Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-21
south Carolina Frauds.


The same kinds of tickets with which the |
Democrats stuffed the boxes there have |
been received from other districts in the
State, showing that their use was general
They are printed on tissue paper, ana are
two inches wide and three long. The re-
ports of the United States Supervisors |
show that they were extensively ana gen
orally used. They were found folded
in quantities of three to five in large |
numbers of the regular Democratic tick
ets. which were four or five times the size
of the tissue paper tickets. Judge Mackey
says:
"Afv Dear Sir: AS you anticipated, the
Democrats have counted me out. That
received majority of at least 5000 there
is no doubt; yet O'Connor is given by the
election officers a majority of 1000, and
perhaps it will be more. How it has been
done 1 shall tell you, and 1 hope you will
publish the facts in every paper you can.
In the first place, in the appointment of
managers of the elections, the Democrat
ic Commissioners of Elections in several
counties in this district absolutely refused
to appoint single Republican manager
throughout the district, so that we were
compelled to vote without single cleo
tiOn officer to represent as i'm the entire
district. 1t is true we had United States
Supervisor appointed at each poll, and
though the Democratic managers at most
of the polls, admitted them into the poll
ing places, yet they threw every obstacle
they could in their way, and in no in
stance would they allow them to exercise
any authority, save to stand by and wit
ness the voting. In some instances the
authority of the Supervisors was entirely
| ignored. In one case the managers or
dered a Supervisor out of the polling
place, and upon his refusing to go, they
ordered the State ConstabIes to eject him,
which they did. This was the Mt. Pleas
ant poll, in this county. At the Palmetto
Engine House, in the Third Ward of this
city, the Supervisor was severely beaten
| by Democratic voters, and driven away
from the polls. The authority of the
United States MarshaIs was treated with
utter contempt; and to save themselves
from arrest by city and State authorities,
they were compelled to refrain from ex-
ercising any authority. In this city the
Democratic managers of elections arbi-
trarily refused at least two thousand
colored voters the right to vote. Unless
a colored man was known to one of the
managers of election, he was refused, un-
less he could bring witnesses to prove
where he resided. Manv were turned of
under pretext that they were not twenty
one years of age, or rather that the man.
ayers were doubtful of 1t. At the last
session of the Legislature, two voting
precincts in st. Andrews Paris were
abolished, and the 900 colored voters OF
that section left without polling place
The parish is only separated from the
city by Ashley River, and used to be con
nected with Charleston by a bridge, which
you will probably recollect was burned
at the evacuation of the city by the rebels
The people crossed over to the city o.
Charleston for the purpose of voting, bu
the Democratic managers would not re-
ceive their votes, though the city o1
Charleston was the only place where they
could vote. The Legislature also abolish
ed all voting places on the State road be.
tween Charleston and Summerville, an6
yet when people came to Charleston Il
vote, Democratic managers denied then
the privilege, telling them to go and vote
where they lived, although they knew
full we'll that there was no polling place.
where they resided. Notwithstanding al
these outrages the Republicans carried
this county by at least 4 900; but, to thei
utter surprise, when the ballot-boxes wer
{ opened at the various polls, the bOxe
were found to contain, in most cases, sew
aral hundred more ballots than there wer
pames on the poll list. Out of thirty-tw'
polls in this county, at twenty of then
/ the ballots were largely in excess of tn
names on the poll list. Every ballot bo!
I was stuffed with tickets of the kind in
. close. These tickets were not circulate
during the election, but had been printe
by the Democratic Executive Committe
and distributed among the managers only
The regular Democratic tickets as we
. as the Republican tickets were five time
as large. In most instances, especial
: where very few Democratic votes wer
: cast, the managers, after counting tn
OdiiOJS anu dSCCL liO C2ASCSSS IG
turned them to the ballot-box, but wer
careful to leave them unfolded, and pre-
ceeded to draw out the number of ballot
n in excess. They were careful, hOweve
) to throw out none of these small tickets
u but in every instance large Republica
! ballots were drawn out and destroyed
At Mt. Pleasant 482 Republican ballot
were thus drawn out and destroyed, an
b. this poll, where Republicans had vote
d five to one against the Democrats, wa
) made to give Democratic majority c
326.
'The most outrageous cases of ballot
'; box stuffing occurred at polls in War
: Three of this city.
) cat poll known as Palmetto Engin
House, one of the managers, w. L. Dos
get, the foreman of the Neao md Courit
e Job Printing Office, stuffed $500 of thes
:, little tickets into the box after the po
II was closed. The managers finding tn,
) there was 1863 ballots in the box, declfn
ed to throw out any, but counted thel
and returned the vote of that poll as At
= for Mackey, and 3 3,1O9 for O'Connor. 4
q the other polls in this ward, the same a
U was performed, and the managers return
ed l2l for Mackey and 1856 for o Como
So that one ward out of eight in the ell
, was made to give a majority of 4 .3G
j. votes for O'Connor. The utter imposs
bility of voting, 3 ,569 persons at one pol
and in the space of twelve hours, nee
ar hardly be argued. AS the managers swol
ie each voter separately, and in many cas-
consumed three or four minutes question
ing voters, it is safe to say that the avel
rryy age time consumed in voting each ma
h. was one minute, which would allow Z: