The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-12
NEW SERIES---NO 36.

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statesmen were at Tallahassee witness was
told by W. T.. Chandler, Gen. Lew Wallace,
probably Gov. Stcarns and others that Moves
represented Hayes. Noyes assured witness
that Louisiana would be all right for
the Republicans and talked of everything
hanging on Florida going for Hayes.
| Noycs came direct from Louisiana few
days before the state canvass was made.
! lie told witness Hayes and he were bosom
friends and he had come AT the special re
quest Of Hayes. Witness did not remcm-
Der that Noyes directly made promites of
anything further than that 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 the special
representative of Hayes, expressing
his views with regard to everything,
and felt satisfied that if the State went for
Hayes leading Republicans Of the cam.
paign would be provided for. Gen Lew.
Wallace was very active in getting test
| nony l..fnrn the hoard, getting in ss.~rus
and evidence in contested precincts and
counties. lie said he had been telegraphcd
to by Hayes, requesting him to come to
Florida, and said before and after the can
vass he was satisfied that Hayes. if he be
came president. would take pleasure in pro-
viding for the Republicans of Florida Wit
ness said his party feeling had more to do
with his course in the board than any other
cause and he did not know that he was di
rectly influenced by the promises of Office
though these were not without weight; he
felt assured that so far as pecuniary profit
went he could gain as much by casting his
vote one way AS another. Witness said
that he had come to the conclusion that the
board had followed the instructions of the
supreme court Of the state, and had count
ed precincts which were thrown out by
them, and lad thrown out the counties of
Alachua, Leon and Jefferson, in which
fraud had evidently been committed The
State certainly went for Tilden. In IetfeT
son ample evidence has shown that one
hundred Republican votes were surrept
tiously counted, and in Alachua that two
/ hundred and nineteen Republican votes had
been added to the poll list after the cleo
t ton. Thee facts had come to,
his knowledge since the canvass.
Witness was told in January,
1877, by Howell, then deputy collector of
internal revenue, and recently appointed
collector at Fcrnandina, that he had got up
the Drigger return throwing out johnson
, Vile and Dsrbyville precincts and making
t Baker county Republican instead of Demo
cratic. Howell was candidate tor state
senator at the election of 1876. Witness
was also told in February last by l.. G.
Dennis of Alachua county that Black, in
spector and Vance, clerk of Archer precinct
! No. 9, after the election brought the re
. turns up to GAINESVILLE and there added 70
, them 2l9 Republican votes, Dennis told
t this to witness in Washington and eS.
r pressed desire to make an exposureof what
: he knew of frauds in the presidential cleo
;. tion. Joseph Bowes, inspector at Rich
e ardson, Leon county, said to WIT
{ ness about january |, 1871, that he would
S have to leave the state for having stuffed y
I balot-boX at Richardson, Leon county,
| where fraudulent tickets known as ''littlc
. iokers, numbering "a, were traudulcntIy
put in the box. Bowes said at the time
they were going to 90 for him and he had
to leave the country right away. He and
Others of the party mentioned now hold
federal positions in or near Washington
Witness was shown by Bowes one of the
little jokers" tickets prior to the election,
and was informed by Bowes that the Use
intended to be made of them was to fold
one in each ticket of ordinary size, 81 that
h, the voter would vote two instead OF one
Witness demonstrated against 1t and
thought at the time that the plan had been
given up. One Bell, county Judge of JET
fcrson county, had disclosed to witness in
Washington, last winter. the manner ilt
!, which 100 Republican ballots were substi-
!, tutcd for 100 others at the precinct which
Bell served as Inspector at the presidential
election. The inference which witness
drew was that the substitution made II
change Of hundred votes in the result.
Witness further testified that the entire
election machinery Of the state in 1876 wl'
, in the hands of appointecs of Gov. Stcarrs
WIN. ARCHER COOKE,
!, Who was attorney general of Florida and
one of the three members of the returning
. board in 1875, testified that upon two DC
casions ut the hour appointed for the meet
ing Of the board he attended at the secrcta
= ~ of states office where the board met,
and he was obliged TO wait I'm hour betor.
-, gaining admissions that when the door WAS
unlocked from the inside Gen. Noyes and
Coy. Stearns passed out and inside he
found Cowgirl and McIin, and other mem
,, beers of the board.
Mr.. s. Is. McLin being recalled could
: not recollect the occasions mentioned by
J Cooke.
SECRETARY OF STATE BLOyHAA
testified to having made search among the
Baker county election papers on file in the
governors office, and that no duplicate Of
' Drigger's return was found there.
l.. y. BOOTH,
Colored, inspector at Richardson precinct,
y Leon county, at the Presidential election,
testified that he SAW none OF the seventy
fonr little joker tickets voted that day, and
' the first he knew OF them WA by seeing
: them in the ballot-bOx on counting the
" vote with Doves and Dent the other in
. spctOrs; none Of them live within ten miles
! Of the voting place.
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