Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-30
Up Kill Business.

The journal has most happy knack at
argument, as its labored efforts TO fasten fraud
upon the Democrats, in the recent State cleo
ton, bears ample witness. The whole argu-
ment of that owlish sheet turns upon the
simple fact that the gain in the Democratic
vote over the vote of 1854 exceeds the gain
in the Republican vote. 1t does not seem to
be a possibility in the minds of these I" fig
uring" politicians, that many who voted with
the opposition in 1854, this year voted the
Democratic ticket Yet such is the fact, as
every one we'll knows who has not persist
ently kept his eyes closed to what has been
going on in the political world around him.
Thus there has been a three-fold source
from which the Democratic vote has been
swelled to its present aggregate, viz the
natural increase resulting from an increase Of
population an increase arising from the great
interest so universally excited in the result Of
the present election, which has called out a
much fuller vote than has been brought out
at any previous election and the increase
caused by large additions to the party of men
who have heretofore steadily acted with the
opposition.
The increase of the Abolition vote has
been produced by the first two causes only,
while the third cuuse enumerated as having
served to swell the Democratic vote, has d.
minished in the same ratio the strength OF
the opposition. The uniformity of the Dem
ocratic gains all over the State, renders the
argument which we here present impregna-
Bile. In every county, except few where
ripe-laying is known to have been practiced
by the Abolitionists, the Democratic gain is
in the same uniform proportion. Every one
will see at glance how impossible it would
have been for the Democrats, by any con.
ceivable amount of ingenuity and activity
to have distributed imported voters over the
State, so as to produce this result. 1t would
have been utterly impossible, as the very
men who make the charge of importation o.
voters from other States well know.
1t is most unfortunate for those who make
this charge. that they did not use more car,
in covering up their own tracks, before put
ting themselves on the trail Of their enemies
In bat very few counties, as in Rush, Elk
hart, Lagrange, Steuben and Kosciusco, DE-
they maintain anything like the relative pro
portion of votes that existed in 1854. 1t i
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in such counties that they have practicet
frauds of the most glaring and wholesal,
character. Were there no other evidenc,
that fraud had been committed by the Blacl
Republicans, the fact that they "hold thei
own" as compared with 1854, GIN SPOTS
and GIN sPoTs'' only, is prin1a facie evidenc
against them. But the Democrats are no
left to this anomalous appearance of tn
vote. as compared with that of the Stat
generally, to convict their opponents of fraud
They have evidence of it which is positiy
and tangible-evidence which will enabl
them to proceed successfully in contestini
the election in some of the close counties
If frauds have been practiced by the Demo
Gratis, to the extent, and in the manner, pro
claimed by the Journal, and by that tacto:ur
of the Abolition party, j. d. DEFREEs,
would be very easy thing for them to sho,
it. They would not be compelled to couc
their charges in general terms, as they noN
do, but they could show hot0 and ,Uherrt h
game had been played. They could Civ
the names of some, at least, of the fifteen G
twenty thousand voters who they preten
have been imported from other States, an
the names of the men who have been er
gagged in importing them. Transactions {
that kind are not to be hidden "under
bushel." In proceeding as they do. the
show that facts, arguments and probabilitie
are all against them. Their foundering q
forts remind one very strongly of the unfol
tunate fatboat in storm, SO graphically dt
scribed by Western poet
a. She heaved herself and pitched herself
And up the rudder flung
And every time she heaved herself,
worser leak she sprung :"