Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-11-06
Opposition ISLANDERS Refuted by their Own Co


Opposition ISLANDERS hefuted by their Own Co
Workers.
If have paid more attention to the
false and silly camor OF the Black Republi-
can papers about the importation of voters
from other States, by the Democrats, at the
recent election, than the occasion seemed to
require, il has been because we were unwil-
ing that an imputation should gain currency
abroad, so seriously affecting the character
and reputation Of our State So far as the
character of our party at home a. its pros
poets in the Presidential struggle are con-
cerned, the whole matter MIGHT have been
left to the good sense and Justice OF the peo-
pie, without word of denial or defence
Not one man in fifty among the opposition
themselves, gives the slightest credence to a
tale so ridiculously absurd and preposterous.
They very well understand for what purpose
it is propagated They know that the whole
thing was a shabbily devised scheme to
break the force of an overwhelming defeat,
and TO furnish the leaders of the opposition
with some sort of argument for keeping up
an organized contest till after the election of
Tuesday next They do not hope to effect
anything in this State, by the bold and I'M
scrupnlous game they are playing, for here,
as we before said, that game is well under
stood; but it is to operate upon their friends
in other States, that they thus throw truth,
manliness and candor to the winds, and brand
their own fellow citizens with iufamy.
That the base and dirty work of these base
demagogues may be properly appreciated, we
/ invite the attention Of candid readers to the
testimony of. those who warmly espoused
the cause ofthe opposition in the last cleo
ton, and who cannot be charged with bias or
prejudice in favor of the Democracy of this
State. The Evansville Journal, staunch
and jealous supporter of the Morton State
ticket, in its issue of Monday last, uses the
following language =
"If the language of the lawful voters has
been drowned by flood of spurious votes, no
exertions should be spared to bring the viola
tors of the law to punishment, and to con-
I denim their suborners to public execration.-
We know not what has been done in other
parts of the State, but we repeat, the further
we have enquired, the more we are convinced
that no frauds to any great extent were per-
petrated in the counties on the Ohio. 1t is
good evidence of the integrity of the party
leaders, and the correctness of public senti-
ment on the Southern borders of the State
that no attempt of the kind was anywhere
made by either party. The charges, if true,
indicate disreputable and degenerate state
of morals wherever perpetrated, and are a
reflection upon the character of the State and
people and should not be lightly made by
the leaders of a great party. 1t appears in
credible that in frauds of such magnitude, in
volving the guilt and completely of thousands
of men, there are so few instances of detec-
ton and arrest We see no where auy mott
ces of arrests or prosecutions. To annul the
election, the charges must be sustained by
proofs of specific cases."
Again, in last Thursdays issue the Journal
says:
"In all the counties along the river we
have taken especial pains to enquire Of Re-
publicans and Fillmore men if there were in
their precincts, any reasons to believe the I'M
expected results were produced by the use Of
money or illegal votes, and they have uni
formly answered us, we are happy to say, that
they saw no evidence of either. We feel in
duced to make this declaration for the credit
of the State and the good name ofits citizens
The triumph of the Democracy in Indiana
as unexpected to themselves as to us-was
achieved by their superior organization and
party discipline, and very gallant fight"
The New Albany Tribune is another paper
which devoted its entire energies to the sue
cess of the Republican State ticket. In that
journal of Wednesday last, we find the fol.
lowing significant rebuke to those who are SC
prolific of charges of fraud against the De.
mocracy
THE PoT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK
Here is what the Elkhart County Times
says about the importation of voters into
Northern Indiana by the Democratic party
"Never since we have existed as confed-
eracy, has a single State been subjected to
such gross frauds upon her elections as the
State of Indiana at this time. Thousands
and thousands of illegal voters have beer
shipped along our great thoroughfares for the
express purpose of voting, and when they
have done so, have disappeared again, before
they could be arrested. Michigan has fur
nished her quota, as may be seen by compar.
ing the vote of the counties on the north
with those of 1854. Ohio, where the sham
Democracy could have no hope of carrying
the election, has shipped whole car loads Of
Irishmen to this State, to vote down old resi-
dents"
Let us glance moment at the returns o.
the election in Elkhart county, as furnished
by the same paper from which the above ex.
tract is clipped, and then compare them with
the result in the same county two years age
on the vote for Secretary of State
MOTIONS vote now..... -----1SOs
Republican vote two years ago.. ..-1OOe
Republican increase ............ 800
Willard's vote now. ....... 1894
Democratic vote two years ago. 1850. 94C
| Democratic increase. ....... 554
The question naturally arises, which party
beat the other pipe-layiDg in Elkhart? Lei
he figures above answer.
There are other counties near the Michigan
border where the Democrats are charged with