The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-23
THE BLAINE INVESTIGATION.

|; HOW THE SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION WAS CON-
DucTED--BAILor BOXES STUFFED WITH TISSUE
T1cKErs-A NEGRO MINISTER HUNTED BY RED
SATISFACTORILY SAW NO INTIMIDATION
CONFLICTING TESTIMONY
CHARLESTON. Jan. %, 1879.
The Teller Committee resumed its investigation
this morning
f. NJ Pinckney. a colored minister and republican.
testified to the existence of three organizations OF
Red Shirts in Williamsburg county. He also gave
account of the alleged interference with republican
meeting at White Oak at which Swails said have
been captured and taken to Kings Tree by demo-
Gratis. He gave a long account of the election at
Kings Tree stating that the democrats refused the
United States supervisor admission TO the polls and
in the evening captured the ballot box and
stuffed IL; he also related his personal experiences.
saying that the Red shirts hunting him. and had
dug grave for him. he described his arrest on the
charge of perjury made by democrats as kidnap-
ping and gave detailed account of his being
beaterand threatened. The cross-examination, how
ever elected the fact that these latter the
sequences of personal difficulties.
A coLoEEp SUPERVISOR ASSAULTED.
John NJ. Freeman (colored) republican supervisor
at the Palmetto Engine House. testified that the arrest
of democratic voter, by his order, for repeating.
suited in witness being knocked down and kicked.
but the intervention OF the democrats saved him
from more serious injury; whca he returned to the
polling place he found that his poll list gone;
up to that time 9l5 votes polled and about two
hours later when the poll closed the total vote
proved to be $500: witness democratic tissue
ballots stuffed into the box and large numbers in
the box when IL was opened witness saw a number
of persons vote tissue tickets he knew of ostra-
cism of colored democrats by republicans, and
thought the ostracism Just the other way.
At the close of the examination of this witness the
ballot boxes opened by the committee and
ballots found in the box used at the Palmetto
Engine House and at two other polls. One box was
examined. and the whole then given to q
mitee of republicans and democrats for examination
and report as to the number and kind OF ballots
therein.
WHOLESALE sTUFrING.
A. W. Green tcooredl, republican deputy marshal
at the Palmetto Engine house testified as to the fight
in which Freeman struck the ballot box when
opened half full of tissue ballots; stayed at the
poll until the count was finished i'll the morning.;
witness full sized democratic ballots with tissue
tickets folded up in them in the box pretty nearly all
the tissue tickets put up i'll that way; there
were more ballots in the box names ON the poll
list, and one OF the democratic clerks was at work
throughout the night adding names to the poll List
to make the numbers agree.
cor.oRTD DEMOCRATIC VOTE.
r. S. Cathcart (white democratic, stfed that he
at the Palmetto Engine House nearly all election day;
when the fight occurred Freeman ithe supervisory
protected by democrats; Green "a previous witness
crat. and drunk that witness put him in
chair to Sleep and found him there still asleep hours
democratic ticket, and the tissue ticket voted
openly; many white democrats from other wards
voted at the Palmetto Engine House; colored men
told witness that must be furnished of voting
secretly, and he gave them tissue tickets
INTIMIDATION coLoRfD DEMOCRATS.
g. d. Bryan president the democracy of the
First ward, testified that only three tissue tickets
were voted in his ward; the white residents of tho
ward went to Palmetto Engine House, Market Hall.
in the Third ward to vote, i'll consequence OF the
crowd at his poll; one colored man brought up
eighty five coored men to vote the democratic ticket;
other colored men told him their churches
would not allow them to vote the demo-
cratic ticket and they desired to conceal the facts
intimidation of coorcd democrats by negroes at
previous elections common; witness did not
know of colored democrats being killed for voting
such ticket. but knew of white killed while pro-
tecting colored men; had heard OF cannon being
taken to political meetings in 1875 but only for
salutng purposes. and knew that previous cleo
tons the State militia, composed OF negroes. at
tended republican meetings with arms; Charleston
now had finer body of colored militia, reorgan-
lied by the democrats than be found IN any
other city of the Union.
Adjourned until tomorrow.