Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1877-01-18

port. The Republican inspector
himself swore that the count was
completed, and the votes amount-
ed to GIL, the exact number that
is named in the certificate. He
signed this certificate, thus attest
ing is correctness. The sole
ground rejection is the irregularity
by which the result was reached,
it being proved and conceded that
it was the true result. The In
spectors swears that no two Of
them were absent from the room
at the same time, and that On out
slider who was called in on account
Of the dim 1ess Of sight on the
part Of one Of the Inspector, sat
opposite the Republican Inspector,
who did not object to the change.
1t is conceded that this precinct
makes one Of the weakest cases
that the Republicans have.
HOW LOUISTAMA'S VOTE WAS
STOLEN.
From the Springfield RepubE
can, which supported Hayes for
President, we clip the following
cogent statement Of the opsrandi
of the Well & Co., grand larceny
of the State of Louisiana.
I" The Congressional investiga.
ton at New Orleans has already
developed considerable Of the true
inwardness' Of the method by
which the result Of the heaviest
vote ever polled in Louisiana was
reversed from a majority Of Eve to
eight thousand for Tilden to o
nearly FIVE thousand fer Hayes.
The total vote actually cast, at
shown by tho tally sheet and the
Commissioners statements from
every poll in the State, was 161,-
033, of which 89,859 we're for
TiIden(the Electors on that tickes
running from $3.50 down to 49,.
474, and 77,176 for the highest
Hayes Electors, the lowest runn>
ing down to 1902, owing to the
names Of FIVE Electors having
been omitted from the tickets in
cel tain parishes. The votes sn'
uouneed by the Returning Board
after it had completed its work
was rs, ,135 for the highest Hayes
elector and 70,13 for the highest
Tilden Elector, over 1000 votes
that were cast not being counted.
The Returning Board has been
given the sole credit for this re-
versal Of the heaviest vote ever
polled in Louisians. But it ap>
pears from the evidence it has
reluctantly furnished to the Con~
gressional Committee o. Investiga-
ton, that the Returning Board 10
not entitled TO oil the credit
They rejected the votes cast in no
less than SO polling places in over
| twenty different parishes. aggrega.
ting I,763 for Hayes and 10,293
for Tilden. But it appears from
the Returning Boards own figures
that. even with the 50 polls out
that they rejected, the three high.
est Tilden Electors have majors
ties over the three highest Tilden
Electors have msjorities over tho
the three lowest Hayes Elect ors,
the other FIVE Hayes Electors hav-
ing majorities Of from 81 to zoos.
The way that the Returning
Board was euabled to declare mac
jorities for the Heyes Electors was
because the supervisors Of regis
tration in seven parishes omitted
entirely from their returns thirteen
polls that gave Democratic major>
tiles, which cast in all AIS Repuo-
lican votes and 1888 Democratic
and the Board refused TO canvass
the votes of these polls from tho
commissioners statements, which
were brought to their attention, al.
though the law provides that they
shall "canvass and compile tho
statements Of the votes made by
the commissioners Of cleo. ION. " tho
supervisors duty being merely to
forward these statements with o
summary Of the total thoy show
for the whole parish, AT the same
tims the Board vent back Of the
Supervisors statements in two par
ishes where the Republican votos
were represented as bearing ihe
names Of only three Electors, and
counted votess for other the Eve
Electors that were NOT returned by
those officers, upon tbo claim that
on sending for The boxes which
contained the ballots and opening
them, they found that tbe missing