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LOUISIANA REPUBLICAN FRAUDS.
Ea-C0nsaissio,aer Sosttztsvorth Tells Some
E1cessivelU Interesting Tales Out of
School.
Washington Post
I'll tell you where you can get good in
terview," said a well-iafnrmed gentleman to
the Post last night.
Let US have the information eagerly re-
sponded the Post 'sgood interviews are scarce
during these festive days.
WELL you go to the Imperial hotel,'' said
the gentleman, "and ask for Judge South
worth, of New Orleans. He's been leading
Republican down there for years, and can tell
you all about the schemes Kellogg and his gang
put through
The Post Immediately called at the Imperial
and sent its card to John p. Southworth, and.
the messenger brought back word to s'cume
up" The ''Jedge'' was in bed. but as the
hour was not late, he yielded to an invitation
TO talk and for about one hour his tongue
Wagged with a velocity that would have put q
whole sewing society, or Sorosis ITSELF to shame.
He began upon Col. Pitkin, ex-United States
marshal of Louisiana, and delivered himself
thusly:
He (Pitkin) wants to get Jack Wharton's
place, on the ground that Jack hasn't been
true to his party. Pitkin's doing his best to
get wharton removed, SO he can step into
Jacks shoes: The only thing he can say
against Jack is that he didn't help the Re-
publican party in the last elections. My God!
(ralslng up In bed) there wasn't any Repub-
iican ticket to help. There were three tickets
IN New Orleans; one was the short hairs-that
was the boys, the young floods; then the silk
stockings, they were the old fellows airy,
rich and arlstocratic; and then there was the
National ticket-they were Democrats, too, all
OF them; the know nothing part of the Demo-
cracy. Now Jack Wharton didn't lend himself
to help either ticket. They were all Democrats,
and ne was Republican, so he just laid back
ana did nothing. He was sick during the cleo
tion. But If he didn't do anything, he didn't
charge the government for doing NOTHING g, as
Chow was that?" the Post managed to pet
in as "Jedge' Southworth stopped second to
get breath for fresh start. 'sWhy, in 1876
fltkln charged the government for the execu-
ton OF over two thousand warrants, and swore
to his account, while, in fact, he served less than
two hundred. 1t was in the execution of the
sewing machine warrants; you've heard of
them?' The Post nodded, and instantly the
"Jedge" continued:
Il know all about them, for I issued the
warrants. was United States commissioner,
and knew exactly how many were issued and
now many were executed. Pitkin, as marshal.
was entitled only to his fees for the warrants
ne executed, but he charged for every one that
was placed in his hanos, and lots of them
were returned to my office Endorsed mot found ,
lie got from the United States treasury $4, ZOO
and some odd dollars when he was legally en-
TITLED to only about $780,
The "Jedge' was forced to suspend his much
ly-lnt1ated volume of talk for moment to get
swallow of water, and the Post took advan-
tage OF the temporary lull to ask about the
sewing machine warrants. The subject of Col.
Pltkln was about exhausted as that gentleman
was not present to give his side of the story
Iell us about the sewing-machine warrant -
persisted the Post.
"Oh, we issued warrants for everybody. - re-
piled the "Jedge" 81 mean for everybody
VINO voted the Democratic ticket. 1t was a
hurly-burly HI of time and, honestly, it
was awful-perfectly awful. But was Re-
publican, and wanted my party to win, and I
believed the end justified the means
How many warrants were issued?''
About twelve thousand altogether. I is
sued them as fast as they could be signed, and
you see 1t was only few days before the cleo
tlon. Men used to come to my office by the
hundred and ask about their cases; nearly all
OF them had the number written on their shirt
cuH Well, I'd ask the number, and tell one of
the clerks to turn and look it up. Sure enough.
1t would turn out that warrants had been issued
Tor them, but my Lord, 1 couldn't remember
where, there were SO many. When it came to
trial, they were there by the thousand. NV
courtroom was jammed all day, and 1 tried
some OF the cases-a few of them; didn't
hurry myself much. Only two or three hun
dred were tried out of all the cases.
And what was done with the others?''
Their names were stricken off the poll
books and they couldn't VOTE That was the
game. don't you see? It was d-n shabby
thing, but it was politics, and wanted Hayes
and Wheeler to win. I'll tell you this: The
Democrats bulldozed us (the Republicans out
OF four or five Thousand votes in the parishes,
but we bulldozed them out of over 10. 900
votes in New Orleans by those sewing machine
warrants They only got about 1000 Or 5000
majority, when they ought to have had at
least 1900 or $4,000 and would have had,
too' but Tor those warrants. Lots Of men were
AFRAID to vote because they saw that we had
the power and meant to use it. You see those
people had been licked like HI few wears
before, and they didn't feel like coming into
collision with the government or its officers
1t was awful. acknowledge it; and wouldn't
90 1t again. But under the excitement and
anxiety to see nay party win, went into it,
Sand as United States commissioner, issued
warrants for innocent menu
They were all innocent, as far as that.
Nothing was ever done with any of them. We
only wanted to keep them from voting, and we
did it. The scheme was understood by all the
Republican officials, and besides, you must re-
member every officer Republican then
and every election officer was a Republican,
too. Kellogg was governor, and appointed
them. We wanted to keep the State in our
hands,"
AS the Post was leaving, "Jedge'' South
worth said: "Now, you can publish what say
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mention my name in connection with it; that
might spoil it. just keep my name secret,
and in few days will give you the whole
history of the sewing machine frauds
The Post bowed itself out of the room and
said nothing, but en- route to the Office decided
that the "Jedge's' story was too good to keep.
He tells it on himself, and nobody else could
do the job SO we'll.
The Sewing machine warrants referred to
will be remembered by everybody who took
any interest in the political campaign of 1876.
The radical managers of New Orleans, headed
by Kellogg and Packard, addressed circulars,
advertising some sewing machine, to every
Democratic voter who was registered. They
wrote the name properly in the address, but
put in number of residence where it was
known the party did not live. For instance,
man who lived at 600 Canal street would be ad-
dressee at 200. These circulars were sent out
by the post-carriers, under orders from the
postmaster, and with instructions to mark on
the outside each envelope, mot found" and
return it to the postoffice. This was done, and
warrants were issued for the parties not found,
accusing them of having illegally registered.
This was done just few days prior
to the election, and before the
villiany could be exposed and
corrected it was too late for the outraged party
to vote. These circulars were sent to none but
Democrats, and. as "Jedge'' Southworth-
United States official who issued the warrants
says, over 10000 Democrats were disfran-
chised by this fraud.
The Post met Col. Pitkin last night, who de-
nounced the charge made against him by
Southworth as false, and said he could easily