Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-11-06
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The leader in the journal OF Wednesday
is one Of the weakest and most contempdbla
attempts to propagate error that we have re-
Gently seen. Itis. however, just such 7lua q
the J0sfnaE has been IN he habit Of dea,4s
e ont to its readers Misstateuisnis and mis-
representations are the staple commodities in
d. which It operates. It's great wisdom has Gen.
e ceived the idea, that, because the vote of the
people at the last State election exceeds the
a numberof polls returned by the seyelal AS
SCISSORS 10. the Audiior's Office, therefore
theexoess isievidsaaesof fraudulent voters
being iniroluced1ine, thv State. We should
suppose that the brightand sagaious thought
: would have been cRgendered. among the pre-
sent learned incumbents Of ths State eiices.
Their .wisdsm is iumepae. and tbe IpoPleo of
Indiana, BY choosing other officers to fiji their
places, are not yet fully conscious Of what a
loss they may sustain thereby, in financial
talent and in political economy generally.
This test upon which these Savans estab-
lish their calculation is the most brainless
thing which could have been invented.--
None buta numb scull would have presum-
ed to blind and mslead the public by such
utter nonsense. 1t is well known to every iu-
teIligent man, that, after citizen becomes
fifty years Of age, he is exempt the payment
Of poll tax, and therefore is his name not
piacedupon the lists ofthe assessor. The pop
uIar vote Of the States is fully two hundred
thousand votes. Out of this 100000 men
who vote, how many are there who are more
than fifty years Of age? Surely there are ali
Of forty thousand men vote who are more
than fifty years old, and every one of these
are. by law, left off Of the assessor This
easily and sensibly accounts for the fact that
there are more voters than there are tax pay
ers, and il the excess was forty thousand it
would be nothing singular OF frghtful This
plain and true view Of the facts knocks all Of
the argument Of the Journal into "cocked
hat" and must conclusiyely show that it is
again dealing in llinsJ4q to mislead and de-
ceive its readers.
1t has also discovered the wonderful fact
that in all elections the comparative differ
ence between the number Of voters, and tho
number OF polls returned to the Auditor is
variant. This is just as easily accounted for
as was the first noticed fact The Assessors
+ in some years may fail to make full returns of
all the polls by being Incompetent and by
neglect of duty. In three years, when full
ticket is TO be elected, there are many, and
sometimes great numbers OF candidates on
the State and county tickets, and by their
Industrious exertions many more voters are
brought out to vote than would vote if the
election was a trifing one and but few Offices
TO be filed In elections where no great ex-
q citement exists the old men Of the country
: are not 90 aptyto so to the election, but in a
season like the present the old grey haired
patriots of the land have gone and will
:. &c, to, the polls to swell the column Of DEM
ocratic numbers who sustain Buchanan,
u Breckinridge. the Constitution and the Union,
This foolish gull trap, SO laboriOnsly set
and put forth by the Journal, vanishes. into
thin air when examined and dissccted. 1t
is only another lame attempt to cover upand
excuse their own fraudulent importation OF
voters, to escape the whitening effects Of theil
overwhelming defeat, and to continue the
excuses Of those mean men Of their party
who, under its advice and counsel, have los
their money by betting, and whom the Jour
nal still advises not to pay their losings.