was.
I'm accordance with Major Burke's request.
postponed and the examination In regard 10
proceedings in the seventh ward was resumed.
and the testimony continued AZ follows:
had some connection with the returns Of
po no a u saven s Waf Il Wan nfF "a pR
publican. The commissioners reported that
Assistant Supervisor GondoIn had refused W
There were affdavits from all the commits
Gioners that the election had been fair and
paaeeaha. mnene wa MT ~ ansst1o a., between ne
great many of tho tickets were scratched: the
poll was 2 largo one, and with their system o.
counting the ballots they We're unable to Gem
plete the cunt within twentyf four hours This
was not an exceptional case. There were other
polls where the same thing occurred, but the
returns from them were not refused. The
commissioners stated that dondoh refused to
receive the returns because the count was not
completed within twenty-four hours. / ad-
riHed-
Senator Cameron objected 70 witness testify
ING as to what he advised but after some dis
cussion between the members W the committee
he objection was overruled. and Major Burke
continued
advised the commissioners to proceed to the
Office Of the Secretary or State aud tlla d copy of
tho returna witt him and take his receipt there
for further advised that Il third copy " tbs
returns be filed with the Returning Board, and 1
being Of counsel for the Returning Board, I
know that the attention Of the board was called
Secretary or staeand with the board. Wells an |
nounced that the mere fact that the count had |
not been comrleted within twenty-four hours |
made no difference aud The returns would be