Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1859-03-18

William III. Cunlih testihes rs Fellows
IL am Clerk Of Hancock Plantation. /
do no, know who are voter. IN this plan,a.
ton and who are not. do not know any
thing about the rule. for receiving votes.
There is no regularity about them. do
not know whether any names are ever
handed IN to our assessors. /, be put on our
voting list. At the last election here. e,-
eryihing was IN a hubbub. / could not
check the names on our lis'. or do anything
slse. The Frenchmen were all drunk cleo
ton day. got To the polls SOON after ~.
at any rate before the time--bu; the polls
had been cpcncl some time. The damned
eritiur. were all drunk. tried TO keep n
cheek let, but 1t might as well been thrown
20 the devil. Diekry come and
got the plantation books from my wife,
while was gone away. some time before
the election. and never have seen them
since. They had check lie, when 60, to
the poll,-it was KEEP, by frenchman. and
I Eaton, Dickey's clerk. The
people voted 50 fast ii was impossible TO
check them. They piled over one another,
like aoek OF sheep. The names were KEEP,
on a separate paper in book, by French.
man. IL was all hubbub-the devil to pay.
Some names were added to the regular 'o-
a.. - r.. A H. EVn hTN ha
bound. Of this plantation are. All the in
. habitanis above come down 10 vote here.
We had some voters down IRON Little Black
river. There would be no difficulty with
the checklist II the voter. would le, rum
alone. I should like 10 see an election
without rum. once. Mr.. Ilunnewell and
Mr.. Diekey sorted the votes and counted
them. and counted them after them. |
have been here only year and a half or
two years. don't know half the voters
I don't think there Is tenth Of them can
read Or writ.. mont think half the men
Of - years old have ever ben below the
Grand Falls. don't think any list " the
voters can be kept where every n ans name
Is not checked ~ fast =. b, votes. They
mus, sucs, At IL. Ia, lealrns men here
have the reius in their own haud.. and
want u make things look a. well as they
can Tor their own eide. Mr.. Page was the
only republican abOu, the polls election
day, aud they drove him 90. TIE way
they abused tie old gentleman va. ridicu-
lous i, was too had. lie is very nice
man and good citizen. did not see the
names In the frenehman's book added to
the lit. don't knos what was done with
the lit Of voters. DO not know whether Il
was sgnt ~ the Secretary Of State or not (;
| did not seS il after the election. The &C.
count Of the vote wrs sealed op in meeting
after we had done voting AM the votes were
counted .-al,d up .ou.s Of them ruy.elf.
Dickcy did mos, Of the work. lie is law.
yer, doctor. and mos, anything. lie know.
more law and gospel than most anybody
here. lie told the AZ the close "Mr Gop
wEn,vE vorID LIKE nrtL. u,vE NOT
woEErp so Lo>e roS NOTHING" | voted
for D,cscy."
The sane witness, in further ,estifying
says
The rrenchmen have somebody TO fur
ni.h liquor fr III tn election d'y. At the
last election, lew II them striped them.
selves uakrl aud jumped right up and down.
I s,w one fellow .tark.naked, With NJ shir,
on. and hi- drawers down rourd his feet,
jumping night up aud down. Several
French women were looking at him. |
never saw people act 50 bad a. they DO /;
they don't act like human bei,g, a, all.
They don, know anything abor, our poll.
tics good. bad Or Indifferent. don'tt think
there j. one in fifty Of them that can read
OF write"
Charlie. Nc Phcreson a constable in BIZ.
deposition says:
Have resided in this plantation 80
years. was called on by Mr.. David Page
and Mr. Joseph Sadeau on election day, TO
keep the peace, the people being very rio-
to1s tried 10 preserve orier but could
do nothing the people At the poll. acted as
had as they knew how. They wire drunk.
and came up TO me and asked me what hos.
iness had TO interfere. was dImned and
threatened, and found could do nothing
with them. and had TO back out. ! was
again called for. bein: the only constable
present. to come and stand by thu polls. |
remained while, but could not stand
the noise. cannot compare !, 70 anything
hut Indian whoops.
There !. much other evidence in the re-
port. OF the same eharacter-but we think
the above extract. are sufficient Il show the
base and infamous means rcsprled TO, by
the black democracy in our own State, to
carry the elections.
Ii is high time these viliinies carried on
-. oy TIVE OiilSL hoLphhs' "hu'' w" V""''"P'
tibls National administration, weie brought
20 light. Let It be remembered, tina, thes'
things were done in 1858, IN our own State
that the pro slavery democracy is the party
guilty Of these frauds. that they are sane
toned by James Buchanan, who keeps the
very men in ofies, mainly instrumental in
perpe,ratng them that !: is a part and par
Gel Of modern democracy, to co'rup, the
ballot boI-buy Up voters a. yIu would
buy an old horse-with Custom House mon
ey and rum. Did political party ever be-
fore exist. - degraded and infamous %
loo, to all self respect, decency OF common