The Daily Argus

The Pirkston Story.
On Tuesday the Republicans produced a negro woman before the Louisiana returning board who had been shamefully abused by somebody, and claimed that her husband and child had been killed, and that it was because he was a Republican. They refused to permit her to be cross-questioned, or to go to another room with one member of the board and Gov. Palmer and others and cross-examine her. The woman claimed to be from the parish of Ouachita, which is in the north part of the state, near Arkansas. The affair is said to have occurred previous to the election, yet the public never heard of it until last Tuesday-a month after it is said to have occurred! The fact that the Republicans, through the local and federal officers and the federal army, have never done anything to arrest the murderers this woman accuses, and that they were so reluctant to have her examined, looks as though the whole truth had not been made known. It is believed that the affair, whatever there may be of it, was only a row among negroes.