Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-09-30
Frauds in the Ninth District

The Democrats are talking of beating Mr..
Colfax in the Ninth District Not thera-
tional or honest portion OF them. but that
class Of clustering, ignorant and rascalIy
men, who. in the main form The sentiment
and direct the policy Of the party. They
say they will beat Nh. Colfax. and yet
they don Z pretend taatskry ran get from him
single rote that nrade his majority more
thousand two years ago. They admit
that he is stronger to-day than I've ever was,
that his views are more acceptable to the
District, that his efforts have added to his
supporters, and yet they say they will beat
him We have heard more than one, or
two, or ten say the same thing, and we
can give the names If it is worth while to
select few from the mass who talk So
! Now this talk means something. Not as a
prediction of the result, for in that view it
is nonsense, but as an indication of the
means by which the election in that Dis
trict is to be carried, il possible. 1t tells
us that Mr. Coiax is to be beaten by, fraud,
if fraud will do it. And SO confident are
the projectors of the success of their plans
that they already exult as if the success had
been achieved. What does a declaration
that "Mr Colfax is as strong now as. the
dav when he was elected by more than a
| Thousand majority. and vet that he will be
beaten" mean? Why, that the Demo
Gratis mean to succeed by illegal votes, or
by fraud in the return papers, 1t means
just that. And some of them are so sure
of their game that they dom deny IT, No
concealment is made of their determination
TO gill every ditch in Jasper county. and
every rcd of the Fort Wayne railway en-
bankments. with imported voters A con
tractor on that road publicly boasted that
he would have thousand hands to vote
against Colfax in the District before the e
lection and the Democratic contractors
for swamp land iditcbing have been. aud are
STILL busily at work bringing in hands from
Illinois. to be sent back IN time to vote in
their own State. The preparations for a
! fraudulent election were never made so o.
penly, and the success of the frauds were
never so dcfantly proclaimed in advance,
before Besides these, the district has been
perseveringly csnvassed by all the leading
sLccompton speakers, and Office holders
Col. Abdomen Adipose MAY has been bel
lowing and "sloshing about in every
township in the district, Mr.. Lieutensnt
Governor Hammond. who thinks Dem
ocrat ought to hold two Offices at once, has
been helping the Colonel, and a half a toz-
en- other stumpers have been at work, and
handbills, papers, and letters fill Of all
imaginable lies, So gross that no speaker
dare tell them on the stump for fear some
honest man should kick him, have been
flying in swarrns in every. corner Amorc
unscruPplous canvass, so far as ordinary
means are conccrned, has never been made.
and none at all approaching 1t has ever
been attempted ia open, AMI boasting pre-
parations for the inportatioh OF votes.--
What we say in this matter is the absolute
truth, or rather it is less than the truth.
i for all fraudulent schemes ofthe Democrats
there cannot be known. Our fiiends must
be alive and active. and ready to meet such
men. They have the numbers, and the en-
ergy. and the cause, to enable and TO justi-
! fy them inrepelling such infamous attempts
to stiae the voice Of the people BY fraud.
Let them poll every school district. and
punish on tho spot every scoandrel they
catch trying to cast fraudulent vote =
Don't wait for the uncertain success of an
arrest. Punish him well first, and Mcn
arrest him. This policy we'll carried out
viii spoil the boasts OF these knayish con-
tractors and politicians :.
The above is copied from the Indianapy
/ ellis State Jourus1 and zve. .assura onr be-