Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-30
Election Fraud i'm Indiana.

That the groSsest frauds were perpetra-
ted by the Buchaniers in the Indiana State
election is evidenced in all quarters and
the votes of real citizens of fheSlate were
ovacome by hordes of imported Irish and
Kentucky voters, Kansas fashion. From
the full statement in the Indianapolis State
Journal Of Monday Of some of these frauds
which have already come to light, we
abridge the facts. ,,1sT- 1lsls 81 > rifl4 81
In Greensburg, Decatur county, seventy
men, who voted at the election, left the
next morning for Kentucky. ~ es.t
Saturday before election, three-fourths of
the Irishmen at work ON the Louisville and
Portland Canal We're discharged. The
Louisville Journal 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 increas-
ed by about the number of discharged Irish.
In ST. Joseph county three hundred Irish
votes were polled by men who bad no res
idenee in, the State. ~ s..s..--...
In Jackson. jackson county, the vote was
increasedilSO votes over the vote of 1854
Here the Illegal Irish vote was eoncentrat-
ed to the number of about 100
Tn Marshall county $50 of the same
class of migratory votes We're held for one
day, till they could vote for the old line
ticket ~ ..,....-- g. r..-...--
In Laporte more than 500 Irish voters
were colonizeG.
In Tippecanoe, a company of 800 Irish
voted who were tracked from Warren coun-
ty, where they voted, to Fountain county
where they voted again, and thence to La
fayette, 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 q votes out of 9.
In Vermillion county, 27 Irishmen voted,
who admitted to a gentleman that they
had been brought from Ohio to vote.
Imporiations 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 vi.ible the next
day. The Journal says: Z" e-
The element Of Buchaneer influence
which has always been fatal welded against
the citizens, is tie Irish vote. II is NOM
adic, unsettled, and with all the tenacity
of Ignorance adl.eres to Buchanan. This
vote containing probably ten thousand or
more individuals is always at the disposal
of the Democratic leaders. Having 10 SCI
tied occupation, working whenever chance
offers, they are Just As ready to make a |
business of voting as of ditching. All they
ask is their dollar and a quarter day and
board. They were packed in hundreds
through the lst and 9TH 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 saw forty come |
down in one car on the Lafayette Railroad,
4 little before O'Clock, and watched them
lake a ''bee-line" to the Court House, un-
ler good guidance. Where they came
rom we don't know, but they had capital
chance torote in Pike township, and in
Boone county, and we have no doubt they
lsed il. Out of one thousand Irish votes
,olled here last Tuesday, there can't be t,co
hundred produced today, and we defy the
3uchaneers to do it. Let these facts tell
now the result has been produced in
portions of Indiana Z We have other facts,
which we will produce tomorrow TO account
or II in other sections %