The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-31
Fraud at the rolls.

IL is a very common thing, after an
election, for the defeated party to charge
the successful with fraud at Che ballot
box, importation Of votes, etc. The In
dianapoEs Journal accuses In, Briga,
Democracy with it openly, and produces
some facts and figures that certainly
look as though eandle-box CALHOUN had
come to the surface in Indiana. Thus
A State don't send 10000 men. Of
whom $1,000 are voters, out Of its borders
and make up the number in a year and
a half The $4,000 voters absent IN the
army from this State, represent popu-
lation Of $4,000. Is any man SO inf
nitely an ass, as to pretend that Indiana
has gained % per cent of population in
eighteen months We SUSPECT not. Then
the vote which replaces the absent 75, 600
is, to large degree, a fraud. There is
no mistake about it, No power of plau-
sibility, no lie, alO trick, can cover up
this great glazing fact. Indiana, with
10000 voters absent, polls in many coun-
ties more, and in all nearly as many,
votes as she did in 1860. The num-
Der is not made up Of the natu-
raj increase. They could not come
of immigration for there has been none
They were simply manufactured by cleo
ton officers. There are not voters to
every ballot cast at the late
election by 10000 at the lowest estimate.
A concerted and wholesale system of
frauds has been carried out. BY whom
Let the facts answer. Allen countygave
358 majority two years ago; now it gives
1000 The election board were all
Democrats, that is, Bright" Demoerts,
and they psremto,5ly refused 10 aHoU ami
Republican or Democrat to have a place on
vi! They were solicited to grant this, |
Tot courtesy, butrigh, and were denied |
The result is, that country which has
ldded hardly anything to its population
n the past two years adds liza votes 10
tsp0H list. That increase, representing
1000 population, came out of the ballot !
'ox, but never went into il. Madison
ounty gave this year vote as large as
t did in 1860, thought il has sent 100
olunteers to the war. This enormous
Increase fully % per cent of the whole
citing population, makes the Demo-
ratio majority 700 instead of 1913
S in 1861. Bartholomew, Jack
on, Shelby, and twenty other coun-
les that we have no space 20 name, in
he same way, poll the full vote of 1860,
hough they have sent from one fourth
, one third of their voting population to
ne army, and somehow they give doub-
ID, trebled and quadrupled Democratic
qjo1fties ! These are facts and they are
lets full of meaning. On the other
and, in the whole State, there are but
nee counties that have given increased
iajorities against the Democratic ticket, ;
ancock, Boone and Marion, the first Z
trough deep split in the party which
rev strong section of Union Demo- ,
ats into cooperation with the Republi- !
'ns, the second through the same inhu-
ice, and the last through the really en- !
NOUS increase of population since the
ar began. Now, this coincidence of
g majorities, with enormous increase
voting population TO supply the places
the absent soldiers, oll upon one side, is
fact that can only be explained by the +
of V0tss instead of Uots's. t. /
usual for a defeated party 70 charge
e victor with fraud, but here Is a case
glaring, monstrous and obtrusive that
e must see it. =