Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-05-01
D the decision of the Supreme Court

been retained ana Counted, MT. llluen
would have carried the State. The con-
clusion, therefore. is irresistible that
Mir. Tllden was entitled to the cleo oral
vote OF Florida. and not Mr. Hayes.
q In making this statement my mo-
tives will doubtless be questioned BY
many, but the facts will stand alone as
the truth, without any mere motives to
sustain them. am free to admit that |
viewing things as now do, and remem /
bcring that Mr.. Hayes was continually !
inspiring his personal friends and trus-
ted agents by every means in his power |
10 secure tor HIM the electoral vote OF |
Florida and Louisiana. and believing it |
to have been conscious wrong on hi. |
part, done with knowledge that he had /
not been electea, as his subsequent re-
pudiati0n of Gov. Packard, whose little |
was bound up in his swn. and his willul |
and cowardly desertion of the very men /
who contributed so largely to his cleo
ton, has shown, my contempt for the |
pitiable littleness OF the man is beyond |
my power Of expression. Mr.. Hayes |
has denied tho validity Of his ewn !
title in denying Gov. Packard's. H. |
has Ignored his Florida friends. show
ing he believed them unworthy and !
tainted with fraud; yet he holds Oh to !
the Presidency, which, In his own
opinion, was secured by this very fraud. |
He has cowardly abandoned and
betrayed his Southern Republican |
friends through fear oil being ousted from !
an office that he believed he never was
elected to by the people. Whatever
may be the opinion ofman in regard to
my motives, l give them facts, aud
leavs my motives to higher tribunal
:. b. MCLIN.
THE CASE OF BAKER COUNTY.
State Of Floridu county, ss.: \. \.
Allen, being duly sworn, says that he is !
a citizen Of the county aforesaid. and is !
30 Yeas OF age. Thathe vas sheriff OF
said county during the year 1876, and
participated IN the Presidential election I
of that year as 4 Rel ID lean. That |
after the election, and when it became /
the duty OF the praper county officers to
canvass the precinct returns and make /
county return to the State officers. /
deponent knew that ". l. Coke wanted
+. W. Driegcrs. County Judge of SAID |
county, to join him. the said Coke. aud
make 2 legal canvass and RETURN
Dcponent knew chat Drggers rciussd /
to do this, and that such being the Gaze. /
tic law provided that this dep0ncnt
was the ony ether officer ol the county
legally authorized to take the place OF
SAID Driggcrs and make q legal can.
vass.
The said Coke. Clerk. desired til.
dcpenent to act in place Of said Dr.sg rs /
bur dcpmont declined to d. so, aud
said Coke and Doumon lhyu proceeded
TO make 2 canvass and return. and SOFT
tie same TO the state officers. This
canvass and return was correct, Onc
Paul B. Canoya, father 0i GEORGE +. .
Canoya. Who va, u candidate on TIE
Republican ticket for thc Legislature.
approached dcponcut before the sad
Coke and D9man made their canvas.
and sad Il aeponcnl would not join
them, thi- dcponsHt could have lie
benefit e. BIZ Oh, ss.d Caaoya'zl ogu
rockctho.k ANA k's Influence .of ,a,l
best oaiec III he STATE.
Dcponcnt further says tiai after
SAID Coke aud Dorman had made ,heii
return o. aforesaid. tbs dcponcu; wa-
approached By said Duesela, who said.
Alien, unless Nc DO something they
(mcanlng the Dcnocrat-) will beat IL.
Depcnent cepiicd We'll, let it RIP IL
thcn said We can make canvass. -
Depnucnt then asked him how We could
have canvass Whcn We had no Ju, lice
Of the Peace. as Dorman had acted with
Coke. Drig-ers replied. Bill Green
las been appointed Dcpou,nt then
consented, and said Drigscrs and tbs
dcpOnent then arragcd 10 canvass as
soon as We could get possession Of the
Clerks office. We cot possession Of the
Clerks Office after dark that night. and
Il company with Green Looked over tin
precinct returns. We found That by
throwing out the returns irem Johns
vile and Darhyyille precincts. which
both gave Democratic maj0rit.es, It
would give the country to the Republi-
can Presidential electors by iog.y-one
majority, and this would change the
county from ninety-iive Democratic
majority. which was the true and laT
Iul vote. After determining to throw
out these twJ precincts we obtained
blank from the Clerks Office and then
proceeded to the residence Of Geo. Z.
Canova. and there filled out the return
according to CTR determination. signed
it. and handed it to said Driggers. Al
ter the count was over in Tallaha>se.
laid Driegcrs informed this deponcnt
that our return was recOngizcd all RICH
by the State Board Of CanyasScrs.'
These two Democratic precincts were
were thrown out arbitrarily. without
law or evidence or shadow Ofrirht. and /
Nas done 10 throw the county Rrpub- .
iican and gave the State to the Hayes /
elcctor. This action changed the vote /
oil the state about the same in relative !
majorites as il did the county OF Baker. !
BY giving the truereturn. which w"uid !
include the two Democratic majority in !
The State would be about nineiy-fye. -
BY excluding those precincts and by /
akng the false return signed by Orig |
GERS. Green, and the this deponent, the !
Republican majority in the State would /
be about torly-lhrec on the lace Of the /
returns.
Deponent cannot state tic fact from
personal knowledge, but he believes.
and the truth was understood to be at
the time that this fictitious count and
return and the illegal rejection of the
returns from Darbyyille and townsville |
precincts, was concocted and carried out
through the instlgation and management
Of one John W Howell, Z. ". Orig
gers, and George p. Canoya, and fur
her this dcponent saith not.
4. 4. ALLEN.
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