The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-01-22
TANIER ON THE WAR PATH.

LnIS UlStIiCb, uoo No'SA IAAA
contest the seat of Gen. King IN
the 47th Congress. He has pre-
pared aud had printed the rea-
sons which be assigns for max
inc the contest, The document
is long, awkward, and UNANIMOUSLY
slanderons. It reflects the We
| nom of the man. 1t indicates
the true spirit that actuates him.
It is a mean, false calumnlatlon
of the good people of this dis
trict. He positively avows that
he can produce unimpeachable
| evidence to prove that the most
fragrant and cruel outrages we're
perpetrated by the Democrats
of every parish in the dlstrlct
| during the campaign and on the
| day of the election: He asserts
that ten thousand votes In Jour
river parishes were suppressed
by intimidation or disregarded
by the commissioners Of election
who were a set of blood-thirsty
bulldozers. He charges King
with having made, during the
campaign, fiery, threatening
speeches, which had the effect
upon the negro voters to deter
them from the polls; that King
and his supporters publicly an
nounced to the negroes that they
had as we'll vote the Democratic
ticket, as no other would be
counted. Lanier, with more
brass than brains, ano with more
impudence than elegance,
enumerates the various polling
places at which the most fragrant
outrages were committed, and,
when he takes hold Of More
house parish to show why her
vote should have been counted
for him, he says +:
"The parish of Morehouse fur
nishes a striking example Of the
way frauds and outrages are per-
petrated in the said fifth district
by your party. There is in said
parish registered Republican
vote of fourteen hundred and
nineteen votes against the regis
tered Democratic vote of six
hundred and ninety-nine. Yet,
by the most unparalleled acts of
violence, atrocity and fraud, that
parish seems to have given you
King nine hundred end seven
ty-two votes against forty-nine
for the Republican ticket.
I claim that if a fair and legal
election had had. been held in said
parish I would have received a
majority over you of not less
than seven hundred votes. |
allege and expect to prove fraud
in the count of the votes of said
parish, and polling precincts
numbers one, four, five aud six.
I expect to prove that there was
no fair or legal election held in
said parish Of Morehouse on the
second day OF November, 1880
that the same was fraud, farce
and mockery, null and void in
every sense and particular"
He speaks in the same defam-
atory and incendiary style OF the
managers of election in every
other parish. What he says OF
the election in this parish, and
especially in this, the fourth
ward, is utterly untrue. During
the entire campaign the most
stupid lethargy pervaded the
voters of this parish as to the
election. No interest was mani
tested by either party. General
King was "billed" to speak in
this town a few weeks before the
election; he came but had not
more than three dozen persons
to hear him. At least one hall
Of them were colored people, to
whom King gave some whole
some advice. He spoke to them
kindly. His counsel was appre'
ciated by them, as shown by
their frequent bursts of ap'
plause.
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