The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-02

OF the Board to turn out and not include in
'he count or retain and count precincts G n
tine ground of the
'AAL CONDUCT OF THE ELECTIONS
OF rand that was charged to exist. The
a''ornes,"eneraiy of the State and mem.
per OF ihe Board, had decided that the
Board had Just judicial power and Nd
| right 20 exclud e precincts from the corn, -
the returns were shown to be SO irrec,,,,r
false or fraudulent as to prevent the HoarJ
from ascertaining from them the true vote
With this view Of its duties, the Board en-.
tered upon the work Of the canvass with the
conviction that they were invested with
large discretionary powers, which were Of
A MIXED CHARACTER.
political and judicial, the political largely
! predomInating- Partisan zeal and strong
political ties had a powerful influence in
the exercise Of these powers, and the Re-
pubiicans having a majority on the Board.
and the canvass waslargely in their favor as
the result proved. If the Board had acted
| in accordance with the decision of the SUI
preme Court of the State inde6ning the
powers and duties of the Board in refer
ence to throwing out precints, since render
~.
Tilden would have been
ENTITLED TO THE VOTE OF FLORIDA.
Excluding the return from Baker county,
which was counted, and which have since
learned from the parties who made 1t. was
falsely manufactured return, and includ-
ing the true return which corresponded
with the precinct returns Of that county. it |
would certainly have given the State to Til |
den. Archer Precinct No. =, Alachchia |
county, was included in the count The |
fraud committed in this precinct was not |
shown to the Board by the Democratic law
yers, although 4
CONTEST WAS MADE
and much attention given this precinct, but
! have recently learned from Republican
leaders of that county that after the returns
ty seat, two hundred and nineteen votes
were added to the returns by the inspector
and clerk of said precinct. In Leon county,
stuffed into the ballot box at precinct No. 9.
Yet it was made to appear, even to the sat
sfsction of the Democratic member of the
Board, that these were not false ballots.
Subsequent confession shows that they
were
STUFFED INTO THE BOX.
have seen Joseph Bowers, one of the in ,
'pectors, have tickets similar to them, l az
erward learned that he had given them up
in Jefferson county. In certain precincts
1t which Mr.. ]. Bell was inspector, one
hundred votes were surreptitiously added to
he ballots and counted, but no charge was
made as to this fact before the Board. The ,
of j. Bell, since made to ME, :
iiscloses the fact that, had two hundred and {
nineteen votes fraudulently added to the ,
Archer return, and the seventy-iour votes :
stuffed in the box in Leon county, and the ,
one hundred votes surreptitiously added in
Jefferson county, aggregating three hundred
and ninety-one votes, been rejected and the |
Democratic rejected precincts which were .
for irregularity and illegality con
ray to the decision OF the Supreme Court,
been retained and counted, Mr.. Tilden
would have carried the State.
THE CONCLUSION,
therefore,, il irrisistable, that Mr. Tilden
vas entitled to the ELECTORAL vote of Flori-
Ia, not Mr.. HAYES. In making this state
nent my motives will doubtless be ques-
ioned by many, but the facts will stand
lone as the truth, without any mere mo- !:
ives to sustain them. am free to admit | !
hat, viewing things as l now do, and re-
nembering that Mr.. Hayes was continually
Inspiring his personal friends, and, through
gents and by every means in his power, to i.
ecure for him the ELECTORAL vote Of Flori- !
a and Louisina, and believing it to have
cen
CONSCIOUS WRONG .
n his part, done with the knowledge that :,
e had not been elected, as his subsequent :,
epudiation of Governor Packard, whose :,
tile was bound upon his own, and his will =
ii and cowardly desertion of the very men
no had contributed so largely to his cleo
on has shown, my contempt for the pitia- :
Ie littleness Of the man is beyong my power r
expression. MIR. Hayes has h
DENIED THE VALIDITY W
his own title in denying Gov. Packard.
Ie has ignored his Florida friends, showing Il
nat he believed them unworthy and faint
4 with a fraud, yet he holds on to the b
which, in his own opinion, was
,cured by this very fraud, and he has ei
1wardly abandoned and betrayed his al
outhern Republican friends through the v
ar of being ousted from an Office that he p
elieved he never was elected to by the peo-
lie. Whatever may be the opinion OF men W
regard to my motives, | give them these st
Icts and leave my motives to a higher &C
'ibunal. ii
[Signed,1 SAM'L B. MCLIN." er
This statement, given above. was signed Il
nd sworn to before the clerk of Thomas
'unty, Georgia. dl
Rig Days Work In the Hays City. in
KAN. Register Of Deeds Office. n
pecial to the Leavenworth TINEs.l =,
HAYS Cry, April 25.-One hundred and M
venty one entries, covering eighteen thou
md seven hundred and thirty-five acres u
nd fifty-three hundredths, were made in h
lie Hays City office today. c,