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SATURDAY, NOV. 25, 187C.
BMnravaMWVviiMWMMOTMrnMrar-' ? i ?? ?m
TIic Kli'ctlou llrtumn, uiiil the Heard uf
CiiDTaMsei'M.
The latest nowH 1 rotn Columbia in
regard to ilio canvassinif the returns
ol tho lato election mill leave mill (era
it) a B ate ol complicated doubt as to
the liiol result.
Tim IJoaid ol Canvasser# having
determined thai it would hear and determine
all protests and contest# in
connection with canvassing and tabulating
tho returns, (ten. Conner, -Mr.
VomanHhind others, in behalf ol the
Democratic candidates and the party,
filed a petition and suggest ions in the
Supreme Court praying lor ?n order
prohibiting tho Hoard Irorn acting in
a judicial capacity, and also asking
lor a mandamus requiring the Hoard
to canvass and aggregate the votes for
each candidate as shown by the returns
belore them.
The ion w as filed on 15ill ami
an ordei t?> thcofteot prayed for granted
l?y tho Court on th.e 17lh, Jn the
mean lime the Court had Issued a
suplimcntary order, requiting tho
hoard to go on with the work ot canvassing
tho returns and aggregating
llie \ ole. 1 Uder this order the Hoard
went, on with their work, and on the
13lh made the following statement ot
the vote lor Presidential eleelors:
UK I*t.'111,10 AN 1? I. uo rocs.
Ilowen 01,780
Wuihinitli.... .... ....01,870
.lohnston .... .... 01,85'J
Hurley 01,180
Nash 01,804
Cook 01482
Myers.... .... .... 01,880
DHMoCK ATIC KI.UCTOK8.
Hirker .... .... ....00.8 00
Metiowan .... .... 00,787
Harrington. .. .... ... .00,806
Ingram.. .... .... 00,7 08
Wallace .... .... ... .90,005
Erwin... .... .... 90,000
Aldrieh 00,800
This shows a majority ol 230 votes
lor the lowest Republican elector over
the highest Democratic elector, and
an nvcrago Republican majority ol
810.
To this report General Conner lilod
the following exception:
The counsel f<?r tho Democratic candidates
except to the aggregation of
the results and the announcement ot
them, on the ground that the canvass
and comparison ol the managers' returns
Willi tho county canvassers'
statements show irregularities, errors
and omissions, which vitiate the result,
and prevent the aggregation of the
county canvassers' statements from
being regarded as a true aggregation
of the vote east at the election.
Jamics Connru, Counsel.
Tho Hoard of Canvassers also made
tho following report on the election
lor State officers:
SKCUKTAKY OF STATE.
llayne, (Rep ) 91,070
Sims, (Rep) 91,449
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A < > iiv f iiiiij .11 i y . , . *. '4 1
ATTO II N R Y*G KN KK A I..
Elliott, (Rep.) 91,140
Conner, (Dem.) 91,109
Elliott's majority. . . 7
COM PTROl.l.KU-G ICS Kl! AT..
Dunn, (Rep.) 00,858
Ilagood, (Rem.) 91,114
Ilngnod's majority.. 250
BUPRKINTKXOBNT OF KDUCATIOX.
Tolbert, (Rep) 91,112
Thompson, (Dent.) . . . .91,552
Thompson's majority 440
A1).IUTANT-GUN ICKAU
Kennedy, (Rep.) 91.000
Moi.se, [Deni.J 91,545
Kennedy's majority 01
STATIC TRRASUItRU.
Cardozo, (Hep] 91,485
Lcnpheart, ]Dem. J. . . .91,277
? _
Cardozo's majority.. 208
1IU8 statement shows only two
Democratic candidates elected on the
State ticket whereas the Democratic
managers claim that their whole State
ticket has been lairly and honestly
elected. They claim, as (.Jen. Conner's
exception shows, that this difference
is made bv the Hoard's only can
vafising and aggregating lrom the
County Canvassers' re turns, without
verilying them with the precinct managers'
returns to the Hoard of County
Canvassers. That the Hoard did verify
the County Canvassers' return*,
with the precinct managers returns
for the Counties of Abbeville, Aiken,
Anderson, Harnwell, lieaufort and
Charleston, and that in canvassing
these six counties it was shown that
there wore many irregularities and discrepenccs
between the returns of man
'Or.PY V FIKXT N
ugcrs the statements o! the County
Canvassers. These differences
were so numerous and telling ho heavy
against the Board that Mr. Ifayno
suggested that they finish tho work
on the County Canvassers' returns
alone, which was done.
