New-York tribune., 1884-11-09

wsst't' They had not ac their returns with tho B,-
though tho Elections Ts9s, the ,so CS%p hs
han1 OF o i was thought % the DISTRICT S
this district ts S isHf by the
Attorney and appeared at his Office. They explana
aud were detained for time at the office. Aftcrward
they Merc committed to the Tombs by Justice Duffy in
$4,000. wycko said that he depended upon the chair
to sign.
VIRGINIA STOLEN BY THE DEMOCRATS.
SLEEPING" BALLOTBoXEs-DELAYTNG VOTERS
TAMPERNG WITH RrTURNs
j. >. Clarkson, of Iowa. returned yesterday
morning from Petersburg Va, where he went on Tues
day. as member Of the Republican National Committee
to represent It's interests there He sent last night his
paper The Iora State Register tho following statement
about Virginia:
PETERSBURG, Va. Nov s.-The Democrats have stolen
Virginia by series offrauds heretofore unknown outside
OF the Gulf States. Under the State law the County
Judges appoint the judges Of Election three for each
precinct In the strong Republican counties OF Charlotte
and Halifax. tho County Judges elected by the
Readjuster Legislature two years ago. went with the
Democrats and appointed two Democratic Judges and
one Republican for each precinct Under the law each
political party has to be given representation in each
election board But the Democratic County Judges
throughout tho State invariably evaded this law by al
ways appointing as the Republican member. either a
negro who could neither read write else hy
brid Republican who could be bought. In this par
tisan election boards were thrust upon the Republican
Counties OF Charlotte Halifax and others. With these
Judges and by the device Of sleeping" ballotboxes In
precincts and tissue ballots In Others and by deny
Ing United States Supervisors to the pongroOms
either during the election, or during the
count afterwards Halifax with eight hundred
Republican majority carried by 500 for the Demo
crats and Charlotte with 600 Republican majority
carried by nearly 500 for the Democrats. The sleep
ing" ballot box prepared beforehand, exactly
like the used during election day. and ballots put In
II in such quantities Democrats desired. This was
kept concealed In valisc In the pong-room and at
night at the closing OF polls substituted for the bal
lot box used during the election and tho latter destroyed
In these and other counties the votes were
received through windows high that voters
could not see the ballot box. At Keysyille
the ballot was by any of the voters Ing
the entire day. The United States Supervisors re-
fused admission tho By these bold, successful
devices OF sleeping" balloi-boXes In most of
tho precincts Of these two counties and
tissue ballots in the Others the Democrats gained over
Q 800 votes over half the socaed manufactured
majority I'm the State that they now claim.
NEGROES iNTIMIpArED ny THOUSANDS
In many of the counties negroes were boldly intmi
dated and kept away from the polls by thousands An
other method successfully employed was to delay the
voters by many questions and prevent many negroes
from voting at ALL In the city of Richmond In oil the
wards where there nre many negroes this plan was
adopted aud many Republicans cheated out of their
votes IN jacks ward was az successfully cmpoyed
that when the polls closed MA coored men were in
line with ballots IN het hands ready to vote and others
were dlsnanrhlsri Thcy have all made alla,lts to
this effect nnd the adavlis nir ~ the hands of United
n eirs Attorney waliel lit this method ~ delay over
opp eoinri men throughout he state were deprived
~ ihnf ,otra sun another method wa worked ht thh
The statutes uf Nhsiha allow any hNe
citizens pfaoapd eommltne examine tho inHla't
lst and purge II of all names the snspet iost hef"ie
tha election htulrs ~ thesn committees went |
over thu registry iists aud struck on thousands
NJ names Of oOlorod mon. Tho law requires
that these names be posted but tho committees nvarI
ably selected the of nogroes who could not rehn
or of voters absont from the precinct The voters mus
sfrauchaed II they did not learn of 1t until the day OF
could restored and could not vote This
was general the state In precinct In Henrico
County hfty names were thus stricken on ana the
men disiranchiscd. United states Attorney Waddel
went to the county and tried make test OF this case
and appeaed from tho Register to the County Judge
But the Judge was q Democrat and sustained the |
dIsfranchsing the voters Reliable reports
show that nearly 5000 legal Republican voters were
thus disfranchiscd in the state
STILL Notwithstanding these gigantic frauds aggregat
ing 900 votes for the benefit OF the Democrats the He
ppbl,oons had the state when the polls closed Tues
day night ON Wednesday this fact was 30 universally
that the Democrats admitted that the state ad
gone Republican aud Republican doubted that Blaine
had at least four and perhaps five thousand majority
No Democrat in Richmond would bet on the result or
the State The Democratic cSening papers OF Richmond
actually conceded the State. Senator Mahone Coohei
BRADY and all leading Republicans were sure or the VIC
tory and OF the leading Democrats disputed IL nsre,
although they kept teleeraPhng to New l9rK tnhr @ .no
would pu IL through They have "pnled' 1t through
and destroyed the Republican majority gained
AT the polls. despite of the 10000 stoiel
by the Democrats as above described by holding Dach
tie returns in the back counties stung In enough more
since Wednesday to give then tneir 5I s1pnve @
present majority OF 5000. The Republicans c9uu nav
the of the 5000 votes DISTINGUISHED through
the so-caied purging OF the registry lists could have
stood also the robbery OF the 1000 votes gained W
ing and keeping out negro voters ana couiu
stood also the Democratic vote or Z5oo sto,cn III
the sleeping ballot boxes and the tissue ballots, anu Sun
have carried the State The Democrats saw ths on
and cOurers dspa tched To the couhes
which could be manipulated with orders TO stun SIX or
seven thousand Into the re- surns. Inc pouest re-
sort to fraud before and during the election wob n2t
and did not give the Democrats success Inc kepuon.
cans still had won The atereccon frauds hau 10 ns
appealed to and by this desperate method they gam
what they call majority for Cleveland