Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-26

those to whom had been accustomed to de- I
fer. The chairman of the national commit
tee and the man who was the nearest per-
sonal friend of Mr.. Hayes had conducted the |
canvass.
These kilograms also gave assurance of the |
forthcoming Of money and troops if neces.
sary in securing the victory for Mr.. Hayes.
Following these kilograms of trusted North
ern Republicans, party leaders and personal
friends of MIR. Hayes arrived in Florida as
rapidly as the railroads could carry them.
was surrounded by those men who were ar
dent Republicans, and especially friends of
Gov. Hayes. One gentleman particularly,
Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, was understood to rep
resent him and speak with the authority of
warm personal friend, commissioned with
power to act on his behalf. These men re-
ferred to the general destruction of the
country should Mr.. Tilden be elected; the IN
tense anxiety of the Republican party of the
North and their full sympathy with us. l
cannot say how far my action may have been
influenced by the intense excitement that
prevailed around me, or how far my partizan
zeal may have led me into error.
PROMISED AN OFFICE.
Neither can say how far my course was
influenced by the promise made by Noyes
that if Mr.. Hayes became President should
be rewarded. Certainly these influences must
have had strong control over my judgment
and action. Reviewing my action at this
distance of time, with all calmness, with my
ardor cooled and my partizan zeal chilled by
the President, who has basely betrayed and
mercilessly destroyed the Republican party
of the South, and crushed the very men who
did SO much for his election. am afraid
that the Florida canvass was not conducted
with the cool, calm Judgment and honest,
unbiased decision that should have charac-
terized proceeding involving such vast and
important interests. Instead of this, now
see the whole proceedings went through
upon the highest wave of political excite
ment; that partizan feeling, stimulated to
the utmost by the most powerful agencies,
usurped the place of reason and
sound judgment, and political expedi-
ency ruled the hour. large number OF
precincts were either counted by the Demo-
cratic or Republican party. Voluminous
testimony was filed and the lawyers of both
parties argued each for their side of the
issue, that it was the duty of the board to
throw out and not include in their count. or
retain and count precincts on the ground Vt
fraud that was charged to exist The at
torney general of the State aud member
of the board had decided that the board had
quasi judicial power, and had the right to
exclude precincts from the count. if the re-
turns were shown to be SO irregular, false or
fraudulent as to prevent the board from
ascertaining the true vote. With this view
of it's duties, the board entered upon the
work of the convass with the conviction that
they were invested with large discretionary
powers, which were of mixed character,
political and judicial, the political largely
predominating. This had powerful in
Auence in the exercise of these powers, and
the Republicans having majority of the
board, the canvass was largely in tn cir favor,
as the result proved.
TIDEN ENTITLED TO FLORIDA.
Ifthe board had acted in accordance with
the decision of the supreme court in defining
the powers and duties eff the board in refer
ence to throwing out precincts, since rem
dered, there is no question of the fact that
Mr.. Tilden would have been entitled to the
vote of Florida. Excluding returns from
Baker county, which was contested, and
which have since learned from the parties
who made it, was falsely manufactured re-
turn, and including the true return, which
correspondent with the precinct returns of
that county, would certainly have given the
State to Mr.. Iilden. Archer precinct, No.
2, Aachua county, was included in the
count. The fraud committed in the pre-
cjnct was not shown to the board by tie
Democratic lawyers, although q contest was
made, and much attention given to the pre-
cinct. But have recently learned from the
Republican leader of that county that after
the returns had been brought to Gainesville,
the county seat, 219 votes were added to
and clerks 1' Of y said n preoin aspe''G n
Leon county "a Republican ballots were
stuffed in the ballot at precinct No. 9, yet it
was not made to appear to the satisfaction Of
the Democratic members of the board that
these were false ballots. Subsequent con-
fession shows that these were stuffed into
the box. had seen Joseph Bower. one Of
the inspectors, have tickets similar to them
q few days before the election, and cautioned
against their use, unless they were generally
adopted, and afterwards learned that he had
given them ur.
In jefferson county, IN certain precinct,
at which Mr.. ]. Bell was inspector, 100 votes
were surreptitionsly added to the ballots
and counted.
No charge was made a. to this fact before
the board. The confession Of J. B. Ellis.
made TO me, discloses the fact that he had
1918 votes fra1dulently added to the Archer
RETURNS. Had the 4 votes stuffed in the
|1eptittously added e Jefferson county, az
land the Democratic rejected pre-,
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