Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-02-18
The Late Election.

lNoAJ - AOOS,
"R. r. Butler, Horace May
nard, William B. Stokes, William
F. Prosser, Samuel NJ. Arnell, and
Isaac R. Hawkins, are respective
ly elected from the First, Second,
Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh
Districts, as members Of the Forty
first Congress, by a majority ran
ging at from two to ten thousand,
rs also was John B. Rogers for the
State at large; and there exists
no controversy in regard to the
election of these gentlemen. l
have this day caused certificates
to be made out, in due form, for
each of the gentlemen above
named.
"Whereas, in the Fourth and
Eighth Districts contests exist be-
tween rival candidates. = IS 8
"From the returns in the Office
of the Secretary of State, it seems
that, in the Fourth District, Sheafe
received 666 votes more than Till
man, but, correcting the returns
by the law governing in such cases,
by throwing out the vote of Lin
coin county, as the election was
held by order Of the County Court,
and the returns were made by the
Coroner-the law requiring cleo
tons to be held and returns to be
made by the Commissioner of Reg
istration and by throwing out the
the vote in the civil Districts of the
counties of Coffee and Marshall, in
which it appears that the Judges
of election had not taken the ne
.cessary oath, the vote fQSthat Dis
trict would stand as follows For
Sheafe 1868, and for Tillman, 81
1916; leaving Tillman's majority
432. I, therefore, award the GER
tifcate to Lewis Tillman."
The Governor says there is a
contest between rival candidates
in this, the fourth, district. This
is news in the fourth district
We have never heard that Lewis
Tillman contested the election of
C. A. Sheafe. By throwing out
the entire vote of Lincoln county
because the election was held by
order of the County Court and the
returns made by the coroner, and
throwing out votes from certain
civil districts in the counties of |
Coffee and Marshall, the Governor
;senabled to annihilate Sheafe'sma-
jority of 666, as appears from the
returns in the office of the Secreta-
ry of the State, and foot up ma
jority of 432 for his Radical friend
Tillman, and therefore he awards
the certificate of election to Lewis
Tillman.
We do not understand that the
returns of the thrown out districts
in Coffee and Marshall, are accom-
panied with certificates that the
"required oah' was not admins
terd to the judgesin those districts;
but upon the returns it is certified
that the election was held accord
ina to lasC, which is evidence that
the oath was taken, and which is
regular, and all that can be legal
ly required, in the absence, OF
proof to the contrary.
But our business is more partic-
uIarly with regard to the throwing
out of the vote of Lincoln county.
Tn each of the franchise laws
passed by the Legislature IN the
wear 1866, &c, and 81, it is clear
iy and expressly provided that eV-
ery person who voted at either
&c the three elections held in Ten
nessee should be registered and re-
ce;ve q certificate emitting such
nerson to exercise the right OF sui
frage. and the pOll-boOks should be
conclusive as to the right OF the
nerson to a certificate, to-wit'-I
The Presidential election in No
vember, 1864, the election for the
ratification of the constitutional a.
mendment, February %, 1863,
and the election for Governor and
members Of the General Assembly,