The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-11-19
Minnesota EIec ction Frauds.

Whoever may be declared elected in
Minnesota, it is beyond question that the
Republicans there have q clear majority
of all the legal votes. cast, on the State
ticket Ramsay. indeed appears to have
been elected, without throwing out the
fraudulent votes and manufactured re-
turns AS he ran considerably ahead of
his ticket, the remainder will perhaps BE
lost, without purging of the record. LII
the returns there are subjected to the same
scrutiny which even Gov. WaiEeh. felt
constrained TO exercise in like case in
Kansas, the Republican candidates on
the State ticket will all receive certificates
of election. In that case, too, the Re-
publicans would be sure of majority in
the Legislature, which with all the frauds,
it is by means certain that they have not
secured. But we have no assurance that
the cheating is to end, until the purposes
for which it was resorted to are all ac-
complished. The canvass is in the hands
of the enemy, who have gone so far, that
they will dislike to see the end still un.
attained when within their grasp.
Certain sham Democratic organs, of
the more unscrupulous sort, make light
of these charges Of fraud. This is not to
their credit, and will not be to the per
manent advantage of their party. The
Minnesota frauds are of a character
scarcely paraleled outside of Kansas
These frauds were originated and carried
through by the sham Democracy. 1t
must have been TO them very expensive
campaign; but Mr.. Franklin Steele alone
could afford to foot the entire bill. as com
paratively small tax on the profits of
r the Fort Smelling purchase,
In the remote counties, we are told
that the hordes Of Indians, kept under
control for the occasion, were amply sup.
piled with whisky by government Off
cials and special agents, and marched up
to the polls on election day, duly charg-
ed with that fluid and with Democratic
votes, the latter Of which were received
r at the baIlot.box in payment for the for
ulcT' HtSC bdll ultSSCu ouFhSCb ndl
not the slightest claim to the elective
franchise, Had they possessed such a
right, of course they could not thus cx-
ercise it. They knew nothing at all Of
what they were doing. They could not
. read their votes. They could not have
been made TO understand the meaning Of
the ballot, had they been sober. And on
such adsgracefu farce as this, nearly oil
: quite the entire list of officers for the new
n State, as well as three Representatives
and two Senators in Congress, to Iegis
late for the nation at large, is likely tC
depend, unless this viIlainy is over-rueC
i by the very men who are TO have the
} benefit of it.
c In other sections. floating bodies o
Irishmen were hired to travel certain
u rounds, each voting at half dozen pre-
u u cincts, or as many more as they coult
u visit. Their circuits were of course care
10 fully selected, to risk as little loss as pos
;, sibe from Republican challengers.-
What the Indians and Irish could no
be hired to do, was made up by return:
y absolutely manufactured by the whole
IS sale and sent in from unheard of pre-
u cinCls, and from uninhabited townships
Look at the return made for Penbina
county. The Democratic candiddes are
III reported to have received there six hun.
dred majority, This is aboat on a par
with the returns from the Oxford pre-
,e cinct in Kansas, PembinR county is a
"a wilderness in the extreme north, two
$ hundred miles square, and has two nom
st inal towns, only. Pembina and st Jo.
.. seph, with total white population of n
~ bout one hundred
T The principal inhabitants of these ira
v ding posts are indians and half breeds
h who receive regular pay from the United
Al States Government, and are therefore,
j. for no other reason-unquaied to vote
About the fraudulency Of this Pembns
return, there cannot be the slightest
doubt The same frauds were perpetra.
3 ted on the Winnebago Reservation, One
,r hundred and ten sayages, in blankets, vo
e tea at this precinct, but the Democratic
/manager thought this little too much
'/and struck off ten from the list, taking
~ out ten ballots and returning one hun
ofl dred, as the legal vote.
ot These are "specimen bricks,2 anC
is show how Democrats can carry elections
when they ohottse,l aud have the canvas
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