The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-02
{ eespondenee cfMe New York Herald.l

sh:: 'esidsncy Was Stolen by the ma:si-
II, respondenee Of the New York Herald.l
JACKSONVILLE, april %, 1873.
In accordance with orders your cor
respondent reached this city few days
ago. After patient and careful investi-
CATION he is enabled TO repor. the follow
ing, which may be. relied upon, nothing
6eing stated but what there seems to be
the most perfect authority for. For sew
eral months capable agen. hes been at
work iE the State Of Florida, securing
auch evidence as would 70 to show that
the State went for Tilden and was fraud
| ulently counted for Hayes. It is impus-
| sible TO say in whose interest or by whose
orders this investis has been made.
The f.gent has been we'll supplied with
funds, has accomplished things that
usually require money, has worked sys-
ter a'ically, and has had heavy cor
respondence with Washington and New
York, writing to evidently fictitious
names.
1t is said on one hand that he Is in
high Democratic employment, and by
| others that he represents The anti Hayes
wing. That he "a at work for some pow
erful and determined organization is GER
tain. He has worked with the utmost
| secrecy, and perhaps aot half dozen
persons outside Of those directly interest
| ed suspect what he has been doing. He
| declines to say q word, even in regard to
matters that I have traced to his very
fingers. He was in Florida during the
Returning Boart 'ampaign as q Repub-
lican official, a. has since then been
North. One thing is certain, he has sue
ceeded in getting from the managers of
the count the most complete confessions
of the fraud they committed. Enough
has been confessed to give the State to
Tilden by o large majority.
| THE STATE WENT FOR TILDEN.
McLin, & ,irman of the Returning
Board, has written at affidavit in which
he says that he is now convinced he was
misled in the count, and that the State
really went for Tilden by 500 to 600 ma
jority. He says Noyes, of Ohio, offered
him oil sorts Of preferment and reward if
he would only stand up to Hayes, adding
that he was authorized to speak for
Hayes. McLin says, inluep led by this
pressure, by his strong partisan bias and
5y tho tremendous stake ut issue, ne was
misled and gave the State to Hayes
when it should have been Tilden. His
|
mere promise of what he will say when
the occasion offers. Two copies Of this
affidavit are in existence-one in New
York and one in this city.
THE ALACHUA GIANTS CONFESSION.
1 The most important admission is made
by Dennis, the little giant of Alachua,
who has confessed in written statement
to the fraud of Archer number two,
where 2I9 votes were ded bodily to the
Alachua vote. Dennis lays that he &C.
cured election returns signed in blank
before the election. That night he had
| Vance aud Black at his house and they
destroyed the real returns and filled out
those that were signed in blank, adding
2l9 names. The whole details of the
work are given in the confession. Ihave
not seel4 this paper. The mysterious
agent, am informed, failed to get it,
and it is denied that it 10 in existence.
have the most positive information that
there is copy sealed and in the hands
of prominent Democratic official await
ing certain contingency. 1 have seen
two men who have seen this confession.
am told that Dennis disclosed it to
General Butler (who 10 his friend in
Washington), and that he possibly has q
copy of It.
| I am also reliably told that Dennis
read it to Senator Sergeant and demand
ed good position at the hands of Hayes.
Threatening 10 publish it if he was not
satisfied, he received, q few days ago, a
commission as revenue agent in Ohio.
In the meantime there were seven indict-
ments against Dennis in the State courts
which his friends claim were political
prosecutions. Against these cases a
nolle prosequi was entered on the 10th
iNst, by State Attorney Hooker. About
that tune full confession of Dennis as
to Alachua went into the hands of q
prominent Democrat, and is there yet.
1t ID said that Vance, the negro member,
who swore 80 stoutly in the Alachua case,
has also confessed and made statement.
l cannot vouch for this, however. Vance
is now in department in Washington.
Dennis lawyer claims that he did not
sans tsas o2ss suspended, and that the
State did so because 1t could do nothing
with them.
a few days after the election sealed
message was sent to Dennis asking him
to "add more names to the list, as there
isn't enough" He e..id, impatiently.
1--WE added all have to it already, and
can't add another name." hive this
from the most undoubted aource and it
part Of Dennis confession. Green
l.. Moore, who swore in this Alachua
case to the fraud and then deniad it, and
then reswore it, was killed the other day.
Floyd Duke, a negro, who swore all the
time that 1t was fraud, still sticks to it !;
so do Black and Belton. The Alachua
fraud, therefore, plain and proven
fraud--when first brought before the
Board, now stands confessed or ayowed
by every one of those who participated
In it.
BAKER COUNTY FRAUDS.
The Baker county case is shown up
quite as completely. It will be remem.
hered that this county, reliably demo
cratic and near to the capital, was held
back until the very last. The official re.
turns gave the democrats 95 majority.
BY strange coincidence the State was
jnst evenly balanced on the prima flcie
returns without this county, SO that as it
eteod I:!:;aaee::;; 1Tonld have had the STATE by
SO majority or just his majority in Baker
county. Itwas, of course, important that
Hayes should have the prima facio ,ictory
SO that there would be no appearance of
changing the verdict of tho people. Ae-
cordingly q new justice of the peace was
appointed, and new return made by
dropping out two precincts, so that It
gave Hayes an apparent majority of 43.
4 The Democratic managers were assonn.