Besides these lacls, and the fact
that there arc errors in the County
Canvassers and managers' returns, in
placing to (ten. Conner, llagood,
en:...i i iv ... .
i i/.ikiu iiiid i/inin voies lor Otliees lor
which they were not candidates, which
it is claimed ought to he rectified, it is
claimed that there was an illegal precinct
in Beaufort county at which 553
Republican, and 01 Democratic votes
were cast. The poll was not held at
Gardner's corner as required by )a\v>
hut, it is alleged, was held live or six
miles from that place.
For these various reasons the Democra's
ask the Court to grant an order
requiring the Board to verity the
County Canvassers' statements by
the managers' returns helore declariie
tho election, and also to pass upon
the diserepances in the statemontu
showing voles lor candidates for
ollices lor which they did not run,
whether those votes fihail he thrown
out or counted for the candidates the
elcetnrs vnliwf fV> 1* ?w wi ll na in <i.?
cido on tho legality of the Beaufort
box held uL a place not authorized by
law.
It im cl.limed that il the various
errors in the statements and returns
are corrected, and the votes counted
to the candidates lor whom they were
east , the mitire Democratic State ticket
will lie elected. IT these clerical errors
are not corrected and the illegal box
o( Beaufort is thrown out, then it is
certain that one Democratic elector
will be clef ted.
CO NV. HUSSION A I. ICI.KOTION.
Tho billowing statement shows the
majorities lor Congress in the
KHIST 1MSTIOCT.
l)em. Muj'ty. licp. ifaj'ly.
Chesterfield .... 0 t 1
Marlboro' 332
Marion 038
Horry 1,3*20
Darlington *00
Sumter 1,400
Georgetown 1,632
Williamsburg.. .. 008
Total 2,940 4,450
Kainey's Hep] inaj'iy 1,510
The Presidential 1.lection.
The latest news does not remove
the dillieuHies in the way of a definite
decision as to whether Mr. Tilden or
Mr. Ilayes will he declared tho President
of the United States.
Tiio election returns for the States
of Louisiana and Florida are still sub
joots to bo hauled over and manipulated
:?t the will of the Republican
Ciuvissing Boards ot those. States,
and a careful reading of how the eloction
was declared in that State in
1872 will show what justice may l?e
expected from them.
The evidence is accumulating that
the election in Louisiana was fair and
free of intimidation, and that tho vote
of that Stato as cast, is the free expression
of a majority of the people,
but it. is hardly to bo expected that
the Board will have any respect for
the will of liie people.
In this State if the Court dies not
1 i * i- a * i 1 "
nt-cuif \ i> u hu* poii in iseautort county,
not held at tho place designated by law?
is illegal the seven votes ol this State
will bo declared lor Mr. Hayes. Hut
it seems to us, il the proof is made,
the Court must decide that that poll
is illegal, and i( it does this then one
of the Democratic electors will he (dected
and that secures the vote needed
to elect Mr. Til den.
lint should the vote of the States of
South Carolina, Flonrida and Louisi.
ana all he given to Mr. Hayes, there
at il I comes up dillioullius that may
jeave the election undecisive, and
throw it in Congress.
One of tho Hepublican electors in
Vermont, and also in Oregon, when
voted for and elected held tho office ol
Host master: No one person can hold
two offices, at the same time, under
the I'm tod Slates Government: and it,
s ihe opinion of many of the best
1:\\vyor? in the United States that the
votes cast for thcso men were the
same as ii they had been blanks, or
east for dead men, and that the r.ext
highest candidate was thereby duly
elected. In Wisconsin, it is alleged,
by omission, or otherwise, the Republicans
only voted for and elected nine
electors while the State is entitled to
ten: If this be so then it would seem
clear that the highest candidate on
the Democratic ticket in that Slate is
leecled. So it is more than likely that
r.V f: NOVEMBER 2
?i ii iia i i i i??rmummm??a??
Congress will have to c'.cct tho I'resi'
dent.
Wlien tho Constitution lawn and
J State rights were being trampled o7or :
and crushed to the ground by author- >
1 it v of the National government, and
1 . , i
| carpet bag rule, waste and ruin in the
South r.\ik kept in power by Federal |
bayonets, and elections deviated at tho j
| will of the oppressor, the people of I
I he Northern States', cither quietly 1
acquiesced or, openly sanctioned and
sustained i?; because they Jl)eli? ved tl.o
South should he kept down. In this
election the aggression is on the whole j
country, and the bitter cup hitherto
I forced upon the South alone must '
now be drained by the North too.
