White boys of eighteen, if well grown, sometimes voted, while a young negro unable to produce any evidence of his age had difficulty in proving the attainment of his majority.

In some precincts illiterate Republicans were appointed officers of elections, and then the vote was juggled shamelessly.

A study of election returns of some counties of the black belt shows occasional Democratic majorities greater than the total white population.

The same tricks which were so long practiced in New York and Philadelphia were successful in the South.
Conditions such as these were not prevalent over the entire South.

In a large proportion of the voting precincts elections were as fair as anywhere in the United States; but it may be safely said that in few counties where the negroes approached or exceeded fifty per cent of the total population were elections conducted with anything more than a semblance of fairness.