Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-30
The Stumpendous Fraud i'm
Indiana

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Indiana
Every day is bringing to light the ha-
ture and extent of the recent and gigantic
frauds perpetrated upon the ballot-boxes OF
Indiana. 1t is already ascertained that
Irishmen were brought into the State dur
ing the fortnight previous to the election,
to three times the number of the claimed
Buchanan majority In many instances il
is in proof that these imported Irishmen
voted at two, three and four different polls
They were marshalied in squads of ffties
and hundreds, and generally sent to strong
Buchanan neighborhoods, where there
would be 10 formidable objections to their
voting. Their Buchanan friends stood
about them while they voted, and the I'm
pudent Republicans who in some instances
challenged these votes, were unceremonlous-
ly knocked dopn, and taken by their "long
heels" and dragged out The most infam'
GUS scenes of the Kansas election were re-.
enacted in numerous instances. We give
few of the facts, as we find them publish
ed in the Indianapolis Daily Journal:
"When we began our exposure of the
means by which the late election has been
carried, we had no idea of the extent and
baseness of the frauds we were to encounter.
We knew well, for we had witnessed In
many former elections, the modes Of oper-
alton by which the "old line' party over
ride hostile public will, that gross frauds
lay at the bottom of the large votes of
Allen, Dearborn, Franklin, Shelby, and all
the counties along the Wabash, but We
did not know that even "old line" despera-
ton could dare such lengths of iniquity as
the evidence proves they have gone. We
have presented already proof enough to in
validate the whole election. Frauds scover-
ing more than Wizards whole majority
have been established in Allen, Wabash,
Huntington, Warren, Parke, Tippecanoe.
Laporte, Marshall, Fulton, Marion, Shelby,
Morgan, Hendrick. Look at the sold line"
vote in this county, swelling at once one
thousand, out of an entire increase of only
fourteen hundred.
Look at the increase of eighty in the little
town of Brownsburg, within week of the
election; at large increase in Morristown
within few days of the election; and all
that increase upon the Buchanan side
Look at the increase in Allen county in the
township in which Fort Wayne lies.
Take the vote of Tippocanoe county
The Republican increase has been about
two hundred The Buchaneer increase has
been-look at it readerl one thousand and
sirty-two, fire times the Republican gain,
though there, as here, hundreds of Ger
mans left the pro-slavery ranks, and voted
the Republican ticket.
In Wayne township, Allen county, men
VIGOROUSLY residents of other counties walk
cd up to the polls and voted, and band
of the lowest rufiians in the place, who are
invariably sold liners" kept guard and pre-
vented all interference. The Republicans
numerically but half as strong as their op-
ponents, were powerless. The scenes Of
the Kansas invasion were re-enacted, as
they will be till the strong hand crushes
out the villainies that are fostered by and
foster such conduct. They are the necessa-
ry concomitant ofa policy that defends the
extension of Slavery by arms, murder, arson
and rape. There will be repeated every
where, where safer means cannot avail
Brownsburg was made the scene of similar
outrages, and at twenty other places we
hear of their repetition.
In De Kalb county, on the Goshen Air
Line Railroad, one hundred and fifty Irish
freshly arrived from some quarter, nobody
knew where, to work for few days upon
that road, voted in body. They had 10
residence in De Kalb, and no intention of
staying longer than the contract kept them.
Like ten thousand or more of the same
kind in the State, they had no possible
right to vote, and they should have been
repelled by force, if force were necessary, as
was done in some of the Northern counties,
where the people believed they should
make their institutions and not the Irish,
who had neither interest or residence among
them.
In Noble county, at Kendallville, one
hundred of the Irish hands on the same
railroad voted.
In Whitley county, ON the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, band
of over one hundred Irish voted at Colum
bia City.
In kosciusko two hundred Irish of the
same lawless, unsettled race, by whom the
"old line" party has won all its battles,
tried to vote, but the people compelled
them to obey the law by force. They
were driven off as they ought to have been,
and as they should be everywhere. Irish
emigrants have the same right to vote as
other residents, but not such men as these
who infest every every region where q rail-
road runs, during election times.
In Allen county, on the Tifin Railroad,
fifty Irish voted, though they had not been
in the State two weeks.
In Logansport, Cass county, seventy-fve
Irish came in and voted in one squad,
though they had never lived in the place,
or even been in il before.
In Huntington county Indians were per-
mitted to vote the Buchanan ticket, and
numbers of Irish voted two or three times.
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