Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-07-30

FOR CON6RESS:
CYRUS ALDRICH, OF Hennepin.
VIM. WINDOW, Of winona.
Why Col. Aldrich did not Contest-..
Why Geo. L. Becker did not Contest.
The Pioneer d Democrat, of Tuesday last,
opened leading article with the following
paragraph:
Col. Cyrus Aldrich, candidate for Congress. in
his speech before the Black Republican Conven-
ton. accepting the nomination. pledged the Dele
gates before him that if his party should this time
Be aya,n defraaded out of his seat in Congress he
would serve his party and the people fatniuily
and honestly.
The Pioneer, upon this, takes issue with
Col ALDRrcH, and hypocritically-
"Regrets to see man of COL AldrieRs age
and position and who is thought worthy by his
party of Congressional honors, open canvass by
the utterance of statement which he must have
known was false an erery particular
The Pioneer having made this wholesale
charge of falsehood against Col. ALDRIcH,
proceeds to argue its case. and, wonderful to
say, quotes against COL ALDRIcH the very
fraudulent canvass of JOE P. Brown and SAM
MEDARY, in which majorities were counted
some of which even the latter VIGOROUSLY
admitted he kneu acere d-dtorgeries." -
The Pioneer, aware that the character OF
these two worthless is not such as to excite
much confidence in the honesty of any act
done by them, seeks to bolster them upb false
w alleging that THOMAS j. GALBRAITH, the
Republican member of the Board, concurred
in and approved of their corrupt CANVASS
We will take occasion in another article to
show, from the Record Of the Board of Can
vassers, that this representation is ' false in
every particular" The Pioneer, with an air
of triumph, however, closes its article with
what it evidently supposes is an unanswera-
BILE point, as follows:
"If Col Aldrich believed himself to have been
elected member of Congress two years ago. why
did he not demand his seat, or take some meas
ures rindicate his own rights. and the rights OF
the people. which must have been trampled upon
if he was thus detraudedE'
Very true, o, Pioneer =" why didn't
Ii? But plausible as this point looks on the
surface, let us examine if it really amounts
to any tangible sum in arithmetic. All know
that when legal record is made up, and en-
tered up,it is difficult, nay, an almost impos
sible thing, to overset it. However corrupt
the Judges who made it up, legally and tech
nically it is held to be, prima tacie, correct,
and to alter it requires a contestant Of its
facts to do the very difficult thing OF procing
a negatire!
Now the record" of the canvass of votes,
as made up by JOE BRowN and SAM MEDIA
Ry, was against Col. ALDRIcH-not fairly or
honestly against him, but technically. They
had counted in all the forgeries and frauds as
genuine; thew had given certificates to his
opponents based upon the assumed validity
Of the spurious returns and if Colonel A.
contested his seat the task would be impos.
ed upon him of procing that the record was
false, and made up to cheat and defraud.-
Ths-though it is difficult at all times to
show that thing was not done when the re-
cord assumes the fact that it was executed
Gel A. might, under any ordinary circum-
stances of election frauds, have effected.
ocratic Party in 1867, were extraordinary
The candle-box frauds in Kansas the add
ing to the poll-lists there ofhundred names from
the Cincinnati Directory; those were frauds
which were tangible; the Precincts really ex-
isted the Judges and Clerks of the Election
were real; portion Of the Voters even were
genuine Witnesses could be found, in such
a case, even to "prove a negative"
But the Minnesota election frauds were ex-
ecuted with a more wholesale, and more un-
bluShing rascality then any ever perpetrated
in Kanzas. They were concocted with cum
ming which covered the whole ground. They
were concocted so that ocitneSses were an i'm
possibility, except the rascals who committed
the crimes upon the ballotbox turned states
evidence!
Thus, for instance,'if Colonel ALpRICH had
contested for his seat in Congress, he would
have been compelled to dispute, Returns from
Precincts which could nowhere be found -
that were myths, without boundaries or loca-
acknowledges and Clerks of Election known
only in the imaginations Of Democratic for
gerS-Lists of Voters, who were without ex-
istence save in the pages of Cincinnati or
other city Directory-and Returns of Votes
which were never cast, at any place, by any
body. for anybody, but, were made up bodily
by the Democratic leaders in some by-place
Tor the purpose of saving their State Ticket
fr"al defeat, and which they caused to be GER
'ified to by Election Officers who were only
creations of their brains
Such is the exact description of the returns
counted by MEDAgY and Brown, from Holms
tity--from lndependence-from White Oak
Lake-from Mansfield St. Vincent +
These, and others, were lies and forgeres
from beginning to end--wholesale lies in grave
detail And these very lies and forgeries
went to make up the majority reported by the
Cavassing Board, for CAvEN.uoH and PHELPS
over Col. ALpRIeR.
Had the latter, therefore, attempted to con.
test the legality and actually of that MAORI
ry, what could he do towards proving those
humbug precincts and their maorities off the
record! Nothing He would have had his
expenses and his labor for his pains. And
this, simply, because there were no such Pre-
cincts-nor such Judges of Elcction-nor
such Clerks-nor any such Voters
Witnesses were therefore impossible, from
the peculiar nature of the frauds. The per-
sons who forged the returns, only could be
witnesses to invalidate them and it is not