The last Infamy,
The mails last night bring us the
startling intelligence from Columbia
that the State Hoard of Canvassers
have declared themselves Autocrats
I and set up dictatorial power. l)elI
iaiitly of the Supreme Court, the laws
I of Clod and man, they obey nothing
i but carpet-bag law. The law that
j binds thieves.
In the lace of the order of the Supremo
Court directing them to issue
certificates of election to all candidates
for the Legislature who had received
the highest number o| votes east, ns
, shown l>y the County Canvassers statements,
without regard to protests or
' contests, they rejected the County
Can vessels' returns tor ftdgt'lield and
1 Laurens; declared the election in j
these counties illegal; refused to issue
certificates of election to the candidates
who had received majorities ol
over 3,000 votes; counted all irregular
votes in their own election; threw
out all irregular votes for the Democratic
candidates on the Slate ticket,
8o as to give themselves a majority;
and adjourned their Hoard sin", die.
To the credit ot' lion. II. K. Ilayne
[for we must call him Honorable in 1
such a crowd] lie voted and protested,
against such a high handed infamous
outrage.
Gov. Hampton has issued an address (
to the pcoplj urging them to continue
to forbear, and patiently submit their |
rights to the courts.
We suppose the Supreme Court will 1
take some steps to vindicate its Honor,
and punish this llagrat t contempt ol ,
iis mandate, or otherwise its members
may as well lay aside their ermine and
step down and out.
[Special Correspondence of the Horry News-] :
Washington, I). C., Nov. 20, If*70.
There u little steering ''ere that will
interest the general render; I lie eliier
interest centers in the ?l??iiii*h in South
i Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.
Lust Friday morning in the Supreme
court of the District, Judge Olin
presiding, the case of Dent, against
the District ol Columbia, for a broken j
leg oenasoned by a fall into an excavation
on Delewnro avenue, was eoneluded
by a verdict for the PlanlilV ol (
I 9.5,000 with costs. It's verv nice for
Mr. D.ant to gel such a verdict, but ,
win n ho guts his money no d >uht he'll
feel belter. Thw city is so immcnsly
in debt that its doubtiul that bo will (
over see a cent of it.
Judge Iluinpherya in the District
Court made a decree on Saturday in
the case of Admiral Porter and others
?of the North Atlantic squadron chinning
prize money for the capture of the
rains Texas, Henulort and some few
other Confederate vessels. The claim
made was for $1,500,(100: The ducee
finds very properly that about one
third of the sum was a heavy estimate 1
ol their value. In laet lite hold Admiral
and his "salt water sea dogs"
hardly come out in this thing as fairly
as one could wish for the honor ol the
. Navy.
The three oflicors ol Engineers of
the Army, having in charge the examination
of the foundation ol the Washingtion
Monument, are busily engaged 1
in prosecuting the work. They have I
caused shafts to bo sunk at each ol the
lour corners of the base.? At eight feel |
deep the clay was so hard that it could
bo picket with dilliouliy, and has
I changed very little more sandy. The
j borings will ho made several hundred
I feet deep, and from present indications
the result ol the examination will fully |
warrant a couiinuace of the work upon
the monument*
TIIK DKM0C11ACV IIAVIC NO CAU8K TO !
DKSl'AIll OF SUCCICss IN TIIIC l'RKSlDKN- i
TIONAI, KI.UCriON,
though thero t* little doubt of the
fraudulent intent ot the Republicans '
iu the three Soutlien States they have i
so long held in Kgytian bondage.
With regard to Louisiana a news
I
special despatch to the Philadelphia :
'J'imcs says of the election, in the '
Parishes where the Republicans claim
that the negroes were intimidated, the 1
army officer on duly m Kast Raton
Rouge says the election there was very
peaceable; thai he has had no coin- 1
plaint of intimidation, ami that hum J
dreds of the negroes voted with the j
Democrats. An eminent citizen of
East Feliciana says the negroes there
tuade no concealment about #voting
:*>,1876.
will) tho Democrats, ami hundreds
did so openly, freely and fearlessly.
'I ll K ONLY CAUSB OP INTIMIDATION
w.n that of a white man who wan
pi.i iio.lv whipped by negroes lor leaving
the Itepuhlican party. In Ouaehi.a
which gave the Democrats 1,000,
majority and which has a majority ol
negroes the lull registered vote was
cart. In Richland I'arish also there
m as a large vote lor Tilden and for
Nieholls, l>y negroes,
HOW lvBM.OOO IN'll.MIDATKD A WMOI.B
PAKI8II.
Tlio worst, case against tho Democrats
is found in >? paiish where no
Republican vote is returned. This is
jit-counted for, -?nd it is found to be%u
fact, that when Kellogg found that
the parish was going lor the 1 X-moot ats,
Distinctions were given to Republican
negroes not to vole at all, as a basis
for an application to throw the vote ol
the parish out.
