Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-09-13

substituting in their place ballots for Hcze-
kiah G. Wells, the Wing candidate for Con-
gress; by which operation the wings arc
enabled to gain base triumph over the de-
mocracy of this town by majority of 80
votes. 1t is natural to suppose that the peo-
pie would like to know upon what grounds
suspicion has been based-and as much as
we regret that it becomes our duty as con-
ductors Of a public press to pain the feel
inRs of community with rehearsal OF the
circumstances which led to suspect the CON-
mission of crime so enormous and daring
so villainous and reasonable, yet we feel
bound TO give the facts in the case, let the
obloquy rest where it wil--that tho perpe-
traitors may know that justice swift and sure
will, e'er long, overtake them--that their
names may soon be placed before the peo-
pie, and themselves brought to justice--if
not to suffer from popular violence; for such
is the present excited state of public sentl-
ment, that what may be the consequences
Of detection we would hardly dare to anti
cipate. On the fist day of the election the
democrats must have polled out of 222 votes
ut least two to one. Bets were freely Of
iered on 40 and so majority for our ticket,
and taken up at SO with great reluctance by
our opponents. All parties conceded we
had from - majority on the first day.
Certain tr1i 5na = dark character
were performed by Individually Of the wing
party Is who are Headers IN this county on
Monday night--these together with other
acts of dark and strange character, began
10 awaken suspicion. Early next morning
Il was ascerlained that a'leading wing had
made several bets-O One in particular Of
% dollars on mkiority of 25 votes -
that lie same individual had procured a
large amount ofmoney to bet upon the elec-
ton, and distributed il around among the
party for that purpose. When this cir
cumstance came to light several gentlemen
in the Post Office thought that all was not
right, and every body was astonished at the
circumstances above alluded TO. Gentle
men began to talk of it through the streets
and one Of the party strongly suspected be-
came very much engaged at one of our
citizens for fretting his mind upon the SUBJ
ject--this still more awakened the suspi-
cions Of the people yet, so base was the
transaction, that individuals who placed too
high confidence in the honesty of the sus-
pected, were induced to make bets until the
wing leaders, (for such they are called,)
had exhausted their means. The demo-
Gratis also polled a majority over the wings
on the second and last day ofelection. On
the canvass however, the democratic can
didate was defeated by 80 votes AT this
result oil parties were astonished +! The
democrats, concious that iniquity had been
practiced in the premises, after giving three
cheers for Jackson and Crary, and three
cheers for the "puriy of elections" left
the Court Room and Immediately resolved
to undeceive the people as to the result of
the election. They were satisfied that
'something was rotten in Denmark. -
Messrs Calvin G. Parks and VIM. S. Hen.
derson, Justices of the Peace, by the re-
quest of large portion Of our party imme-
diateIy commenced the taking of the affida-
Wis of all those who had, on the 2lst and
22nd insts. voted for Isaac E. Crary for
Congress and, at this stage of the investi-
CATION, Messrs. Parks and Henderson have |
obtained the affidavits of ONE HUNDRED |
AND NINETY voters who solemnly |
swear that they voted for Isaac E Crazy
which is 81 more than was convassed in
this town for him by our Town Board (;
and yet there are enough more gentlemen
who voted for Mr.. Crary whose absence at
present from home renders it impossible to
obtain their names to swell our numbers TO
near 240 votes out of 35l. These facts
must carry with them evidence most con-
elusive, and certain we are that among
this community none will dispute them ex-
cept those who are GUILTY. When the in.
vos:igation is finally closed a report will
be published and all the facts stated in their
true light. If corruption consists in the
worst of villainy, this stain upon the leaders
of whiggery in Oakland County savors
much of rank corruption. If the wings
can longer rail out against the corruptions
of our party they possess more brass and
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