National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-04

and Low-Down Well the Democrats first
drove the Republican voters from the
polls and afterward the supervisors.
At erery precinct IN Edgefeld County the
Republican supervisors were prevented
from seeing the voting and the count,
and many of them were brutally assaulted
with clubs, pistols, and other weapons.
The supervisor at Meeting-street precinct
was clubbed and robbed of his papers.
At Red Hill the supervisor was assaulted,
robbed of his instructions, and ordered to
leave.
At Jalapa precinct, in Newbery County,
the Republican supervisor persisted in
keeping poll-list, for which offense he
was assaulted and told if he did not
stop his id head would be shot off"
He stopped, and at two p. m. surrendered
to superior force and walked away.
We have not space for more of these
cases.
The ballot-boxes were stuffed and the
surplus drawn out The extra ones were
found to be Republican in the proportion
of seven to three. The reports to the
chief supervisor of elections showed that
in portion of the polling places of the
State the total number of names ON the
poll-list as having voted was 2,461. But
the number of ballots in the boxes footed
up 1884. The Democrats then drew out
the surplus tickets, being 1888. Of these
1913 happened to be Republican. At
twenty-one precincts, containing an aggre-
gate excess of 593 ballots, not single
Democratic ticket was drawn, although
from one box were drawn 135 tick
cts. At one voting place in the
city of Charleston (Hope Engine-House)
there were 1,071 more tickets in the box
than voters on the list-that is to say,
l ,2l4 men voted and 2,2S5 ballots were
found in the box. There were but 597 OF
those ballots Republican. In drawing
out by chance the 1;071 in excess, strange
to say, 592 of the 597 Republican ballots
were drawn out before the Democratic
drawer happened to take hold ofa Demo-
cratic ballot. In the remaining polling
places 1886 persons voted, and 1870
ballots were in the boxes; excess, 1854.
1t was rendered impossible by the Demo-
cratic managers at these places to ascer-
tain how many of the ballots drawn out
were Republican. This fact speaks for
itself
The only county in which these crimi-
nal practices did not prevail was Beau
fort County. In order hatSenator Butler,
in his defense of South Carolina, may not
rely wholly upon a wholesale denial of
all that Republicans say of their oppo-
nents, we quote the following from the
Beaufort Crescent, the Democratic organ
Of that county:
There is one thing to be said of the Democracy
of Beaufort County that unfortunately, cannot be
said of some Others and that is, they have not as
yet learned TO make Democratic rOte count as fire
asd tire ReDubIicda UOtes as none. Nor have we yet
adopted the system by which ballots are substi-
tuted in the boxes for those which were originally
placed there. Upon these little matters we are
sadly deficient, which will account for the small
showing We are able to make with 800 votes.
For ourselves we had rather be afflicted with
years of Republican msrule, trusting to the justice
of cause finally asserting ITSELF than TO steal
election.
THAT Governor Cornell favors the confirmation of
Judge Robertson is becoming as plain as though he
himself had said it aloud.-UIicd Herald.
That is a sneaky statement. There is
not an enemy of Senator Conkling in
New York who believes it. Every friend
knows it to be untrue. A letter from
Governor Cornell to friend in this city
gives it the lie direct