Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-24
50 Facts I'm Regard to the Late Elec.
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Under this caption, :" A II. CONNER, Chairman
Union Central Committee" publishes an address
ITO the voters of Indiana attempting to ex-
plain the results of the recent election in this and
other States. He says &" the result of the recent
election was brought about by Fraud" and fur.
ther. that the Republicans have met defeat in
several other States, and from the same cause -
We have carefully perused the address Of Mr.
Postmaster CONNER, aud we do not find single
fact or an iota Of evidence TO substantiate this
Wholesale charge of fraud upon l27 ,977 citizens
OF Indiana who voted for the Democratic nomi-
nees. He is an employee of the present Admin
istration. and we suppose, therefore, feels bound
to explain away, like lawyer defending a Grim
inal, the recent verdict of the people of Indiana
against the corruptiOns and mbeclity of the party
in power. Never was there a revolution in pub
lie sentiment more overwhelming and withering.
If another election was held to-day, the popular
rebuke would be more decided than that OF the
18th Of October
i Mr.. CoSSER charges "frand:" but where the
evidencel He produces none. He can not and
does not show there was single illegal or fraud
ulent vote cast in the whole of Indiana for the
Democratic ticket. We challenge him for the
proof of any unfair, any illegal any fraudulent
voting for the nomrees of the Democratic party.
But he well knows who committed fraud in the
recent elections. He was present at the polls in
this township upon the 18th of October, and saw
citizens of opposite political sentiments driven
therefrom for attempting to preserve the purity
of the ballot box; he witnessed the intimidation
of voters by his political allies, and he knows that
for several hours the ballot boxes were IN the
possession of mob of his party friends; yet with
knowledge of these facts he charges fraud upon
his political opponents. In Marion county he is
well aware the election carried by Repub-
lcan fraud as unbushing as ever disgraced Balti-
more under Plug-ugIy rule.
Because there was an increase in the Demo
cratic vote and decrease in the Republican at
the late election, Mr. CONNER endeavors to
create the impression that $4,000 voters in the
army are Republicans No Democrats. he says,
are in the field. How comes it then that the
Democratic districts have furnished more voun-
te,rs than the Republican, yet the Republican
vote in those districts at the late election, COM
paratively, was equal to that of 1902 Such is
the fact. We desire to call the attention of the
Democratic soldiers from Indiana to this mpeach-
ment of their loyalty and patriotism by the Repub-
lican Central Committee ofIndiana To giyesome
plausible reason for their overwhelming defeat
at the recent election, they say to the Democrats
who volunteered upon the call of the Government,
that they have no principles, that they have made
no sacrifices, which Republicans are bound to
respect
AT the lowest calculation more than one half
of the soldiers in the army from Indiana are
Democrats They left home Democrats, and
those who are permitted to return will come
home more decidedly Democratic than ever In
this regard speak not idly or boastngly
AT the recent election in this State wherever the
soldiers were left free to vote, without restraint
very large majority voted the Democratic
ticket This we know This Mr.. CONNER
knows. And il the sixty two thousand voters in
the army from Indiana had been at home, the
Democratic majority would have been increased
not less than threefold.
Mr.. CONNER, representing or claiming to
represent the Republican party of Indiana, says
that only "loya men, voted the Union
ticket at the late election. Such he charges was
likewise the case in Ohio, in Illinois, in Penn
sylvana, in New Jersey. and ia New York He
publishes to the world that in all those States a
large majority of the voters are disloyal to the
Government. According to the patriotic Post
master l27 ,977 voters in Indiana had no object in
the recent election but "to minister to their per-
sonal aims, at the expense of the public good"
Nobody, says he, but the Abolitionists are virtu-
Gus and patriotic They only are selfsacrifcing,
says Mr.. CONNER.
Never before in the history of the world has
there been as much corruption, fraud and ras-
cality has been practised by the party in power
Such is its infamy in these regards that even Re
publcans have felt constrained to cry out against
it. The recent elections we're not only a rebuke
of corruption, but of the usurpations in the ad
ministration of this Government And as over
whelming as that condemnation was, expressed
through the silent, but effective medium of the
ballot box. it is nothing in comparison to wha. it
will be when betrayed and indignant people pass
their verdict upon the selfshness, corruption and
imbecilIty of the party in power-the party that
has brought upon the country its present troubles
and which is responsible for the evils which will
result therefrom for years to come.