The daily gazette., 1878-03-05
STOLEN ELECTORAL VOTES.
A Repuablfcan tells how South
Carolina was Counted J y
ai4 for Hayes.

afE fQr Hayes.
Ex- Governor F. T. Moses In the N. Y. Sun
Under tho law the state Can vassi nR
Board was required to meet In the Ss-
cretary OF States Office within ten days
after each state OF cuunty election, and
then aud there to proceed to open the
boxes and determine the result of the
election. On the occasion OF which
speak, these ten days expired on Tues
day, and IL was on the Sunday preceding
this Tuesday that the work of Altering the
returns was effected. On that day, ac-
cording to the proffered but rejected tes-
timony before the investigating commit
tee by John B. Dennis, and by others
who agree with him In their narration OF
the facts, there assembled in the Secre-
tary Of States Office, with doors barred
against all other corners, the following
mem bers Of the Board of State Canvas
sers: II. l.. Cardoza, state Treasurer;
Henry Il. Hayne. Secretary of State;
William Stone, Attorney General (law
partner OF ID. 4. Corbln), and Thomas
q. Dunn, Comptroller General.
The last-named man was the head and
front of the whole Infamous business,
and, according to the testimony of Dennis
aud Others who know whereof they
speak, he had planned aud proposed the
| nsfarious transaction in which they had
assembled there to engage. They had
with them as co-laborers and counselors
In their work Judge Cartier, of WASH
inRton, ID. u, whe had been making
himself very active in consultations with
the board, aAd whom it was said had
been specially sent from Washington to
see that the State was counted for Hayes.
Judge Settle, of North Carolina, was
also present, lending his valuable aid.
| aud WAS accompanid by one Judge
Dewey, from one of the Western States,
who up to that time was entirely lun-
known in South CaroliEa.
1t must be borne in mind that pre-
vious 10 that time and Immediate after
the close OF the campaign II was gsner-
ally supposed that the State had gone for
Hampton, and probably for Tilden, and
1t was as generally supposed that the
| Board OF State Canyassers would reverse,
or attempt to reverse, the decision of the
people by throwing out, under the charge
of their being illegal, sufficient Democra.
tic votes to alter the result. But 1t was
not thought possi BILE that resort would be
had to the most glaring aud villainour
fraud. ~ 20 7tt4 I'D
In ofder to prevent the Returning
Board from going behind the returns
and altering aud changing the same
their po wor TO do which under the law
the Democrats steadily denied the lattel
had applied to the Supreme Court fol
two separate iDjunctons against the
board, one to restrain them from GONE
behind the returns in the case OF the
lState, and the other to accomplish tht
same purpose in reference To the Presi
Idsntial contest. In each case the cour
had granted preliminary injunctions
copies of which had been served OF
leverymemBer of the board. The coun
sci Of record for the latter were d. 4
Corbin, Robert X, Elliott, the negro, ex
Congressman, and the Judge Dewe,
laboye referred to. But the real powe
behind the scenes was the Judge Carte
from Washington, who kept up coustan
telegraphic communication with the ma
tional authorities in that city. Chamber
lain also spent days and nights in ear
nest consultation with the board ami
their counsel. Z
The party OF conspirators who. had as
lsembled in the Office of the Secretar.
of State proceeded To open and yerif!
lhdd carried the .Stdie by ouer one ul0usdn,
majOrity Of strictly legal votes.
AT ouce it was determined that such
result must be reversed, and to effec
|, this the returns of several Republican
( counties were tampered with, so as to In
, crease the majorities which they ha'
! really Civ. n TO Hayes and Wheeler. Tn
figuring was done by Hayne, Cardoza
Stone, Dunn and Cartier, and the altera
ton of the returns was achieved by Dun
alone. who has since been heard TO say II
Washington, while there as an applican
for the Charleston Collectorship of Cur
toms, that it was his right haEd whic
had saved South Carolina for Hayes
and that he could prove it by Judg
: Cartier.