The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-27
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION.
The Condition OF Affairs In Louisiana n
Under Radical Rule.
from Judge Hoadley's Address at Cincinnati.
FEBRUARY AL

Under Radical Rule.
from Judge Hoadley's Address at Cincinnati.
February 21.l
What happened In Louisiana poor afflicted
oppressed, tOrmented. persecuted Louisiana,
the State of the Gulf, the city Of New Or
leans, the home Of sociabillty aud virtue and
generous emotion, the city that Jackson won
and kept from tradition applanseI, the city
In which Andrew Jackson was finCd l,O00 Tor
arresting the process of Judge Hall In the
sight Of the, enemy, and in the immediate
neighborhood OF battle he paid the fine and
submitted; New Orleans, dear to the heart OF
every Western man, for which the Western
pioneers longed until they had spread empire
there by purchase made by the father Of
Democracy. Thomas Jefferson, the State that
the Union, the State that, the ban
ner Of Jackson secured that State
had been the theatre OF war again.
1t was bartered the last time ut midnight by
the orders Of drunken Judge. who In order
to avoid impeachment by bis own party, re-
signed the Office and fled the State; but his
| own party, though they disowned the act and
drove the Judge out OF the office, have never
surrendered the spoil.
The Judge then read at some length n re-
port on the condition Of affairs In Louisiana,
made by the Senate committee In February,
1875, OF which ommittee Geo. Hoar was
chairman, which report called attention TO
the facts afterwards In dispute before the
you suppose wrote that dCcument2 Would
you believe that the man who wrote that
was afterwards member OF the Electoral
Commission, and threw out the vote OF Louis
lana, and gave it to Hayes and Wheeler
Would you believe that he was one Of the
men who profited by the steal? That report
is signed by Geo. Hoar Wm. Ii. Wheeler and
John Frye. Ii there is condemnation record
In America, there 1t Is. l don't know how
this strikes you, my fellow-citizens, but it
makes my blood boil. Republican party !
What name Why don't you call it the i'm
perial party? What is a king? He Is man
who was not elected to office. So Hayes
was not elected to Office. What is the
differ nee? king goes out OF office when he
dies; Hayes will go out on the fourth OF
March, 1881. He has got more power; he can
deplete the treasury OF the United States, as
the law now stands, to carry the election of
his successor; and the party that Is engaged
In and intends to use that poweris called the
Republican party. 1t was the Republican
party once Mr.. Evarts once told Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams that the party seemed to him,
after the adoption OF the fifteenth amend
ment, that the party seemed to turn like an
army that had been mustered out OF service
and hadn't anything to do, but had not gone
home yet. Everybody here knows my con-
nection with the Republican party, and am
proud Of it; but | am not proud that the
party which carried the country through the
war and enfranchised the slaves has turned
its attention to stealing.
The Judge then read from a little
electioneeTing document sent TO the diff
ferent registrars In the State Of Louisiana
from the rooms OF the Joint committee on
canvaBS!ng and registration during the preSi-
Dental election. 1t urged the parish regis
trarS to do their utmost to secure a full regis
tration and full vote, and closed as follows :
'It Is well kgown that the Republican vote
in your parish Is -, and the majority is =.
You are expected to register the full strength
of the Republican party In the parish. Your
recognition by the next State Legislature will
depend upon your doing your full duty, and
you will not be held to have done your full
duty unless the Republican registry in your
parish Is -; but you must obtain the
results herein set forth; il obtained your re-
cognition will be full and generous" That Is
the way the canvass began on the Republican
side. THIS registration went on, and in a few
days 1t began to be evident tnat with the
Democrats registering their last man, and
with colored clubs being organized, the State
was gone, and the recognition was not going
to be ample and generous unless the fellows
changed sides, and good many were begin
ming TO change sides.
On the thirteth day Of October, 1876, only
eight days before the election, 10000 affida-
Wits were sworn to by two policemen in each
that 10000 Democratic names were registered
contrary to law. Judge Call told me that he
had seen these affidavits, and that they made
| pile ON the table three feet high. There
| WAS u Oil ditpEWaEu put Ill ny Ile COIuIuiS-
sioner who swOre the policemen tor $4,000
for these affidavits and the Judge told him that
| the whole thing was q fraud and the State
would not pay him a cent 1t has not been
paid unless the fellow has been put into
| some Office by the present administration.
| The consequence Of the affidavits was that the
parish supervisor of the parish OF New Or
leans drew red line over nearly 10, 600 names,
and among them was Randall NJ Gibson, the
| Representative in Congress from New Or
| leans, and also many merchants and the
| first citizens were among the disfranchised.
| Some scoundrel swOre that Gen. Gibson
| was unlawtully registered. Six thousand
names went back Oh sight, because no man
| capable Of blushing cOuid insist upon striking
off the names OF such men as Gibson. But
| the work was done, and there ives only eight
days to undo it in six thousand of these men
| got back, but four thousand were disfran-
| chised. The election came on and it was De
quiet an election as We have ever held IL
| Ohio. No man who has the truth of history
at heart can say that on the day Of ection
| there was in the State of Louisiana or il
| Florida any disturbance whatever. The peo,
pie gave 1867 majority for portion of the
Tilden ticket, and between 5000 and 5000 fOl
/ other portions OF the Tilden ticket. The diff
| ference III the vote came about in this way
| AS you know, tie Republican party com.
prises not only all the decency, but all the in
telligence OF the people, and down in Louisi
ana this highly Intelligent party got it into
its head that they had the right to vote only
for two electors at large, and three besides
| The consequence was that, in some portions
Of the State, the Republicans voted for only
| five out OF the eight. But they are generous
whole-souled people down th-re, and wheI
| these votes came before the Returning Board
| they were counted in full for the whole eight.
! What next? According to the laws OF the
| State, which / describe to you out OF the
| mouths of George z. Hoar and William
Wheeler, there was drunken Judge oehlad IL