The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-20
A MIRACLE OF ARITHMETIC.
Stolbrands Calculation OF tho Vote by
which ho was Defeated.

Gen. Carlos J. Stolbrand, the Repubi.
can candidate fur Congress in the Third
District at the late election, has served a
formal notice of contest upon Col. D.
Wyatt Aiken, through his attorney Mr..
John e. Hobbs, of Lexington County.
The notice contains sixteen specifications
of fraud and Irregularities in the conduct
of the election by the Democrats, bv
which it is claimed that the plaintiff was
counted out and Aiken counted In,
The notice charges that the legal and
Legitimate Republican vote in said dis
trict is 22,G57; and the legal and legiti.
mate Democratic vote is 1873; instead
OF 9,756 Republican, and 1883 Demn-
cratic, as declared end promulgated by
the State Board of Canvassers that in
the counties Of Abbeville, Andersen,
Oconee. Pickens, NewGerry, Richland.
Lexington and Laurens there was n
fraudulent count Of 800 votes that in
the counties Of Abbeville, Anderson,
Laurens, Lexington, Oconee, Newberry
and Richland 1858 illegal ballots were
polled by Democratic voters that in the
same counties with the addition of Pick.
ems 7,60S Republican votes were thrown
out, and that l0.350 Republicans were
intimidated and hndered from voting.
1t is also claimed that the Democratic
managers refused to allow the Federal
Supervisors of election to examine the
ballot boxes previous to the opening of
the polls; that 1890 Republicans were
prevented Som voting by placing the
ballot boxes inaccessitly in the second
story of buildings with only one narrow
staircase, which was taken possession of
by armed men, who kept back the Re.
publicans fsom voting; that sixty. four
Republican Supervisors were in this way
prevented from serving.
The complaint also charges that two
regular voting precincts in Abbeyile
County and one in,Richland County were
not opened DC provided by lew, and
large ;ia;n5oT Of Republicans III ihis way
were prevented from voting; that num-
Der of boxes were opened at points not
designated by law; that 1850 fictitious
names we're added to the poll Iists by the
democratic managers, ana that 2,7oO
Democratic voters repeated their votes,
going from one county to another for the
purpose. 1t is also charged that Repub-
licans were forced to vote the Democratic
ticket, aud that Republican votes were
procured for the Democratic ticket by
counterfeiting the Republican ticket.
i no Couteetlub CuuiS SSc iHtSIicicuCo Win
town clocks, setting them forward one.
half or three,quarters of an hour to make
the Democratic managers of election,
whero no Republicans were appointed
undsr pretence of legality to open the
elections before the legal hour, aud be-
fore tue arrival Of the United States
Supervisors of elections, thus preventing
largo quantities of Democratic ballots
previously deposited In the box from be.
ing discovered and the boxes inspected
and cleared by said Supervisors OF elec-
iions. The sixteenth specification
charges other s.1d further frauds, irregu
laritiss and unlawful means, which, with
the above. destroyed the legal and legiti-
mate Republican vote of 1921 majority
over the Democratic votes, and gave 10.
stead an illegal Democratic declared ma.
jority OF 1905.