Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-01-04

NE >'rtATioN.-Owing to the snow
blockade ofTuesday last, the mail did not
put IN ah appearance here on Tuesday
night, and hence We are without ;,f,r-
NATION OF later dates than Monday
The situation, as then presented. DOR
trayed that South Carolina should no
longer be counted for Tilden, the House
omm''tee' composed OF majority of
loyal and clcar-headed democrats. after
fuii investigation Paving arrived at IN.
conclusion that the State had elected
Ilayes and Wheeler electors by a ma.
Jor'ty approxima,ing 700. This, Of
course, shows that the .,olid South"
ouSaboo, about which We heard 50
much during the late campaign, was
myth mere rabbIe-rou~ing device,
and that the State on national issues
Is honestly republican. We saw on
national issues, because the evidence
'hat the State has soae for HAYES is not
@'raser than that it has elected a dem.
"cra'rc state Ticket, one and indiyis;.
Die with Legislature democratic o,
JOINT ballot. The way HAYES was coun.
ted 'n-righiiully counted in-and the
democratic State officers coup,cd ont,
shamci"ily counted out-was by the
Returning Board. TALL OF hose members
except one, were candidates for State
o'heerS' and hence acting as Judges in
'heir own cases. allowing the votes of
two counties. Edgcfcld and Laurens 10
stand for Hayes and not to stand against
themselves. One would think that #
there was alegal and fair ele ction in these
counties on national issues, there was ,
ia'r and legal election all around. and
there l. now no doubt there was. andtb.
different results reached can he accom-.
ted for IN onl Y one way and that is the Re-
turning Board had to count these coun.
ties IN on National issues or Havcs
would have lost the State. and il hat ~
count them out on State issues or they
could not have counted them.elve. int,
the Offices for which the members were
candidates. How il came about tina,
these counties voted one wav for presi.
dent aud another way for State officers
can be explained only by reference to
the unhappy municipal condition of the
State. Ky the thefts and mismanacc-
mcni Of Chamberlain and his crowd
the property holders had been reduced
10 direst extremities. and We are afraid
that M some sections, notably in The
counties named, alliances, offensive and
defensive, were formed between them
and the negroes, the outcome of which
was intended to be. that Hayes was to
have the electoral vote and the demo-
Gratis the municipal control of the State.
Both parties IN the sections referred TO
appear to have fairly carried out their
contracts, but We notice that the dem.
"crAts are the only people who have
been finally cheated. They appear TO
have overlooked the fact that there was
such a thing as a Returning Board in
South Carolina.
In Florida, under the recoun, ordered
by the Supreme Court OF the State, the
Returning Board has given the demo-
Gratis everything they eon,cnded for. ex.
cept the electoral vote, and this the
Board still persists IN denying them.
BY the substitution Of false returns from
one eosssy in the place Of the true and
legal ones and by the throwing out al.
together Of returns from another place
which were entitled to be counted, both
OF which were contrary to Law As ex.
pounded by the Court, the Board has
made out ior the second time tina, the
State hls gone for Hayes. Having thus
d'>r-sarded both the spirit and letter Of