The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-10-24

RoUT OF iocoFocolsM AND THE ARMY OF OFFICE
HoLDERs-SrUPENnoU FRAUDS DIscovEREr
OLD lack is COMING!
The following excellent article we copy from
the Philadelphia News, of the 18th inst.
We greet our friends his morning through
out the Commonwealth and the Union, with
a light h. art, and point them 10 our victorious
banners, flying upon the mountains OF the Old
Keystone State. Strong as the evidence is, we
still hesitate TO proclaim the election OF a wing
Governor and wing Canal Commissioner. 1t
would seem 10 be almost too much glory for
the wings of Pennsylvania. And yet the indi-
cations of such triumph are so convincing,
that we verify believe it 10 be so, and that our
State is wing in every department OF Its gov
eminent.
In more than half of the State now heard
from, we have overcome the entire majority OF
the Locofocos in 1914, when Governor Skunk
was elected by majority of 1922. We are OF
opinion that our gains in the other counties
will continue in about the same ratio. Butt
we should be disappointed in this, the fact is
already manifest, that the people of Pennsyl-
vania lriU sustain and elect Zachary Taylor.
We have certainly carried the Legislature, and
thus secured the election of sound wing tc
represent us in the Senate Of the United States
We have carried majority of the members OF
Congress, and can now say 10 our sister States
that IN national politics we have done our du-
ty. 1t is important to elect Congress that
will second the efforts of President Taylor 10
restore In our government the benificent prln-
ciples that flourished during the administra-
tiOns of our early Presidents In this, Penn
sylvania has done her part, and calls now up
on her sister sister States TO tollop her cram
pie.
We have succeeded in the county of Phila-
delpha, in spite of the most infamous frauds
ever resorted 10 by desperate party TO defeat
the will of the people. In the district of Penn
the officers of the election were secured BY a
juggle in the Legislature last winter, and not
by popular vote, and those concerned in il
were careful 10 select men whom the people
would never have trusted 10 conduct an cleo
ton. OF course they were all Locofocos, To
the establishment of every honest man in the
district, II was announced yesterday morning
that Penn had given a LOcoioco majority OF
$50 votes, and SO ii appears by the returns.--
Now ii so happens, "that there are not $50 vo-
tiers in the District" a member of the Dem
ocratic party stated Yesterday, that he and 9th
ers had kept a faithful account of every vote
that was polled there during the day, and that
the whole vote poIled was ''less than 700."-
BY this fraud, Mr.. Littell, the Wing candidate
for Congress, has been swindled out of his cleo
ton. MIR. Littell, however, "will claim his
seat in the next Congress, and will no doubt
be admitted.
In the city fraudulent certificates of natu-
ralization were discov. red a the polls, and
several persons who attempted TO vote upon
them, as naturalized citizens, were arrested,
and are now in prison or under bail.
A Locofoco Inspector in the Fifth Ward,
Southwark, which polls heavy majority fol-
the Rough aud Ready ticket, managed 10 pre-.
ven. some four or five hundred American citi-
zens from voting, by refusing TO receive the
ballots OF respectable residents aud voters o
the Ward, known as such TO him, without first
swearing them, and occupying some three OF
four minutes by questioning each one as TO his
right 10 vote. BY this gross outrage upon the
right of suffrage, he continued to take The bal
lots so slowly, that almost one-half of the cit
liens who were waiting on the ground for hours
10 deposite their votes, were prevented from
doing so BY BY the closing of the polls. We
trust that the rascal and all his coniederates
will be handed over to the proper officers, and
receive the punishment they so richly merit fol
their Infamous conduct
When our friends reflect that our great vic
tory has been achieved in the face of such glar.
ing frauds, also pnctieed, no doubt, in other
parts of the State, we are sure they will stand
firm and united under the honord standard OF
Taylo and Fillmore, until it is planted on the
walls of the Capital of Washington.
Rally them friends of the old hero-and pre-
pare for the great struggle of November! Re-
member, that Pennsylvania in the wing line
and that she neuer has been on the losing
sidei