Daily Republican., 1879-07-23
sYSTEMATHO YnAUD.

sYSTEMATIG YnAUD.
How Four states were Carried fs
TiidsA.
The "arithmstic'' man Of the Ne,
York "Times" has taken Mr.. Tilden i
hand, and he deals with the pretens
that he was dsfrauded Of tn. Presiden
cy AZ rsmorsely as did the ''T-ibune's'
translator OF the cipher dispatches
The "Times" OF the 2lst inst. devot.
ten columns to . mathematical demon
stration Of the skilfally. .conoocted an'
carefully distributed frauds by whicl
Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut wsr,
made to give an apparent majority .
votes 10 tie Tilden electors. ln twt
of these States, namely, Louisiana ana
Florida, the fraud was arrsstsd while il
was yet "inchoate" borrowing 4 wore
from MIR. Tilden), but in Mississippi
Now York, New Jersey aud Connection,
1t was fully consummated.
The calculations are based upon tn.
census returns, with the percentage o
increase of population added in tn.
States where no enumeration has beer
made since 1870, and upon formsr cleo
tion returns. The ratio OF voters t
population can bs determined with al.
most absolute accuracy, and the ratio
of votes actually cast to the whole NUN.
ber Of voters is easily ascsrtained. BY
running back, the figures can be tested
and verified by all the elections that
have taken place since the electoral
system was devised. We haze only
space to give the results a. summed
up by the painstaking arithmstican:
LOUISIANA.
That, as respects Louisiana, the
claims made in behalf of Mr.. Tilden,
assume that, Of the whole body Of quail.
fled electors in that State, 100, ,94l in
number, only 1880 voters failed to come
to the polls, and that every white voter
in the State, dead or alive, sick or we'll,
absent or present, 1896 in number,
cast his vote for Mr.. Tilden; while, in
addition to this, 9,420 colored voters
rallied to his support, the remainder
Of the colored vote going to Mr.. Hayes.
This would require that in every 100
qualified voters OF the State of Louisi.
ana, n:nety-nine came to the polls and
voted, which is physical impossibili-
Ey.
FLORIDA.
That as respects Florida, the Federal
statistics prove that in 1876 its popula-
lion did not exceed PIG, 6,l42, of which
number "A, TAI persons white and col
,rsd We're entitled to suffrage. Mr.. Til.
lens claims to the Electoral vote of
he State rested on the assertion made
by his friends that the popular vote
to As, ,79l, of which number
"A, AL votes were alleged to have been
,ollrd for Mr.. Tildsn and "A, $50 for
Ir. Hayes; which required that 4,05O
,allots should be cast in excess of the
whole number of qualified electors in
he State.
MISSISSIPPI.
That as respects Mississippi, the pop
llation, upon the basis Of Federal sta
istics, was not in excess of $40, 1872 in
S76. OF this mum Der there were quail
He'd electors ia, 227, being Sl,sS7
,hite and 92,349 colored. The presi
ential vote was returned in that year
5 being Ats, of which ll2, 173 votes
,ere alleged to have been cast for Mr..
'ilden and 52,605 for Mr.. Hayes. TO
asst this vote it would require that in
very 100 voters 94.5 came to the polls;
nd if every white voter in the State
'ithout a single exception, had cast
is vote for Mr.. Tilden, it would still
equire that 80, ,2S6 colored men should
lso have voted for him to bring the
)tal up to what it was claimed to have
cen.
NEW YORK.
That in respect to New York, it is
Dnclusively proved that the number
qualified electors in the State in 1876
id not exceed 1908, ,4l2, or 22.4 per
ent. of its total population. OF this
umber, the Presidential vote as re-
nrned represented that ], ,0l7,33O had
ome to the polls, which would require
hat in every 100 qualified voters in the
tate only.4.S failed to deposit their
allots. This is sheer impossibilitv.
ven in the year 1868, when Hoffman
as counted In over Griswold, the vote
sturned represented ll.5 voters in ev-
~ 100 as not voting. In tie exciting
lection Of 1860, 22.4 voters in every
10 were absent or not voting; in 1864 .
lere were POI absent, and in 1872
lere were l6.7 in the 100 absent or not ,
oting. s
1t is further shown that the enor- '
GUS swelling of the vote of 1876, rep
'senting only AS votes in the 100 as =,
ot voting, was spread with such skill n
'er the State that it is only when the L
turns of each county are examined
I'd compared, and the comparison
ade with series of years preceding,
at the full measure of the fraud be- v
mes apparent. 1t is evident that c
ere was a careful avoidance of the c
stake Of 1868, when the fraudulent c
te was all concentrated in the city, a
d thereby made patent to the world. s.
NEW JERSEY. r =,
That in respect to New Jersey, the |.
esidential vote of 1876 presents re- al
Its more extraordinary than in New T
'rk, for State census was taken in l.
Is which showed the population
be l,0l9, Alb, and by the method of G,
nputation used in the Federal Il
1sus in 1870, there must have been re-
the State in 1876 223,oo4 qualified st
lers. The total vote returned was ii