Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-11
tude. and REQUIRED to be executed so rapidly

at the inventive genius Of the perpetrators Of
as inadequate to remember and invent COM 81
on sounding names enough, and so resort tt
as had to an old Directory Of the City of o
and various other lists of public c
ames. These frauds were stoutly denied by Il
,e Administration, for a time, but the schism
,hich drove DOUGLAS, FoBNEY, WALKER K
rASroN, HARRIS, and others to hesitate IN
blowing its lead, brought those men to the
,ar as witnesses, and they proved these
rauds even more vehemently than the ke-
,ublicans had done, till now no one pretends
% deny them.
But this is not all. At the election last
year in this State, in all the settled, civilized
portions of the State, the Republicans had
large and undisputed majorities. But from
Pembina. on the Red River, Cass and Todd
Counties, and where there is no evidence OF
white settlement or civilization, returns were
reported of immense magnitude. They were
all one way, all for the Administration party
and on the strength of them the Administra-
ton candidates were given certificates OF elec-
ton by Administration partisan canvassers
Legally the alleged frauds of those purported
returns have not been investigated; but there
is not well-educated, law-abiding citizen OF
State, of any party, who has not moral con-
viction that they aoere frauds, and that tne
Republican candidates should have been re-
turned. Partisan politicians and presses may
and do deny 1t, and strive to affect great
deal of injured innocence and indisnauoh
thereat, but all to no purpose. The voting
quiet people of all parties feel moral GER
tainty that great frauds scere committed, anu
that the present State Government is usurp-
alton.
Nor is this all. At the recent election tor
Supreme Justice in Wisconsin, the same game
of fraud was again attempted. The majorltles
for the Republican candidate were SO uniVer'
sal and overwhelming, in all the thickly set
tied portions, that these attempts were MOI
large enough, even in their>huge magnitude
to affect the result had they all been passed
without suspicion. The grossest frauds have
been discovered. The Republican press has
not been hesitating in exposing them In
!, proof is so conclusive as TO silence the Ad
o ministration press. But the editor OF tn
. Madison Patriot, now the leading Democrat
J., organ of that State, who has recently been o.
= a visit East, found the papers there full OF tn
g Democratic frauds attempted in his State
r with no very gsttering comments thereon, an
r. being 'goaded thereat beyond endurance, h
q wrote homie complaining letter, deprecatin
p the exposure, because of its effect on the goo
o name of the State! No attempt was mao
v to deny them; he only deprecated the poiic
n of exposing them; he thought even the X
# publicans should have the good name OF tt
d State more at heart, especially as the exp
l. sure could not affect the result of the ele
T. ton
ot Nor is this yet all. The Chicago press a
w nounce that frauds have recently been disco
cred in that State of sufficient magnitude
H. have changed the result, and instead of B
,c cnAsAS and DOUGLAS succeeding, FREMo
and LINCOLN really did carry that State.
Nor is this even all. There is loud u
derground whisper, strong but smothere
no that fremont received the popular vote
co both Pennsylvania and Indiana, but was
., frauded of the electoral vote of those Stat
m and thereby Of the Presidency, by the c.
=, ruption of the Administration officials W
=; had charge of the canvassing department
The Governments of those States were in
hands entirely of Administration partisan
ta they had full control of all the avenues
i, election returns; and there was nothing
"a hinder the grossest frauds. And when
- remember the knoun frauds of other plac
;th and reflect upon the reported overwhelm
-. falling. off in the Republican vote of tn
- States for President in November, from "
- it was for State officers only in the Octo
:: before, and that in all other States the Rep
mi
n lican vote at the Presidential election '
greatcr than at any previous State elect
y, the conviction of the probability of tn
=, whispered frauds is almost inevitable.
In view of late events, there is nothing
I'D excite wonder in this. a people may
nth cihaieo u wv"
Governor and Constitution. And the
f' perate measures resOfted to in the latter
" ses leads all the more strongly to suspicio
the former.
Herein lies greater danger to the pc
'''' tuity of our Government than in anytl
else. 1t is not in that feature of an elec
'''O system which fears the people cannot 81
u" wisely. 1t is in the proved fact that the
'e'' ton itself may be perverted-that the
- u'. machinery of an election may be used to
vent the real result of one.
'lie And the Republicans of this State
o'li- more to fear from false returns than from
ronh of votes. There is an undoubtedly large
oe- publican majority in the State--large ent
eH- to spare many in the rural districts, on
nsef ton day, to dig potatoes and not 60 tc
1t Vi polls-but all this will avail nothing ag;
IL Pembina returns, unless there is o sha
'em- watch kept than heretofore. We We
mns therefore, urge upon Republicans throu :
e. the State, and we shall keep urging till
tta' day of election, the necessity of such ar
helr tive, alert organization in every towhshi
'aoe will be able so to watch the polls and ret
as to prevent the repetition of the f
Cam which has foisted upon the people Go,
e of ment against their will. D.
BAR
urns Northwest AIRLINE Railroad.
,oral A La Crosse correspondent of the Mil
An kee Sentinel calls attention to the fact, F.:
eme alleges, that the Milwaukee and Mime
lgni- Railroad, Qate La Crosse and Milwa
,old- Road, but which recently sold out on its
re- mortgage bonds, has been changed to
hich .caukse and Hinnesota,) is on an all