Dakota City herald. [volume] (Dakota City, Neb.) 1857-1860, 1859-11-19
THOSE FRAUDS.

THOSE FRAUDS.
sr,,. the isis election In this Territory Tor
n.,-r,ts g, Coprrss.. We have listened 70 ths
l,vrnr. OF " fraud A" from the Daily organs,
tnd the reorininating cry Of fraud" from
E.tabrool journals, with a good deal OF pa
thence We can refrain no longer, and after
coughing and eypectoratlns the requisite al
J. sauss. ~ tshs to bowling " fr-a-a.au.d,"
with the Ioudest or them. We suppose this
l. the game. aud We desire 70 have a howl IN.
The Republican papers cay that there were
f-auds perpetratsd At ". Kearnoy, and In L
Eau aui Court county, 10th which places gave
EstaDrook a goodly number Of votes thef for
mer yielding hin 2o2 majority and the latter,
l2s. On the other hand it Is charged that the
Republicans polled a large number Of illegal
votes IN Douglas, Richardson, Pawnee, Clay,
aud Gage. How true or untrue, these charges
may be, We DO not know but we hope thc
Whole matter may be correctly investigated,
ard tho perpetrators Of frauis 70 stiae the
sill Of The people, exposed aud properly pm
ishsd
The OnaLa EepuJi.e5s says that not hny
legal voter reside % the two counties Of Hall
and Buffalo. Had We not known that this
etetrmeat was, TO say the least, incorrect, II
wight have passed for what u purported to be
worth, in this part Of Nebraska but having
visited Fl. Kearney several tiuos during the
past three years, we know from personal
inoEeldgs that there are more than "ffty lie.
, gal voters there. A { bo time ne we're there
was there less than three times that amount.
AZ voters, whether they might be termed ale
gal " or not we leave others 10 judge. They
were chiefly Government teausters, herders,
employees about the Fort, Majors, Russels &
Waddel's employees, suffers, and their clerks,
trappsrs, traders, and n few gamblers
Last spring it would be safe TO say there
vere three thousand voters at tbs Fort. inclu
diug those q few miles above and below We
know several who became discouraged at the
report from the mines, bot determined not to
60 back. One party went and settled on the
Little Blue another crowd laid of q town
six or eight miles below the Fort a nutphcr
Of others went n few miles above 20 fashion q
city, and called 1t after an Luxurious Pole -
The probability is there are a'aree humber 0
persons there and that they have daily %iuereas
cd since spring, While we state these a mat
ters Of fact, We do not ray there were no lille
gal votes polled, Inlesdi it would be strange
there we're not, when i, Is charged that in tn,
city Of Omaha in tho face of the law anC
despite the vigilance ofboth party ssntlaels,
a negro cast democratic vote, and ten citizeur
Of Iowa, who we're just passing through III
town on their way home, voted for Daily
We do say however, that in the Absence o
proef 10 the contrary, We accept aud bSliey
the 2e2 majority for Esuabrook, to be a.
right, Now for LEau qui Court. ne neve
we're 10 that county, nor any nearer to it tina.
Dakota City, and can not speak ''by authori
~" But what strikes us y strange is thi
fact; that county is represented to be a Re
publican one. They elected a Repubioai
county ticket and gave Judge TaEe, Rep.
large m~Sjority over Judge Roberts, Dem 70
Floating Representative, Being Of The con
sentative kind and not having their Republic
an belief tinolurSd with Abolitiouism, the
voted for Estabrook TO a man. Since n
election, not one Of these Republicans ht
brtathed e breath Of fraud" nor any one oil
that we know Of, nearer than the Republic.
once at Omaha. Had that organ been mo
discreet before election, and not oharR,
'thAt extensive preparations" for fraud We
going on in Dakota county. It's ~asserllol
might be entitled to at least respect. Bot
il VAS base enough to Islander the citizens
this county before election il lie but reasonab
20 presume 1t can he equally base ia sianderir
'hosso Of LRau qui court, Buffalo and Hall a
ter il.
What IL sill stranger In this matter 1
Daily in his &" nrotast % makes no allusiou
LEau qni court, and claims the 20 tihoAte, n
because there were frauds perpatrated In Bu
fslo and Hall, but because tho Governor a
pointed q county clerk for them without ha
Ing authority so do 80 without which
election could not have boen held. A. to 4
lrauds alleged to have bosu committed at Fa
CITY and Saratoga precinct We knou nothiT
aoout. In Dixon county, a precinct Ia
gevs a majority Tor EstAbrook was thrown OF
sad the emily Republican p~reeinot Iutbis oou
" poilsd four more votes than there We
Vetsrs in H.,