Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-10-29
ELECTION FRAUDS IN INDIANA

That the groSseSt frauds were perpe-
trated by the Buchaniers in Indiana State
election is evinced in all quarters, and
the votes of the real citizens of the State
were overcome by hordes of imported
Irish and Kentucky voters, Kansas fash
ion. From the full statement in the In
dianapolis State Journal of Monday of
some of these frauds which have already
come to light, we abridge the facts.
In Gree sburg. DecatercOunty, seven
ty men who voted at the election, left
the next morning for Kentucky.
Saturday before election. three fourths
of tie Irishmen at work on the Louisville
and Portland Canal were 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, Ind, just opposite, was in
creased by about the number of dis
charged Irish.
In St. Joseph county three hundred
Irish votes were polled by men who had
no residence in the State.
In Jackson, Jackson county, the vote
was increased $50 votes over the vote of
1854 Here the illegal Irish vote was
concentrated to the number of about $50.
In Marshall county ESQ of the same
class of migratory voters were held for
one day, Till they coull vote for the old
line ticket.
In Laporte more than 500 Irish voters
were coIonized.
In Tippecanoe, a company of 800
Irish voted, who 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 97 votes out of 9.
In Vermillion county, party Of 81
Irishmen voted, were admitted TO a gen.
tleman 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 Ken
tuckians. None of them were visible the
next day. The journal says:
The element of the Buchaniers inf1u-
ence which has always been fatally
welded against the citizens, is the Irish
voc. 1t is nomadic, unsettled, and with
all the tenaciy of ignorance adheres 10
Buchanan. This vote, containing prob
ably ten thousand or more individuals is
always at the disposal of the Democratic
leaders. Having no settled occupation,
working wherever chance offers, they
are Just as ready to make business of
voting as OF ditching. All they ask is
their dollar End quarter a day and
board They were packed in hundreds
through the lst and 7th Wards here and
voted. Though challenged they could
swear their votes in. for they had just
as much residence here as any where, and
they have none anywhere. We saw for
ty come down in one car on the Lafay
elite Railroad, little before 2 o'clock,
and watched them take ''bee line" to
the Court uouse, under good guidance.
Where they came from We don't know,
but they had a capital chance to vote in
Pike township and Boone county, and
We have no doubt they used it. Out OF
one thousand Irish votes polled here last
Tuesday, there can't Be tICo hundred pro-
dHeed to doy, and We defy the Buchan
iers to do it. Lei these facts tell how
the result has been produced in portions
of Indiana. We have other facts, which
We will produce TO- morrow to account
for it in other sections Cleveland Her.