The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-10-24
NEWPORT.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. "a, 1885.
The Elections.

,d have adopted the device OF tic thief, wbt
IN when pursued, bawed out stop thief in
re conjunction with his pursuers, and thereby
D made his escape. They will not, however,
be so successful, as the rrick is now well
N understood. To screen their own fraudu-
l. lent transactions in the late election in the
n A." keystone state" they are making grent
&c cry about the rejection Of the votes of the
= Northern Liberties in The district Of Phila-
!. dolphin, for fraud and ilegality. The de-
e wee, as we said before, will fail them for
! their frauds were so numerous and barefac-
= ed that many have already been detected
and exposed. Ifroom permitted we would
copy some accounts of their exposed and
proven frauds, but as they would ill col
umns of our paper, we must pass them by.
a specimen, however, o: their proceed
Ings, we copy from the Pennsylvania the
following account of one vile fraud, planned
by the Hoco POGO managers ut PhIadel-
pha, under the registry law, but happily
frustrated in its execution, by the vigilance
and firmness Of our friends. The Pennsyl-
vannn says:
Three hundred fictitious names were
added to the registry in one ward, which
the officers of the election refused to admit
to challenge until compelled by the Court
OF Quarter Sessions, not one of whom dar-
ed 10 come to claim his vote on the day of
election, aud which names now stands on
the registry, without a local habtalion, as
tho enduring monument of al intended stu
pendous fraud ~
As regards the rejection of the votes in
the " Northern Liberties" aud tho conse-
quent declared election of Mr.. Ingersoll, the
hoco pnpers are full of misrepresentation
and fnlsrhoods. We do not expect any po-
litical opponent to belieUe our s,atcmen, of
the facts in the case, but we will ask them
to read the following acknowledgement
1t with the accounts in the whig papers, and
Judge which is most reasonable, and proba-
bly, true.
The PonnsylyauiGn says:
There are eighteen return Judges for
the same number of election districts in the
city and county of Philadelphia. Their
duty is to meet on the fourth day after the
election, to ascertain the " hole number of
votes given to the respective candidates, and
certify the same under their hands and seals
Their oath requires them to see that no
frauds are committed. Seventeen of these
judges, being the whole number for rhe |
county, SO met on Frdny last in ,ndepon-
dence Hall, and proceeded to perform their
duties by appointing Mr. Smick their chair
man, n SnmI. J. Robbins, of the city, and
John }. McCahen, of The county return
clerks.
After the judges of the First District
had performed their duties, and returned
the number of votes for DR.. Sutherland and
er's certificate of election, they proceeded
to tho County Assembly returns. Object
ons were then made to receiving the re-
urns from the Northern Liberties, in con-
of alleged fraud aud IIlegality,
aud two of the Inspectors of the 6lh and 9Th
wards aud Que of the clerks of the 9TH were I
examined under oath. They proved that a i
portion of the papers of the 9Th ward had {
been frauden,ly aud illegally distracted by /
\ whig Judge-that the officers of the five r
first wards refused To let them see or know q
any thing that has been done during the {
" hole day--and that they had not called
out the votes publicly, as required by law,
nj any of these wards--together with other i
llIegaltes. Under these circumstances, the
return Judges, by a vote of 10 to Z, refused G
to receive the returns from this district. Mr.. {
Naylor and his friends opposed the rejection
on the ground that the II return judges had
no right to inquire whether the returns from
the Northern Liberties were legal or illegal
whether they were the returns made up ,
of the votes of the Northern Liberties by ,
their Inspectors, Judges aud Clerks, or were
merely returns made up by Peter Albright,
MIR. ilockly aud Bella Badger of fictitious
votes. The return judges thought differ |
emily, and under their cath of office refused
to certify as true what they had evidence,
too plain Ia be doubted, was false in
short, their whole offence and outrage con-
sisis IN not allowing themselves to he made
accessory TO n fraud. Ii the returns from
the Northern Liberties have been i'm proper .
ly rejected by the return Judges, they can
be examined by tue Legislature, by Con-
gress, aud by the other legal tribunals, and
their votes, if legal, will count just as much
then for the respective candidates as they
would if certified by the return Judges.
We intend shortly TO publish the whole
evidence taken in this matter, together with
other facts that have been developed recent
ly, and If some OF the whig leaders do no,
exhibit some qualms of conscience or hush
rs of shame, it will be because they have
no conscicnces aud are insensible to shame"
BE this case, however, as it may" VIC
agree with the Providence Herald in say
ing, eve are confident our friends will ask