Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1839-09-17
THE ELECTION FRAUDS.


We continue to receive further accounts Of n,
tricks of our loco-foco opponents to chea, a,A Do.
cieve the frccmcn while in the discharge Of u,,,
elective functions.
We alluded in our last, TO two or three editonsof
spurious Wing tickets which had been secretly ru
up and put in circulation to deceive the freemsn
and furthermore, that had understood tina, alarg.
number more were printed for circulation in various
parts Of the State for a similar purpose.
The main object Of the abet,ors of this Outrage
appeared to be to defeat the free and spontaneous
expression of the people in relation to the election
the Wing senators, in the different counties-andf
their project had succeeded TO their minds the,
might have had every member Of the Senate, Will.
they now have, with the frauds which took eaec,
only about one third Of them. Whether the lo.s Of
the Wing senators in Bennington and Orange cuun.
ties was effected by this secret plot or not, we ar.
yet unadvised and probably ever shall remain in bs
dark about il.
That this manouvre was dark, deep laid and e.
tensive plot, needs further proof than that which
Is now before the public, though we shall never,
probably, become fully acquainted with all the fea.
lures of it.
Gus printed tickets sent us since the election One
running thus, (aher the regular Wing sNa,e Tcle.
for Gov &c. For Senators--O Obadiah llobk, IA
gar l.. Ormsbee, Jonas Clark. Another, containing
the names of obadiah Noble, Robert Pierpoin,,
Daniel Packard" This last was found at the polls
IN Mt Holly where this Rev Elder Parker, the wor-
thy Baptist clergyman of the town resided and put
in the way of the freemen and rendered TO them
the regular Wing ticket. Happily the imposition
was discovered in season to defeat the object. The
venerable elder, himself, we understand, was tho
first to detect the fraud and expose it, As soon a.
discovered he called the attention of the Freeen To
the subject and told them his name was thus plac-
ed on the ticket without his knowledge or consent,
and desired them to trea, it an imposition.
We furthermore have it from unreasonable au.
thorty that 5000 similar spurious tickets were print
ed at Montpelier by the loco focos and sen, To every
town in Windsor county, for similar purpose, viz,
to defeat the election of Wing Senators in that Co
But, good fortune would have it, there was ono
V. Is. man so schocked with the proceeding that no
disclosed it to some of the leading Wings in Wood
stock on the eve preceding the election, and by
sending a circular to the town committees in each
town, the fraud was mainly counteracted.
These are some the devices of our "Sme and
Reform" opponents to betray our mountain State
into the hands of this obnoxious administrations
Had they succeeded they doubtless would have es-
mated the measure of 'glory" sufficient to balance
all the iniquities resorted to- to accomplish IT, Bn,
i was exceedingly fortunate that number Of cir
happened, some of which by mere acct
lent, to partially defeat the plot-one in particular,
n addition to those heretofore alluded to- we cannot
orbcar to pass over. The genuine Wing ticket, by
mere accident happened to be printed on smated
paper, and from this circumstance ,he spurious
'nes being printed on white paperl was in numcr-
'us cases, which have come to our knowledge, dis
covered in time to prevent their being put into the
pallet box.
We will advert to one more circumstance in rela-
ion to this subject and leave il for the present
Our readers will probably recollect that in one or
wo papers preceding the election, we cautioned tho
own authorities and the freemen to beware Of
rauds at the ballot-box. This, some of tho loco
ocos took in high dudgeon, and cast back the re,or,
When at the same time they were deeply engaged in
citing up the above, and probably other frauds
GLORY .,