The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-05-01
CLAIMED BY BOTH.
THERE MAY BE TROUBLE OVER
LOUISIANA'S ELECTION.
Democrats Claim to Have Carried
the state by Twenty to Twenty
Z Five Thousand, While tho Repub.
ID licans Say They Will Have SMALL
4 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Conventions
:, Held In Several states.

Mn5Orlty-ReDubltcnn Conventions
q Held In Several states.
New Orleans, April 24.-The latest
returns cause Foster Democrats to
claim that have carried the state by
from COCOON to oi.MW majority, al
though Pharr's managers in the city
clailn the state by a small majority.
The great Democratic loss from co.
100 in 1872 to a very small majority.
even IL they are not defeated In the
state. IL attributed largely to the or
gani.ntion of the national party by
the sugar planters. and the combina-
ticn entered into by all Republicans
and Populists. In 1892 the Democrats
pollcJ about 10000 more votes than
their opponents in this city, while in
yesterdays election their majority will
not exceed 1900 for governor. Con-
gresham Buck, who was the regular
Democratic candidate for mayor takes
that it was the strong sentiment
against the I'D city ring that CARVED
the day for the Citizens League.
II has now leakci out that Capt.
Pharr's campaign committee employed
$50 Pinkerton men who were scattered
throughout the state with the view of
detecting election frauds. The impress
sion now il that q good many ballot
box suffers will find themselves in
trouble. The Democrats are much ex-
cited over the discovery.
The Item bulletin board contains the
following:
''Pharr has been elected governor.
The Item will prove this fact by the
evidence Of go pinkcrton detectives
present yesterday Mt the polls where
fraud was carried out.
''Berwick. La, April 23.-I have been
elected governor by the votes that
were put in the ballot boxes. aud will
be inaugulated on the second Tuesday
in May. J. l.. Pharr.'
The report that several negroes were
killed to-day is untrue.
Connecticut Republicans.
New Haven, Conn.,. April 24.--The
Rcpublican state convention met to-
day. The platform opens with dec
laraticn in favor of protective tariff,
and the reciprocity plan advocated by
the late James G. Blaine. Upon the
currency question, the convention
says:
I'VE are inalterably opposed to the
issue of unsecured paper currency,
either by the government or the
banks: the free coinage Of silver ut
any ratio, and favor Il single standard
of value. and that standard gold. We
believe that this policy, with sound
and stable currency upon a gold
basis. will furnish sufficient revenue
to meet all requirements of the gov
eminent and properly support it."
Neither Reed nor Mckinley were
mentioned in the convention. Among
the delegation, however. there was
considerable enthusiasm for these two
aspirants for the presidential nomina-
ton. No other candidates seemed to
be thought of.
Maryland Republicans.
Baltimore, April 24-United States
Senator-elect George l.. Wellington,
as chairman of the state central COM
mittee. called the Maryland State con.
vention to order. Gov. Lowndes and
most of the state officials were pres
ent. but Mayor Hooper of Baltimore
was absent. The proportion of col.
ored delegates was small.
The platform declared for a pro,
tective tariff and reciprocity. Follow.
ing is the currency plank:
upon which to base our circulating
medium, and are opposed to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver until
an international agreement of the i'm
pOrtant commercial countries of the
world shall give silver larger use.''
No instructions are given to the del
egates to the Republican national con-
vention, but the names of Mckinley
and Reed were cheered.
Tennessee Republicans
Nashville, Tenn. April o4.-The Re-
publican state convention met to-day.
The resolutions instruct for Mckinley,
endorse Hon. III. Clay Evans for vice
president; protest against free silver;
endorse the Tennessee centennial ex-
position, and condemn the guberna-
torial steal IN Tennessee in 1894. The
financial plank is as follows:
I'VE arc unalterably opposed to any
scheme that will give this country 4
deprecated and debased currency. We
favor the use of silver as currency,
but to the extent only that it's parity
with gold will be maintained, and in
consequence, are opposed to a free
and unlimited coinage of silver mt a
ratio of 16 to 1. We believe that every
American dollar should he an honest
100 cents dollar, always and every
where"
Hon. H. Clay Evans. Col. j. Sanford.
Hon. James ]. Jeffreys ana Hon. Ern-
est Caldwell were elected delegates to
the national convention.