National Republican., 1882-12-16

renee would have gone into his
tory as "another shameless abuse of
usurped authority by unprincipled political
scalnwags. In 1876 they raised an awful howl
over tho throwing out of the vote of Grant
and East Feliciena parishes by the Wells-An-
derson board but this action was justified by
evidence, and was right the board had un-
der the then laws. But there is no pretense
that frauds were committed in st. Mary's
or Assumption parishes in my interest or In
the interest of any other party Yet board
which has no judicial authority whatever IA
power possessed unquostionably by the 1876
board) usurps functions not contemplated in
the law authorizing its creation and defining
its duty, and deliberately DISTINGUISHES over
o,OOO voters for no reason except that it was
Thought necessary, II possible, to count me out
and count a democrat in, or to reduce my ma
jority as much as possible"
"What about
FRAUDS IN OTHER DISTRICTS ?"
The authorities, state and federal, have
already secured the indictment of twenty or
twenty-five persons for election frauds in
New Orleans, and will, it is said, bring many
more before the bar of Justice before they get
through, could cite to you an endless array
of facts, but two or three cases will illustrate
the methods employed by New Orleans bour-
bons to elect their candidates
In the third precinct of the fourth ward
first congressional district) 80 votes were
claimed for congressional candidates. Of
this number twenty-four men, whose names
appear as having veted, have sworn that they
did not vote three men are proved to have
been dead at the time of election and twelve
men are proved to have cast twenty-six votes,
ten voting twice and two voting three times.
Besides this ten men are on the poll lists who
never registered, but the names were voted.
The commissioners of the first precinct of
the third ward tnnlr fha ho1l -bnxoc fhn
place where the election was held, carried
them into another room, shutting the door
| and excluding all persons, remaining about an
hour, and then returning with the boxes and
counting the vote.
I'm the fifth precinct of the ninth ward the
name of Owen Short signed to the commits
sioners returns is
A FORGERY.
Short did not act as a commissioner. The
returns show that 1854 votes were polled for
congressional candidates and 391 for the mu-
nlclpal ticket. or these SO persons are re-
turned as having voted who have asserted
that they did not vote, and six persons are
returned as having voted who were dead be-
fore the date of election. The poll lists show
that 202 persons voted in alphabetical order j
could go on all night but these will do for
specimens"
What is the extent and strength of
in louisiana"
"The revolt is sufficiently powerful to rem
der bourbon defeat at the next election almost
certain If the vote can be counted The state
officers and legislature of Louisiana will be
elected in the spring of 1884, and l have no
doubt whatever that the liberals or independ-
ents and republicans will overthrow the
bourbons. They can unite upon Il common
ticket, think, and elect IL. good inde-
pendent and liberal ticket of independents
and republicans would prevail in the third
congressional district by at least 5000 or
10000 majority. The straight bourbons could
be defeated in New Orleans by not less than
10000 majority. If an Independent ticket is
run which will command the confidence of
tn the people, then such parishes Plaquemine,
Tensas, Concordia, Point Coupee, West
Baton Rouge, Jefferson, st. Charles, ST.
James, St. Johns, and Carroll would
be safe for 5000 or 10000 more, a
sufficient majority to overcome the best demo-
cratic effort and carry the state. That done
the electoral vote of the state may be counted
as pretty certainly republican. From the
present growing sentiment and temper of the
people Of the south / am confident Louisiana
Florida, North Carolina, Virginia. West Vir-
ginia, and possibly Mississippi and Tennessee
can be carried for the republican party in
1854 with proper exertion and intelligent
management This may seem chimerical to
the people of the north, but Ibelieve it can
be DONE"
"The intelligent whites of the south are
tired of bourbon intolerance and misrule, and
they are ripe for change. They are for a
sound currency and liberal policy of inter-
nal improvements. Their bias and tendency
is against free trade. They are Just getting
on their feet, and they feel the need of protec-
tion. Their manufacturing industries are in
struggling state, and in urgent need of the
assistance guaranteed by a wise and just pro-
tective tariff. What they most need is an
influx of capital and emigration and good ed
ucational facilities. ! believe the general
government ought to take hold of this matter
of education in the south. Illiteracy is one
of the great evils the south has to contend
with now, good national system of edu-
cation applied now to the south would work
wonders"