New-York tribune., 1878-06-11
McLINs TESTIMONY.
THE ALLEGED FRAUDS BROUGHT TO his KNOWLEDGE
ONLY AFTER TIKI CANvAss-YARiOUs ELECTION
cre

ONLY AFTER THb CANNAss-N4IIoIS EiLOliON
INCIDENTS.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June 10.-The lnvesti-
eating Committee resumed its work Gt $50 a. m To-
day, and will close its laOors tonight ana leave
for Washington tomorrow afternoon.
The testimony Of Mr.. McLin continued and was
to the following effects
Previous TO my appointment as Associated ustlce OF
NewMrXic0 had been informed ~ tIe lhstahee 9i tht
President, By Mr. Cowgirl OF the Returning b2l lud'
would bo appointed. My rejection by ihe senate a.
trbuted to the personal ill-w OF Senator Cono'er My
subsequent failure TO get vacant du,tICesn'P P p
i9 NewMexieo was dgS to dS,, the %gi n
the appointment II COlOVer Hdu O''u n
earnest The President having told Cowgirl
~, S,,gi1 and uysqlC CDwgill was appointed To an
agency III tine Treasury but declined TO take IT, and was
fbe urominent actors ths Florida eicc-
lion OF 1876, the following have hren pro
Tie Hot springs Commission; J. VI. HoGcts, who got
NJ Driggcrs's return III BlkeI Coohty, is nov NOV
Bowes Election Inspector, charged with nau.p my
ballots in Leon County Is IN the Treasury al "aahi
cinct No. 2, has Federal position az Wash
ingon; R. H. Black, inspector at p,aSo,S,,, 1ae same
Bell, Inspector em jefferson County, received a
Federal appointment but has been since removed
George H. Leon Inspector IN Leon County, is clerk III
the IrfSsul5 at ii in ic T1cas1Tt "a WtSes J.
Taylor vi the Returning Board OF JeheisOa s III the
PnS he Close of Ie iabors Of the State Canvass
ing Board Governor Stearns said to ne thought oi
some D0rtance that the reading before the board
OF the face OF the returns should show
s they were received by him. nd said the result would
be very close The Driggers return fIOm Baker being
tbe m6st favorable OF any of the returns from Baker
County desired ne 10 read thdi 10 me DOdu III
preference TO the Others Il was really the only prop
&hen the WISHING statesmen were at Tallahassee
was told by W. T. Chandler General Lew Wallace, prob
ably Governor Steafns, and Others, mat Mr.
Noyes represented Governor HAYES Noyes a. a.
sured me that LOUISIANA Wouu De an IiAIt loi -,
Republicans aud talked of everything hanging on tOi-
idas going for Hayes Moves came dlreci rom l'1NlS
Few days before the stare ctuNdas "as ' -
do not remember that NOyes directly made promises OF
anything further than that the members OF the CanNso
ing Board would Do provided f0r Ihls was Ooth DeOI
and after the looked upon Aoyes as tpeca,
representative OF Hayes, expressing ms We've VIII Ies
20 etytlng, ana ieIt satisfied mat llc S,tG
Hayes, the leading Republicans OF the campaign "Oni
be provided for MY party ieehg @ hau more NOR ~ g i
course IN the board tlah az! OlheT cause uo
know that 1 was directly Influenced by promises OF
Office though these were not without weight Ieit
assured that so far rs pecunlary prDht went c9
gain much by casting vote one way as the Otcl.
preme Court Of the State-had counted the precincts
which were thrown out by them ana had thrown OUT In
counties Of Aachua Leon and Jefferson III NhG1 iauu
had evidently been committed, the state would nave
gone for Tden In Jefferson, ample evidence Iau Del
shown that 100 Republican votes we're buIrtptlo9sl1
cOunted and i'm AlachUa that 80 Republican votes had
been added 10 the p0list after election lhese Iacs
to his knowledge after this canvass wac toiI ~
/ January, 1877, by HOweils, then Deputy COi-
| ectOr Of Internal Revenue, ana recently ap,
! g0t up the Dnggers return-tlrowlng ont
townsville aud Darbyyile Precincts and making BAKER
told n February last by L. g. Dennis OF Aachua county
that Black Inspector and Vance, clerk OF Ancher fre-
Gainesville. and there added 20 Il 2l0 RepnDhcah votes
Dennis told this In Washington, ana eXPfesseu
desire 10 make exposure Of what he knew Oh iauus
IN the Presidential election Joseph BOWes Inspector
at Richardson, Leon County, stated 70 me agote s ~
January 1877 that he would have TO leave inc state
for having stuffed the ballotbox at Richardson wheIe
the iraudu cnt uekets Known as Luto 80, IN re
box folded in with Othor tickets. one Ben, county
Judge OF jefferson County disclosed To me 10 Mashlug
toni azf
ballots were substituted for ike number OF Olher Da-
lots In The precinct where Bell served as inspector.
10 Mr. HscOck-NO direct offers OF money were MADE by
either Mr. NOyes Mr. StearDs To lnnueucf my Obcal
action on one occasion Mr.. MantOn Marble, after as
surn me of MS belief that the State had fairly gwen It's
vote for TdeD md that fraud was being resored 70 Dy
the Reuubcans made an appeal TO me 10 90 my duty.
Teplied that ii felt that Mr.. Hayes elected,
would die In the ditch before would give up Jhe state
TO which Marble said "Th0re is no danger n
Won do riebt of your dying I'm the ditch dying poor
did not any time understand from the representa-
ons of Messr Noye Wallace and the Others. that they
sngeesed 20 me ythng Immoral wrong but that they
were simply cOmmendng me for doing what was right
be provided for because OF the service rendering
had no knowledge at the time OF the canvass OF the
frauds narrated by in my published anndaVll, ana
my present knowledge OF them confined 70 the repre-
sentatIons made by the authors OF them In some in
stances they come from disappointed Olhce-seekefs
William Archer Cooke who was AttorneyGeneral
Of Florida and one of the three members OF
the Returning Board in 1876 testified that upon
two occasions at the hour appointed for the meet
ing of the board, he, attended G1.l a at lS the
closing or tne becIcldTy Ol CtdbJb oihtVj oAu
WAS Obliged to wait hour before gaining admission
that when the door unlocked from tine inside, Gen
era Moves and Governor Stearns passed out and inside
be found Messrs Cowgirl and McLn, the other members
OF the board. - .
Mr. McIin being recalled, could not recollect the
occasions entiOned by Mr. COcke
Secretary OF State Bloham testified 10 having made
search among the Baker County election papers on file
| In the Governors Office, and that no duplt
cate OF the Dnggers return was found there
L. r. Booth (colOFcdj, who inspector at Richardson
Precinct County during the late Presidential elee
tOu testified that le saw OF the seventy LITTLE
oker tickets that day; the first he knew Of them wai
by seeing them in the baotb while counting the vote
| lived within ten mile8 OF the voting place