The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-23

had q United States Supervisor appointed at
each poll, and, though the Democratic Man.
the polling places, yet they threw every OBJ
stacle they could in their way, and in no in
stance would they allow them to exercise
any authority, save to stand by and witness
the voting. In some instances the authority
of the Supervisors was entirely ignored. In
one case the Managers ordered the Super
refusing to 20, they ordered the he's State C Con.
stables to eject him, which they did. This
was at Mt. Pleasant poll, in this county. At
citv tbe Ws bes 81 I'M, y
the Democratic voters, and driven away from
the polls. The authority of the United States
Marshals was treated with utter contempt,
and. to save themselves from arrest by the
city and State authorities, they were
compelled to refrain from exercising any
authority. In this city the Democratic
least 1000 colored voters the right to vote.
Unless the colored man was known to one of
the Managers of Election. he was refused,
where he resided. Many were turned off un-
der the pretext that they were under 81 years
of age, or, rather, that the Managers were
islature two voting precincts in st. Andrews
Parish were abolished, and the 800 voters of
that section left without q polling place. The
parish u only separated from the city by the
Charleston by bridge which you will prob
ably recollect was burnt at the evacuation of
the city by the Rebels. The people crossed
overstO the City of Charleston for the pur
pose of voting, but the Democratic Managers
would not receive their votes, though the
City of Charleston was the only place where
fshed oil voting places on the State Road be-
tween Charleston and Summerville; and yet,
when the people came to Charleston to vote,
privilege, telling them to go and vote where
theylived, although they knew full well that
there was no polling placewhere they resided.
NotWithssanding an these outrages, the Re-
majority. but, to their utter surprise,
the ballot boxes were opened at the various
polls, the boxes were found to contain, in
most cases, several hundred more ballots
than there were names on the poll-list. Out
of 81 polls in this county. at 20 of them the
ballots were largely in excess of the names
ed with tickets of the kind inclose. These
The q election, but had been print:
Committee. and distributed amongst the
Managers only. The regular Democratic
tickets, as well as the Republican tickets,
especially where very few Democratic votes
were cast. The Managers, after counting the
ballots and ascertaining the excess, returned
leave them unfolded, and proceeded to draw
out the number of ballots in excess They
were careful, however, to throw out none of
these these small tickets. but in every instance the
destroyed. At Mount Pleasant poll 4S2 Re-
publican ballots were thus drawn out and
destroyed, and this poll, where the Republi
Gratis. was made to give q Democratic ma
tority of SEQ. The most outrageous case of
ballot box stunning occurred at the polls in
Palmetto Engine house, one of the Mama
gers, w. L. Doggett. the foreman of the Nescs
and Courier Job printing Office. stuffed 800 of
these little tickets in the box after the poll
closed. MAna0Qra finding here
were ,569 ballots in the box declined to throw
>out any, but counted them all, and returned
o e pos
ward the same act was performed, and the
Managers returned 12l for Mackey and 1866
for O'Conner. 80 that one ward out of the
eight in the city was made to give a majority
OF 4 392 votes for OConner. The utter impos-
sibility of voting 1853 persons at one poll in
the space OF twelve hours needs hardly to be
separately, and, in many cases, consumed
three or four minutes in questioning voters,
1t ts safe TO say that the average time consum-
would allow 10 votes to be polled, provided
there was continuous stream of voters dur
ing the twelve hours the polls were open.
tna
space Of twelve hours. By this method
Charleston City is made to give O'Conner q
OF OF %aHIby the
out this county and the entire district boxes
we're stuffed In the same way, not only in
Charleston but in Clarendon. Not satisfied
with stufing the ballot boxes, the Demo-
Gratis, finding It impossible to stuff the
ballot boxes at Washington Engine.
house, in Ward 6, because of Che vigilance of
lights and stole the box and destroyed Il, be-
cause had majority of about 500 there. On
Edtsto Island, where 1000 Republican voters
about 10 or 50 votes. the Democratic Com
misstOners failed to open the polls, thus &C.
tually DISTINGUISHING these voters. It is use
less writing any more Of these disgusting de-
compelled to submit to. The publication of
them, am afraid. will do little good. But,
still, publish them, far and wide, so as the
world may know to what crimes the SO called
respectable Democrats of South Carolina
will descend. The inmates of the South Car
olfna PenitentiAry would not be guilty Of the
acts committed on Tuesday by the Derco-
Gratis of this State. Yours truly,
E.W. AACKEY,