Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1878 — DOWN TO DATE. [ARTICLE]

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“ Special Cases’* Growing Out of th# Louisiana and Florida Elections 'Which President Hayes Has Provided For. [From the Washington Post.] Some time ago the Post published a list of the “ special cases” that had been brought to the attention of Mr. Hayes, and disposed of by him or his associates. This list was far from being complete, as it included only the most prominent of the ballot-box staffers, election-return forgers, and the thieves who had been rewarded for their peculiar services, but the following is what might be styled a ’ more ambitious effort. Doubtless it is yet far from being complete. Doubtless there are hundreds of petty criminals, such as manufacturers or forgers of affidavits, and manipulators of small election precincts, who have been shoved into out of-the-way places, of whom the nation is as yet oblivious, but the following enumeration will answer all practical purposes. Of course the man who is indebted to this worthy crowd for the office he holds has no object in lifting them from the mire into places of emolument, of trust, and of power. It was purely accidental, of course. To believe otherwise is to believe Mr. Hayes privy in some measure to the frauds of which he is the beneficiary, and that will never do. We publish the list, therefore, only for th’_ purpose of calling attention to tne wonderful coincidences which sometimes occur in politics.

J. Madison Wells, President of the Returning Board, Surveyor of the Port. Thomas C. Anderson, member of the Returning Board, Special Deputy Collector of Customs, New Orleans. Louis M. Kenner, member of the Returning Board, Deputy Navil Officer, New Orleans. Wm. Pitt Kellogg, Governor of the State, United States Senator by the influence of Hayes. Morris Markes, Hayes elector, Collector of Internal Revenue. Orlando Brewster, Hayes elector, Surveyor General. 8. B. Packard, radical candidate for Governor on same ticket with Hayes, Consul to Liverpool. Hugh J. Campbell, who appended forged jurats before the Returning Board, District Attorney for Dakota. Charles Hill, who carried the second electoral returns to Washington, storekeeper in the Custom House. H. Conquest Clarke, Kellogg’s private secretary, a place in the Interior Department.

George L. Smith, who fraudulently manipulated the returns of nine parishes, Collector of the Port of New Orleans. W. L. McMillan, who was instrumental in breaking up the Packard Legislature, Pension Agent. St. Felix Casanave, brother of the Returning Bearder, storekeeper in the New Orleans Custom House. W. H. Green, clerk of Returning Board, a place in the New Orleans Custom House. York Woodward, another clerk of the Returning Board, chief clerk in the Surveyor’s office. W. F. Loan, ex-Chief of Police, place in the revenue office, under Markes. F. A. Clover, Supervisor of Elections in East Baton Rouge, position in New Orleans Custom House. F. A. Le Sage, a striker in East Baton Rouge, position in Custom House. John Sherman, leader of the band of visiting statesmen, Secretary of the Treasury. E. W. Stoughton, visiting statesman, Minister to Russia. John A. Kasson, visiting statesman, Minister to Austria. A. B. Levissee, Hayes elector, special traveling agent Internal Revenue Department. L. J. Souer, who bribed the Packard Legislature to elect Kellogg Senator, appraiser of merchandise, New Orleans. A. S. Badger, Chief of Police, Postmaster at New Orleans. John M. .Harlan, member Louisiana Commission, Associate Justice Supreme Court. J. R. Hawley, member Louisiana Commission, offered Commissionership to Paris Exposition. L. Desmarius, cashier New Orleans Custom House. H. M. Twitchell, Consul at Kingston. A. B. Sloanaker, place in revenue office.

W. A. Heisland, supervisor of elections, clerkship in Custom House. Jack Wharton, United States Marshak James Lewis, appointed Naval Officer to conciliate Kenner. Benjamin Bloomfield, Tom Anderson’s crony, and member of the State ring, Auditor in New Orleans Custom House. C. S. Abel, Clerk of the Returning Board, clerk in New Orleans Custom House. Napoleon L. Lastrapes, and Paul Trevigne, strikers, positions in New Orleans Custom House. R. M. J. Kenner, brother of the Returning Boarder, place in the Custom House, New Orleans. Samuel Chapman, Henry Smith, and E. Lukeman, strikers, positions in Custom House. E. F. Noyes, visiting statesman, Minister to France. M. L. Stearns, Governor, Commis? sioner of Hot Springs. L. 0. Dennis, in Superintendent of Architects’ office. “Judge” Cessna, Postmaster. Clerk Black, in the treasury. Clerk Vance in the Postoffice Department. Clerk Howell, Collector of Customs. Bowles, of Leon, in the treasury. “Judge” Bell, Government Timber Agent. Elector Humphreys, Collector, Pensacola. Stearns’ secretary, in the treasury. Maxwell, Lieutenant in the army. Phelps, commissioner to Paris. Varnum, Receiver Land Office. Taylor, County Clerk, in Land Office.