Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-11-10

Kansas ELncrroE FRAUDS. CORE
spondent OF the Chicago Tribune, writing
from Quindaro on Oct 18th, says:
Kansas people have become somewhat
Injured to election frauds, but recent per-
formance AZ precinct called Oxford, on
the Shawnee Indian Reserve, transcends
all our conceptions of lying with the bal
| lot box. The facts are these:
Oxford is on the eastern boundary OF
the Shawnee Reserve--consequently, next
door TO Jackson county, Missouri. You
will not find it on any map yet published,
but am assured by persons who have
been there it is in Kansas and not in Mis-
souri. My opinionis, that Oxford is lying
round loose. A small party from Law
renee took out a warrant for Oxford, few
weeks since, and started to find the place.
They returned with the endorsement Of
non est. But the voting feats of this
phantom precinct are of the most aston
ishing and extraordinary character. ..The
election was held, AS you are aware, on
Monday, the 9th inst. On Tuesday the
returns were made from Oxford exhibiting
88 majority for the pro-slavery candidates
all around. Counting Oxford at 88, which
was about 80 more than the number Of le-
gal voters, the Republican majority in the
District Douglas and Johnson) was as
certained to be 1900. This was loss
to the Pro- Slavery side, of 8 members Of
the Council and of the House. With a
judicious arrangement of matters in the
balance of the Territory, this loss could
have been sustained without throwing the
| o,.selof,,ro &c he hondo nf lho Ruf-
fans. But, singularly. the interior coun-
ties almost unanimously returned Repub-
lican members. The case was getting
desperate. Prestol Up comes an error
of 1914 votes in the precinct of Oxfordl
Sixteen hundred and fourteen votes for the
Pro-Slavery ticket--not one Free State
vote on the list! Now mark the effect ol
this return. 1t gives both branches of the
Legislature to the Ruffians by a majority
of one in each. 1t overthrows the Repub-
lican vote of Douglas county. in which
Lawrence, Palmyra, Big Springs, &C.,
are situated, and subtracts three Council.
men and eight Representatives from the
Free State column. These added to the
Pro- Slavery column, exhibit:
CoUscIL-Republican 6 Pro-Slavery
HoUsE- 10 &C
Among other mysteries connected with
this Oxford business is the singular fac
that 1919 names on the poll and all three
of the names of the Judges are in the
same hand writing. So gross fraud, Of
course, finds few apologists. Walker and
Stanton both declare that it is too palpable
that the people shall not be thus cheated
They will throw out the whole preclnc
first, the 88 and all. We have learned K
place no reliance on the promises Of these
liars, but will take care of our own action
that no such swindle arrives to fruition il
these parts, at this time.
The Leavenworth city, { K. T.) CORES
pondent of the Times of this city, say:
that the returns of the Oxford precinct o
johnson county, were exhibited by Gov
Walker as curiosity. They were writer
out in one handwriting, and the slip o
paper measured ffty-tour feet in length
All the names except one hundred ant
twenty, were copied from civilians
Cincinnati Directory" those commencin,
with the same letter following with eacl
other as regularly as they do upon the pa
ges of that book. This, we think 1t will
be conceded, is decidedly rich.