The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-03-06
HOW NEW ORLEANS
MANIPULATED VOTE
The Times-Democrat Rebukes
the Methods Of Ward
Bosses.

NC iCtutnc '" ehS aSS>H
primary indicate that Lambre
mont has, on the face of the
returns, an apparent majority
of about 1000 over Bailey fol
Lieutenant Governor. Fort-fivt
of the fifty-eight country parishes
of the State went for Bailey ant
only thirteen against him, eight OF
them being practically suburban
parishes to New Orleans. Not 8
parish north of Red river, moi
one in Northern, Western OF
Eastern Louisiana, in the Fourth
or Fifth Congressional Districts
only one in the Seventh District
and three in the Sixth went fol
Lambremont, and these by
slender majorities.
1t was distinctly a sectional
victory, a triumph of the city
bosses and their methods over
the parishes. Mr.. Bailey carried
forty-tive parishes and came
down to the jefferson line with
between $4,000 and $4,000 ma
jority. The bosses had evidently
expected this and were ready fol-
it with 1912 majority in the
city. They counted close and,
with their power of evolving
majorities, they turned out just
enough majority to heat him ION
the face of the returns.
Mr.. Lambremont calls attention
to the fact that the city vote was
only az per cent of the first
primary. and finds nothing ''as.
tonishipg IN this" 1t is a pretty
liberia! vote, considering the fac,
that no local officers were tn bt
voted for except in few wards
And here we see the incredible
and absurd fact that there was Z
falling off where there were loca
contests aud an impossibly bis
vote where there were none. Ii
the Ninth Ward. where there wa
the hottest fight for pohtica
control, the vote fell off IL pei
cent from the first primary. Ii
the Seventh District (the Six
teenth and Seventeenth Wards)r
where there was an active fight
for Senator, a loss of IS per cenI
is reported, whereas in the Fourth
Ward, where there was nothing
at stake, no interest or enthusiasm
aroused, only l per cent of The
voters failed to go to the poll;
and cast their ballots for Lam.
Fremont. who received 387 more
votes than be got in the frs,
primary. Where there was
local contest and the election was
carefully watched and safeguard
ed by the two opposing factions
there was q decline in the votes
natural to q second primary
where there was no opposition
and, therefore. no Watching Of
scrutiny Of she ballots. the votes
ssbDo,ued" in y manner NOR
than suspicious.
IF the war,l aud precinct vnts
i analysed, Mr.. La,nbremont''
n Der cent loses any Significance
The wards aud precincts in whicl
there were opposition commits
sioners, in which some watch wa
kept ON the vote, where Mr.
Bailey got u fair show, return {
vote Ut from 50 to 70 per cent o.
the total cast in the Januar!
primary. and this is used to cove
up the Incredible and impossih.'
yots returned in some of th'
down town precincts that hold n
old record for crookedness. Th'
Fourth Ward cast for Lieuteuan
aovernof ?6.3 per cent of th'
vote Il cast for that Office in th'
flrst primary. In five of ih pre-
cincts the vote was in excess o
100 per cent. and in one il ran N
to 1905 per cent. In the Frs
Ward the vote reached 81 pc
cent, and went over 100 per cen
Il oome Of the precincts. In th