The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-26
BY TELEG GRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO TIE DAILY HEEzLIsREcER
GENERAL NEWS.
The Bankrupt Law Repealed.
President Hayes at the Commercial
Exchange, Philadelphia.
Funeral of Hon. William Orion.
Further Accounts Of the Late Storm
.--lmmsnse Destruction
Of Property.
Houses. Barns, Trees and Fences
Lsyeled with the Earth.
Fearful Loss of Human Life.
THE FLORIDA CASE.
Tho Full Text of Judge MoLin's
Statement.
A Dissraosful Confession Of Weak
ness, Msanness and Fraud
nm His Part.
THE FLORIDA CASE.
Tho Full Text of Judge McLin's
Statement.
A Dissraosful Confession of Weak.
ness. Msanness and Fraud
on His Part.

~ bisyEdVeiul SoHteseioH VI YUAN
ness, Meanness and Fraud
on His Part.
NEw YoRx, April 25.-The following
Is the text Of the statement Of Judgs
McLin, regarding the canvass Of the vote
in Florida for President, as published
here in long special from Washington
"As a member Of the late State Board
Of canvassers Of the State Of Fiorids, I
feel impelled by sense otdaty to myself,
and in justice to others, to make the fol,
lowing statement: "At the time the can
yals was made was not n. any time con.
scious Of acting otherwise than right and
proper. Ientered upon the canvass with
the conviction that il was my privilege
and duty in political sense to give the
benefit Of every doubt in favor Of the
Republican party. l felt that when the
question could be decided either way
without doing violence to the public sense
OF justice, 1t was fairly allowable in poli-
tics that should always lean to my own
party aud give my decision in It's favor,
even at the hazlrd Of straining point.
At no time did I feel that l occupied the
position Of Judge, charged with the
duty OF strict and nice weighing and
balancing Of all the evidence presented.
Looking back, now, TO that time,
I feel that there wu q combination Of
influences that must have operated most
powerfully in binding my judgment and
swaying my action. Ihsd been for many
years and WA at the time Of the canvass
q very active partisan. l sincerely
thought that our State and the nation
would suffer an irceparable injury II the
Democratic party were to obtain the
Presidency, and the policy Of hatred to
the negro and those who had been friends
OF the negro should obtain control at
Washington. It was the common and
unanimous talk also that the very ex.
istence OF the men who in the South had
upheld the Republican party depended
upon the election OF Hayes. Mr.. Hayes
would sustain them throughout the
South while Tilden would crush
them. I wss shown numerous tels-
legrapbi. addresses to Governor
s,earns and others from the trusted
leaders OF the Republican party in the
North, insisting that the salvation OF the
country depended upon the vote Of Flor.
ida being cast for Hayes. These ,ele.
grams came from those to whom had
been accustomed TO defer, for instance
from the Chairman Of the National Com
mittee and'the man who was the. nearest
personal friend Of Mr.. Hayes, who had
conducted the canvas. These kilograms
also gave assurance Of the forthcoming Of
money and troops. Following these tel
egrams, trusted Northern Republicans,
party leaders and personal friends Of
Mr.. Hayes, arrived in Florida as rap.
idly as the railroads could bring
them. was surrounded by thess
men who were ardent Republicans and
especially by the friends Of Governor
Hayes. One gentleman particularly,
Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, was Understood to
represent him and speak with the au'
thority Of warm personal friend, COM
missioned with power to act in his be-
half. These men referred to the general
destruction OF the country should Tilder
be elected. The intense anxiety Of the
Republicans-the party OF the north and
their full sympathy with Us. Can't say
how far my action may have been In
ausnced by the intense excitement thai
prevailed around me, or how far my par
tisan zeal may have led me into error,
Neither can I say how far my course
was influenced by the promise made By
Noyes that II Hayes became Presiden
/ should be rewarded. Certainly these
influences must bave bad control ovei
my Judgment and action. Reviewing my
action at this distance Of time with al
calmness, with my ardor cooled and M
partisan zeal chilled by the President
who has baSely belisd and msrcilessl!
destroyed the Republican party Of th'
South and crushed the very men who dft
30 much for his election, am perauadet
that the Florida canvass was not conduc
ted with that cool, calm judgment ant
honest unbiased decision that should hav'
Characterised proceeding involving sucE
vast and important interests. Instead o
this I now see that the whole proceeding
went through upon the highest wave 0
political excitement That partisan feel
ing, stimulated 70 the utmost BY thl
most powerful agencies, usurped the
place Of rea.on and sound judmsnt
and therefore political expedieneJ
ruled .he hour. A large number Of pre-
einets were either contested by the Dem,
oerat or Republican party. Yoluminoul
testimony vas 6led and the lawyers OF
both sites argued each for their aide
that il Vas the duty Of the board to thto,
out and, not include in the counsor re.ail
and count the precincts ou the ground oI
illegally Ia the conduct Of the election
or fraud that was charged to exist. Thl
Attorney General Of the State and /
member Of the Board had decided that I
had quasi Judicial power and had the righ
to exclude the precincts from the count
! The returns were shown 70 be 30 irregu-
lar talss, or.frsudulent a TO prsysntths
Board from aScsrsaining from them shs