New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-02
GROSS FRAUDS AT FORT KEAkNEY.
pgMBISA AND DELAWARE CROSSING THko"S
ENTIRELY INTO THE SHADE.

pPMHIsA AND DELAWARE CROSSING THROWN
ENTIRELY INTO THE SHADE.
We had expected great frauds in this election by
,be Democracy but we were not prepared for such
extensve and barefaccd ones have the evidence
~ before us The Ncbrosktan Of Saturday last an
pounced with great flourish Of ROSTERS and jack
asses that DIR. Henry had just got in from Fort
Kearney and reported 2y2 majority for EstabrOOk
vest OF Ioup Fork On th- news II claims the cleo
non of Gen Estabrook by 400 majority doubtless an
tiepating heavy frauds AT Fort Randall or IN that vi
ciuity We sought after and found DIR. Henry 10 as
certain from him where this pretended majority was
obtained He reported that Nebraska Center gave -
votes Centralias16 and Fort Kearney &58-aH Of
,chicE were east for Gen. Est0brook.
The Fort Kearney Precinct il $50 miles west Of this
city, and IL beyond the limits Of any organized county
in the Territory; it il the main trail 10 the Gold
Mines There il an old fort at which are stationed
two or three companies Of United states soldiers, a
tradinepot and two or three ranches. There not
and never have been twenty-five tgdt voters there al
any one time Yet the villains who make oaf MAJOR
tiles for modern locofocosm have had the impudence
10 return 1913 majority from that Precinct for Gen.
Estabrook And we suppose the three Federal Off
cias who constitute the Territorial Board OF canvas
sers will count them and on that count give Gen Is
tabrook his certificate OF election Indeed, ~ mas
been understood and talked about IN our streets Tor
months past that this precinct was created without the
authority OF law, for the express purpose OF perperat-
ING frauds sufficient 20 overcome any malorues me pe0-
Die might give against the peculiar trends OF Popular
Soyereignty These frauds were premedltHed ana
the Democratic party il responsible for them. We
have the best Of for believing they were per-
petrated the suggestion and by the arrangement OF
prominent Democratic officials. Every member Of the
Board Of Canvassers knows that the return Whlch
gives gS votes al that poll false as hell We shall
zee whether Gov. Black, Chef-Justlce Hall, and A.
torney General Bowen will dare count this vlllanous
return aud on IT perpetrate the imposition upon ms
people of giving Gen. EstabrOOk certificate OF cleo
non We confess to fears that they will do 80.
We repeat again, that every member of the Board
of Canyassers knows well as we do that TINS return
from Fort Kearney is fraudulent, and there could not
by any possibility have been east on the llth over p
legal votes VIII that Board dare issue the certif-
cate 10 Gen. Estabrookl We shall see.
During the week several gentlemen have come into
town who spent election day at the Fort. They have
made aiidavits exposing what they saw at the polls,
and how the election conducted. We have never
in our lives heard slckenng and disgusting recital
OF depravity these gentlemen give. They say IT
was a perfect farce from beginning 10 end. 10 much,
and 10 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
of a. an instance He came up to the poll and voted
in his blowse stepped few PAGES aside, exchanged
his blowse for an oyercoat, returned and voted again
passed back took off his Overc0a and returned III his
shirt sleeves and voted third time; went out and IN
a few minutes returned in citizens dress and voted
the fourth time then he got an old hat ragged dirty
coat and came up limpng, and voted the fifth time.
One of the Board remarked to him, so the crowd
could hear, that q" he WAS a good voter These gem
tlemen were all beseged to vote, and on obJectng
ON the ground that they not residents, were
told by 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 IL They won't object to
your voting il YOU 20 for acknowledgements are
legal voters ANYWHERE -Four of these gentlemen
did vote One declined 10 do 90. They say the Board
were all drunk but one member, and were rlOiing all
day. There no attempt to conceal the farce or
The frauds they were committing. After the polls
were closed, these men, whose names are iainlhar
In all the river towns, sal together ana ln"de ou'
,ha .sffglf IN I1fg
brook and started for the polls to enter them as
voters and from subsequent conversation With these
men, they have doubt they were returned a. illv-
ing voted for Gen. Experience Estabrook ihey i9r-
tber saw that after the polls had been closed and the
boxes deposited at the Trading Post. two men came
into the store and represented that they lived al Plum
Creek. They We're asked TO vote, aud on their con-
senting the polls were reOpened, and they voted.
This is the way the return OF 2}S votes, all t0r GeH
Estabrook was manufactured al Fort kearney And
il the General gets certificate of election VIII be
upon this outrageous vilainy! II these outrageous
frauds are thrown out they ought TO be, the Hon.
Samuel G. Daily il triumphantly elected, and cannot
honestly be refused the certificate OF election.
Fellow citizens of Nebraska, IL TINS the feast OF
Squatter Sovereignty you have been invited 10! IL
this the way YOU desire to be "leit perfectly tree To
.'regula,e Your own affairs in your own way p VIII
Won tamely submit TO be robbed of your honest sui
frages by these Infamous seoundrels There - thdnA
God higher tribunal than this Board of Fedora, APP
pointees TO which the people can appeal Tor redress
of these outrageous wrongs Ii Gen Estabrook r.
awarded the certificate, TO the Congress of the United
States we shall appeal with the utmost confidence that
the honest squatters IN this Territory VIII De protected
In their lust rights from the vile horde OF Democratic
ballot-box-stuiters and swindlers The Democratic
frauds in this election have not been confined TO Fort
Kearney. We have evidence of them all around rs,
but we have no time to present il this week. The evi,
depce of these il above doubt and easily obtained
that Gen Experience Estabrook will be booted ont OF
Washington If he ever gets up brass enough to pre-
sent himself there with the certificate based upon them