, 1876-12-16

lG, lS7G-IWELVE PAGl
night, after nearly months nbseucc At Nav
Orleans anI 1alIaliaasec, whittier he went 10 eoo
fair count. In the course u Il brief intery'ew
experience. liz said Of ono thug 10 wss ccr-
tain, thst Florida was as fnrly ntid l'onornhty
Menullic'n at the lnst election 2. ohin mn af'i
Vermont. Said 10: "Ihere wa: almost nn one
tcrcat%, ni,,l when founl that there was no
nectl fur nc At New Orleans Twas rn!nlng honlt,
when was asked to goto Florida. l got kns"
sso 0t sw fT M.Ste a S a lnl' % 10 t @ e ne
Wc found we ha'!, with tho other gentlemen
frnm tho North, almost the whole cn!so 70 At
tend TO. There are no Republican lawyers ~
and gavo cacl, onc certain countlcsto look after
nntl tllen wo began to co1lecs testimony. It wns
not case like Louisiana; there was no h,illdtz-
ing: It was WORSE Kind, II possis,1c,-a tarpcr-
Or grossly Irregular .n.l Illegal voting. In one
t..sc a tra!n.ioad Ut people voled at
stntioIl, nnd tho excuse niIc!od by :. the
tat they sappSS,sa te q
had n right 10 vote anywhere lt the State. THO
tasx Of gathering pr,0f WIS n difficult one. We
were obliged to send messengers. Ono sc1't 70
ss "ss C. Sony sv at pss sts'E s On ~ f M n
Coinnltccc, Or tn inflow n Democrat to aeon.
pany hin, and, know everything Ne did OF, sald.
liz went buck. Another f0und II fmpossibleto to
ni i' eaa,c t'' back tiat @ VI way. An attempt was
n,a.lc to aasassinato another at Livd Oak: We
wero quttc Aucccssfuf nevertheless lilo Uenso~
crats fllctl 100 at1tdaYta on Saturday, Dgc. Z IN
rcfcrcnco to ono contestei c',,,nty; Wy had
ltttio Zinc to prcpnrc counter aflidavts. but wo
rot train, sent It out, brought IN la) voters,
and by Monday VIC fled TO counter nfl!1avtts,
sfowtng the tr!'tl. Of tl.o nattcr. . , 49,, ..,.,
cd7''
"Cocic, tho Denocinttc member, agreed with
the othcr 'Mcmbcra 10 the throwing ont OF
After lie llaii tlono IT, tho Democratic Commit
tco. made sne'i q noise alnut y TINT no sane
burk and warfctFto reconsider the actfun III r.
! gard to Munroc Conrty, bit It was too iatc,
Bbartl, but neither lie nor any ono else imputed
any Improper motive tn tue l}oarl. 1 bulluyo
they are ali, including Cockc, upright, honorable
men, who could not 6t lntll,cci To do anything
wrong. Thure WIS no charge Of corruption cx-
cccpt In orc case, and that was completely re-
"And, by the way, tho funniest CASE we had
waa that ono M Archer ftcesnct, N Alacnna
raisetl tho Republican vote 2l9 Ihe rcturlls
came in signed b Moore, Dukes, and Black, In
spcctors, mud V.nro, clerk, fl regular form,
giving the RepuhlIcasis Sr9 md thu: Dentocra:s
BY MOORE md Dukes tl!at the rct,lrn was ialso
! t6 the uxtent of aio Republican yotcs. Then
the Republican Conntter, produced aitldavits
from these men saying tsicir former a1ltayits
| tho Democrats put them on tho sthnd. Moore
| awnrc l'n never sworo to tho scanll nf!ida7tt,
but signed IT,, anil got $loo for t, and know
| what It was to ho used for. Dukes swurc
| lie never signed tho A!isaayit. but that
( Wa1ls offered him 82o5 to sign It. Then VIC put
Walls on the stand, aud he swurr he ngver
offered Dukes dollnr, aEl1 VIC found by unotlser
kai been rcad to HIN. Finally wo thought tho
nfter The justice uf tho Peace who adsnt1,-
| ssterr,a tl,u cath, Bc1ton. They kept lin undcr
guard 80 rs to not allow him to find ont wlnt llo
would swear To. They put him on the stand,
and lle swors that Dnkes aM s'cedr q ne affidavit,
md TINT he knew It's contents wel'. This WAS n
tried to tnpcuch him, but lle Showed perfectly
| clear record. llosflcs tlInt, wn Ind positive
proof showing that only oiz ballots were count
ell iii that prccngt while we had tlln a!lf1arts
of more titan that number Of Republicans who
hll cast their ballots. 1t waa II perfectly clear
| casc.n
"llow ,rcro you treated by tho people OF
| F2orIi'Ai"
avs were not treated at ALL We were very
busy, but VIC were not troubled with invitations
to ilnc. On tho other hand, our Democratic
hsutllrun from the North wero shown many
| plyil1tIcs. We were almost without news.
| Everything was unreliable TINT catiic BY tclc-
graph, aud Wo could gut no papers ut1der q
wcek. The Democrats kept Telling liz tint
riltlcn. 1yo could only answer TINT therefore
they ought not to object to letting Hayes have
Fhirila+ I have, rs sad before, not tho
slightest 1rsituncy IN Baylt.R that Florida ts as
truly and honestly Hayes State III this election
as Ohio or Vermont"