Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-10-27
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We. are tired and digusted with recapitula-
ting the many dishonest and diahonorable tricks
resorted to by Henry M. Rice and his friends
to secure his election to Congress. Beside the
fraud committed at Lake Superior -rwhere The.
sacredness Of the ballot box was 'violated--be-
side the many fslsehoods pu. in circulation on the
eve Of election in order to draw sotes from Mr.
Olmsted-beside the buying up Of voters by
Rice men with the, money, Of the Wall street
Railroad Company, yet other illegal proceed:
ings were carried on which have no parallel on.
ly in the famous land Of California OF the more
notorious Territory Of Kansas, where drunken
Missourians control the elections by fraud and
murder the innocent citizens ? uaF 80
A gentleman from the Chippewa Agency
inform. US that on the day OF election minors
and Indians were brought to the polls and al
lowed to vote, and all for Henry NJ Rice!.
A gentlemrn from Henderson informs US
that two young men, only eighteen gears Of age,
who had not been in the Territory but q few
months, were forced to the polls and voted for
Henry NJ Rice! and then left the Territory.
A gentleman from Lake Superior informs
US that he asked for copy Of the poll list, in
order to See who had voted illegally and who
had not, but ,Oas refused.
A gentleman who voted for Mr.. Marshall
in a town on the Minnesota river, informs us
that he knows ten men who voted for Mr.. Mar.
shall, whose votes were not counted, and these
men will swear to their depositing their votes
for the Republican candidate.
A gentleman living on Bottineau Prairie in
forms US that previous to the election a Rice
man rode around among the inhabitants en-
deavoring to induce them to vote for Mr.. Rice,
and Offering them given sum for their votes.
He stated that he was hired and paid well for
his electioneering services.
These are only few of the appliances used
to elect Henry M. Rice to Congress. Had the
question been met fairly without these tricks
and frauds, WM. R. MARSHALL would have
been our Delegate to Congress.
Not entitled to Vote unless they Read and Write
So says the State of Connecticut by some
5000 majority. We are not sure but this is a
good law, for why should those who cannot read
nor write be entitled to vote for those men and
those measures they know nothing about, only
through the representations Of designing mena
The law does not exclude those who are voters
now, but all who shall apply for citizenship
hereafter. Had such law been in existence
in this Territory at the late election, Henry M.
Rice would have had some thousand of votes
less than he now has. We believe that such a
law will become general throughout the United
States, and when this takes place much of the
corruption in our political system will be re-
moved, for it is through the ignorance Of the
people that demagogues succeed in carrying
their ends.
eF We give the following extract Of let.
ter as a specimen Of fine compassionate its
kind:
Last evening, shortly after leaving Chica-
60, we were favored with beautiful shower,
which no less soothed and satisfied the lower
| grades Of conscious Nature, than lent her len
lent and lovely agency to mitigate and melio-
rate the miseries of man. What though for a
time Heavens artillery called in tones of ter.
ror to the trembling earth, and even drew tears
from angel eyes in what we vulgarly term rain
what though the red rockets of wrath darted
their serpentine forms along the sky, and point.
ed their tongues Of fire at all beneath; YET
nought but blessings and benefits were the re.
suit Of the elemental strife. Regardless of all
this, our iron steed, like thing Of life winged
with the wild winds, careered onward, and still
onward DER the broad prairie, while the livid
lurid lightnings that ever and anon stripped
from old night her robes Of darkness, revealed
to the delighted view the beauties, apparently
Of new creation"
| In MouRNING.-The Wlnona Express o
last week came to US in mourning over the de.
feat Of David Olmsted and the election Of Hen.
| ry M. Rice, whom it denounces in unstinted
terms. The Express takes its defeat too much
at heart. Cheer up, neighbor; this is Mr.
Rice's last throw Of the dice and though he
has won this time, yet it is game in which he
will lose next. 1s ssE g. als.7
| s1 What is the matter with the Winons
Argus? We have not received copy for 9
week or two past. Though il does abuse u.
occasionally still we kinder like its phiz, though
an ugly one. Send along the bantling.
OHIo.-The whole Of the Republican State
ticket of Ohio has been elected, besides the
election Of Chase by nearly 10000 majority
The old line Wing candidate, although an Anti
Nebraska man, received some $4,000 votes.
Nrw Yosk OrrIclALs.-Not content with over
hauling three Of their Aldermen and as man,
members of the Common Council, New Yorl
Grand Jury has actually found an indictmen
against one Of the City Judges, Mr.. Stuart, ant
be has been put under $500 bonds TO stand hi