Daily Republican., 1885-02-25
The gig an tic Fraud Of the Day.

The Gigantic Fraud ofthe Day.
II the Senate concurs in the House
appropriation, the great New Orleans
humbug called the Worlds Exposition
will get an additional amount of $780,
600 to pay off some of the bad debts
created in the attempt TO show that a
great worlds exposition can be carried
On as successfully in an extreme South
ern State from which every vestige OF
political honesty had fled many years
ago, as we'll as a Northern State 1t is
doubtful, however, If the Sena-e will
be willing to even give this small
amount unless it Is put into the hands
Of a responsible committee appoint
cd by Congress to spend it judiciously.
1t is coming to light now that part
of the million dollars loaned by the
Government to aid the concern, and
which was given upon tissue of false
pretenses,, was loaned temporarily to
parties TO build a monster hotel, to &C.
commodate the great crowds that would
be in attendance, with the expectation
that 1t could be returned in time to pay |
the premiums promised. But, as might |
have been expected, the money was |
bpoh1 anu buc HoOci Las hOb ucDh puiib.
AS this Government is largely interested |
in tie Exposition, outside of the money |
Il has loaned the concern, by being the
p largest contributor in material from
the Smithsonian Institute, the Senate
may possibly concur in giving $780,
900 more to save the articles on ex-
hibition from destruction.
II the Smithsonian Institute collec.
ton We're destroyed or even injured, it
would be . greater loss to the Govern
ment than all the money that has been
COP ,.ributed in he past or will be con-
tributed in the future.
The day has not come yet when such
gigantic expositions can be carried on
success sfully in a city where the people
cannot and will not rid themselves of a
Government that has become stencil
in the nostrils of every honest man.
We are justified in using this severe
denunciatory language, and the New
Orleans Picayune, the leading Demo-
cratic paper of the South, in speaking of
the fiasco of the Ford murder trial,
calls it " the sha meful exposure of the
rottenness and in efficiency of the court
machinery and the inadequacy of the
means provided by law fol the pro
lection of the public The Picayunt
calls attention anew TO the crimes Of
the Bourbon Democratic ring, that con
trolls the State and maintains that con
troll by outrageous frauds and intimi'
dations at the polls.
There can he no reform where dis
honesty sits enthroned at the head Of
the Government, and for the govern
ment to send either money or materia
TO such city is like the man who fel
amongst thieves and was robbed of al
he had. Yet, only think of it, just b.
such election frauds as the Picayun
has been denouncing in witherin
terms, Democratic President is to b
enthroned in power in Washington Oh
week from to-day.
The farcical character of the mo
called an election held last Novemb'
in the city of New Orleans was only e.
ceeded in fraud in several places in IL
country. For instance, in Iber
Parish 955 ring Democratic votes we
returned from Bayou Pigeon Precinc
which was only designated as votir
precinct tue day before the election
when in truth there was no such pr
cinct and not single vote was cast
returned. Another case is that
Loreauville precinct, from which 8
votes were returned when not a sing
vote was cast there From precin
No. /, town of Jeaneretta, where Il
Republi cans had ITO majority the
was no return at all. By such mea
the Bourbons, though fairly beate
were returned as elected.
The defeated candidates made al
davits of the frauds, and Judge Sht
burne issued an injunction, forbdGi
the promulgatl Of the returns fro
Iberia Parish until the further order
the court, but no attention was paid
the injunction. The Picayune,
whom we have already referred, a
whose Democracy is not doubted,
this to say in referring to the frauds
iberia p irish
Bayou Pigeon, a svampy, unsettled sect
or Country, was thought Of, and box c.
tainin9 95S straight unRdulterated ~
votes was brought into the Clerks OH
from Bayou Pigeon, pla,e unknown To
oldest inhabitant Of teriaParsn as a voti
precinct, castlrg more VI ties al this elect
than bO.h New IBERIA and ] anere tie, b
ing Fopul ton 81 some 5,GlO people I
news 0 this discovery and increase Of pc
lation m the bayou Pigeon country, WI
was known 10 be Gveru de +, from alb
twenty persons 20 t1vo SIX th0usa d.
startling while bayou ,geOn elected
parish officers IL found that IL did
give en- ugn votes TO elect Ca'es, So
Bsrnar !, the ret rcing officer, d discovered
soma means that during he election
Ieanerette Mr.. Ernest D-uillrit, a gen
man in 'very RESI- eet, n Il a row near
polling booth, and thereby, in the III
nent Of Mr.. Bar ard, annu ! 4 the elect
He makes atrdavit Of this ALLEGED fact,
tn Ows out the return from he .Jeaner,
poll. which gave t0ntelteu a large major
refuses to compile and pramU laate It tn er
liking the prima iacie status uf Las uLc e
partner as Judge Of tie &Xlst judicial
trict. No aulJ was found ty h Secret
of State or the q vernon concerning the
legal acts If barnard He was MT sent
and requested 70 change his II eyal retu
lie was n tOld that he had no + gbt "
ever to discard the returns OF the JFaner
poll, yet all the facts Of the fraud y
brought cttcaly to the notice of the {
e-n0r and Sc Rotary Of state by petition
fnlun ion before his return was pronu Vi
by the - cretAry OF State,
Another and similar case to that
IBERIA parish was found in the
Judicial Distri 1t. Judge Wade Ha
ton Hough, forty-four years resi(
of the stare, Confederate soldier,
has been State Senator, District Al
ney, member of the constitutional
vention, and had been reelected Jr
for sixteen years without opposi
from any party, was again the Repr
can candidate for reelection last y
But this time the Democrats, carr,
out their ring tactics, put up a ca
date against the Judge, although
was supported by many Democrats