The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-05-02

oc"'i ~iV 'oes were audeu 10 the returns ny
the inspectors and clerk Of said precinct.
In Leon county "A small Republican ballots
were stuffed into the ballot box at Precinct
NO. % yet 1t was made to appear, even to
the satisfaction of the Democratic member
OF the board, that these were true ballots.
Subsequent confession shows that they were
stuffed into the box. had seen Joseph
Bowes, one Of the inspectors, have tickets
similar to them few days before the cleo
ton, and cautioned him against their use,
unless they were generally adopted, and
aiterward learned he had given them up.
In Jefferson county, in certain precinct, at
which Mr.. j. Bell was Inspector 100 votes
were surrcptltously added to the ballots
and counted. No charge was made as to
this fact before the board The confession
Of j. Bell. since made to me, discloses the
fact that had the 2l0 votes fralldcnty added
to the Archer return, and the "A votes
stuffed in the box in Leon county, and the
100 votes surrcptitiously added in Jefferson
county aggrcgating 1903 votes, been rejected,
and the Democratic rejected precincts,
which were excluded for irrcguarity and
Supreme Court, been retained and counted,
Mr.. Tildcn would have carried the State.
The conclusion therefore is irresistible that
Mr.. Tildcn was entitled to the electoral
vote Of Florida, and not Mr.. Hayes.
In making this statement my motives will
doubtless be questioned by many, but the
facts will stand alone as the truth, without
"a q.
fire, to admit that viewing thing, as | now
do, and remembering that Mr.. Hayes was
continually inspiring his personal friend,
and trusted agents by every means in his
power to secure for him the electoral vote
Of Florida and Louisiana, and believing il
to have been conscious wrong on his part,
done with knowledge that he had not been
elected, as his subsequent reputation OF
Gov. Packard, whose title was bound up in
his own, and his willful and cowardly descr-
ton 0. the very men who contributed so
largely 10 his election has shown, my con.
tempt for the pitiabc littleness OF the man
IS beyond my power Of expression. Mr.
Hayes has denied the validity of his own
title in denying Gov. Packards. He has
ignored his Florida friends, showing he be-
lieyed them unworthy and tainted with
fraud: yet he holds on 10 the Presidency,
which. in his own opinion, was secured by
this very fraud. He has cowardIy abandon
ed and betrayed his Southern Republican
friends through fear OF being ousted from
an office that he believed he never was
elected TO by the people. Whatever may
be the opinion Of men in regard to my mo
tyes, give them facts, and leave my mo-
tiyes 10 a higher tribunal. ;. b. Mcl.lN.
STATE or GgOIsGIA, THOMAS County Before me.
james W Grower Clerk Of the Superior Court In
and for aid county, the same being court Of re-.
cord. and the aid James W. GrOoycr being the
custodian OF the records and seal Of said court and
duly authorized 70 administer osth-, personally
came samuel b Nclin, who being duly sworn. on
oath NV the above statement made and signed by
him Is correct add true the best of h- KNOWLEDGE
and belief - help him God.
sworn "a aud Subscribed before me th- the I'D Of
March. i.7s : b. McLN
SEAL. JANIS W. GHOOvER.
Clerk superior Court Thomas county, Ga.
lao. DENNIS CONFESSION.
WASHINGTON. d. e., March 22, ls1s.-I
have resided in Alachua county, Floridq,
since January 1866, and was elected to the
state assembly in 1876, at the time OF the
late presidential election. | was at that
time a member Of tie state central commit
tee OF the Republican party Of Florida. and
also chairman Of the Republican committee
OF Alarhua county was also prcsider: of
the board OF county commissioners Of Ala.
chua county from 1873 10 1877. and was IA
miiar with the manner OF voting the loca-
ton Of polls. and all other election machin
cry. A-prrsident of said board. and with
the consent Of said board | located all the
polling places, appointed all inspector,
who conducted the election, received and
counted the ballots, and made and certified
to the returns. lappointed as inspector, of
Archer precinct, box No. 2. Green X. Moore.
Floyd Duke and Richard II. Black Thorn
as ID. Vance went at my request to Archer
precinct on the day previous to the election
and was appointed 10y the inspectors as clerk
of election at box No 2, and served as such.
was at Gainesville on the day OF the elcc.
ton, and on that night and the day follow
lng my residence was the headquarters of
the Republican party, and during the night
preceding the election all information was
brought to me there.
some time after midnight of that night
Inspector Black came 10 my house and
reported to me that the result of the cleo
ton at Box No. for Presidential Electors
was as follows: For the Hayes Electors. 1870;
for the lilden Electors, 1875. A little later
Vance, Clerk at said Box 2. came and made
the same report. Subsequently both Black
and Vance came to me and said that they
had the returns from Archer precinct, Box
., signed in blank by the Inspectors, and
that they would make out the returns so as
To meet the expectations of their own party. !
They retired TO Il private room. where they
remained two or three hours, and then in !
formed me that they had added about 200 I
n 'mcs 10 the poll-list as having voted. and
had increased the Republican vote to that
extent. and afterwards learned that they |
had added 2l9 names to the poll-list. |
the room while they were employed |
there, and saw them copying names from the .
county registration list upon which those
who had actually voted ut Archer Precinct,
Box No. 2, were checked off and new names
were selected from names of Republican
voters who had not already voted at that
precinct. After completing the returns in
this manner they filed them with the bal.
lot-hox, with the County Clerk. The Coun.
missioners met few days after the election,
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