The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-31
THE STATE ELECTIONS.
4 VICTORY IN ocoNEE And An
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Oconee.
Oconee.
Our correspondent, Hope, writing from Wal

OCOuccs
Our correspondent, Hope, writing from Wal
hal!a on the 27th says;
The commissioners of Elections finished count
ing votes to-day, and send yon, enclosed, q; eUr
rect statement, which viii show that the enIlIe
Reform ticket was elected. The Radical party
strained every nerve and more too, but they can
come it this time. The Blue Ridge Rallfoad causea
f. X Scott to get few more woes .nau ns .sn
wise would have got. 1t was said that Scott was
q railroad man, and that Carpenter was opposed 20
them but if the Blue Ridge Railroad IS ever nuiis
it viii be more than good many OF US eApect.
A lot of colored people were imported Iron
Dicks Creek Tunnel, Georgia, some who had never me-
seen South Carolina before nor oehnd elInet !Me!r
votes were challenged here, but no douet tney
votad at some other precinct 1t was convenient
for apy,sne to vote ut five boxes, nancy. "Hel,
stone. funnell Hll, Walhalla, West Union and
MUDDY Springs votes were challenged at one
place they could 60 to another. Not alone coorea'
out whites repeated. One white man Is kno% q.
and, sorry to say, he Is an lrishman, veteu al
Tunnel Hill and here. Boys, not OF age, are
said 10 have voted. Buying votes was TO ne
heard OF too. One white man got free ticSeg ior
himself and family to vote the 9sa;ca ticSet,
1.-THE buzzard ticket, as it Is called mere Inc
scoundrel is now in your city. He left the night
OF the election, forgetting 10 pay MS rent anu
few other bills. so repeating. Illegal votes, ouy-
ing votes, and the Blue Ridge Railroad thrown 10,
our county. Those independent candidates weak.
ened theeReform party somewhat, each eettlng
more OF less votes. James L. Orr got Two Votes
for Lieusenant.Goyer the Ksdica @ parsy
The Radicals have entered protest against Two
boxes, Bachelors Rretreat and Centre, and !
hear to-day they will protest TWO more; Snoulo
the State canyassers or "any other man" set those
boxes aside, then they viii only gain one county
commissioner. How Is 1t that the Radicals can
find excuse enough to enter protests and suner
those who voted more than once to go scott ffee,
and so ,.'bobbing aroundn the country sup
;,h boz fhavv
4'reliable gentleman" was with us to-day. He re-
ports that Scott has left the State, and that Niles
G. Parker. twhom we all in this county know,l
had been found absent without leave, or rather
taken French leave.
The bird on the Radical ticket peeped through,
so We could see who had one He told on several
Some few voted homemade ticket, written
GovernoraR Carpenter goo; r. n tier SGoI! Ssi oz.
A. ]. Ransier 57a Congress-. G. McklsslcE
tRef) 966. A. S. Wallace lRad.l 5e2. congress at
largeJ. P. M.Epping tRad.) 5e2, Wimoush lRad; }
L. Shan kin S72. Radical: G. ". waterman go,
A. Boyce. Jr., 6ai- Probate judges. ?. Dendy
(Ref.) s96, ]. B. Sanders tRad.l 5sl. School Com
@issi9ner. F: Smith tEefl SIS J. 3 PpcSs5t Sss
A. Bryce. Sr,. (Rad.l 57s. County COMMISSIONERS
Reform: j. Y Jones 623, A. Lay SS1, L. Morehead
s62 Radical: r. Hunt GIL, n. Frasicr 533. W.
.Gallas 44.
20 Clarendon.
j Our correspondent Franz writes from Manning
on the 2S.h:
Clarendon has given Radical majority, the
exact figures no bein2 aScertalned yet, but sup
posed to be at least fre hundred. The entire list
or Republican county Officers Is undoubtedly
elected. Mr.. william ]. Clark for sheriff, William
r Burgess for Judge Of probate, aud &. E. Dickson
for senator, were voted for By both parties Nr.
Clark does not belong TO the Republican Party
and Messrs Burgess and Dickson are Conserva.
tives, and are the present incunbents OF tne
Offices. The names are as follows on the Radical
ticket: For senator, 6. E. Dickson; for represe n.
1atives. Syfax Milton, Jared Marley; for Judge CT
probate, ". z. Burgess. Sr.; for school commits
sioner, Louis A. Benbow; for county commission.
ers Peter j. Lemorf>T Titus Malett, Gadsden Tarle.
ton; for sheriff. W. J. Clark.
Anderson.
The ofacial return from Anderson is as FOL.
lows:
carpenter. 1865; Scott. 1475; Butter, 1882; Ran.
sier. 145I. Senator, John Wilson, Independent.
Repres- -ntatiyes, Perry and Wilkes, independent
and Or. John Wilson, Reform. =.
A Cheat in Orangeburg.
In the official count Q. The election at orange
burg, OF the number OF votes polled at Eastefiln
Mill, on the 10th instant, published ID Iuesoay,s
DAILY NEWS. the figures stand thus: CaIpenteo
so; Butler. a; Bacon, so; Scott 1856; Aanser, lso
As acting clerk at the above precinct on the day
OF election, will state emphatically and Withou'
reseff9tiop that the above figures are incorrect,
both as,tO the total number Of votes polled anu
as to the number received BY the respective can
didates.
The list kept by myself, and which is correct,