The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-06
Startling Frauds.

Louis the most unscrupulous and wholesale
frauds ever perpetrated upon the ballot-box
( in this country, are charged to have been
committed by the administration party to
defeat Mr.. Blair, the candidate of the true
Democracy
In the St Louis Democrat, of the lSt
inst, Mr.. Blair publishes his notice of con-
test to Mr. Barret, the gentleman who holds
the certificate of election. In enumerating
the grounds for this contest, Mr.. Blair speci-
ies some nineteen charges among which are:
That large sums of money, contributed by
federal oilice-holders and contractors, were
used in Mr. Barret's behalf, for bribery apd
corruption in the purchase of votes; that
the inmates of the Marine Hospital and
Public Poor House. many of whom were
neither citizens of Missouri nor of the United
States, were taken to the polls by their
. Keepers and compelled to vote for Barret.-
I We copy the fourth specification entire, as
it relates to a depth of iniquity that we
hoped even Lecompton Democracy had not
yet reached:
charge that the Governor of the State
of Missouri just prior to the said election
issued pardons to sundry persons, then re-
Gently convicted in the Criminal Courts OF
violating the laws, to be delivered to said
persons, on condition of their voting for
You mt said election, and that said persons
did 50 vote and did receive their pardons in
consideration thereof.
In addition to all this, it is alleged that
foreign b5rn and unnaturalized men. minors,
and nOn-fesidents were prevailed upon to
vote for Barret; that several of the polls
were taken forcible possession of by Bar
ret's partizans, who overawed and kept away
many lawful voters; that the Judges of the
election in many precincts permitted the
groseSt and most palpable frauds in receiv-
ing and rejecting votes, &c.
These are not mere grOundless charges
trumped up to make capital out of. In the
year 1856, says Mr.. Blair, the vote in the
same district stood as follows:
Kennett, 6,549, Reynolds, 2,lSl, Blair,
6,925, and that at the last election ON the
I'd of August, 1858, the vote returned stood
as follows: Breckenridge, 1858; Barret,
1851; Blair, 6,630, showing a natural and
reasonable increase for Mr.. Breckenridge
over Mr.. kennetts vote, and for me over
my former vote, whilst the increase for you
is within fraction of 5000 votes over that
of Mr. ReynOlds-the increase alone being
many times larger than any vote ever polled
for your party in this county, and nearly
the entire increase taking place in few
precincts, there being no corresponding in
crease in the other precincts; and the pre-
cinctS i'm which the increase has taken
place being precisely the same in which the
improper conduct of the judges of elections,
and of your partisans gives room to suspect
the fraudulent practices which l have
charged.
These developments are hardly less start
ling than those of Kansas; and they show
eonclusively the means depended upon to
sustain Mr.. Buchanan partizans before the
people-that the electioneering machinery"
used in Kansas has been transferred 10 Mis-
souri,, and that il will. in all probability, be
employed here in Indiana-especiall is
there great danger that it will he resOrted
to here in the First Congressional District
to secure the reelection of Mr.. Niblack,
who has been most faithful in his subser-
vicncy to the wishes and requirements OF
the Administration. We have already
some disclosures as to the programme OF
the Lecomptonites for the Congressional
election in this State, in the Presidential
thing additional in the Washington cores
pondence of the Baltimore Patriot who
writes under date of the 18th nit:
Nerer m the history Of the Gouernmeni
has there been such an open and dUowed IN
terfereHce upon the part Of the Erecufire ,ritl
hhe freedom Of elections. The whoie GbiRet
,rita tie President az ds head, are IN III,
fcid; and The means which are resorted TO-
and The appliances used are OF character
that, IN the earlier days of the RepaJGc
cOuh hare so shocked the moral sense Of III,
people, as 10 hare met rih almost unircrsa
condemnation. The heart sickens at the
, prospect, and no man can contemplate the
future without sadness and alarm, unles:
there shall be a change of men and meas.
ures. The Commissioner Of the Genera
: Land 06ice has Lctt has JuTeau, and is nou
siumpiHg The State Of Iadidna Senator
, Bright is also there; and az rs SAID that tk
: political struggle IN that State, for ntensit,
7 and bitterness has dlready reached a poin
heretofore vHkRorR. Money is being idrish
/. ly used, and there is no doubt but that h
pockets Of tie Governmental employees ,cii
: be greGtty Depicted before the campaign o
4 the present year shall be brought to a close
: II as also said that Senator Bright is usin.
his large fortune with larish hand, an,
: that he has pushed has credit rih 4Nr Cor
; corGn, the Washington Rothschiid. 10 the "a
most limit. 10 Is 10 be hoped that The gee
!. nd,sIy Of Indiana wiH stand firm, aud PROF.
: t. tie ,corId that, like their revolutionary az
u cestry, they 'ciH nerer barter theT rights a
n freeman for gold and sitUer.
- Here, in the First Congressional District
where the LecomptoHiteS arc convinced tha
r their fortunes are fast failing, the resource
: above alluded to will be taxed to their ut
most in support of Niblack. Votes 70
e Niblack will be asked in the name of th
. President, and under the plea of sustaining
2 the "hoary old patriot" of the Whit
House; votes for Niblack will be invoke
E. in behalf of the Democratic party; votes TO
- Niblack will be solicited on the strength G
: the party organization; votes for Niblac
will be sought for with money, with prom
: iSes of office and valuable favors. We ca
v upon the people as they value their libertic
and the preservation of their country, I
D. stamp these iniquities with their most ovel
/, whelming condemnation. Sink this mi:
:. cradle treason in the lowest depth of popr
lar Indignation. Else time will but al
!. strength to the tyranny and wings to ii
corruption, until our free constitution wi
= lose even the Semblance of liberty.-Fu
- =: ceHReS Gazette.
ES@ On Thursday evening last, grav
- train frOiuo west ON the Clticapo & Roo