Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — The Electoral Fraud of 1876. [ARTICLE]

The Electoral Fraud of 1876.

“Just before Grant started on his journey around the world,” says the Philadelphia Times, in an editorial article, “the writer hereof heard him discuss the same question (the election of 1876) in Childs’ presence. General Grant reviewed the contest for the creation of the Electoral Commission, and the contest before and in the commission, very fully and with rare candor, and the chief significance of his view was in the fact, as he stated it, that he expected from the beginning until the final judgment that the electoral vote of Louisiana would be awarded to Tiiden. He spoke of South Carolina and Oregon as justly belonging to Hayes, of Florida as reasonably doubtful, and of Louisiana as for Tiiden.” —Evening Post.