New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-11
ELECTIONS IN OTHER STATES
pp,,,ns Ar SOUTHERN ELECTIONS.

- ,r,ru vxuupas uowR-PAisR REGIsTRA-
TON AND INTIMIDATION on NEGROES
.Tha true inwardness of Southern elections is OF
creat interest about this time" said ex-Jndgc Avn"
Howe of Louisiana to a TRIBUNE reporter y's''i
dov In tho matter of registration the creates.
frauas are pcrpetrated Not ono colored voter "a
Can CON rand The colored man will give in MS
name to the registrar as John Jones, warn ~
Jones will be falsely registered as living IN "ara
A. n wiz, bc comes TO vote he will be informed
.h. be 10 NOT registered in the ward and on reier-
nco 20 tho roll # will be that he Is put down
40 a., ;sbabitant of Ward No. o. The registration
rolls are looked over and revised as far as practica
HE bv the few white Republicans VINO are po',
cnoncb TO undertake that work but AS the coioieu
man believes that he is rightly registered, uht INC
do Of election no correction is made. These FRAUDS
baya finally been detected and the registrar now
registers the colored voters properly but ne 'aA''
his registration rolls home with MN, anu thoy "i
doctored; and That are considered saie huihpoi'
of the voters placed as voters ID "''u' o'"0
than tho one in which they live These doctored
rolls arc copied neatly, containing the irauus III
tact and these are the ones th"' arc "'o" Nv
polls on election day" ,
"Thc colored men protest IN vain saying 'na'
thev were registered properly, as their white Wit
osses and their more intelligent colored witnesses
will testify But they are told Here are the rols'
without mark or an erasure, and you certainly
oave in n wrong ward The poor colored voter
turns sally away wondering how II happened, ou'
knowing that he has been swinded out OF MS
vote
"Another system of defrauding, and quito an
effective one too" added Mr.. Howe, is called
still hunt crowd of ten or fifteen OF me mos!
dosncrote and notorious buldozcrs in the ward
will ride I'D TO polling place early on the IoIuIns
of election They are armed with lG-shootng rifles
have their ammunition hunting uoes anu ,'
and are ostensibly out on a deer-huntMg cSpeu-
Tom Buf thew are on stll hunt for Republican
voters These bull dozcrs stand thrcateh!hns sir
around the polling places, with their guns on tneir
Shoulders and occasionally sounding their hunting
horns which IL often signal for their desperate
work to begin. Sometimes, they chatHe ny " I a
nollinp place firing volley after voiey. Inns has
The desired effect of clearing tho polls OF All cooreu
voters I'm waiting. who. though inc VoiIeys WI"
fired at random, know it Is hint OF what ngn. ioI
low if they stand upon the order or their polng
These still hunters remain until the polis arc
closed The colored people who have ileo IN uisnay
report to Others that matters lcok e1tISinciA a
why such n light vote is polled: But shoniu a
large vote be desirable the names OF the colorcd men
are checked rs having voted in their absence; anu
of course for tho Democratic ticket The case otte
occurs that these still hunters surround the polls
when large crowds OF col9ieu peTp"1 m,o w. Ynss
and by intimidation compel the coIored men 10 VOC
the Democratic ticket THIS ia especially so IN the
IVth Louisiana District where IT 10 considered
futile TO put up Republican candidate, lIat IL
large cotton growing section and the colored people
are almost numerous az tho whte p"1plr' aiiu
with "A fair election the district IS kepubllcah' III
IL i'm This district that the Cousbatta outiagcs oc
cu,rcd and extended up the Red River plantations
100 miles to the Texas boundary. No correct re-
mort of the number of negroes murdered has ever
been made because the budozers themselves do
not know the extent of their bloody work: ,
"Thcsc frauds at tho polls will soon he rishted IN
this wayp Mr. Howe said in conclusion. In
local contests the candidates practise these frauds
upon each other. The outs know how inc ms
got in because they helped put them there by frand
npon tho Republicans. Now. when the ms at
tempt to .Perpetuatc their power by ne same
methods the outsiders object, saving; ION can
nroctiso that game upon the Republicans, but It
won't work on us we have done too much or that
kind of work to take our own medicine ms ~
having tine effect of widening the breach between
the ring of Office holders and the large element OF
disailcctcd outs who think it about time 10 get
taste of tho fruits which they planted IN fraud, riot
and bloodshed The conservative element watch
the growing discord with ahout the saluo interest
and Indifference that the woman looked on at the
gladiatoral contest between her brute OF husband
and the Rocky Mountain bear