DID Til K TUOOI\S INTIMIDATB?
It is rather remarkable that in all
the parishes where intimidation is alleged
troops were stationed, and the
county ollicos were all in possession ol
the Republicans.
A RADICAL BLUNDER.
Owing to the (act that, in some
parishes the names ol the electors were
minted Irom the tickets, even the Republicans
admit that they were void,
and thus some three thousand votes
are thrown out, and coming as they
do from heavy Republican parishes
;he may he said to count that many
tor tin; 1 )emocrats.
Candid people hero openly say that
ii is si ill possible that South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana may yet have
to he counted for .Mr. Tilden, bad as
the Republicans may hale it. The
Republicans here are looking despondent,
and many of the more Irank and
candid admit that Mr. Tilden is fair'v
and holiest I v elected, and that his clcotion
should he deduced and the mind
of the nation put at rest.
M BMO.
A Demand for n Copy of tlio t'rccinot
Hi'tunis?The Refusal?Suspicious Action
of the Hoard. ,
As soon as the State board had announced
the ligures tor the candidates
on the State ticket, (len, Gordon sub
milled tlie following petition:
To the Hon. Hoard of State Canvassers:
I respectlnlly request, in thu interest
of fairness, that clerks appointed
by lite board and the Democratic
niioriuys respectivelv, be permitted 1
lo take copies of the returns as certi
lied by the precinct managers. I
make this request, both in order to
insure satisfaction, and in view of the
I act that these returns may become an
important laetor in ascertaining the '
result ol the election.
. J. 15. Gordon.
lie then stated that lie regarded the 1
request as most reasonable, inasmuch 1
us all the evidence furnished by the
managers ot the precincts was exclusively
in possession el one political
party; that these certificates ot the
vote polled, as returned by the
precinct niiuiii^ciN, had already been 1
-hovvn to dill< r widely from the returns
forwarded by the county canvassers;
that he did not ask tor the
possession ol these returns, hut had
asked that they ho copied in the
presence of the hoard or its clerk or
some ol its members; that no wrong
eon Id result, and that it furnished a
security to which every citizen ol this
State and ol the United States was
clc irly entitled.
The hoard in reply declined to ac
cede immediately to the request, but
said that an answer would be given on
Moiiday,
Louisiana.
History repeats itself with scurry
politicians as with better people, and
in order 10 see what the Louisiana Reluming
Board is now attempting lot
1 . I.. l 1 . ? 1 - * *
mi 111 me i rt'Hiiif illlill ?*I?'<*11?>1? ol 1N7U,
lot us Hte from tlio orticial record what
it. actually did do in the Presidential
election of 1872. It appears by tlio
if pint ol the connr.il lee ol the United
Slate? Semite, which in ventilated ihe \
Louisiana election in that year, that I
the only returns actually made Irom [
the various parishes ol that Siate went t
into the hands oi Warmoth, the then I
Governor, and there remained until,
at the point ol the Imyonet, President
Grant erected the Stale government
which \Y arniolIt's opponents had con
jurod up out of election returns, which
iliey manufactured partly out ol nllidavtis
which they turned out hy the I
thousand and partly hy the still j
simpler process ol guess-work out- ;
right. The nyrjority ol the committee, ;
namely, Senators Carpenter, Logan,
Alcorn, and Anthony, say of the
Hoard, whose work ol tictiou was sustained
hy the President. ''Conceding
the Board was in existence, and had
full authority to canvass the returns,
it had ro returns to canvass. The returns
from the parishes had been made
under the law ol 1870 to the Governor,
and not one of them was before t in-I
Lynch Uonr?l." (Report, page xxxiii.)
Senator Trumbul, in his separate report.,
says the game thing: "The
Lynch Returning Hoard never had
authoiity to examine the otlicial returns,
and never had any to examine,"
(page liii.) The only official returns
ever made remained in Warmoth's
hands, and as they showed a inajoiily
lor the (ireely hdeulors, l?o furnished
litem with oeriificaiea ol their election.
What tim t xaut vote was is not discloscd
by the report, hut as MoKnory,
tlio eaiiili iuio lor Governor on the
same ticket received 05,000 votes,
against 55,973 tor his opponent, Ivellogg,
the presumption is that th?
electoral vole was about the same and
that the Greely ICleclom had a inpjority
of soiue 9^^0.
