Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-11

for the Republicans of Florida. The witness said
that his party feeling had TO do with his course
In the board than other cause and did not know
that he directly Influenced by promises OF ONCE
though these were not without weight. He felt as,
suIed that so far pecuniary profit went. he could
gain much by casting his vote One way as the
other. Witness said that he had come to the con-
cusion that IL the board hal followed the iDstruc
tiOns of the supreme court of the State, and had
cIunted the precincts which were thro~n out By them
and had thrown out the counties of Alachua, Leon
and Jefferson. n which fraud had evil
IDENTIFY been committed, the State would Ger
tainly have went for Tilden: In Jefferson
publican VOTES were surreptitiousiy eoun-et, and
that in Alachua two hundred and nineteen Repub-
lican votes had been added to the poist after the
election; these facts had come TO his know!edse
uaTy. 1877 By Howell. then deputy Collector Of in
terna revenue, and recently appointed collector at
Fernandns thai ne mad gTten up me Prggers re-
cincts, and making Baker county publican instead
senator AZ the election in 1874. Witness was also
told, In February last, by L. III Dennis, of A!achua
Archer precinct No 2 after the election brought the
returns no TO Gainesville and there added two hun
dred and nineteen Republican votes; Dennis said to
witness in Washington, that he desir. to make an
exposure OF what be knew OF the frauds in the Pres
ardson Leon county said to the witness about Jan
uay 1st 1877 that he would have to leave the State
for having stuffed the ballot-box at Richardson,
Leon county with fraudulent tickets known as little
jokers;' seveRtyfOur of them were fraudulenty put
were going to go for him, and he had to leave the
State right away. The other parties mentioned now
witness was shown by Barnes one of the little
joker tickets prior to the election and Informed
BY Barnes =, that the use Intended to be made Of
so the voter would vote two instead of at time
witness demonstrated against this, and thought at
the time that The plan had been given up; Bell,
county Judge of Jefferson county, disclosed to wit
ness, in Washington last winter, the manner in
which one hundred Republican ballots were substi-
tut5d for hundred other ballots the precinct
at which Bell served as inspector at the Presidential
election; the inference which witness drew that
the substitution made change of two hundred votes
ON examination by Hiscock witness testified that
no direct offers of money were made by either Noyes
Stearns to Influence his official action; on one Oc
of his belief that the State had fairly gvsn its vote
for T1lden and that fraud being resorted to by
the Republicans to give the Sta e to Hayes made
appeal to him to his duty; witness replied that
If he felt that Hayes elected he would Idle in the
he alleged Marble said, There is no danger, if you
do right, Of dying in the ditch dying poor;''
think Mr.. Marble had sequently made public
denial of having approached witne S; witness test-
fled that at the time of the much excitement
prevailed and that he received threatening letters
from anonymous sources, and at time in fear
OF bodily harm, because when going home one night
by a man on horseback unknown to him, though
neither on this nor any other occasion violence
by Marble again man reported to be on his way
from New York, claiming to represent Tilden. and
influencing witness In his Official conduct; Marble
emphatically asserted hat Tilden knew nothing of
any such man. and had nothing to do with such
characters as he, ana would co1ntenance no such
proceeding; witness did not at the time understand
from tue representations made br NOyes, Wallace
aud Others that they suggested to him anything
that was immoral or wrong, but that they were
simply commencing him for doing what right,
at the same time conveying the assurance that he
would be provided for because of the service he was
rendering. Witness had no knowledge of the can
vasS frauds narrated by him in his published aft
davit, and his present knowledge of them was con-
fined to the representations made to him by the au
thors of them In some instances they came from
disappointed .Qf1ce-seekers, though BOwes, Howell
and others had been provided for, and holding
office under the administration. If called upon, un-
der like circumstances, In the absence of the dec-
sion of the suCreme court, with these personal rep
RESERVATIONS of fraud he would not decide he did
to Tlden for he believed these representations to be
true, from his knowledge of the men. Witness fur
ther testif that the entire elec ion machinery of
the State, IN 1876, in the hands of the ap-
ponteeS of Governor Stearns
WILLIAM ARCHER COOKE,
who was encouragement of Florida and one of the
three members of the returningboard in 1875, tes-
titled that upon two occasions at the hour appointed
for the nesting of the board, he attended at the
close of the secretary OF states office where the
board met, he was obliged to wait an hour before
gaining admission that when the door was I'M
lock- from the inside General NOyes and Governor
Stearns passed out and inside he und Cowgirl and
NJ Lin, and other members of the board.
Mr. 5. B. MLin being recalled could not recollect
the occasions mentioned by COcRe.
SECRETARY-OF-STATE BLOXHAMs
testified to having made search among the Baker
county papers on file in the governors Office and
that no duplicate OF DriggersS return was found
there.
LR. BOOTH, COLORED.
inspector at Richardson precinct, Leon county at
the Presidential election testified that he saw none
OF the seventy-fOur little joker tickets about he
place voted that day. and he first knew of them
by seeing them Ia the ballOt-bOX on counting tie
None of them live within ten miles of the voting
place.