New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-09

MANY CITIZENS DECLARE THAT 1T "A'
FRAUDULENT

,o urpp,v pREsp>rs A MEMORIAL TO THE
,,o,.sr PIT WILL. MAKE 40 CONTEST IN
THE JOiNT CONVENTION FOR 'o'"i
ING THE ELECTORAL VOTE
Washington. Feb S.-As indica'eu u. '' limiting
Matches there will be no Objection - VI. 49, ,o,,,
~ tn. electoral vote of South Carolina al .n' ,r
convention of Congress on Weo"esu"s ,nt s,ato
ro,. tho colorcd Representative from ih"' 80
, Io,n,ted the proposition and prepared 'iie
o,aI ,,ron which the objection was u w
hosod said to-day that he would not maze ''i'
u"Seu' o+, ot,oc;icn 40 good would be accom-
nrsbod nv IT. he said briefly. in eXpana''o' % ,,''
changed nurpose 'and much harm Hi'sn' So.
,r. memorial in the case reached MI Nun"
he 's, and today he presented II to the
-, 49, ,hrougb the pettior-boX and 1t was rcier'e
90 tho Committee on the Election OF fre''u'"'
Vice President and Representatives III
The memorial reads as follows: c..os
Wo tho undersigned citizens OF the nru h M
nH ~ The state Of South Carolina 90 hereOS odes
moriaiize and petition your n OIU, 90 70 he but
against the counting OF %na' p" Electoral vote of
South Carolina and ask for an inyesJISds'o truly "
me po!'',Jha VA, Farm Of government guaranteed oS
the Federal Constitution FOR the re'S0''
irsA vast majority of the legaly qu unrass
voters Of this state We're pTNt,a electors by the
ing .nae on the part OF the managers 4a s'o
elections of illegal and uncon sttuo, oT 1875 under
vfs th Lection was conducted is Illegal Poaa
H. aret the vast majority OF electors, py s.a
twcc declared unconstitutional py Co,i5 merits
and every GG1Gt d T9cr rom a Participating IN the
election for calling said socaiIeu tberefor
Convention OF caied constitution OF 1885, which has
been involuntary forced upon the peOPo, o., ~ me
S,ate by the military despotsm in eoniro oi '[ nf
$40 ,, uy Is Illegal because the delegates Oh
which il was constituted refused to take oT nfied
" support the Constitution and laws OF tne hsoa
20 rootircd bv the Federal Constitution before
entcr,ng upon their alleged duties IN sa,d snb
Cai t the so-called Constitution OF 1898 to the
eIectors of the State for ratihcauon ptLH ,ho
its enforcement AS the organic law % form ,ro
STATE thereby overturnng the precedents liln Io' "a
Of making adopting and enforcing .one
ordar "a esa blish a republican form OF goNtsttnr
ment; third the section of the suffrage clause wnCh
dscrimnates in favor of the ext nrn
requisite to violates both the iN'n an" -nited
Amendment. to the .o5 socniled constitutional
Convention of 1885 in changing the qnanneat'oHs 10
ior or the state violated the Federal statute
etIapre ss7 to 1859 first -econd and third sessions
CO.. ~ tSsS Of this state by which it resumed JUS
status in the Union. should never be so Gna" n
onfranchised bv H. except for crime. OF Which ne
shall have been duly and lawfully tried ana 'o"-
Tbird-Your memoralists further declare that a
republican form OF government does nor fNS ~. u,
overt brown: that a military despotsm Is IN conroi
OF theEsae government ana tnat fnT pfg,a
mept 10 the state OF South Carolina OF the United
STATES constitutional guarantee of republican
form of government. ,., t.,
Your petitioners aver that the late election, IN
which more than 10000 electors were denied their
right 70 express their choice at the ballot box while
I'm an less than Co. votes counted was ille-
ga liz and fraudulently conducted. . .
we therefore petition that your honorable bodies
will take such action as may be necessary TO re
store a Constitutional Government TO this state. and
repair the breaches in the Constitution OF our
country
The memorials four in number and signed by
r. p Scott and thrty-siX others, of Florence. 5. c.;
9 r. Nix and forty-nne others, Of Columbia. S. G..
n Stokler and $50 others, OF Charleston. 5. c.:
and Martin Fluid and ifythree others of Charles
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