Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-12-01
The altimors Election-Men Voting the Flu
sion Ticket Eighty and One Humid ed Times
at the same Polls,

L. Z Ballard, one OF the Judges at the late
municipal election in Baltimore, has made 0
published statement of the facts that come I'M
der his observation at that time. He states
that when the polls opened they were surround
ed by crowd of men and boys who openly
asserted that no one should vote who was not
for Swami, the Fusion candidate for Mayor.
Men whom they suspected OF dltlerentln!en-
ton were driven off. The remainder oil his
statement must be given in bis own words I;
"The time for opening the polls arrived, and
the voting commenced am compelled 10
say never before witnessed such scenes q an
election--men md boys voting as o!Ienas lhey
pleased, both seen and unseen by the Judges,
who took their ballots
81 strenuously protested AGAINST such pro-
ceedngs, but to no avail. This sort Of voting
went on for about half an hour, when there was
added to it another mode, viz; That Of voting
from hacks and omnibuses--n means by Which
more gross outrages are pefpetraied on the
elective franchise than any other that could be
ADOPTED, for in nearly every case two TO three
times as many ballots were taken as there were
persons in the hacks, and there can be no doubt
OF the illegality of almost the entire number
of those that were in them, to say nothing of
the repetition of voting This mode OF voting
was carried on to an extent incredHous to state,
While those who wished to vote ticket other
than those marked on the back, except in few
instances were not allowed to vote at all, |
saw ia more than a dozen instances person
come to the fence in the front of the window,
holding ticket in each hand, both OF which
were taken and put in the tox, the person CIV
Ing some names, no doubt assumed, az they
voted. Men from other wards, known to the
to the judges, came up and had no difficulty 10
voting. determined to leave the window and
have nothing more TO do with the election as
judge.
al took seat in the back part of the room,
and witnessed continued repetition CT voting
BY the same persons until their faces, which |
had never seen before that day became as ia
milar as the sun. From notes taken then, |
am sure | would not exceed the bounds of truth
were | to say that the same person voted in the
Eighteenth Ward, on that day, eighty to one
hundred times, and certainly as often as he
wished. know the people pretty well in my
ward, having lived there for the last eight
wears. and am confident not more than one
thousapd legal votes were poed then, although
the returns show nearly thirty-two hundred
and am sustained in this by facts collected
since the election, viz: In some six blocks,
which canvassed, containing about one hun
dfed and twenty voters, one hundred did not
vote, and have no reason TO think this other
than fair average in the ward left the
room about three o'clock, aud did not return
.eoasequently gave what know to be farce
and a gross fraud no sanction by my signature.
Il now leave the matter to my friends and the
public TO say whether or not stand as one of
sthe perjured judges, and whether, under the
circumstances, did right in leaving, &C.
al. e. BALLARD,
nJudpe Of Election for Eighteenth Ward.
s,Baitimore, October %, 1855"
ii. such outrages had occurred in Kansas, the
Fusion press would have made deafening
Ioutcry but, as they can attain no political cap
|i,aI out Of the Baltimore villainies, which were
committed by their own Partisans, they are ST.
bent Dor coierpory Of the Gazette has been
ENTIRELY silent in regard TO this election. For
|noght is readers know, it was honestly and
|fairly conducted.