The Republican journal., 1884-11-20

was held without the poll books, which were
said to have been stolen. In this precinct
Democrats were permitted to vote freely,
while Republicans had to be identified. This
precinct usually returned large Republican
majority, but by this means over 40 votes
were lost. In Charlotte county, well known
Republican stronghold, Daniel (Dem.) had 401
majority"
In Louisiana murder was one of the methods
resorted to by the Democrats to secure major
ity for Cleveland. A Blaine and Logan meet
ing at LareauNille on Saturday before the cleo
ton WAS broken up by armed Democrats who
fired at the speakers and into the assembled
Republicans. 16 colored men were killed and
wounded and all Republican speakers We're ar
rested by the local militia and were committed
to Jail without the authority of law. A Demo
cratic dispatch from New Orleans says that
lone thousand coiored Republicans We're ar
rested and imprisoned in New Orleans as dam
gerous and suspicious characters After the
election they were discharged. as their dan
gerous character" refers simply to the fact that
their vote might elect Republican TO Con-
gress. A leading Democratic manager was re-
monstraed with for the wholesale arrest of
negroes and the utter lack of discrimination
between worthy citizens and constitutional
loaters. His reply was:
Well. you see something had to be done In
past elections. we bought the negro leaders to
betray their candidates; then tried buVing
up the voters by clubs; but these niggers. | tell
you, are getting entirely too high priced and
unreliable. Now, you will not deny that the
press has been harpng upon the necessity Of
cleaning the community of worthless charac-
tiers. especially those who hang about the
Franklin street Sums. So, reform is in
fashion just now the boys became infected.
This is AS good Il time as any, and if Il few hum
dred mokes are deprived OF the great American
privilege of voting, and others incidentally are
deferred from going near the polls, why that is
one of the happy chances of war, YOU know.
And, what Is of equal Importance i'll the pres
ent condition of the campai On chest it is the
cheapest plan of controlling the negro vote
that has % far been hit upon
The New Orlean. City Item, from whose
columns We take The above, adds,
Volumes could not tell more There is the
whole infamous plan against the right of suf-
frage cooy disclosed. 1t is the game which
was played by the Cincinnati police three
weeks ago. but on an enlarged scale. Surely
American citizenship is e'tlnS to be despica-
Bile when such partisan plots can be conducted
III the name and under cover of law.
The same paper speaks of an attempt to
purge the registry Of some seven thousand
names of dead men, men of straw, convicS to
tn" Pententiary, and others which had been
entered more than once: ana It is sufficient to
say that it failed. Another scheme was eX-
posed by a correspondent of the Item, who
said: Watch poll two, twelfth ward. See
that a Democratic ticket is not put on top of II
pile of Republican ballots and then the whole
counted as straight Democratic"
Hon. W. p. Kellogg, Republican candidate
for Congress in the third Louisiana district, has
procured evidence that over twelve hundred
Republican voters We're DISTINGUISHED III that
district by scratching their names from the
registration lists. These citizens had voted al
the State election in April last and We're not
notified that their status was questioned but,
on presenting themselves at the polls We're in
| formed that they We're not iisted-that their
names were not on the poll books. When atfi-
davis were rendered which would have estab-
li>hed the right TO vote they We're peremptorily
rejected. Ii Is easy to see that the officials in
control could perpetuate their sway forever by
such practices. Mr.. Kellogg will further show
that more than seven hundred vote, We're
thrown out by the Democratic commissioners
on the ground first, that through ignorance, or
planned misguidance, they We're deposited in
the wrong boX-the Presidential one instead of
the Congressional; second, that the ballots did
not bear the water line mark IS. of So In the
former case it was the duty of the election off
GERS to set right the blunder; in the other. Mr..
Kellogg, ballots were all printed on legal paper
furnished by the Secretary of State himself
Further, scarcely one i'll hundred of the ballots
cast throughout the State. for the candidates of
either party, bore the full water mark sigma
ture, as the paper would not cut up properly
The following is IA sample of the ballot box
stutting resurted to by the Democrats. At "A
poll where open tickets We're voted by both
whites and negroes it was admitted on the
closing of the box that three to one had been
cast for Kellogg. and that the entire vote was
sol. The count, however sets down 564 ballots
as cast, and the increase of Go votes is of course
for kelloggs opponent. Here are extracts
from two Democratic papers which throw
further light on the subject:
The Shreveport Democrat Dem. while
we deplore the condition of politics in our
State; while we bow with humiliation when
the charges that our public servants in the
State belong to an unhOly combination to rctard
It's material growth are not dsproved: while
we see infamous and unjust taxes foisted upon
the people by false and outrageous system of
bailot-boX stutfing; while we see corrupt and
immoral institutions kept alive by brbing pub
lie servants, we cannot refrain from looking at
the silver lining of the dark cloud in the noble
| ana lncorruptlbe public servants that represent
our State in the Senate of the United States
| The NeW-Orleans Picayune dem. June .,
IoS4.-We venture to assert Tat in no State in
the Union Is there so little protection of the
FRANCHISE OF the citizen as in Louisiana to-day.
The present election law is sham and a mock
cry, aud there has grown up under it system
of political frauds that are more odiollc than
those of the Kellogg and Yarmouth regimes.
Ample proof of these frauds has been publish
ed IN the columns of The Picayune and has
been laid before the Grand Juries. but there is
no possibility of sending the men who COM
mltted these frauds to the penitentiary, where
they belong. As the case stands to-day, there
Is no possibility of getting fair election in this
city, and the public are well satisfied of that
TACT. They recognize the necessity of resort
to arms to preserve their right of franchise.
and will apply that remedy when their officials
are again to be chosen.
The following letter, from Maine man in
Jacksonville to the Bath Times, gives an
inkling of how things were managed in Florida
| | would just like to give you some idea of
what the South think of Democratic Presi-
dent. 10 say there was great excitement here
would be using mild term. They are sure
Cleveland is to be the next President. This
election has been looked upon as battle be-
tween the North and South. The news of
| victory was celebrated as such, the term of
Id Yankees being freely used. They have
even paraded in their gray since the news of
Cleveland's election. From the close of the
war to the present day they have only been
subdued and now they feel as though they had
gained their victory | cannot put this stronger
than it really is. / heard a man who had been
colonel in the rebel army, say the night before
election, he would like to take every ID
Republican niger in the State of Florida out
to sea and drown them SO they could not vote
This is the first election | ever witnessed in the
South and hope it will be the last, as it is pot
safe for Republican to express his views
down here.
| In South Carolina a war of races was begun
just before election. Several negroes were
killed and hundreds greatly excited and alarm
ed, the object being to keep them away from
the polls; while in Mississippi the usual shot
gun methods were resorted to. And this is
what Maine newspaper calls free and fair
election. But then it is Democratic paper.
| One of the transnarencieS horna Inv tho