Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
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September 9th, 1856.

September 9th, 1856.
From the indianapolis IonrnaI of Oct. Goth l
Fraud in Indiana.
The Sentinel is not overwise, and grows
worse daily, but it is not fool enough to
think that it can procure an escape from the
merited exposures of its party's frauds, BY
such idle clamors as those Of the past two
Gays. We Of this city have had 100 mahy
years experience of the way droves of Irish
come in here just before an election, AMI
leave right away after it, to be confused for
the fraction OF second about the source and
responsibility of the evident frauds prac-
ticed in the late election in this county and
State. The increased vote of this town
ship. out of all proportion to its natural
growth, and three fourths of ii ON the Demo-
cratic side, is fact that tells the whole
story.
In Decatur county, in the town Of Green's
burgh alone, seventy men, who had voted at
the election, left the next morning for Ken
tucky.
The Louisville Journal saws.
PUT THIS AND That ToGErHER.-Or
Saturday last, fully three-rourths of the
Irishmen at work on the Louisville and
Portland canal were discharged. On mon
day and Tuesday, few or none of them could
be found in this city, but the vote of Floyd
county, Indiana, just opposite here, was in
crease by about the number of discharged
Irish.
The Rockford Jackson county, Herald
says:
Jackson township in '54 polled lO2 votes,
and give, we believe, 80 majority for the
Peoples ticket. Now it polls 2sl votes.
and gives Old Line majority. 1t is one of
the tow wnships in which the Irish vote was
concentrated. There were probably $50
Irish voted in this township who are not re-
sidents of the State.
In st. Joseph county three hundred Irish
votes were poiled, who had no more resi-
dence than they have in the moon.
In Marshall county two hundred and fifty
of the same class of migratory votes were
held for one day, till they could vote the
old line ticket. They never vote the Re-
publican ticket. And it is the command of
this large, and easily transported vote, that
gives the Buchaniers their whole power -
The Marshall Republican says.
Our de- feat here and in the neighboring
counties Is attributable to but one cause
the Irish vote. The peop'. are with us, as
the result IN precincts where no foreign vote
was polled distinctly shows We gain in
Polk. Union, West, North and Ti2pecanoe +,
hold our own in German and Bourbon, and
lose only in Centre and Green.
One thing we are sure of-the Democracy
have done their worst here in Marshall
They have polled $50 Irish non-resi ident
votes, and what is the result, A majority
of about 100, showing conclusively that a
maj ,ri'y of $50 of the freemen of Marshall
comfy rep udiate Shamocracy and Border
Ruffianism generally.
voters were colonized, and with all that H.
legaivOte to encounter, the people of Lapor;e
so abhorred the Infamous course of the
Buchaniers, tha, they gave one hundred ma
Iority against it.
In Tippecanoe a company of three hun
dred Irish voted, who were tracked from
Warren county, where :hey voted to Foun
tain, where thev voted again, and thence to
Lafayette, wkere they voted again. But
they were off Immediately, before they could
be arrested.
In A Hen county, the following " ell au-
thenticated fact may serve as a simple of
operatcns:-
A party of Nine Irish.nen, in twohorse
wagon, voted in the morning at Je fferson
township; in the afternoon they ascended
the Goshen road, and crossed over to the
Lima road, where the Washington township
polls were held, there voted a thirc time,
and then went to Adams township; this
makes twentv-seven votes certain, out Of
nine.
In Vermilion county, Mr.. Ray, formerly
of Philade lphia, Hancock county, saw tren-
ty-seuen Irish ON Tuesday, ,0ho told him that
they hal been brought from Ohio to ro,e, and
they had voted. This he is willing to sup
port by affidavit, and he is well known TO
many of our citizens.
Importations from Kentucky into the
Southern counties were kept up for more
than two weeks before the election, and
that whole section swarmed with Kenhck-
ians. None of them were visible the next
day. Ripley county, in the townships along
the railroad, WIS thus operated on. Jeffer-
SON county was libpra llv blessed in the same
way. Hundreds are known to have come
through Cincinnati, where their destination
was SO notorious, that it was common talk,
and those best il formed advise the Repub-
licans to surrender no bets made upon the
election. FRAUD is written all over Will
lard's contemptib lie majority, which in any
fair election would have been fifteen thou
sand against him. 1t will no. avri il Mr..
Buchanan. So Willards success by raud
or fair means is matter Of ipdiher-
ence.