Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-10-05


publican candidate for Attorney General
is falsely given as JAMES murray
There is no such name on the Republi-
can, or any other ticket. All, therefore,
I who vote this ticket will lose their vote
for Attorney General. The name
printed in this ticket as the candidate
for Member of the Board of Public
Works, is LEVI SAGENT There is no
such man as Sagent running for that
Office, end all such votes will necessarily
be thrown out. The name of our can
didate for County Auditor is given as
-4aon Stivers. As there is no such
man, of course the votes so given cannot
be counted. The name of the Republi-
can candidate for County Treasurer is
given as G. Grow. AS the name of the
Republican candidate is Geo. B. Groao,
of course all who vote this ticket will be
defrauded out of their votes! The
names of the Republican candidates for
Supreme Judge, Congress, Probate
Judge, Commissioner, Coroner, and In
irmary Director, are given correctly
But the names of FL. L. Sibley, and S. S.
Paine, the Republican candidates for
Clerk and Recorder, are wholly omitted,
and other names substituted in their
places, as stated by the Committee.
We trust that all true Republicans
will be upon their. guard, and not lose
their votes by means of these spurious
tickets. s..... ...-r.
p. S.-Since writing the above, other
spurious tickets have come to light, in
which the name Of oar candidate for Con-
gress is SO printed as to render them uoid!
This, like the others, is headed, "Repub
ican T;cEet." The names of Messrs.
Sibley and Paine are omitted, and others
substituted, and where Mr.. Horizons
name should be, is printed, az. B.
HoToN." Of course such tickets could
not be counted for Mr.. Horton; and, as
the contest for Congress is expected to
be very close, if a few such tickets could
be imposed upon unsuspecting Repub-
licans, and they thus cheated out of their
votes, Mr.. Horton might be defeated!
Unwilling as we are to attribute to a
party deliberate conspiracy to swindle
the people out of their votes, we were at
first inclined to attribute the whole
thing to the dough headed stupidity of
some Democratic printer. But there is
so much method in the transaction, that
it looks more like "Kickapoo'' affair
than mere blundering. In the first
place, the heading of the thing "Repu6-
hcan Ticket is necessarily a fraud, de-
Hberately perpetratcd By some one. From
this there is no possibility of escape
Whoever engineered the thing Intended
to cheat the ao,suspectag. Of this there
can be no doubt. For while purporting
to be Republican Ticket it has ON it at
least two names which are not on the
genuine ticket at all. And while this
part of the scheme stands fraud con
fessed, it is not uncharitable to suppose
that the mis-printing of the names of the
real candidates was part of the origi-
nal plot. But whether done through
villainy or stupidity, the effect is the
same, and ought to be made to recoil
upon the heads of those who hoped to
profit by it. t> a=.
Again we say, look well to your tickets
before voting! We have now before US
no less than four different kinds of these
spurious tickets, all differing from each
other, but all fraudulent Some with
Mr.. Horizons name wrong, and most of
the others correct. Some with the name
of Mr.. Horton correct and nearly all the
others wrong, and some with all the
names but one correct, but all Of them,
leave out the candidates for Clerk and
Recorder and interpolate others in their
places. We do not know who is respon-
sible for this attempted wrong. Some
body has been at an UNUSUAL expense in
getting up all these spurious tickets
Who pays the expense? We trust that
the exposure of the plot by the com
mittee, will insure the defeat of the
plotters!