The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-10-24
The Election Day at St. Antho ny.

The editor of the Evening .N'saes of St.
Anthony, in the subjoincd article exposes the
Democratic plans for carrying that important
district ; and gives the facts as to the man.
ner they were frustrated by the determine
ton of that city:
ISAAC ATWATER ON "REPUBLICAN BORDER-RUF-
FIANISM."
The pious soul of the editor Of the st. An
thony Express, is sorely vexed at the i'll sue
cess Of the Democratic plans for swapping
the Republican majority in this city, by i'm
porting horde Of Irish laborers from St.
Paul and Wisconsin, just ten days before
election. The Railroad took a sudden start !;
quite number of laborcrs being found bu-
silly at work upon it within our city limits
As the Company was we'll known not to have
funds enough to pay it's Office expenses, this
excited no little surprise, which was not less
ened by the appearance of handbills signed
by one Dunbar, as contractor on the Rail
road, calling for 800 laborers additional.
The lumbermen of st. Anthony, not being
of a class likely to submit to such outrages
as were evidently on foot, determined that
there should be fair play at the polls, and
we may thank them that Republicans were
able to vote at all at the upper precinct.
During the forenoon a crowd Of Irishmen
beset the polling place, and for the last hour
Of the forenoon's voting, it was a physical
impossibility for Republican to vote.
At the adjournment for dinner the Demo-
cratic ticket was nearly 100 ahead not 200
as the Express states.
The news spread however, and in the after
noon the Irish found at the polls class of
men not to be bullied, nor driven away /;
whose bone and muscle secured to Republic
cans the same chance to vote, that the Dem
ocrats had monopolized during the forenoon.
The charge of the Express that the Repub-
licans in the crowd around the polls were
armed with revolvers, bowie-knives and
bludgeons," is unqualifedly false. The only
bowie-knife conspicuously displayed, was that
in the possession of Democratic lawyer who
stood inside the bar all day as challenger,
whose law partner was candidate at the
election. A revolver was wrested by hard
listed Republican from a Democrat in the
crowd, who had threatened to use it. The
bludgeon is a weapon only used in this Terri
tory by Gov. German, and there were none
in the crowd.
These facts we knor, having stood near the
polls in the upper precinct the whole day OF
the election.
That Democrats were not allowed to vote
in the afternoon. is palpably false, from the
fact that while at noon tue Democratic ma
jority in the upper precinct was less than one
hundred, at the closing of the polls at night
their majority was about l5O. How d'o
this come about, friend Atwatcr, ii Demo
Gratis were prevented from voting in the al
ternoon?
Why not come out and acknowledge tho
facts Own up that you and other Demo
cratic leaders had planned wholesale colo
nizinr If Irish voters from other States with
in Minnesota foc the purpose Of carrying the
election. Confess that st. Anthony was Sc
lected as s,'ecial point of attack 1t being
considered a very close district:
Acknowledge th at this wholesale sMa.,' nf
was only prevented bv tie de'crin,' ~ on u
the lumbermen the bone ana HasG'c s,osn
community, phom yon ehC rye ,''e" o,'.y ~ one.
soho do not pretend to hare a e'",,''~ Ill.,, ,
tain or lose.' Tell the world frankly '".. Sou
are enraced at them because you can "u !,
their votes "for glass of whlskey apiece,
and because as long as they are IN the way =
our citv cannot be controlled by your Irish
bulIIes !? Let it be known that in this cleo
ton your main efforts have been to secure
your own election, rather than the success of
your party that you got up bogus Repub-
lie IN ticket, inserting therein your own name
instead of that of one ofthe Republican NOM
inees for the Supreme Court. Confess these
things frankly, instead ofshedding your croc-
odile tears over "Republican Border Ruffian-
ISM" and don't try longer to humbug COM
mnnity that knows you too we'll to be cheat
ed bp such shallow pretences.