How lhis w^Povrrcomo by tho lie*
turuinii ami the Grant
declared elected, let us now proceed to
see. The Hoard figured it up that tho
Greely electoral ticket rcceixed 57,029
voles, and the Grant ticket 71 ,r5.*>3.
thus electing the Grant electors by a
majority oi 14,024, and tho evidence
taken by tho Senatorial committee
shows how these results were arrived
at. Lynch, tho Glmirtnnn of the
Hoard, was put on tho stand and we
quote lroin his examination;
"Q.? 1 will ask, whether what purported
to he tho official return* from
the State officers, were opened in your
presence?
A.?No, sir; th?y were not. (L. 143.)
A.?We toolrtdl the evidence wo
had before in, and our knowledge of
t he parishes and their political complexion,
and we then decided.
Q.? Von estimated it, then, upon
tho basis of what you thought the
vote ought to have been ?
A.?Yts, sir, that was just tho fact,
and I think on tho whole we were
pretty correct.
ij.? i on Hunk you came out about
right ?
A. ? I think about right.
Q.?Have you any opinion an to the
whole number of votes that you threw
out ?
A.?My opinion is tint it won hi not
go over 0,000 that were rejected (p.
158 ) #
0 ?You counted vote* in your estimate
which wore not polled at all, did
you ?
A.?Yes, sir.
Q.? Well upon what ground ?
A.- t)n the authority of the United
Stall's law, and on t he ground or prit>
ciple ot justice (p. 105.)
Bovee, another member of the
Hoard, had similar liberal ideas. Tho
lirsi testified that the Slate was Hooded
with a blank form of affidavit sent,
out Irom New Orleans by the State
Bepnblican Executive Committee to
the efleet that affiant had been prevented
by the 1 democracy from voting
the llepnblle.in ticket, and then said:
' A.?The affidavits were what we
hnsrd the count upon usually. Wo
might, perhaps, have been influenced
one way or another by other cirourn*
titmice*?bv reports.
Q ?Letters V
A.?Yes, and statements by different
parties in different parts of tlio State."
How the affidavit* were prepared ui
ihown l?y another withes*, one .Jnques,
IM ! i- II * ' ...
i mih kmiow uiininsiiingiy testified to
forging one i housand ami thirteen of
litem with his own hand and had this
colloquy with Senator Carpenter:
Q. ? Weio yon aware that it wft?
lorgery in every instance?
A.?I atn awaro it is, probably,
(p. 523.)
Q. --Did you hand these affidavits to
the Hoard ?
A. ? Yes, sir.
Q.?To what member of the Board i
? A.?I think, Mr. Bovce or Mr.
Lynch.
Q.?What did Mr. Bovee say to you
when you handed him these affidavits?
A.?".hupies, you area hull of a
(ellow ?"
(i?What did you reply?
A.?"(icorgeu if you want.a few
more I can got some l>y 10 o'clock li?
the morning." (p. 527 )
Having i litis related his own ex*
plotis, this worthy tells of one lluss,
"a minioinhoiiso officer. He went up
the lied ltiver wi*i> twenty five thorn- 1
(ttui ajjif'uoita" (p. 530); and lh?u ooCuts
Hits:
Q ?The understanding was, it did
not make any difference how the eleo
uon went?they intended to get up
aHidavite enough to elect Kelogg any*
how ?
A.--Yes, sir; to elect the ticket; I
don't know as they said Kellogg par
ticularly. (p. 530.)
The present lieturning Board of
Louisiana, being composed of about
ilie same material as the one whose
history we have just in pari reviewed,
tt is to be expected that pretty much
the Maine easy process of carrying on
election may be^sorted to, though
happily it is not likely to succeed so
well this time. Among tho men
watching its operations is ex-Senator
Trumbull, who, as one of the invent!*
gating commutce of 1873, said: "The
history ol ihe world does not furnish
a more palpable instance of usurpation
than that by which Pmchback wa?
made Governor and tho persons returned
by the Lynch Board, the f^ogislaiureol
Louisiana; nor can a parallel
he found for the unfeeling ami despotic
answers sent by order ol the
President to the respectful appeals of
the people of Louisiana;" and it is no
doubt the Diirnoseol this n?*i mid mor
-> t ?~~ "
les* man to mi c that no such double ^
crime shall bo again committed a*
long as Ins voice can arouse the couu.
try to prevent it.
Charleston Joarnnl of Commerce.
An old darky, who voted the demo*
cralic ticket, now say a he waa forced
to it; "'cause, boss, when 1 see some
ot youna buckra da stoop so low as to
vote wid the radikiia, links I, to my*
self, it is time lur we nigger to git up
higher. Ivi, borah, eniy I rite?"
And we answered yes. llard on the
to called white republicans, though I
GeoryctvVin Time*.