The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-11
Of Louisiana Meets to Count the
Votes Cast at
THE LAST ELECTION.
Gigantic Frauds Are Charged
on Both Sides.
Both Factions Want to Disfran-
chise the Negro.

the Repu blican-POpulist com blnarlOn
in this state, which grew out of the re-
cent election. in which both factions
claim victory. is growing in intensity
day by day, and may result in a clash
at any time.
The Democratic state central com
mittee has issued a lengthy address to
the white Democracy" which starts
out as follows:
"A grave crisis confronts US, the
gravest that has befallen this state
since the midnight order Of 1872, where
BY a Democratic victory was turned
into a. Democratic overthrow.
THE adoption of the fifteenth amend
ment precipitated an irrepressiDle con
hict in every southern state where slav-
cry once existed.
Men In mass are governed by social
forces and race instincts stronger than
all the formulas of law. and where
those legal forces are imposed by ex-
/ terror force, and are not the natural
growth and embodiment of those social
/ forces and race instincts, they cannot
execute themselves, and can only be
/ executed with great heat and friction
/ by the exterior force which imposed
them.
THE fifteenth amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States was inn
I posed on the southern people by eN-
I terror force, and by exterior force only
Z can il be executed, as long as their so
! cial traditions and race instincts re-
But the era of force has been tried
/ and failed Through carpetbag gov
/ eminent and scalawag detection,
] through the plumber of reconstruction.
] backed by fixed bayonets and pointed
] cannOns our people have remained firm
/ and mistaken in their proud resolve
that this land shall not be a Hayti or
I a San Domingo.
Both history and the laws of social
I science demonstrate that no two races
as widely divergent as the Caucasian
! fracr faf 1rrar~ in
! litical and social equality without com
! plete amalgamatiOn of the two. or com
! plete domination Of one by the other.
! or the three alternatives, amiga
/ nation, negro domination or white SUI
/ premacy, the Democratic masses of the
/ south have chosen the latter. and it
[ they viii maintain with all their might
/ and main. personal and material social
/ and political
After reciting the history of the cam
I paign and the election from a Demo-
4 cratic standpoint, the address concludes
| as follows.
The Democracy is pledged to a lin
( itation upon suffrage which will elm
( mate the Senegambian from politics as
J far as he may be under the constitution
! of the United States. Mississippi and
} South Carolina have set us the exam
/ pie futile attempt was made to
adopt such an amendment at the last
election 1t failed through local jeal-
ousies and local scramble for Office
The Republicans and POpulists i'm
medlately got together and issued a re-
ply, the principal feature of which is a
recital of the history Of the campaign
q from their standpoint. Following is a
part of this address.
1.-THE strongest and much the largest
/ support received by this ticket came
from parishes where the white peODIe
/ preponderate, and where they abso-
| lutely control and dominate. The large
negro parishes. where the white DeoDIe
are in hopeless minority. with hardly
/ Single exception, were returned
against our ticket by enormous MAORI
In thirty-four parishes of the state
having 49, 1856 white voters. j. n. Pharr
secured 81, 666 votes These were par
ishes where the whites are largely in
the majority, and where they absolute
ly dominate and control Also where
our people We're able to coerce Eos
ter's officers to grant them representa-
ton at the polls on the day of election.
voted at all.
I'm twenty-five other parishes. where
the negroes have an immense majority.
and in which our ticket by the vav
was allowed no representation at any
one OF the polls on election day. IN
which the registration was padded and
in many of which the merest forms Of
elecLlOn We're gone through, Foster vet
returned for himself majority of ST.
sos votes.
Now. when it is shown. "a I'll +be
parish of East Carroll, that not over 200
votes were cast on the day of election.
and yet 2,62l We're returned. in CaddO
where not 500 votes were pOlled. that
yet s. 500 have been returned. in Bos-
sier, where not 500 votes were pOIled
that nearly . 600 have been returned:
in Concordia, where not 500 votes were
only White ward in the parish. that Vet
3,1OO were returned, in Iberville. where
less than 600 votes We're polled, that they
ol54 were returned; In RapideS, where
less than 800 votes were polled, and in
which we carried all of the white polls
that vet 7,f94 We're returned, and SO on
e 8 NaHaH aHanNran
where they refused to count three
boxes having over 800 votes. that yet
3l7 more votes We're returned than
/ there are males above the age of q
living in the parish, in Jefferson. where
+ over 600 more votes have been returned
than there are males above the age of
p living in the parish; in St. Bernard
Wnefe zuu more votes We're returned
/ than there males above the age of q
/ living in the parish; in AvOyelles where
the ballot boxes were stuffed with over
1000 votes, and so on throughout the
( black belt when, We say, these facts
Z are known to everybody ia the state as
having taken place, then for the state
ring committee TO alege that the in
stalment of the governor whom the
people have so OVerWhe luingly elected
Captain J. N Pharr-would result in
negro domination. is a charge so mon
strOus. so transparent and so weak
that the wonder is that any decent man
would dare to sign it. or be a party
This address closes in the following
words:
These men Will stand by their rights
and fight for them with as much cour-
age and determination as viii any ring
Democrat in the state. They can neither
bully nor browbeat nor intimidate our
people We viii have our rights.
1--WE appeal to constitutional author
ity. and invoke all the forms OF law,
and viii resort to force only as last
extremity, to defend cur rishts as free