The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-05-03
The Stolen Presidency.
DISCLOSURES OF THE FLORIDA ELECTORAL.
FRAUDS.

Judge McLin, one or the members of the
Returning Board of Florida, has given a
sworn statement to the public, reciting tie
details of the election frauds perpetrated
in Florida to transfer :he electoral vote Of
that State from Tilden to Hayes. He
says
If the board had acted in accordance with the
decision OF the Supreme Court Of the State. de-
huug the powers and duties Of the board In
reference to throwing out precincts, since rem
dered' there IS no question OF the fact that Mr..
Iilden would have been entitled to the vote of
Florida. Excluding the return from Baker
county which was county, and which have
since learned from the parties who made il was
falsely manufactured return, and including
the true return, which corresponded with tb1,
precinct returns Of that county won Id certain
ly have given the state to Mr.. 1ilden. Archer
precinct. No. .. AIachua county was i'm the
count. The fraud committed in this precinct
was not shown 20 the board by the Democratic
lawyers, although a contest was made and
much attention given to this precinct but |
have recently learned from the Republican
leader Of that county that after the returns
had been brought to Gainesville, county-seat,
2l9 votes were added 10 the returns By the in
spectnrs and clerk of said nrecinct Tn fanr
cOulky Il small Republican ballots were stuffed
into the baIlOt-bOX ut precinct No. Q; yet il
was made 10 appear, even to the satisfaction of
the Democratic member of the board, that
these were not false ballots. Subsequent con-
fession shows that they were stuffed into the
tors, have tickets similar to them a few DAYS
before the election, and cautioned him against
and afterward Icarnt1 he had given them UP.
In Jefferson county, in a cer;ain precinct, ut
which Mr. ). Bell was inspector, 100 votes were
surreptitiOusly added TO the ballots and count
ed. No charge was made to this fact before
made to me, disclOses the fact that had.the sI9
votes fraUdulentiy added to the 4 rcher return,
county, and the 100 votes surrepttiously added
IN Jefferson county, aggregating 393 votes, been
rejected, and the Democratic rejected pre-
cinctS which were excluded for frrcEuIurity
and illegality, contrary to the decision of the
Mr.. Tilden wouIi have carried the State The
Gonciusion' therefore, Is irresistible, that Mr.
IiIden was entitled to the electoral vote of
Florida, and not Mr.. Hayes.
HAYES COGNIzANT OF THE FRAUD.
In making this statement my motives will
doubtless be questioned by many, but the facts
motives to sustain them, / am free - admit
that viewing things as / now do, and remem-
boring that Mr.. Hayes was continually insptr-
ing his personal friends and trusted agents by
every means in his power to secure for him the
lieying it TO have been conscious wrong on
his part, done with knowledge that he had not
Gov. Packard whose title was bound up in his
own, and his willfui an d cowardIy desertion of
tne very men who contributed SO largely TO his
tci.In ticcnIon has SHOWN my contempt Tor the pllla-
bic liftieness of the man is beyond my powerof
expression. Mr.. Hayes has dcnit the validity
o. ms own ute IN denying Governer Packard s.
He has ignored his Florida friends, showing he
believed them unworthy and tainted with
fraud yet be holds on To the Presidency, which,
IN his own opinion, was secured by this very
ildut re mas COWaruiy abandoned and be-
trayed his Southern Republican friends thro'
fear OF, being oustcd from an Office that he be-
lteVed he never was elected to by the people.
Whatever may be the opinion of men in rega rd
to my motives, give them facts, and leave nv
SAMUEL b. McL1N,
The above was signed and sworn to be-
fore the Clerk of Thomas county, Ga.
STATEMENT OF SENATOR DI1NNIs.
The confession of Judge McLin is cor
TObnTa ted Inv rha n Of n,
mis-, given In person to a CORRESPONDENTS of
the New York Herald. Dennis has been
Republican Senator for eight consecutive
years, was chairman of the Republican
! committee Of Alachua county and president
of tho Board of Commissioners. He says !:
Il don't mind saying that am certain the
State pt Florida went tor Tilden on the face of
the returns, and that he should have had it,
wIli go further. and say there has not been a
time in the last three months when if 7 no i
been convinced that crushing proof of the fact
that Iliden carried the State would turn HAYES
out and give Tilden his rights | would nor
have gladly furnished such proof. know tnat
1t my proof went before Congress no man couII
stand up and VoIe to keen HAYES i'm his scat
told Uncle Ben General Butler) what | cuuld
do and while he thinks Hayes should be turned
out, he thought il best to wait Till s0nt. action
hHd been taken hy congress in the matter 7
talked With Senator Hamiin about it also
PRESIDENT HAYES KNEW ALL.
''Did the President know that you had
these facts in reserve ?''
''Of course he did, all the time. Moves
and the rest Of them told him. | met him
frequently and he always treated me yery
kindly, saying that he had been told about
me. He gave me notes to the departments
asking that be given place. [ wanted
to be an auditor, and | declined three
places, holding one only a few weeks
why then, do you oppose Hayes ?''
because he is a traitor to the party that
put him in, and treated my friends badly.
As Conkling says, if the country only knew
Hayes as well as Congress does he would
be despised on all sides. Moves knew of
every movement that was made in Florida
and Hayes knew it through him. | know
this to be true and can show it when the
time Comes"
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