Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-17

hotel In . carriage and asked me to
60 with him to see this Returning
Board, two of whom were negroes
and two were worse. (Great laugh
tor and applause.] Cssenave, a
very respectable colored man, was
an undertaken. Kenner, . colored
man, had some position there con-
nected with the Port, an In.
spector or something else,
but kept saloon up
In the city. We went around to
Cassnave's first, and we were told
he was out with . funeral process
sion. Then we went around to
Kenner's saloon, and there found
the other three-Kenner, Ander-
son and that reverend old sinner
IA voice, "WellsW]; Of course,
every body knows his name. We
went In, made ourselves known to
them, and when we came out !
said to my friend: 1--WE might as
we'll 90 home II the count Is to 60
on before these men," We, how
ever, formed q Committee, and left
It there, made up Of the ablest men
we could find outside Of members
Of Congress. We cid not think
members Of Congress ought to be
put on private committee to un.
dertake to supervise in any way
that the count, because the question
might come before Congress;
therefore, we put on the commit
tee General Palmer and Judge
Trumbull, OF Illinois; George w.
Julian, Of Indiana, and Mr.. Smith,
of Wisconsin. The Republicans
made up their committee OF Sena.
tors and Representatives In Con-
gress, with John Sherman at the
head and General Garfield, his seq
ond, In command, and they staid
there until that count was made.
That was . flne and dramatic sa-
loon scene, In which Democratic
United States Senator, Of high
character, became impressed with
the fact that the dignity and honor
Of the people Of the United States
were to be made the stake In q
game Of political thimblerig. run
| by two mulattoes and two white
men, the latter Of VIGOROUSLY bad
characteri
Senator Mcdonald went down to
Louisiana q second time, on the
latter occasion forming one Of the
| Senatorial Committee Of Investi-
CATION. He continued:
We went down there early In
December for the purpose Of exam
lining into the conduct and action
Of that Returning Board and to zee
what they had done. General Gar
feld and Mr.. Sherman staid there
until they had made their decision,
and then General Garfield came to
Washington and made q speech
against the Electoral Commission,
and said 1t would never do to pass
that law, that they would have to
g. into the whole question Of the
returns from the South, but after
the law was passed he went into
that high Cemmihsion, making the
aiehth na~n Uu the Republican
side, and sustained the Infamous
fraud which he knew had been per.
petrated In Louisiana.
There were cast in the State o.
Louisiana at the election of 1877
l68, 76l votes. The highest Demo
cratic Elector received of thos.
votes So, S57. The lowest Republi
can Elector received "a, 702. give
the highest vote for the Dem ocratic
Elector and the vote of the lowest
Republican Elector because Il
there had been . single Democratic
Elector voting from the State the
Electoral count would have been
in favor Of Tllden and Hen.
bricks, because they already had
1874 and 1s5 elected him.
1t was necessary to give to this
fraudulent Administration every
one Of these votes In order to give
them the 1856 that the Chairman Of
their committee claimed for then
the morning after the election.
| The Democratic majority on the
face OF the returns was 1857, but th,
Returning Board threw out sew.
enty-eight polls, and in tina,
threw out two entire parishes, Easl
Feliciana and Grant. In these
sevsnty.eight polls there were
IL, 876 votes, Of which 1867 were
Democratic and 2,2S9 Republican
and In that way changed the ma
Ijority of 8.057 to q minority of q
little over 5000; but they could
have made 1t as much more 40 they
had q mind to, 90 long as there wal
. Democratic poll In the State
Laughter and applause]; 1856
votes were one.tenth Of all the
votes In that State, 80 they dis
franchised one.tenth OF the people
Of the State Of Louisiana In order
to make tho returns In favor o.
this Administration. That Ii
solemn truth, and General Garfield
~ . member OF the Electoral Com.
mission, sustained that by his vote
and In that way put Mr.. Hayes IL
the Presidential Chair, where hl
has continued to be down to thu
present time-and will, suppose,
TO the end Of his term-tbe only
living example Of a fraudulent
President we have ever had
Laughter aud applause But they
propose now to follow That up by
making General Garfield Presi.
dent. And another question was
concerned In that fraud. They
overruled the decision Of the Su.
preme Court OF the State, q deci.
sion made by two Republicans and
one Democrat.
We cannot better dismiss Q
ghastIy subject, which was resur.
rscted in Los Angeles by Mr.. Cal.
vim Edgsrton, than by giving Mr..
Trumbull's finishing remarks or
the Louisiana and Florida infa.