The daily gazette., 1878-04-27

and much attention given to this pre-
clnct; but L have recently learned from
the Republican leader of that county that
after the returns had been brought to
Gainesville, the county seat, 219 votes
were added to the returns by the inspec-
tors and clerk of said precinct. In Leon
county "a small Republican ballots were
stuffed into the ballot box at Precinct No
y, yet 1t was made to appear, even to the
satisfaction of the Democratic member of
! the board, that these We're true ballots
/ Subsequent confession shows that they
were stuffed into the box. | had seen
Joseph Bowes, one of the inspectors,
have tickets similar to them few days
before the election, and cautioned him
against their use, unless they were gene
rally adopted, and l afterward learned
he had given them up. In Jefferson
county IN a certain precinct, at which
, MIR. j. Bell, was inspector, 100 votes were
surreptitiously added to the ballots and
counted. No charge was made as to this
fact before the board.
| The confession of j. Bell, since made
to me, discloses the fact that had the 219
votes fraudulently added to the Archer
return, and the "a votes stuffed IN the
/ box III Leon county, and the 100 votes
surreptitioulsly added in Jefferson coun-
ty, aggregating 393 votes, been rejected
and the Democratic rejected precincts,
which were excluded for irregularity and
lllegality, contrary TO the decision of the
Supreme Court been retained and coun-
ted, Mr.. Tilden would have carried the
State. The conclusions, therefore, is ir-
BILE that Mr.. Tilden was entitled to
the electoral vote of Florida, and not
Mr.. Hayes.
In making this statement my motives
will doubtless be questioned by many,
but the facts will stand alone as the truth,
without any mere motives to sustain
them. L am free to admit that viewing
things as l now do, and remembering
that Mr.. Hayes was continually inspir-
Ing his personal friends and trusted
agents by every means in his power to
secure for him the electoral vote of
Florida and Louisiana, and believing it
to have been conscious wrong ON his
part, done with knowledge that he had
not been elected, as his subsequent re-
pudiation of Gov. Packard, whose title
was bound up in his own, and his wilful
and cowardly desertion of the very men
who contributed SO largely TO his cleo
tlon, has shown, my contempt for the
pitiable littleness of the man is beyond
my power of expression. Mr.. Hayes has
denied the validity of his own title in
denying Gov. Packard's. lie has ignor-
ed his Florida friends, showing he be-
heved them unworthy and tainted with
Il fraud; yet he holds on to the Presiden-
cy, which in his own opinion, was Sc
cured by this very fraud. He has coward
ly abandoned and betrayed his Southern
Republican friends through fear of being
ousted from an office that he believed he
never was elected to by the people.
Whatever may be the opinion of men in
regard TO my motives, give them facts,
and leave my motives To higher tribu-
nal. S. B. MCLIN.
State Of Georgia, Thomas County. Before
me. James W. Groover, Clerk Of the Su =
perior Court in and for SAID county, the
same being "a court of record, and the said
James w. Grower being the custodian of
The records and seal OF said court, and duly
authorized to administer oaths, personally y
came Saml B. McLin, who, being duly
sworn, on oath says the above statement
made and signed by him is correct and
true to the best of his knowledge and belief
so help him God.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
the 25d of March, 1873. S. b. MoLIN.
[sEAL.l JAMES w. GROVER,
Clerk superior Court Thomas Co., Ga.