The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-02
HAYES FRAUDULENT TITLE.
THE BOTTOM FALLS OUT OF THE
FLORIDA CASE.
The True Inwardness of tho Way In which
the Presidency wns Stolen by tho Kadi-
[Correspondence ofhe Msw York Herald. ]

The True lnwardness of tho Way In which
the Presidency was Stolen by tho Kadi-
Gals.
Correspondence Of the Nsw York Heraldl
JACKSONVILLE, April %, 1873.
In accordance with orders your cor
respondent reached this city few days
ago. After patient and careful investi-
CATION he is enabled to report the follow
ing, which may be relied upon, nothing
being stated but what there seems to be
the most perfect authority for. For sew
eral months capable agent has been at
work in the State of Florida, securing
such evidence as would 60 TO show that
the State went for Tilden and was fraud
ulently counted for Hayes. 1t is impos-
sible to say in whose interest or by whose
orders this investigation has been made.
The agent has been we'll supplied with
funds, has accomplished things that
usually require money, has worked sys-
tematically, and has had a heavy cor
respondence with Washington and New
York, writing to evidently fictitious
names.
1t is said on one hand that he is in
high Democratic employment, and by
others that be represents the anti-Hayes
wing. That he is at work for some pow
erful and determined organization is GER
tain. He has worked with the utmost
secrecy, and perhaps not half dozen
persons outside of those directly interest
ed suspect what he has been doing. He
declines to say word, even in regard to
matters that I have traced to his very
fingers. He was in Florida during the
Returning Board campaign as Repub-
lican official, and has since then been
North. One thing is certain, he has sue
ceeded in getting from the managers OF
the count the most complete confessions
of the fraud they committed. Enough
has been confessed to give the State to
Tilden by large majority.
THE STATE WENT FOR TILDEN.
McLin, chairman of the Returning
Board, has written an affidavit in which
he says that he is now convinced he was
misled in the count, and that the State
really went for Tilden by 500 to 600 ma
jority. He says Noyes, of Ohio, offered
him all sorts of preferment and reward if
he would only stand up to Hayes, adding
that he was authorized to speak for
Hayes. McLin says, influenced by this
pressure, by his strong partisan bias and
by tho tremendous stake at issue, he was
misled and gave the State to Hayes
when it should have been Tilden. His
| affidavit is general in its nature, and is q
mere promise of what he will say when
the occasion offers. Two copies of this
affidavit are in existence-one in New
York and one in this city.
THE ALAcHUA GIANTS CONFESSION.
The most important admission is made
by Dennis, the little giant of Alachua,
| who has confessed in written statement
to the fraud of Archer number two,
where PIG votes were added bodily to the
Alacnua vote. Dennis says that he &C.
cured election returns signed in blank
before the election. That night he had
Vance and Black at his house and they
destroyed the real returns and filled out
those that were signed in blank, adding
PIG names. The whole details of the
work are given in the confession. Ihave
not seen this paper. The mysterious
agent, I am informed, failed to get it,
and it is denied that it is in existence.
I have the most positive information that
there is copy sealed and in the hands
| of prominent Democratic official await.
ing certain contingency. I have seen
two men who have seen this confession
T am told that Dennis disclosed it ia
General Butler (who is his friend in
Washington, and that he possibly has 6
copy of it.
I am also reliably told that Dennis
read it to Senator Sergeant and demand
ed good position at the hands of Hayes.
Threatening 10 publish it if he was not
satisfied, he received, a few days ago, q
commission as revenue agent in Ohio.
In the meantime there were seven indict-
ments against Dennis in the State courts
which his friends claim were political
| prosecutions. Against these cases a
nolle prosequi was entered on the 10th
inst. by State Attorney Hooker. About
that time full confession of Dennis as
to Alachua went into the hands of q
prominent Democrat, and is there yet.
It is said that Vance, the negro member,
who swore 30 stoutly in the Alachua case,
has also confessed and made a statement.
I cannot vouch for this, however. Vance
is now in department in Washington.
Dennis lawyer claims that ne did not
want the case suspended, and that the
State did so because it could do nothing
with them.
A few days after the election q sealed
message was sent to Dennis asking him
to "add more names to the list, as there
isn't enough" He said, impatiently,
"Ive added all I have to it already, and
I can't add another name." have this
from the most undoubted source, and it
is a part of Dennis confession. Green
R. Moore, who swore in this Alachua
case to the fraud and then denied it, and
then reswore it, was killed the other day.
Floyd Duke, negro, who swore all the
time that it was fraud, still sticks to it /;
so do Black and Belton. The Alachua
fraud, therefore, plain and proven
fraud--when first brought before the
Board, now stands confessed or avowed
by every one of those who participated
in it.
BAKER COUNTY FRAUDS.
The Baker county case is shown up
quite as completely. 1t will be remem-
bered that this county, reliably demo-
cratic and near to the capital, was held
back until the very last. The official re-
turns gave the democrats 95 majority.
By a strange coincidence the State was
just evenly balanced on the prima facie
returns without this county, so that as it
stood Tilden would have had the State by
95 majority or just his majority in Baker
county. 1t was, of course, important that
Hayes should have the prima facie victory
so that there would be no appearance of
changing the verdict of the people. Ac-
cordingly new justice of the peace was
appointed, and new return made by
dropping out two precincts, so that it
gave Hayes an apparent majority of 43.
The Democratic managers were astoun-
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