The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-08-12
Missouri Election.

Missouri Election.
AS our readers are already aware the
election in Missouri on the I'd instant,
resulted in the defeat of the free labor
party. The defeat of Francis P. Blair
the free soil candidate for Congress in
the St. Louis District, which is regret
ted by every Republican in the country,
was accomplished through the most
glaring and unblushing frauds. Public
money was poured out like water to
secure his defeat. 1t is said that over
100000 have been spent for this pur-
pose. The contest has been a des-
perate one. The election of Re-
publican and an avowed emancipation
list to Congress from the second city in
the Slave States, the emporium of the
further west-was one which the "Na-
tional Democracy" could not regard
without alarm? 1t was felt and intima-
ted that this thing must be stopped or
the Slave power would soon be at an
end. 1t has been stopped, says the St.
Louis Democrat, for the moment, by
resorting to frauds of the most glaring
kind, double and treble voting to a
frightful extent, the use of dead mems
papers, and inserted tickets, and bar
ricaded polls, all show themselves from
the background of the National Demo-
cratic triumph.
Two years ago Blair was elected by
the following vote:
Blair, !, n..;..n, S,sis
Reynolds, Oemocratic) 1889
Total, 11,75S
At the late election there was 49,
$40 votes polled, and while Blair has
a regular gain of SO5 over his former
vote; and Breckenridge, (Am.) a gain
of 334 over Kennett's vote. Barrett
has ran up from less than two thousand
to over seven thousand, which is en-
tirely safe to sayis nearly .6ce thousand
fraudulent votes that the " Nationals
have caused to be polled for him.
But with all these frauds, and with
the vast amount of money that has been
expended by the National Democracy,
we do not believe Mr.. Blair could have
been defeated, had it not been for the
fact of the Americans having candi-
date in the field, which placed Mr..
Blair in the position of a third party
crowded between the Administration
party on one side and the Americans
on the other, and it must be strong
man with strong cause who succeeds
in that predicament.
The Democrat refers to the fraud in
the following language:
Two weeks ago the President of the
United States rubbed his hands in pre-
sence of a citizen Of st. Louis, and
stated that he had it call .fred for the
defeat of Blair" Two weeks ago the
notorious Abel Rathbone Corbin, cor
respondent of the Republican, and i'm
dictated by the investigating committee
of Congress, announced it as a matter
beyond peradventure that " the thing
was arranged in st. Louis" Two
weeks ago the Republican gave inkling
of what was prepared for the Eighth,
Ninth, and Tenth Wards, showing
thereby that the treble voting and bal.
lot-stuffing had been even then prear-
ranged. And now, forsooth, when the
public mind of our whole community
is revolted at what has SO palpably been
perpetrated, the organ of the admins
tration attempts to soothe indignation
by apologizing for Mr.. Barret's vote.
1t won't do. Vigilant eyes were upon
the manGvers of that day, and men
have not felt it right to keep silence
concerning the sights seen. The very
newsboys and the nursery maids talk
fiuently of the Irish frauds; and the
voting dead mems papers, and the row
ing from poll to poll, multiplying suf
frages and perjuries. AS matters in
reality stand, Mr.. Blair has beaten Mr..
Barrett both in the city and in the coun-
try by very large vote. Strip from
the latter the illegal ballots by which
he hopes to get to Congress-the
Hackney colonizing in the lower part
of the country-and the Irish coloniz-
ing in the upper part of the city, and
he is not only beaten-but will remain
far behind-third ise the race.
The Cost of the Army.