Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-12
HOY FLORIDA VAS STOLEN

The work of the subcommittee to inquire
into the conduct of the election in Florida
has concluded. While the developments
have not been az sensational as those of the
main committee at Washington, some facts
have been brought to light that will have an
Important bearing upon the decision of the
committee as q whole. The witnesses have
been men of character, against whom the
lmputation of perjury cannot lie. McLin, a
member of the returning board appears be-
fore the committee with clean record. He
certified to the returns which gave Hayes the
State by small majority, believing them to
be correct, and the honest expression of the
will of the people. He received only hint
that he would be rewarded for his services.
and apparently did not care whether he re-
ccived an Office or not. This indefinite prom
Use, therefore. did not sway him in his con-
duct. Sometime after the count, however,
McLin ascertained that great frauds had
been committed in the three counties of
Lion, Jefferson and Alachua, which he felt
convinced had defrauded Iilden out of the
four electoral votes of the State In Lion coun-
ty seventy-four ''little jokers'' for Hayes had
been counted; in Jefferson county one hun
dred had been struggled in, and in Alachua
two hundred and nineteen Republican votes
had been added to the poll list after the cleo
ton. This gave Hayes fraudulent vote of
nearly four hundred, sufficient to turn the
scales in his favor.
Mr.. McLin does not claim that there was
any attempt in his case at subornation OF
perjury by either party. He does say, how
ever, that Manton Marble, the particular friend
md representative of Tilden, especially eau
toned him against man reported to be on
the way from New York claiming to repre-
sent Tilden, and alleged to have money fo1
aim for the purpose of influencing him in
MS official conduct. Marble emphatically
asserted that Tilden knew nothing of any
such, and had nothing to do with such char.
| acters as lie, and would countenance no such
proceeding. This declaration is explicit
enough to set at rest all attempts that may
be made to compromise Mr.. Tilden in any
way by an illegal use of money in connec
ton with the election or the subsequent
count. This much he could not say for the
Republican visiting statesmen
Perhaps the most damaging feature Of
Mr.. McLin's testimony is that il
| which he recounts the names Of
those who were guilty of classifying
| the returns and stuffing the ballot-boxes
and states the reward each has received for hi
rascality: 1t appears that not single guilty
man has escaped without having fedora
| office thrust upon him. It cannot be posi-
| bic that a random choice from the thousands
of good Republicans in Florida would have
resulted in the selection of all these periurer;
| and ballot-box suffers, and them alone. The
+ conclusion is inevitable that the nature o.
| their services was well known to the ap
pointing power, and that in order to keer
their mouths closed they were given office
This is the most reasonable deduction from
perusal of the evidence, and until we have
proof to the contrary the public will GER
gainly attribute a guilty knowledge of tue
Florida iniquities to those at Washington
who dispensed the federal patronage.