New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
ELLIOTTS STOLEN SEAT.
BRAzEN FRAUDS In SOUTH CAROLINA.
AN INTERESTING LErTER-ELLIorTs "ELECTIoN"
TO BE CONTESTED.
rpY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrDuNE.I

TO BE CONTESTED.
rpY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE
WARRINGTON Nov. IA correspondent Of THE
TRIBUNE mas received from 8. J. Bsmpnsld: of
Beaufort e. c. letter dated November 13, which reads
in part folowsi
A manufacturing sentiment at the North TO be
one the principal features Of the plan TO
and thus from the Republican column, deem
proper Call the attention OF your readers 70 lew OF
the facs which to have been thus far success uy
smohered by the ARTISANS OF Colonel Elliott AT tue
CLOSE OF the pos s %% TIVE go of the votes then boiled
counsd BY the manaRe OF election &C tho
cpst Than ado to that ACT majority at 0adsden, IN
Richland County where the Democratic managers failed
Sers sworn in by the and have majority
for General smalls OF LII But true to DsTocrsnS
spura counties entered at once on the work OF
the and 'S se
legal votes for the republican candidate while they
Ds,"ocratic candidate, no matter how badly stufed
Thus in Berkeley they threw out boxes containing 0ls
and in 3rangeburg lie, nakug total OF 300 These
are votes which actually found Their way into the ballot
cp.c managers Of election throughout the dstriot who
without exception psrisans OF Colonel Elliott and
many Republican precincts there were no polls
opeocd a. nc as s9's spT sSd ha"n
Beaufort Couuty-aggregsting nearly i.oOC Repuhcan
votes At ons poll In Beaufort County a Democratic
manager deliberately market nfty Republican ballots
with lead pencil after they we're voted and then tue
oof the district there was general system OF stuins
the ballot boxes with fraudulent Democr tic ballots and
eIces, as provided BY law. At Ola P.catogo at the
close of the polls the box contaned 294 ballots when
"ouIa he seen that lust $50 ballots for Colonel Elliott
had In Some mysterious way found their way TO tue bao
hev vera taken from the box. These were nearly all
clean and lightly folded showing that they had not
managers themselves betrayed tue whole thing by
UNANIMOUSLY refusing at INST 10 count all he ballots III
| narfa
that they should return all the ballots TO the boxes se
discovering there as au excess ana draw 90 70 lsS
the OF the stufng BY this me, hod alone hon
sands OF Republican ballots were taken ron var,oT
ballots counted for Colonel Elliott IN their stead ana
the Repu csn vote on the ace OF tno return ,nsae 10
apI ear very uch smaller than l. actually ana really
Rnt th. cruelsst OF all the Democratic methods ye
is their attem manufacture public sen
ment at the and-we ~ way OF palli.tne tue
d.fsuces.s negroes OF the With Congressional District
n first pretending that the leaders deserted General ERA
the masses OF the coored people were Indifferent 70 DIS
and thirdly that hotn rsocei az ~,
or unworthy Of the men who are using u accomplish
their selfish purposes ana tay m %ss any more
than a contest NabOths vineyard. and th"re Is
not respectable cOlored man In 1t VINO has regarded
The colorsd people Of the entire district are Justly In
disnant at the bold and unblusbng methoi used by
rights and seize from them by fraud anu iaiseoon
fairly and honestly won at the Dsllot box Aud they
have lost no opportunity In giving puolc utterance 10
their feeng, Already they have raised large SUR OF
and are vet giving very freely of their means TO
raise a for The purpose of contesing Inc wnols
is OF the hands OF the pohtirians ana ia the
hands OF the people themselves- nney a. h ion" '
discus ed In the various churches ana each mas
taken collections tor pushns II 10 successful ISSUE ,
Large collections taken In the chnrchrs here TO-DAY
for that purpose both in town and on the isan Last
night very large mass-neeting WAS heu Ia ths W.
fort hp
peoI lie and entering solemn protest asuns. SUN M ~
bic FroI the tone OF tue sleecnes as "el as
the unapimty OF sentiment, which WAS Dy no meaus
hidden by any one there can oe no oosnt on .o pta
any OF tho fact that the people or thls Tow" anu
of tue Democrats and are Wiling 10 con. VI
their means 70 ritht II possible the geanc WI ~
under which they suffer Tue facts STATE are sucn
a. he easily verified aud sich as VIII not Dc uehou
even by those who nave prohted thereby.
From the foregoing letter evident that the Repup-
ican voters in the With South Carolina District wuo
oulnumber the Democrats I'VE to one' are IN urad
earnest II remains he whether the next House
| of Represeutstves will clinch and uphold the fraud
which has peen pr actised by tho "chivay Tor the
benefit Elliott one Northern Democratic Congrsss-
! man TO-DAY said
Il am not going to my vote against smalls because
he /. rlask man, and will not Tote t. Keep ih any
man simply because he Is white maD III snalls mas
been cheated OF his certificate an can prove IL he
shall have his seat II my vote Will give II 10 nun. ant
The attempt count out SMALL s.aii tue hor "u'-
rageoIs considering Democratic gerry mander o. the
in order to make the With the Only uisitc. 80
LARGELY Rel the other Republic III districts
could be stolen with impdnity. I1e law requires tot
only districts shall 0e composed OF contiguous Ter
itOry-a provision when In the OF hc Win DIS
trct IS compiled WITH only durng low de-nut Pat e'ch
shall contain as nearly "a prartcaoio the SOM
number OF reuple From the census NJ lsso u appears
that the population OF the With District was -oVOo III
of TIE next most popuous dstilct; mat IL was
$4,000 IN excess OF the average population OF tne other
SIX districts: that the White popuatOn OF tue WIN DIS
2s.4lO less than the average while popui
of the other districts and that The co ored population
OF the With District was so 900 than the aver
age coOred population OF the other six districts