Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-01-05


Deduct for sick, absent
havigating the lakes &
rivers, paupeTs, per-
sons imprisoned, &c. f u
in all equal TO 10 per
cent. 32.i35
N 72,304
And it leaves as the total vote.
which is a. great a. could
have been honestly cast in
Ohio. PAL ,046
MI. Van Buren received in this State
l24, ,760, and il should have left as the
total vote Of Harrison and BiEney but
l24 ,266. Gov. Shannon's vote was i29,-
900, which, taken from 249,O46, the
whole number Of legal votes, would have
Iefl for Mr.. Corwin ll9,O69 votes, giving
a majority for Gov. Shannon ofl0.7O0,
thus showing that the "pipe laying" Of
the Fsderalists, at the gubernatOrial cleo
ton in Ohio, amounts 10 25,700 feet Of
"pipe." It Is worthy of remark, that the
leading Federal editor Of Ohio, in com
menting on an article, in our paper, based
upon the census Of 1889, indirectly ad-
mitted that our allowance Of 4 per cent.
for foreigners, absentess, &c. was not
too great. As 10 our further allowances,
the figures are given above, from the re-
cent census tables. The world can
Judge whether we have made them too
large. The data then used was said to
be deceptive. Yet this iuStifes It. The
difference is but 900 votes. Were both
censuses incorrectly taken9 Is il more
likely that the United States marShals
and deputies Of 1910, and the several
State officers, who took the census Of
1889, we're all foresworn and faithless TO
their duty, or thar there was little "si.
lent vOting," laIe cheating, a little
pipe ldying, to the amount Of thirteen
votes on an average for each town in the
State7 The Federal editor at Columbus,
Ohio, in reply to our article, says there
was pipe laying by the Democrats in the
county Of Mercer, and urgsd, as proof,
that the vote exceeded the census Of
white males in 1880, which excess was
shown. The county Of Mercer is newly
settled, and canal, the route Of which
runs through that county, has been
wrought by great many hsnds during
the year. That the argument fails, is
shown by the census Of lS4O, which
gives an aggregate Of voters, even upon
our scale Of reduction, considerable ex-
ceeding tho aggregate Of votes given in
that county at either election. The
same rate Of reduction could not be ap'
piled to the old settled counties Of the
State, where the FSderalIsts made their
greatest gains, without showing frauds TO
the amount our friends claim, and the
reasoning Of this editer proves that those
who employ It, in reference to Mercer
county, are conscious that the frauds have
been 90 astounding and enormous as 10
conFound them.
While on this subject, We copy from
the Harrisburg Gazette, an extract from
a letter Of its Ohio correspondent, which
shows that we are not alone in our esti-
mate Of tho great extent to which the
Glentworth plan Of eleclioneeFing was
carried in Ohio. Tho HUMBUeGERY OI
coon.skin shows and hard cider song
singing and huzzas, was mere rGse-u
farce got up to blind the vision Of the hon.
est Democrats, and prevent their detect
ing the ChOat. II was . achems con
ceived and executed in the same spirit,
and for The like object, which induces the
pckpOckst to tickle the ear ofhis victim
with one hand, while the OthsriS employ
cd in riAing his pockets.