Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-10-22
Black Republican Frauds in
Reconsideration in LeaVen-
worth County.

The election passed off in this county,
and in every other county, SO far as
heard from, peaceably and quietly. In
decd, it was as quiet an election as VIC
ever saw. The liquor-houses were all
closed during the election. Each party
done its best to succeed, but the Democ-
racy came out of the contest victorious.
The Democratic majority in this, the
largest county in the Territory, is two
hundred and fifty.
This is 4 signal rebuke to the B ack-
Republicans, who made every effort to
ctrry the county. Voters were import
ed here expressly to carry the county.
Men votel the Frce-Statc ticket who
had not been in the Territory siz months,
Others, who did not live in the county,
and hundreds tried to vote VIII did not
reside here. Thousands Of dollars were
expended by the leaders of the Repub-
licans to carry this county. And yet,
after all this, being beaten, they cry out
fraud. They charge that soldiers voted
at Kickapoo, and the Missourians came
over and voted They even charge that
Governor Walker used his influence to
persuade Missourians to vote. and they
have got some one man to say that Gov
crnor Walker told him, knowing him to
be a Missourian, to vote, all of which is
only the ebullition and rawlings of 4
disappointed party, who had resortcd to
all sorts of schemes to carry the county
at all hazards. A man at Oskaloosa,
In Jefferson County, told a friend of
ours, since the election, that he would
give five hundred dollars to carry
Leavenworth, and that they had sent
twenty-five men from that county to
Eastou, ia this county, to vote, but that
they were not permitted to vote. Here
H. an acknowledgement from one quar-
ter of what q done by our opponents
to carry this county. And yet, with
fraud sticking to every hem of their gar
ments, they have the impotence to
charge fraud upon tho Democrats.
We deny that any Missourians voted
at OUT election, aud those who charge it
know it is false. AS to soldiers voting
ut Kickapoo We do not believe it, for we
were there until a late hour in the after
noon ON the second day, and we saw
nothing of it and heard nothing of it
until the Black-Republicans made the
charge, after they were beaten.
The Democrats of this county have a
majority, and will always show it at
every fair election. The strength of the
party will be greater at every election
hereafter.
TRICKS OF h ENEMY.
The Republican party in this county,
now that they are beaten, are crying
out fraud. This was to be expected,
for no election can be held in which
they are not successful, but they would
cry out fraud. They now profess to see,
after the election is over, what they did
not during the election. How is it that
if half the fraud they charged lad been
perpetrated, they did not find it out I'M
I'll after the election was over, and they
found they were beaten? Then it is
they profess to have made wonderful
discoveries, astounding frauds, that the
soldiers and Missourians had voted.
When the polls were closed IN the
second day at night, the Black Repub-
1icans thought they had carried the
county, and many of them were bragg
cling of their victory and Boosting what
fair election We had. But next NOR