The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-12-05
FLORIDA.
Msuten Marble Tells n story Of out
rage.
A DARK PAGE,

Atacnua IrduuS aTc nencefOrtH ujfk
page In the country's history. The pro-
cecdings yesterday before the Florida
board of state canvassers will stand as a
black blot on even that dark page. They
signlfied that the northern Republicans
who came here protesting 10 desire and
TO be witnesses Of fair count had chosen
20 shoulder aud TO share the RESPONSE
bility Of their carpet-bag allies for the
frauds. ballot-box stufiing, and periures
which have been contrived to falsily and
defeat the choice of The people OF Florida.
The testimony adduced on Wednesday
morning by the Democratic managers
was conclusive that 22l fraudulent votes
had been added To the majority for the
Republican electors IN Archer precinct
No. 2, OF Alachua county. Three intelli-
gent and unimpeachcd witnesses,
MN OF GOOD CHARACTER
And long residence in Alachua county,
gave p brief and truthful history of the
9Th of November at that polling-place.
One OF them testified that at the request
OF the inspectors he had helped count the
ballots, and had hear.l and noted the de-
clared and true result OF that count. An
other testified that non-residents, I'm
known, and dead mems names crowded
the poll-llst afterward made up aud filed.
Another. q merchant OF Archer for eleven
years, had taken down in writing the
name OF every voter all but three or four
being
PERSONALLY KNOWN TO HIM.
As he cast his vote from the opening to
the closing of the polls. vgilant thing
not elsewhere done that DAY. presume,
In all the United States. He produced
this private tally-list. The false poll-list
filed with the fraudulent certificate of the
returns betrayed its character in the COM
parison Jumped in page after the true
names were the dead mems names and
the invented names that went TO swell the
FRAUDULENT REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.
In the afternoon Ex-Gov. Noyes. of
Ohio, read a long statement prepared Tor
northern consumption, contradcting by
wholesale tine detailed and accurate testi-
mOny of the three Witne sses. lie filed q
batch OF affidayits purportiug. unless
closely scanned, to support that whole
sale contradiction. Several of these atfi-
davits were IN one and the same hand
writing, including the hundreds Of sig
natures thereto made with the marks Of
cross which. perhaps, is all that should
be expected from the pens OF dead men.
Only six men signed their names in a
different hand ont of 22s aiiidayits. Many
names of the signers by the cross were
duplicated. The manufacture was OBJ
vious, not skillful. The whole docu.
ment read by Ex-Goy. Noyes
BORE FRAUD on IT'S FACE.
1t was not plausible. 1t is difficult to
conceive that an honest man Of any in
telligence should not have perceived the
character Of the evidence it adduced, but
W. F.. Chandler introduced Gov. Moves
10 the board. and Gen. Barlow sat silent
while he read the Introduction of this
statement, and these afiidavits by north
ern Republican managers was thing
no; to have been believed beforehand.
1t was an insult to justice and shocking
to common honesty, but the miscreants
who rule and riot here upon the plumber
OF PROSTATE people could not them
selves have introduced and supported
THE EGREGRIous FRAUD
With a more shameless front Of brass
than did this ex. governor OF Ohio, whose
relations are so close with Gov. Hayes.
But their exposure was swift. Gov
Noyes succeeded no better than In the in
dexIng OF accounts by which the treasury
Of the state of Ohio once suffered. The
statement which he read chiefly rested
upon the alleged afiidavits OF Green
Moore, a white man, and Floyd Dukes,
black man. inspectors at Archer pre-
cinct. in its bolstering Of the fraudulent
addition of more than 200 votes to the
majority OF Hayes electors. Yesterday
appeared Green Moore and Floyd Dukes
and underwent cross-examination by the
board. Their testimony In every parilcu,
La
cokRoBORATED AND MAS coRRoBoRATED
by the testimony OF the three unim-
peahced witnesses, Fleming, Tucker,
Fitch, Of the day before. II was proved
that their names ana marks subscribed 10
the Soyes sffidayits We're forgeries. 1,
A was proved that they had counted the
800 and odd votes actually cast, aud tina
no more were cast. IL was proved thai
they counted the ballots, locked the box
and proclaimed the true result. Il was
proved that they had afterw ards been ap.
preached and
OFFERED BRIBEs
by Republican officials TO help them fall.
silly the tru6 returns. Now for a correct
apprehension OF the Alachua frauds thus
exposed and Of the others that remain Ia
he exposed, IL Is always to be remem.
bered that the whole election ma
chinery OF the state in every precinct is
In the absolute coatrol Of the Republi.
can party. and Is directed by the crea.
lures and the appointees OF Gov. stearns,
who was himself candidate for re-elec
ton. Frauds IN spite Of and against the
partisan ieanings OF Republican election
officers are therefore not TO be pre-.
sumesl, but fraud with their conniyapcs