Nebraska advertiser., 1859-11-03
ttstOD Thief1-The "OHIy Two Pa.
Ders I'M Nebraska" "BObbing
Around"

A4UuAMa H4#
We have been greatly amused-amus-
ed did we say 2 -DIsaUsTED is a better
word-at the course Of the 'Only tro pa
pers IN Nebraska since the election, in
their efforts to create an impression that
no fraud had been committed at Fl.
Kearney in favor Of General EstabroOk.
They remind US Of the ~cowardly boy who
in passing through a strip Of woods, kept
up a lively whisiling, to keep off a scare;
or the thief who himself cries "stOp
thief" in order to detract attention. The
game "out West" has been played so
much stronger than locked for. that they,
with others, have become frightened,
and must needs "play Of" desperately,
in order, if possible, to smother the eff
feet upon the public mind. 1t won't do,
gentlemen; the people Of Nebraska are
not sufficiently gullible for all that You
may succeed in imposing upon them nor;
but a "day of reckoning" is not far dis
tant! "Stick a pin there"
Where these papers are known-here
in Nebraska-sueh balderdash as that
appearing in their columns since the Ell
~ection, is understood and taken at its true
value: They are written not for 'hOme
consumption and ten to compromise
the honor and character of the settled
portion Of Nebraska, at the expense of
bolstering up rotten and crumbling dem
agogues, which facts render them Ear
from creditable to the f~ulminators.
We are all aware that Of late years,
and more especially in new countries like
ours, a great deal of what we in Nebras-
ka term "scuHduggery'' is practiCed by
all parties. at elections: such, for instance,
as smuggling in the vote Of one or more
who are not quite "Of age +" or who may
lack a few days residence of being a
QUALIFIED voter, ? and the matter is over
looked. But when it comes to one precinct,
and that oUer fro hundred miles in the
; interior Of Nebraska, casting tCo hundred
and hirty-eigM Uotes, and they all for
ONE MAN, and hat too in so important a
contest as Delegate to Congress, the
t mere idea Of such a thing is preposter-
5 Gus; an insult upon the intelligence of
any people to ask them to believe II. 1t
is almost impossible that there should be
a community, or precinct, on the face of
, Gods earth, consisting Of so large a
number of people as 2Ss, and they all
, think and cote alike. But to the point
5 more particularly.
t These "only two papers in Nebraska
4 are now crying out "fraud in Richardson
D and Pawnee counties, and Peru, Nemaha
county, by Daily's friends p BE it known
these are the most densely populated rural
localities in Nebraska. Hear what one
t 1the he-puddle"- Of the
t "Only two papers in Nebraska" says in
} regard to Peru in this county. Weneed
not ask even the Estabrook supporters in
this county; how they relish such unmiti-
gated "fa~bricatiOns," on the part of their
organ. w know many of them to be
highly incensed. Here is the extract
"Peru, the place of Daily's residence,
contains about half a dozen houses, and
we are told can give about fifty legal
votes get us votes-mostly for Daily
are returned from that precinct. We are
informed, on creditable authority, that
men from Missouri were continually
crossing the river and voting there all
day"
"At Falls City Precinct, Richardson
county, a place oolonized by Jim Lane
abolitionists, and where, when the vote
was taken for relocating the County Seat,
it was notorious that more than half the
votes given were from men who live in
Kansas, yet only about a hundred were
cast; at the late election for Daily, over
one hundred and seventy gates are return
ed as having been polled, and about nine
tenths of them for Daily. Teams, we are
told, were kept busy in transporting voters
from Kansas all day, the result of which
is apparent in the vote.
"Pawnee county is sparsely populated
containing in all, probably about rs SOULS.
But Pawnee, nearly a week after retnrns
were in from every other county, sends in
l02 majority for Daily. The Inference.
is that some of Daily's ardent friends had
kept the vote hack to ascertain how many.
votes were wantingto elect him, and then
hadn't fixed it high enough"
Why, bless your ignorant soul, Robert
son, Peru has over ten times "hslf a doz-
en- houses - is a rapidly improving point;
the adjacent country is all occupied by
thriving industrious farmers, who, in.
many instances, have haalfor two years
past, an hundred acres each under cult
walton; and the country and town both
have made very handsome progress the
past year. The precinct a year ago, al
our county election, cast laO votes. And
o~,,, 80 s-,1l f,-tLor -o. -