Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04


No doubt he will answer it in good time, "i if
God spares his life."
The Sibley County Exposure..-The
s'Demcrats g High In State Onlces ''---
The Grand Democratic Corruption
Fund.
The organ of the officials who compose the
Democratic State Administration of Minneso-
ta-the Pioneer and Democrat-exhibits i'm
mense uneasiness at the exposure of their
contemplated rascality to manufacture bogus
Democratic election majorities in the out of
the way counties, as proposed by them to the
Hon. JAS. w. LYND of Henderson, Sibley
County-lately, a Democratic Editor and Dem
ocratic Member of the Legislature.
To offset his whitening exposures, that pa
per gets up ock-and-a-bull story to impugn
Mr.. LYND's notices for thus telling tales out
of school. 1t tries to make sensible men be-
lieve, that high-minded honorable and able
Democratic editor, whom the people Of his
county..ha by an overwhelming vote but re-
Gently elected to represent them in the Legis-
lature of the State, was influenced to renounce
his party, denounce its corrupt leaders, ard
expose the outrageous propositions of the State
officials to forge and manufacture election re-
turns to secure Democratic success at the
next eection-all for the paltry consideration
ton that Mr.. JOSEPH r. Brown, who owns the
Henderson Democrat, had designed to super
cede Mr.. LyND as the editor of that paper.
Really, granting the truth of this story, we
should not think chagrin at the loss of the
profits Of paper that is hardly making its
living, not even paying it's ordinary expenses
of publication, much of an inducement to con.
sufficient occasion his cherised principles nor
sufficient occasion for his abandoning the fine
party position and influence which Mr.. LYND
unquestionably enjoyed in the Democratic
ranks, not only in Sibley County, but through
out the State at large
Measure the Pioneer that it must hit upon
some other plan of defending the State officials,
than telling such weak, and puny and ridicu-
lous stories, to break down the force of the
testimony of a man of the high character and
standing which Mr.. LYND universally enjoyed
wherever known. There is, indeed, no way
of getting over the damning fact, that his ties.
timony convicts "DEMoCRATs HIGH IN STATE
OFFICES of scheming for Democratic success
at the next fall election through a system o.
forging election returns purporting to come
from the wilderness and out-of-the- way coun
ties.
This, we know, is a grave charge. The
Pioneer admits that it is a serious one. We
make it deliberately, as the conductor of Q
public press. We bring Mr.. LYND, Demo
cratic editor and Democratic legislator, for
ward as witness of its truth.
There is also plenty of circumstantial evi
dence to sustain our positive charge and to cor
roborate Mr. LYND's evidence in support of it
One point in corroboration is, the we'll known
fact, heretofore substantially acknowledged bs
the Pioneer itself, that it was entirely through
Democratic forgeries of election returns Al
the last State election, similar to those pro
Democratic State officers hold their places!
This is notorious. The People of the whole
State believe 1.-THE leaders of both parties
knoD this to be the fact
1t is not, therefore, too violent presump
ton to offer, that the men who obtained pow
er by such rascalties, would not hesitate t.
continue their hold upon the public treasury
by resorting, if necessary, to similar meanI
Of success!
Mr.. LYkD tells us that they (the State
oficers) told him, that "Meir hopes o,
success in the coming fall campaign acere en-
tirely based upon anticipated Bogus Return
from Renville, Murray, Cottonwood, Pipe
Stone, Pcmbina, and other out-of-the-wa,
Counties"
He informs us that in the opinion of tn,
State Administration. pollution of the Ballot
Box seems to be legitimate road to success.
This is indeed corruption and dishonesty il
our rulers, that is melancholy, nay, is humble
to contemplate
Another point justfying our charge, and il
corroboration of Mr.. LYND's evidence, is tina
for some time past the Democratic Centra
Committee, of which Lieut.. Gov HoLcoMBE i.
Chairman, Mr.. H. II. SIBLE and Judges FLAN
DRAu and ATwATEH are members, Mr.. NORMAN
W. KIrrsoN is Treasurer and the Reuereno
JOHN PESNAN (the widow and orphans friend
over the left is Secretary,-has been engaged
in accumulating Grand Farty Corruption
Find Of $4,000, wherewith to pay the ex'