Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-11-23
THIS
ST. MARY'S BEACON
LEoxlnpTowx, ND.

THE SfTrATroN.-Since our last is-
sue. the Returning Board Of South Car
olina, every member Of which is of spot
ted character and q pronounced radical.
amajority Of whom are candidates for
office and consequently now sitting as
judges in their own cases. has counted
the vote actually cast on the electo-
raj ticket in that State and announce
that the Hayes electors have won by
an average majority of 600. It's open
~ charged that this majority has been
obtained by the County Canvassers-
al Notwithstanding the returns Of
The precinct judges. II is in evidence
sf1east that the Returning Board disal-
lowed Senator Cordon's request to be
permitted TO compare the returns Of the
County Canvassers with those of the
precinct judges before there was any
opportunity of changing the figures Of
the latter. The Board preferred to put
Gordon off from Saturday to Monday,
the returns in question in .he meantime
remaining in their exclusive possession.
in an article, elsewhere published, re-
Ference is made TO this fair and natural
request Of Gordon AID the suspicious
refusal Of the Board to grant it. The
Gaze now goes back to the Court and If
na order can be obtained forcing the
Board to bring both the Canvassers and
Precinct Judges returns before it, the
democrats pledge themselves to show
either that the latter have been tempered
with or they will establish that Tilden
has carried the State. We are not pre-
pared to believe at this writing that the
Count will refuse such an order and we
feel confident, if it is granted, that the
electoral vote OF South Carolina, albeitthe
late count Of the Returning Board, will
be cast for the Democratic presidential
candidate. 1t is admitted by the radi-
Gals themselves that the Democrats
have carried their State ticket by a
handsome majority, securing a small
majority on joint ballot in the Legisla-
tare and electing two members Of Con-
gress. Thus, whatever the presidential
result in South Carolina, the rule OF
TIE thief and carpet-bagger has been
broken, and honesty, law, order and de-
cency are once more let in. upon State
long made waste and desolate by gov
eminent of rspine.
In Florida, the Returning Board is
not yet gone to work and it is now cur
rently reported and believed that there
Will be little or no work for it do, the
Governor of the State having concluded
Co take the canvass Of the electoral vote
"ut of It's hands aud DO the work himself.
This. of course. is without color or au-
shorty of law, but they are doing things
at present with high hand in the
doubtful States" This farcical &C
ton fthe Governor is supposed to be
rredicated upon the idea that as one
"t the Returning Board is a democrat
and the other two members have never
been IN the penItentiarv, il might be
hazardous to trust them with the bust
hess Of counting in the State for Hayes.
The democrats have succeeded, bv rad
zeal showing, IN carrying their State
ticket, and 80, whatever the presiden-
tial count. the thieves and carpet-bas-
gers are brought to the same grief here
a. IN South Carolina.
The Louisiana Board has held its first
meeting. The law OF its organization
requires, We believe, that both parties
,hall be represented on the Board
There Is now vacancy on the Board
and there is a, prcscn. no democrat con-
nccted with it. Two propositions were
made by the democratic counsel, first.
that the proceedings ofthe Board should
bc had in public and that the vacancy
on il should be filed before proceeding
to business. Both propositions were
voted down. The undisputed parishes
IN alphabetical order are first to be ia
ken up. Only three thus far have been
Observation-Disclosures, Assumption
and Avoyelles. In all these, the same
vote was shown as in the tables of the
duplicate poll lists. With the parishes
named, the Board ended its labors for
the present. In the meanwhile. the
ugly democratic majority of seven thou
sand and some hundreds still stand like
n stoEe-wall and the democrats are as
confident as ever that though i, NAV be-
reduced by fraud. it canno, be overcome
except by an outrage 80 naked that the
ho!dcst villiany must shrink from at
tempting it. Here also the State Tick.
II of the democrats is admitted to be
elected. and here also, rs in South
Carolina and Florida. whatever the
presidential result. such unclean birds
OF passage as Yarmouth, Packard.
Kellogg, Casey s CO., have been served
with final notice TO quit.
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