| Show FONTINELLE AUS FIGHT election bows rows in several louisiana parishes by western asad press to the geraid Ue He raid 1 NEW ORLEANS may alay 24 the republican state central committee today itol adopted opted the follow following ing resolved Resol jie solved led that this committee place the seal of condemnation upon the tile methods employed in some parishes in this state to defeat the will odthe of the people and defeat candidates duly and legally ea y elected notably in the ninth and twenty first judicial districts that a committee be appointed to collect evidence make a report of the same and give it euch publicity as in the their irjud judgment ment may seem proper 11 A resolution was also a adopted that it is the sense of the central committee that the republican members of the legislature use their best efforts to secure at the same time investigations of frauds of the comm committees ni in behalf of the democratic party at tb the late general elections NEW ORLEANS may 14 today to dartho day tho A adjutant general ordered a bati battalion alion of field artillery to hold themselves in readiness to move at a moments ts notice to the scene of trouble at new iberia the military however are not yet ordered to to move it is understood there is c considerable n sid erable excitement in new iberia growing out of checo theco the contest test for the Judgeship of the judicial district between oates claiming to have been elected over Fontinel leau the present incumbent this is one of the cases referred to in the resolutions adopted by the republican state central committee last week a senate committee considering the petition and memorial of gates reported impeaching Fontinel leau who is a republican gates after much delay and manipulations of votes was declared elected at the recent election As showing liow how this result wag was brought about auls aus friends claim that ono precinct known as bayon pigeon which at the date of the recent election was overflowed and the election officers made no provision for an election there as no voting had ever been done at that point the fifteen or twenty voters residing in that section having heretofore voted elsewhere atthe at the last election however they decided themselves to hold an election tio nand and returned nearly votes from that precinct for gates gatea thus electing him bim aus friends declare declare they will not allow gates to preside in th the e district and the state authorities have decided to seat gates by force if necessary NEW ORLEAN 24 the times timm democrat new iberia special says it seems the reports concerning the political eft situation in this and adjoining parishes are very much ex aggers abed so far there has been no disturbances turban tur bances cesi except a few weeks ago when a crowd of hoodlums composed of aus backers paraded the street firing cannon and pistols and making threats that they would spill th the last drop of their blood in seating Fontinel leau the past two weeks have been quiet but all sorts of rumors are afloat one is to the effect that Fontinel leau is organizing the negroes to defend him and help resist the seating of gates gats exciting rumors run b laigh agh tb the e past few days the cause of which is supposed to be the forming of a military company in st martins parish things are quiet as yet here an attempt yester yesterday dRy to burn the courthouse of st martins parish caused some commotion and a great deal of talk in both parishes the object in firing the courthouse is unknown little damage was casdone done rumors have greatly dam aged business new iberia country people are afraid to come to town they think a war is going on A liu adred men of the washington artillery start tomorrow to morrow with one field piece and small arm orders to report to judge gates of new now iberia communication with baton rouge is cut off tonight to night no par ticul tic ulars urs odthe of alie immediate cause of ordering the troops to bayon the impression is that they will be used for the purpose of overawing over awing opposition to gates installation |
