there is
no use talking, I advise you to stand from under. When these men
get in here we can't control them. We like you well enough and
would not like to see you hurt. I will see you to-night at Mr.
Holmes." We had an interview with Mr. Holmes and made this
proposition, and Holmes asked me this question: "Murrell, you
know damned well the niggers in this parish won't vote the
Democratic ticket--there is no use to tell me you will give us
the clerk of the court, you know the niggers won't do it. You
can't trust the niggers in politics; all your eloquence and all
the speeches you can make won't make these niggers vote this
ticket or what you suggest, even if we was to accept it. _No, by
God, we are going to carry it._ Why," said he, "_there is more
eloquence in double-barreled shot-guns to convince niggers than
there is in forty Ciceros_." I said to him, "Well, do you suppose
the merchants and planters will back you up," and he said, "O, by
God, they have got nothing to do with it. We have charge of it.
_We three men, the Democratic committee, have full power to
work._"

The result of this "work" was, as stated by the witness, and not
disputed by any one before the committee, that in this parish,
containing 2,700 registered Republican voters, and only 238
Democrats, the Democrats returned a majority of 2,300. The
witness, who was a candidate on the Republican ticket, swears
that not more than 360 votes were cast. Democratic shot-gun
eloquence did its "work," as prophesied by Mr. Askew, ex-chairman
of the Democratic committee, but it also served as a wonderful
stimulus to migration from Madison Parish.

We cite this case for two reasons: First, because it has been
said that the Negroes have not emigrated from bulldozed parishes;
and, secondly, because it serves as an illustration of the many
similar cases which were given to the committee.

We desire also to invite attention to the evidence of Henry
Adams, a colored witness from Shreveport, La. Adams is a man of
very remarkable energy and native ability. Scores of witnesses
were summoned by the majority of the committee from Shreveport
but none of them ventured to question his integrity or
truthfulness. Though a common laborer, he has devoted much of his
time in traveling through L