The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-01-18
"A Detailed Statement of tie FLORIDA
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WAslHIN0TI-ol,y .Tau = law

It is o plain story, easily unders.ood;
ayd Y y thought here that, before tha
Republicans claim Florida for Mr.
Hayes, they ought 70 chow this tale TO be
ffliis5e. issGi 1:aR Sa; F1siE . q ~ ,sfs}s
Florida has & thirty -nino couHties.
When the Returning Beard met they be.
gan by on attempt to ascertain how the
vote stood on the face of the returns.
But they met at once with difficulty, In
Baker county, from which two returns
came up, one of which gave the State TO
Hayes, the other TO Tilden. Under the
Florida law the County Canvassers aro
required TO meet at the ONCE of the Coun!
" Clerk, within six days after the eiec-i
tinn, TO canyass. the vote and. COM pile the
official returns. The Board OF Can vassers
are. the County Clerk, the County Judge,
and justice Of the peace or Sheriff. IN
the case of Baker county the Judge Ia
Republican, refused IN meet the clerk.
and. after waiting for him, the eier:.:
called in justice of the peace and pro- /,
ceeded publicly to canvass the official
precinct returns aud sent the result .hus
made by two IF :ae three persons desig-
mated by law to the Secretary0f State.
This return gave the State TO Tilden By /.
!03 majority. Tie County Judge. who
had reiused TO meet the other two. ct the
same time, called in a person who had
been appointed Justice of che Peace AFTER
the election had been held, and these two
canvassed, not the official returns, but;
duplicates that covered only two Of the
four precincts, aud sent their returns to
the Secretary Ilof State, which gtsseI the
State TO- Hayes .by az. The Returning
BoNTd decided, ase r'as proper, that the
cIerk's return was The correct one. and
this was therefore allowed and counted.
Next comes Clay county.2 Hero the,
county eanvassers, Rlso Republicans, left u
oat ore precinet, on. the ground that ie,
did not appear that the inspectors took
the oath prescribed by law. But they
made statement with their returns,
Glowing that this precinct gave "a Dem
3crstlc majority, and the Returning
Board held that the objection was not
gndd, and, therefore, counted the pre-
cinet. ,ssncaA ssTI - lit ss,'iS' =.
But, having gone SO far, the Board be.
gan TO throw out votes. In Monroe
county they threw out Democratic pre-.
c!nct on the ground that the canvas
tbere was not completed on the night of
che election, as sae law demands. The
inspectors completed the count at one
o'clock, but one of their number, o Re.
publican, fell i'll, and moved to defer the
declaration of the return until the next
morning. There was no pretence Of
fraud. .:sa4 Ta';Is -
I In Hamilton county the Board flung !.
OUT Jasper precinct, on the ground that
during the election two Of the inspectors.
both Republicans, deserted the polls.
Gno .'f these deserting inspectnrs--a Re-
publican, be it remembered-himaelf
made the affidavit Of the irregularity OF,
which the Board flung QUO the vote.
Ihere was no attempt to impeach tho
rectitude of the vote. -'.i -.
In Jackson county the Board threw out
votes on the ground that tho ballot boxes
we're placed SO high that the coiored
voters could not see into them. But all
the electiun officers were RepubIicana
and the boxes were all alike.
In Mantee crlnty the whole vote was
flung out Oh the ground that there vas no
County Clerk to attend 10 the repistYa.
tion and other duties. The circumstan.
ces were these: The Clerk of the cunuty
Wsa Republican, appointed BY Gov.
Stearns; he resigned shortly before the
election. The Inhabitants appealed 10
ia; ~ fesume his duiies, but he refused.
They asked the Governor to appoint an.
other, but the new appointee refused 60
quality. Hence no new registration of
voters could be made, and the law re-.
qpires that every voter shali previously
and in the same year have been Yegister.
ed. After consultation it was dcter,nin-.
ed to open tho polls and to accent tho
votes OF all who had registered before the
pfeviOus election, each voter appending
IN affidavit: that he had SO registered,
fhe commissioners. inspectors and Coin-
W Judge did their duty. The county ia
strongly Democratic and the Democrats
claim that they lost between 200 and 500
votes by the encouragement of their vo.
terra aud the impoasibility to register new
voters. However that, may be, the Re-
turning Board flung out the whole coun-
by these operations the State was count.
ed not only for Hnyesbut also for Stearns,
che Republican Governor! candidate for
reelection. But Drew, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, appealed To the
Sfpreme Court; and the Court, or the
evidence before It, and which iib above
5riefiy recited and was not disputed, or.
dered ths Returning Board to recanyasa.
the whole State. mentioning particulars.
Gnnr counties. The Board Compiled I;te-
rally With Che order of the Court; tiit
when they came to Baker COUNTY thew
accented the fetuEns which before ,they
had rejected as false, aud they flung out
the whole Of Clay, to which on the first
count they had nude nc cA;S.:as,i cA;;aS..:aSss, ss;s..
| where 10 fraud was charged. Thus they
! gave The. State ON the saea...i een:t e
Drew and the Democratic State officers.
but still maintained Il for HAYES.
H. This 10 the Democratic side of the sto-
~, obtained srom moderate and well
informed source. d 1t must be remembers
ed that iu Eli the cnunties which were
| hung out the election officers were Re.
l,plbiicaus, and thas the wrong or infor-
mality asserted was caused by.them that
thu Board first counted In both Stearns
and Hayes, and on /. o. recount were able
Co count in Hayes only by arbitrarily
| Ainging out votes tn which, on their frat
cniI,,t and when they could not calculate
go csGsay, they madeleine affections It.
" clearly necessary that the republicans
who pesAfessed all the electionenachinery,
l. - L. =i =. 4 @ - e. -, y; ~ =
/ i.slsstinf, is false, They cannot dfIofd TO
have ;Mf: Hayes counted ID By such ffnnas
| as are above reconutea. ss;ls,ts','s - -
sESslpLErl ADyIcE.rThe following
sensibles advice was given by the 4late
Prof. Mauryto his son, then at school Z
To the truly wise and good man, oflicc.
4 place, honors, djatinctidns are desirable
or welcome otiy as they increase his