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

Gen. Carlos J. Stolbrand, the Republi.
can candidate for Congress in tue Third
District at the late election, has served q
formal notice of contest upon Col. D.
Wyatt Aiken, through his attorney Mr.
John F. Hobbs, of Lexington County.
The notice contains sixteen specifications
of fraud and Irregularities in the conduct
of the election by the Democrats, by
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
tricu is %, 2,657; and the legal and legiti-
mate Democratic vote is 1873; instead
of 9,75S Republican, and 27,859 Demo.
cratic, as declared and promulgated by
the state Board of Canvassers; that in
the counties of Abbeville, Anderson,
Oconee, Pickens, NewJerry, Richland,
Lexington and Laurens there WAS a
fraudulent count of 3,700 votes; that in
the counties of Abbeville, Anderson,
Laurens, Lexington, Oconee, Newberry
and Richland 1908 illegal ballots were
polled by Democratic voters that in the
same counties with the addition of Pick.
ems 7,6OS Republican votes were thrown
out, aud that 1O,350 Republicans were
intimidated and hiudered 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 from voting by placing the
ballot boxes inaccessibly 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 from voting; that sixty.four
Republican Supervisors we're in this way
prevented from serving.
The complaint also charges that two
regular voting precincts in Abbeyille
County and one inRichland County were
not opened ss provided by law, and a
large humber of Republicans in this way
were prevented from voting; that num-
Der of boxes were opened at points not
designated by law; that 1850 fictitious
names were added to the poll lists by the
Democratic managers, and that 2,730
OemUCEdtlC fOtCio iSPSulSo WY ~ '"'.oj
going from one county to another for the
purpose. 1t is also charged that Repub
iicans were forced to vote the Democratic
ticket, and that Republican votes were
procured for tile Democratic ticket by
counterieiting the Republican ticket.
The contestant charges interference with
town clocks, setting them forward one
half or three quarters of al hour to make
the Democratic managers of election,
where no Republicans were appointed,
under pretence of legality to open the
elections before the legal hour, and be-
fore tue arrival of the United States
Supervisors of elections, thus preventing
large quantities of Democratic ballots
previously deposited in the box from DE.
ing discovered and the boxes Inspected
and cleared by said Supervisors OF cleo
tions. The sixteenth specification
charges other and further frauds, irregu'
larilies and unlawful means, which, with
the above, destroyed the legal and legitl-
mate Republican vote of 1921 majority
over the Democratic votes, and gave in
stead an illegal Democratic declared ma
iority of l8,705.