Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-11-11
xiokapoo ana oxford in NEBRASKA.

Frauds have been perpetrated by the De
mocracy on the borders of Nebraska in tht
late election of Delegate to Congress, whicl
throw the infamous ballot-box stuffing of Bor
der Ruflanism at Kickapoo and Oxford, Kan
sas, into shade. Fort Kearney prescinct, leC
miles west of Omaha City, and beyond the
limits Of any organized county in Nebraska
territory, is on the main track to the gold
mines. There is an old fort at which are sta.
toned two or three companies of United
States soldiers, a trading post, and two or
three ranches. There is not, says the Omaha
City Republican, and never has been, twenty
| five legal voters there at any one time. Yet
the villains who make out majorities for mod
ern loeofocoism, have had the hardihood to
return 238 majority from that precinct for
Gen. Estabrook the Democratic candida te for
Congress. Ofthis disgracefal phase Of an cleo
tion-dsgraceful to United States officers and
troops, disgracefnl to the political party which
resorts to and sustains such frauds on the ac-
tual settlers of the new Territories and dis
graceful to the Government-the Republican
gives the following account, derived from sew
eral gentlemen who sent affidavits exposing
what they saw at the polls, and how the elcc
ton was conducted:
They say it was a perfect farce from begin
ming TO end SO much and so boldly so, that
they did not suppose there was any intention
of making return from that poll Soldiers
voted four and five times. Take one they tell
US of as an instance He came up to the polls
and voted in his blouse, stepped few PAGES
aside, exchanged his blouse for an oFercoae re-
turned and voted again. passed back, took off
his overcoat, and returned in his shirt sleeves
and voted third time went out and in few
minutes returned in citizens dress, and voted
the fourth time then he got an old hat, a rag
ged dirty coat came up limping, and voted the
fifth time One of the Board remarked to
him. so the crowd could hear, that he was a
good voter!'' These gentlemen were all be-
seged to vote, and on objecting on the ground
that they were not residents, were told by a
person, well known to our citizens, that he
had voted twice that day and intended to vote
again. Said he, my family lives in Omaha,
and everybody here knows it! They won't
object to your voting, if you go for Estabrook.
Democrats are legal voters everywhere = -Four
Of these gentlemen did vote! One declined to
90 So They say the Board were all drunk
bat one member, and were rioting all day
There was no attempt to conceal the farce, or
the frauds they were committing. After
the polls were closed, these, men, whose
names are familiar in all the river towns, sa
down together and made out long list of I
names that ought to hoUe roted for EstabrOok !
and started for the polls to enter them as vo-
ters and from subsequent conversation with
these men, they have no doubt they were re- |
turned as having voted for Gen. Experience
Estabrook. They further say that after the
polls had been closed and boxes deposited at |
the Trading Post, two men came into the
store and represented that they lived at Plum
Greek. They were asked to vote, and on their
cofihcnting the polls were re-epenea, and they
voted.
This is the way the return of 238 votes, all
for General Estabrook, was manufactured at
Fort Kearney. And if the General gets a
certificate of election, it will be upon this out
rageous villainy. If these outrageous frauds
are thrown out, as they ought to be, Hon.
Samuel G. Daily is triulnphantly elect d, and
cannot honestly be refused the certificate of
election.