Daily Republican., 1878-11-16
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Democracy, and out Oh million hepuo
lican votes in that section, there may
possibly be not more than one Repub-
lican returned to Congress whose seat
will not be contested, including one in
Tennessee there may possibly be two
that will worry through. There was
no doubt of the election of Bisbee, Re-
publican from Florida, but the same
fraudulent means have been re>orted to,
to cheat him out Of his seat, that were
used in 1875 in epdeavoring to cheat
President Hayes out Of the State. There
is apparently much depending upon
this Florida election, to Democratic
eyes in view of the possibility of the
election of the next President being
thrown into the House of Representa-
tives. In view of such an event Florida
to the Democracy is as big as New York
as each State in such an election has
one vote, no more nor no less. To secure
Florida for the Democratic candidate
Col. Bisbee has to be counted out, and
no doubt it will be done even if it
takes "bar'ls" of money to do it. Two
Republicans have been elected in North
Carolina by large majorities, but the
White League of the State will hardly
cease counting and changing votes until
Martin and O'Harra are both counted
out and two Democrats counted in.
Thirty five hundred votes for O. Harra
legally cast, have upon ONT pretext or
another been thrown out, and the same
means are used to defeat Martin. The
result in South Carolina where the De-
mocracy were ''put upon their honor"
Is one Of the grandest farces ever called
An election. As the vote in some of the
districts has been published, We will
reproduce them from the New York
Times so far as the vote of South Caro-
lima is concerned:
The results indicated by the official
returns thus far received from South
Carolina, where the Democrats wanted
to be "put upon their honor" are sim
ply ridiculous. They cannot fail to
prove to the most casual as well as to
the closest observer, that the so. called
election in that State was farce pure
AMI simple. In the six counties thus
far officially heard from the Republican
Party, in 1876, despite shot-guns and
rifle clubs had total majority OF 16,-
S56. This year, after what Wade
Hampton has called "an honest and
bloodless election" these same coun.
ties gave total Democratic majority of
1850! In the last general election,
Barnwell County gave 5,7O3 Republi-
can majority. This year the Demo
cratic officials who had charge of the
count declare that II gave a Democrat
ic majority of 1900. Two years ago
the County of Charleston gave Re-
publican majority of ,306. 1t is now
declared to be Democratic by MAORI
ty of 1856. Two years ago the Coun-
ty of Chester gave a Republican ma
jority of 46S; and this in spite of e.ner-
al violence and intimidation of Repub-
lican voters. This year there was no
violence in Chester, the Republicans
voted freely, the Democrats did the
counting, and the county is declared to
have given a Democratic majority of
2,4l6.
Two years ago the County of Colleton
gave Republican majority of 1910.
This year Colleton is given to the Dem,
ocrats by majority of just 1900. The
gentlemen who had charge of the count
were evidently exact men and no
friends of odd numbers. In the county
of Richland two years ago the Repub-
lican majority was l,522. This year
the Republicans, according to actual
count, cast larger vote than ever be
fore, but the county of Richland is
nevertheless given to the Democrats by
a majority of 2,Sl2. Again, in the
County of Sumter there was, two years
ago, Republican majority OF l,54l,
but this year Sumter is declared to have
gone Democratic by majority of l.776
"a very good number for the patriotic
managers of the count to decide upon.
1t will De observed that the Democratic
poll officers in all the counties named |
did their duty nobly. In fact, they
rather overdid it, yet none of them sue
ceef ed so well as did the good Demo
CT; tic managers in the County of Aiken.
Two years ago the total vote of that
county, Democratic and Republican
combined, was 5,1l9. This year the
Democratic majority is declared to have
been 4,47l. Why the managers did
not claim the entire vote of the county
does not appear.
Much the same plan was pursued in
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
The Republicans in many Of the Dis
tricts did the voting but the Democrats
did the counting. In the last named
State the Republicans had majority
of | 800 in Concordia Parish in 1875,
in the last election not Republican
vote was cast. The Democratic mana
gers seem 10 have just ascertained the
numberto tof votes cast, and counted them
all in lump for the Democracy. In
Nachitoches, Bossier and Red River
parishes, not a Republican vote was
counted, though they all have latge
Republican majorities, and there was
a contest on the day of the so-called
election. The same story is told of the
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