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ECHOES or TIiG FIGHT.


! ECHOES or TIih EIGmT.
What Some Of tho Newspapers Have to say
OF tho keCcnt Election.
i From the Union Times.
1t is truly gratifying TO us to bo able
to state that the election throughout
this county passed Off without any
disturbance at any one of the polls.
Every legal voter was encouraged and
protected in his right to cast his ballot
according to tho dictates Of his own
conscience. In all our experience
with elections we have never seen q
more quiet or faircr election than that
held In this town last Tuesday. If
thorc is any legal voter in this county
-Republican or DomocJut-~wLo did
not cast his ballot on that day, it was
altogether his own fault The Chair
man OF tho Democratic Executive
Committee had earnestly demanded of
the Democratic people of tho county
10 see that tho election was fair and
Peaccablc, and it is truly pleasing to
know that his demand was cordially
responded to at ovcry polling precinct.
= From the orangcburg Democrat.
Tho Radicals evidently intended to
carry the late election in this conntv
by stufling the ballot boxes and re-
pcating, as they wore we'll aware that
without these means their case wns
hopeless, hundreds of colored mon
having determined to vote tho Domo-
cratic ticket. EARLY III tho dav at this
precinct two colorcd men were caught
attempting to vote double ballots, and
wore promptly arrested by the proper
officers and lodged in Jail. This threw
adalnpcr Oh the scheme by putting the
Democrats on the alert, and the Rudi-
Gals only succeeded in getting in about
| scventy-fiyc Of their double tickets at
this poll. The plan, however, worked
| better at other polls, and success at
tended their efforts at many of tho
[ precincts. The plan seems to have
been to stuff those boxes in which the
Democrats were expected to have
inaIorltics, rs there was surplus of
votes III all such boxes and ncccssitat
ed drawing by the managers, while at
Radical precincts, like Fort Motto and
lcwisVillc, there was either no surplus
of votes or n small one only. This
amounts to positive proof Of q design
OF the party to stuff tho boxes and car
~ he election by fraud. But tho
iittlo game could not defeat the will of
thc people, and George Boliyer and
John ii. Livingston must step down
and out.
From tho pickcns Sentinel.
In this county we have never wit
messed q more quiet and pcaccablc
election. The day passed of without
q single disturbance. The vote was
| lighter by two or three hundred than
that Of 1876. There was scarcely any
| enthusiasm in the county. and q great
| number of the voters seemed to care
more for picking out their cotton and
gathering their corn than they did for
| The election. The negroes seemed rs
solid for the Radical party as thcy
ever were at any time during the SUI
premacy Of that party in the State.
ut this writing we have been unable
TO get the official vote from any pre-
cinct except this, but from unofficial
reports, which we consider nearly
accurate, tho majority for the Demo-
cratic electoral ticket will not fall un-
dca ,lS0and NAV possibly reach POO.
Stolbrahd, the Radical candidate for
Congress IN this district, ran consid-
erably behind his ticket. The leading
Republicans at Easlcy and some otlerr
precincts dropped him and Colonel
l.NW J..
The Radicals had no State ticket in
tho field, but abstuinod from yot;np
the Democratic ticket. The only con-
test they made in the county was for
The Legislature. Both their candi-
dates, Lesley and Wclborn, were bad
~ defeated. Pickcns county is solidlv
Democratic, Il fact that would have
since been recognized by the Radicals
had it not been for the extreme ankle
~ of certain officials in our midst.
Under all tho existing circumstances
the Democracy oftho county have done
well in this election and may be safe
~ relied upon at all times in the
future.
From the Anderson Tntcli!gcnccr.
The election in Anderson county on
last Tuesday was generally quiet,
though u very intense interest pcr-
yadcd tho voting at most precincts.
ihcrc was little or no interest felt in
TIC State or county tickets, as there
was no opposition to them, and every
| effort ccntcrcd on the Presidential
race. The negroes were more solid
and unapproaclablc than they have
ever been, and FOR the most part voted
the Republican ticket. They came to
the polls in large companies, and in
many cases would not talk with any
white man until after they had voted.
Ihcy were insolcnt and defiant, and
showed thorough drilling that was
far more perfect thaM il was in 1876 or
1873. Ex-Scnator Cochran was ap>
pointed county chairman of the Re
publican party about ten DAYS before
the election, and did his work most
effectively. 1t was the hardest work
possible to break the solility of the
colorcd vote, though by dint of per-
::uaiSion and argument we managed to
induce a great many Of them to vote
the Democratic ticket, III addition to
this we had II white ticket, an exact
./ac, @mHc Of the Republican ticket,
and many negroes voted it, amounting
probably to two hundred in the county,
which increased our majority from
three to four hundred votes.
The election shows that the negro
will vote tho Republican ticket when