The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-02-03
THE BALLOT BOX.
TIE ARr OF CARRYING ELECTIONS.
The Mysteries Of ofvotsng-rhe .Leserder-
main of Polfticians-How % Count
Ballots-Omce-huntfn Made Easy.

probably be done to-day. Major N. P GCon.
nor, the able counsel for the defence. will then
introduce his array OF evidence on the part Of
the defendants, and "go to the jury" .
We resume our review Of the testimony
thus far taken. The district attorney addnced
evidence with reference to affairs at Gfayls
Hill precinct, and called Isaac Garrett (coioF.
ed,) one Of the managers. Witness testified
as to the condition Of the box when given
him; that It was apparently secure; that at the
close of the election the aperture IN the top OF
the box was covered with paper put on with
-four paste, and by Mr.. GlesreS delivered 10
the chairman of the board Of commissioners.
RI. Hamilton, cofored, testified that he
was present at the polls nearly all day. The
prevailing sentiment was in favor Of Mr..
Bowen. Mr.. Gleaves was present and saw in
witness hand q red Carpenter, Butler and
Bowen ticket; said ''surely you are not going
to vote that ticket ?' Witness replied, 'yes,
he would vote that before he would vote the
blue ticket of r. c. DeLarge and Robert
Small" Mr.. Gleaves was candidate for judge
] Of probate, and, finding that he could not get
votes on the DeLarge ticket, agreed TO scratch
out DeLarge's name and write c. G. Bowen, to
scratch out Robert Small's name and to write
George M..Wells, and to scratch Neheuias's
name and write Gabriel Haynes. Witness sat
by GleaVes's side during this operation and
kept tally OF the number of votes. he changed
and gave out which votes witness is confident
went into the ballot box, because the brother
of Haynes was present and followed voters to
the poll, and saw the same tickets deposited.
Witness produced his tally list. which
Colonel Catew, the foreman of the jury,
counted and reported to number l5o. During
the day the printed tickets were exhausted
and Mr.. Carleton wrote Others a Witness said
he:wished he was as sure of going to Heaven
as that the l50 votes he, bad recorded were in
the ballot box An Of them were for Bowen.
Thinks there were four hundred people on the
ground during the day. The tickets from the
Gray's Hillgpon being examined by witness,
.he recognized some which Mr.. Carleton had
written, but Gays he does net find any. OF the
tickets which-were changed. There were
plenty OF DeLarge tickets, utthey didn't show
the change that had been made.
The clerk of the co,lrt counted the tickets
and reported 352. ETne tally list Of the COM
mittee present at the COUNTING shows that l43
were voted for c. C. Bowen, 81 for c. Bowen
and 1873 for DeLerge.l
Mr.. S. D. Gilbert testified that he voted the
Reform ticket at the Gray's Hill poll, but
made two changes which no would recognize,
to wit: BY egasing the pane Of, George II.
Wells, and inserting that ..Wm. Elliott for
State senator, and erasing the name of Enech
NJ. Smith and inserting that OF VIM. Middle
ton for representative. Witness finds his
ticket and states that there have been no
H.--.i--- a,.aratjnns- Witness counted the poll
list carefully. and found 4o9 naHes: fHe ma
iorty voted for Mr.. Bowen beyond doubt
Saw l3 Reform tickets voted which ne can
swear to. There are nine'whlte voters at this
precinct Should say that Mr. Gieares did
not alter more that Is OF 20 votes that day.
Saw him strike out his. own name and insert
another at the request Of persons. Witness
was surprised at the announcement Of the re-
suit al this poll. Saw nothing wrong IN the
conduct Of Mr.. Gleaves.
WIN. Middleton, body-seryant of the preced-
ing witness, testified that bis ticket had been
prepared by his employer, and that he deposit
ed it in the box. 1t could not be found, how
ever, among the bailots.
The Hilton Head precinct was next taken
up. Peter seagrlf testified that, as there
were no regular Bowen tickets, owing to some
mishap, he himself sat at table near the
polls, and Inserted the name Of G. G. Bowen
In the place Of c. DeLarge $50 times, but
onls sswaears that he saw IS go into the box.
The remainder were given out, however, to
Mr.. Russell and others, who handed them to
voters. Major Delany was present at the
polls. He was an avowed DeLarge man.
Sylvester Russell corroborated the above tes-
timony. He saw from 1sO to 200 persons vote
for c. C. Bowen, and counted them. The
number who voted for -DeLarge might have
been II, more or less Nearly all were inqulr-
ing Tor the Bowen ticket. There are over 400
voters at Hilton Head. 1t was well known
that the DeLarge tickets had to be changed
for Bowen, because of the non-recelpt OF the
regular tickets. Two or three times witness
had to interfere in behalf of Major Delany,
against whom the colored people showed much
feeling, on account Of some cotton transaction
with them In which he had made way with
their cotton without giving the money toSit.
George Curtis, one Of the managers, testi-
fed In similar manner. Witness voted for
DeLarge, as did oil all the managers. The
whole number of voters was only 24O. He
stated after the election that Bowen had ne
ceived many morevotss than he twitness) ex-
pected.
Paris Bellinger stated that he had given out
seventy or eighty tickets for c. c. Bowen, and
believes that the majority Of the people voted
for him.
Mlngo Brown testiHel that he knew pretty
much every one at Hilton Head, being a
peace officer, and the majority were in favor
of C. C. Bowen. Delany was so unpopular
that, when the people found him there they
would not receive scarcely vote from him'at
Jail. Saw one man for DeLarge-giving out
tickets-a man named DR.. Wilder, but alter he
saw the Bowen men so strong he stopped.
The United States district-attorney here pro-
duced twenty to twenty-five Witnesses. who
testified that they voted for Mr.. Bowen, and
called the attention of the court to the fact