The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-06-11

thing further than that the members of the
Canvassing Board would be provided for. This
was both before and after the canvass From
all he heard and all that took place witness
looked upon Noyes as a special representative
of Hayes, expressing his views with regard to
everything, and he felt satisfied that if the
state went for Hayes the leading Republicans
of the campaign would be provided for.
Gen. Lew Wallace was very active in getting
up the testimony before the board, and in get
ting in the returns and evidence in the con-
tested precincts and counties. He said he had
been telegraphed to by Hayes, requesting him
to come to Florida, and said that before and
after the canvass he was satisfied that Hayes,
if he became President, would take pleasure in
providing for the Republicans of Florida.
Witness said his party feeling had more to do
with his course in the board than any other
cause, and did not know that he was directly
influenced by promises of Office though these
were not without weight. He felt assured
that as far as pecuniary profit went he could
gam as much oy casting his vote one way as
the other.
Witness said he had come to the conclusion
that if the board had followed the Instructions
of the Supreme Court of the state, had counted
the precincts which were thrown out by them
and thrown out the counties of Alachua. Leon
and Jefferson, in which fraud had evidently
been committed, the state would certainly have
gone for Tilden.
Witness was shown by Bowes one of the
little joker tickets prior to the election and was
informed by Bowes that the use intended to be
made of them was to put one In each ticket Of
ordinary size so the voter would vote two in
stead of one at time. Witness demonstrated
against this and thought at the time the plan
had been given up. One Bell, county judge
of Jefferson county, disclosed to witness in
Washington last winter the manner in which
one hundred Republican ballots were substi-
tuted for one hundyed other ballots at the pre-
clint at which Bell served as inspector at the
Presidential election. The inference which
witness drew was that the substitution made 9
change of two hundred votes in the result.
On scross-examination BY Hiscock, witness
testified that no direct offers of money were
made by either Noyes or Stearns to influence
his official action. On one occasion Manton
Marble after assuring witness Of his belief that
the state had fairly given its vote for TildeI
and that frand was being resorted to by the
Republicans to give the state to Hayes, made
an appeal to him to do his duty. Witness re.
piled that if he felt Hayes was elected be
would die in the ditch be fore he would give up
the state, to which, he alleged, Mr.. Marble
said there is no danger if you do right of your
dying ai in the ditch or dying poor | think Mr.
made abs denial
was threatened during the canvass.
Witness was cautioned by Mr.. Marble agains
man reported to be GA hfs way from New
York, claiming to represent MIR. Tiden and
alleged to have money from him for the pur-
pose of influencing him in his official conduct
Mr.. Marble emphatically asserted that Mr..
Tilden knew nothing of such man and had
nothing to do with such characters, as hi
would countenance no such proceedings. Wit
ness did not at the time understand from the
representations made by Noyes, Wallace, and
others, that they suggested to him anything
that was immoral or wrong
Witness had no knowledge at the time of thu
canvass of the frauds narrated by him in hi
unfinished affidavit. and his nraspnt knomladoe
of them was confined to representations made
to him by the authors of them. In some of thu
instances they came from disappointed office
seekers.