The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-09

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the Archer return, and the "a votes
stuffed in the box in, Leon County, and
the 100 votes surreptitionsly added IN
Jefferson County, aggregating 1893 votes,
been rejected, and the Democratic le]ec-
ted precincts which were excluded for
irregplarity and illegality contrary to the
decision of the Supreme Court been re.
tanned and counted, Mr.. Tilden would
have carried the State. The conclusion,
therefore, is irresistible that Mr.. Tilden
was entitled to the electoral vote OF
Florida, and not Mr.. Hayes. y .c..,.Si
. In making this statement my motives
will doubtless. be questioned BY many,
but the facts will stand alone as the
truth, without any mere motives TO sus-
tain them. I am free to admit that,
viewing things as Inow. do, and remem-
bering that Mr.. Hayes was continually
inspiring his personal friends and trusted
agents ,by every means in his power to
secure for him the. electoral vote. OF
Florida and Louisiana, and believing 1t
to have been conscious wrong on his
part, done with acknowledge that he had
not been elected, as his subsequent repu-
distion of Goyernor Packard, whose title
was bound up. in his own, and his willful
and cowardly desertion' OF the very men
who contributed so largely to his election
has shown my contempt for the pihable
littleness of the man is beyond my power
of expression. Mr.. Hayes, has denied
Sthe, aalidityiiof his. own title in denying
Governor Packatd's. He has ignored
his Florida friends, showing he believed
them unworthy and stainted with fraud /;
vet he holds on to the Presidency, which
in his own opinion was secured by this
very fraud. He has cowardly abandoned
and betrayed his Southern Republican
friends through fear of being ousted from
an Office that he believed he never vas
elected to by the people. 5Whate7er may
be the opinion of fmen in regard to my
motives, I give them facts and leave my
motives to Q higher tribunal.
.iIAI Az & SAMUEL B.SsMCL1N.
The laboye, wss signed and sworn to
before. the Clerk Of Thomas County,
Georgia. ,:1A ~ .is,a 96g
81 ~ L. @. DENNIS STATEMENT. {
"a The following is q statement made by
L. g. Dennis about the fraud in Alschua
County. 1t viii he supplemented. BY a.
more detailed statement: l,ian2 sL, q !.
af % yWAsHTNGToN, d. O., .Marchs22
aEsI hare resided in Alschua County,
Florida, since January, 1866, and was
elected to the.State Assem- bly, In 1876, at
the same time of the. Presidential cleo.
ton. I was at that time Q; member of
the State Ceatrall Committee of the Re-
publican Parry of FLORIDA, and also chair
man of the Republican committee OF
Alachua County. wss also President
, of the Board Of County Commissioners
of Alachua County from 1873 to 1877,
and was familiar with the manner of
registration and manner of voting, the
location Of tie polls snd all election ma
.chinery. As' Presid dent of the said board,
Ilocated all the polling places, appointed
all the inspectors who conducted the
election, received and counted the bal
lots, and dmade add certified to the re-
turns. I.sppointed as inspectors of
Archer precinct, box No. 2, Green T..
Moore, Floyd Duke and Richard 81.
Black. Thomas d. Vance went at my,
request to Archer precinct on the day
previous to the election, and vas appoin-
ted By the inspectors clerk of the cleo
ton at box No. 2, and served as such. I
was at GAINESVILLE on the day of election,
and on that night and the day following
my residence was the headquarters of
the Republican party, and during the
night preceding the election all informaT
lion was brought to, me there I,
Some time after midnight of that night
Inspector Black. came to my house and
reported to me that the result ,,os the
election at box No. 2 for Presidential
electors vas as follows: For the hayes
electors, 1S0; for the Tilden electors,
1856. A little later Mr. Vance, the. clerk
at said box No. g.. came and made the
same report. Subsequently both Black
and Vance came to me aud said they had
the returns from Archer Precinct box
No. 2 signed in blank by the inspectors,
and that they would make out the re-
turns so as to, meet the expectations of
their own party. They retired to pri-
vate room, where they remained two or
three hours, and then informed me that
they had added about 200 names to the
loll list as having voted, and had In
creased the Republican vote to that ex-
tent, and I afterwards learned that they
had added PIG names to the poll list.
entered the room where they were
employed there, and saw them copying
names from the county registration list
upon which those who had actually voted
at Archer Precinct No. 2, were checked
of, and,the new names l8ers selected from
the names of Republican voters who had
not already voted at that precinct. After
completing the returns lin this manner
they filed them with the ballot box with
the County Clerk.
The County Commisio met few
days after election, the board consisting
sof i. E. Webster, Clerk of the Court !;
w. II. Belton, Justice of the Peace, and
Louis A. Barnes, the Sheriff, all of whom
were Republicans. During the canvass
Inspector Moore appeared before the
board and submitted an affidavit to the
effect that. the returns, from Archer Pre-
cinct No. 2 we're false, and that the true
returns should be for the Hayes electors
1S0 votes, and the Nlden electors 19G
votes, but the board decided they could
not hear evidence as to the truth or falls
ity of the returns. and upon the face OF
the returns the vote of the county was aa
follows: For the Hayes electors, 1884
forithe Tilden electors, ], 1,267. This re-
suit included the 2l9 votes for the Hayes
electors which were aided to the vote
cast at Archer Precinct, box No, 2, by
Black and Vance. These returns were
sent to the Governor and Secretary oi
State. After these returns we're filed
with the Secretary of State an effort was
made to invalidate them so far as Archer
Precinct, box No. 2, was concerned.
| Afidavits signed by Floyd Dukes and
Green R. Moore, and an official state
ment from Mr.. Webster, clerk, was filed
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