Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-31
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Frauds have been perPetrated by the Dsmoc-
raey on the borders of Nebraska in the late
election of Delegate to Congress, which throw
the infamous ballot-box stufing Of Border
Rufianism at Kickapoo aud Oxford, Kansas
into the shade. Fort Kesrney precinct, lsO
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
stationed 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 mpiorities for mod
ern locofocoism, have had the bardihood to
return 23s majority from that precinct for Gen.
Estabrook, the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress. OF the disgraceful farce Of an election
--disgraceful to United States officers and
troops, disgrace ful to the political party which
resorts 10 and sustains such frauds on the ac-
tual settlers of the new Territories, and dis
graceful to the Govemment-the Republican
gives the following account, derived from sew
eral gentlemen who spent election day at the
Fort, and who have made affidavita exposing
what they saw at the polls, and how the cleo
ton was conducted
They say it was perfect farce from be-
ginning 20 end go much and so boldly so, that
they did not suppose there was any intention
OF making a return from that poll Soldiers
voted four and five times. Take one they tell
us of as an instance He came up to the poll
and voted in his blouse, stepped few PAGES
aside, exchanged his blouse for an overcoat,
returned and voted again, passed back, took oil
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, rag
Qed 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-
sieged 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 90 for Estabrook.
Democrats are legal voters cverywhere!"-
Four of these gentlemen did vote One de.
clined to do so. They say the Board were all
drunk but one member, and were rioting all
day. There was no attempt to conceal the
farce, or the frauds they were committing
After the polls we're closed, these men, whose
names are familiar in all the river towns, sat
down together and made out long list ol
names thpt ought TO hare UOted for Estabr0Ok!
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 Es.
tabrook. They further say that after the polls
had been closed and the boxes deposited at the
Trading Positive men came into the store and
represented that they lived at Plum Creek
They were asked to vote, and on their consent
ing the polls were re-opened, and they voted.
This is the way the return of 23S vOtes,all foi
General Estabrook, was manufactured at Fort
Kearney. And if the General gets certifi'
cate of election, it will be upon this outrageou
villainy. Ifthese outrageous frauds. frauds ar
thrown out as they ought to be, Hon. Samue
G. Daily is triumphantly elected, and canno
honestly be refused the certificate of election