The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-14
The Result for Governor.

The Pioneer OF yesterday contains 'ao"
lar statement of the vote for Governor by
which it makes a majority of 6lS for Sibley
But in order to do this it includes bogus re-
turns to the amount of more than one thousand
yotss. Thus the counties of Cottonwood,
Murray, Martin and Rock, of fwhose existence
the public had never before been informed,
are made to give 2l9 majority for Sibley--
Ramsey only getting two votes, In the vote
of Mcleod County the Pioneer includes 1S3
votes for Sibley which he never got, notwith-
standing they were canvassed by the Regis
ter at Glencoe The facts in regard to these
1873 votes as we learn from good authority,
are these; At the precinct Of Cedar Lake,
which is but few miles from Hutchinson,
there was no election held, the voters having
voted at the latter place. Two weeks after
election, some person to the Register profess
edly unknown, in the night time, when the Of
flee was Locked, left piece Of paper there,
thrusting it through broken pane OF win
dow, which purported to be return of votes
polled at Cedar Lake. There was no poll
book accompanying the purported returns,
and the paper was deficient in respect to 9TH
er formalities necessary to its legality while
the Register and Board of Canvassers we'll
knew there were not thirty inhabitants in
the precinct-yet these stupid blockheads
counted the votes in their canvass.
The unorganized county of Renvlle is
made to give 119 votes, giving ! II majority
for Sibley, while no one believes it contains
that number of inhabitants. The counties of
Pierce and Davis, whose existence have been
so completely blotted out by the formation
of new counties that their whereabouts
would be difficult to define, are made to
give sixty majority for Sibley.
Now, all these bogus majorites for Sibley
are outside of the Pembina district, which
the Pioneer alleges to have given 700 majori
to for Sibley. This district is composed Of
the unorganized counties Cass Pembina and
Todd. The county of Pembina having been
divided by the formation Of the State, and
nearly all the population cut off, cannot legal
ly poll fifty votes, and we doubt very much
whether half that number have been so poll
ed. The counties of Cass and Todd have
never in the aggregate polled sixty votes, and
only now purport to have given Sibley ninety
majority, so that the rest of that 700 majori
ty must be made up from Pembina County.
Now, although there has been plenty of
time for all these rctuns to come in, and they
have been reported from hand to mouth in
the streets and public bar-rooms, and pub
lished in the Pioneer during the last two
weeks, not one Of them have yet been filed
with the Secretary. These Democratic bras,-
gadocios seem to reflect that while the max
ing of bogus returns may be innocent recrc-
alton, and serve to keep up their courage,
that the filing of them with the Secretary,
thus endeavoring to palm them off on the
Board of Canvassers as correct, and thereby
cheating the people out of their choice for
Governor, would most assuredly convict the
perpetrators of forgery. AS they feel that
they are all known, not having been able to
cover up their tracks, there are serious doubts
whether they will make any further attempts
at the Barstow game.
There have been but few official votes in
since the publication of our last table by
which it appeared that Ramsey was over 600
ahead, and as these do not affect the aggre.
gate majority, we do not deem it essential to
republish it.