The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-30
election Frauds in Indiana

mat the grossest frauds were perpe-
trated by the Buchaniers in the Indiana
State election is evidenced in all quarters,
and the votes of the real citizens of the
State were overcome by horles Of i'm
ported Irish and Kentucky voters, Kan.
sas fashion. From the full statement in
the indianapolis State Journal of Monday
OF some of these frauds which have al
ready come to light, we abridge the
facts
In Greensburs, Decatur county seven
ty men, WHO voted at the election, left
the next morning for Kentucky.
Saturday before election, three-four,hs
OF the lrlshmen at work on the Louisville
and Portland Canal were discharged
The Louisville Jossrnol says on Monday
and Tuesday few or none of them
could be found in Louisville, but the vote
OF Floyd county, Indiana, just opposite,
was increased by about the number of
discharged Irish
In st Joseph county three hundred r.
ish votes were polled by men who had no
residencein in the State.
In Jackson, Jackson county, the yo.e
was increased 18O votes over the vote of
1854. Here the illegal Irish vote was
concentr to the number of about $50.
In Marshall county $50 of the same
class ofmgratory voters were held for
one day, till they could vote for the old
line ticket.
In Laporte more than 500 Irish voters
were colonized.
In Tippecanoe, company of 800 Irish
voted, who were tracked from Warren
county, where they voted, to Fountain
county where they voted again, and
thence to Lafayette, where they again
voted. But they were off Immediately,
before they could be arrested
In Allen county, party of nine Irish
: men voted three times in different town
! ships, making 81 votes out of g.
In Vermillion county, 81 Irishmen vot-
ed, who admitted TO gentleman that they
had been brought from Ohio to vote.
Importations from Kentucky in the
Southern counties were kept up for more
than two weeks before the election, and
, that whole section swarmed with Kentuck-
, ians None of them were visible the
next day. The Journal says:
The element of Buchaneer influence
which has always been fatally welded
against the citizen, is the Irish vote. 1t
is nomadic, unsettled, and with all the
tenacity of ignorance adheres to Buchan-
!, an. This vote, containing ten thousand
z or more individuals is always at the dis
: posal of the Democratic leaders. Having
] no settled occupation, working wherever
f chance offers, they are just as ready to
make business Of voting as OF ditchlng.
All they ask is their dollar and quarter
a day and board. They were packed in
hundreds through the 1st and 7th Wards
here and voted. Though challenged they
could swear their votes in, for they had
Just as much residence here as anywhere,
and they have none anywhere. We sav
Jorty come down in one ear on the Lafay-
ette Railroad, little before 2 O'Clock, and
watched them take ''bee line" to the
Court House, under good guidance, -
Where they came from we don't know.
but they had capital chance to vote in
Pike township, and in Boone county, and
we have no doubt they used it. Out OF
one thousand Irish votes polled here last
Tuesday, there cant be two handred pro-
duced to day. and We defy the Buehan-
GERS 10 do it. Let these facts tell how
;, the result has been produced in portions
ofIndiana. We have other facts, which
We will produce to- morrow to account for
It in other sections.