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named this board, and in open violation of the law, selected five Republicans.
By law the sittings should be held in public, so that every word should be open and beyond suspicion.
By Kellogg's order, all the most serious business has been done in secret.
Longstreet retired from the board.
An easy-going Conservative was named in place of Longstreet; but on finding his colleagues bent on violating the law this easy-going Conservative protested and retired.
His resignation leaves the rump incapable of acting, since by law the board consists of five members.
But the rump cares nothing about legal forms.
Two thousand Federal soldiers occupy the posts and arsenals-why should they conform to law?
In Louisiana, the votes are counted many times.. The local ballots are first sent to the Supervisors of Registration, who count them up and forward them to the Commissioners of Elections.
They undergo three scrutinies, so to speak, before they reach the Returning Board.
When laid before these party experts the ballotting papers showed these broad results:
Seventy Conservative members.
Forty-one Republican members.
1875.
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