The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-05-04

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Of since.
Near Ida City the house, barn and
granaries of Peter Lloyd were des-
troyed. Cattle, horses and five calves
were thrown one hundred feet in the;
air and not killed.
THE FLORIDA SENSATION.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-The etfer'
vesence of the Florida sensation has
already worked off, and to day the
thing is as fiat as stale beer. This is
not, hewever, from any lack Of mat
ter on the subject, as food of affi'
daVits is. now poured out to whoever
will take them. The managers of
Tilden's 'tstill hunt" have obtained
from officials of Baker, Duval, Leon
and Alachua and other counties in
Florida several statements similar to
the confession" naade by Samuel B.
McLn, and they have made the
entire lot public. These statements
assert that varioas frauds were COM
mitted in the interests of the Repub-
lican ticket, either by pudding tick
cts or alteration of returns. One of
the MOST important affidavits is from
l.. G.. DenT7is, about the election in
Alachua county, where AS chairman
of the Republican Comnit tee, he re-
ceived the result of the election at
Box No. 2 for Presidential Electors.
At first he says it was 100 for Hayes,
1876 for Tilden ; but Black and Vance,,
two Inspectors, told him they added
200 names to- the polling list, and in
creased the Republican vote to that
extent. When the County Commits
sioners met few days afterward In
spector Moore (Republican) swOre'
that the returns from Archer precinct
No. 2, were false, and that the true
vote should be For Hayes, 1870; for
Tilden. 1876, Moore, Duke, and other
Commissioners, afterward, under
counter affidavits, denying their for
mer statements. The Grand Jury of
Alachua failed to find any fraud, and
the result was that the returns giving
Hayes 2l9 votes more than were cast
for him were counted.
The Democratic managers nave
been carrying on secret investiga-
ton in Louisiana, as we'll as Florida,
and the next explosion will probably
come from the former State. The
letter which Secretary Sherman is
said 20 have given to Weber and An
derson, Inspectors of Election in the
Feliciana parishes, will in all proba.
bility play an important part in any
disclosures which may come from
New Orleans. A copy of it Is repor-
ted to be here now. All the confess
sions which the skilled solicitations
of the Tilden agents may secure will
be made use of by the Judiciary
Committee for the preparation of a
campaign document in the guise
of report on the Blair memorial
and the Quo Warranto bill.
1t is stated, with positiveness that
leaves little room for doubt, that
Senator Conkling has all along been
aware of the proceedings which have
resulted in the Florida disclosures.
Judge Morton, who is Il protege of
the Senator's, secured McLin's con-
fession and forwarded il to Washing
ton. 1t is reported that the confess
sion was first offered to him, with
the request that he embody it in a
speech in the Senate. But while Mr..
Conkling has been aware of the pro-
ceedings, it is not believed that he
has taken any part in directing
them.
No one believes that the disclosures
will affect the action of the House on
the Blair bill. They constitute merely
a short-lived political sensation, of
possible campaign utility, but which
will be altogether. void of effect so
far as inducing Congress to reopen
the Presidential question is concern
ed. The restless agitator, Blair, will
keep stirring around. but his per-
sistence will, at least in this case :,
be frwitless.
TIE LOST CAUSE.
MACON, GA, April 26.-In a letter
to the Memorial Association of
Macon, in response to an invitation
to deliver anaddress, Jefferson Davis,
says
"Let not amy of the survivors inn
pugn their faith by the penitentiar
plea that they believed they were
right. y Let posterity learn
by this monument that you comp
rDemorate men who died in defen =
siye war that they did not, as has.
been idly stated, submit to the arbi-
trament Of arms the question at issue,
questions involving inalienable.
rights, Inherited and held in trust