The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-19

REPORT.
FLORIDA.
Designing Democrats.

Ototyftbty 0t"eStfttc-
New York. Nov 1S.-The Heraid's
Tallahassee special says the Democratic
state committee have addressed a conf
munication to the members of the
board of state requesting
them TO proceed at once to canvass the
returns so far az received. They set
forth the probability that the contest
will require some time for determine
tion, and quote the law requiring the
| issuance of certificates by the governor
on Dec. 9Th. Interviews with members
of the board indicate an apparent GER
tainty that the board will refuse to
commence the canvass as requested,
but will postpone it till it will be too
late for the Democrats to secure a full
hearing. This is putting them to look
ing into the authority under which the
board is acting, and it is quite proba-
BILE that proceedings will be COM
menced promptly to see If the board
cannot be forced to
ing, or whether it cannot be restrained
by injunction from exercising any
judicial functions.
Comptroller Cowgirl, al member of
the board, quoted the law to a reporter,
which says the board shall meet on the
thirty-fifth day after election, or sooner
if returns are all in. He said they
should be bound by that law, and
added that the returns are not all in.
Judge Cooke, another member of the
board, said they shonld accede to the
request of the committee, and gave his
opinion that the law admitted the right
to make a seriatim canvass of the re-
turns as they came in.
w. E. Chandler says it appears as if
ft,a xr~l,nIa xubftn t.on1sluffnn nf kl,rt1a
were a police board detective force, and
afidavit-workers for the Democrats,
while we have only a witness scattered
about here and there. Official returns
from four counties were received yes
terday. Walton shows q Democratic
loss of 27 from the committees esti-
mate, and Marion, a Republican loss of
10 from the same estimate. The others
agree exactly with what was claimed
bv the Republicans.
The Situation.
Tallahassee, Nov. 1S.-Both parties
still claim the state on the presidential
as well as gubernatorial ticket. Tue
Democratic committee have arranged
to have sworn duplicates of the official
returns made in each county and for
warded. They have received these
llOll al u htC 1Od4AtAI1r va a.
cratic. Their estimates, based on
these unofficial copies of the official re-
turns, give Drew and Tilden a clean
majority. The Republicans will fur
nish no figures, stating that they will
await the official returns. 1t is claimed
that Tilden will have a majority Of
some 800 or 400 on the returns as made
officially by the county canvassers, but
the Republicans claim that even ad-
hitting this they will be able by prov
ing frauds to overcome this prima facie
majority and establish the state for
Hayes. The fight before the state
board will be very bitter. Tie Demo-
Gratis, besides defending their majority
for Tilden, will attack the returns in
Jefferson and Leon counties, which are
Republican strorgholds. They claim
to have discovered glaring frauds in
Alachua, where the returns Of election
inspectors were raised 219 votes, and
their names forged to the new returns.
The board of state canvassers, this
morning. replied to the application of
the Democratic committee, declining
to commence the canvas at present,
Cooke, (Dem.) voting aye, and McLin
and Cowgirl (Rep.) voting nay. The
Republicans declined on the ground
that the law reads that on the 35th day
after election, Or sooner, if all returns
are in, the canvass of the vote shall
begin, and that as the time has not
yet expired, and all the returns are
not yet in, they cannot legally begin
the work. Steps will probably be taken
TO see if there is not in the Supreme
court some power to force the canvass
ers to begin the work.