Samuel Tillman former governor of New York was initially thought to have won the election capturing more popular vote as well as electoral Tilden was a leader of the Red Shirts boasted about the vote frauds of 1876We set up the Democratic Party with one plank only that this is White mans country and White men must govern it Tillman said Under that banner we went to battle It was then that we shot them It was then that we killed them It was then that we stuffed ballot boxes because this disease needed a strong remedy New York Public Library 1875