The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-13
The ELECTION in Kentucky.


From the Louisville Democrat, 6th.1
There never was more fairness. more ms
tice, more freedom in an election. than wa:
Practiced and accorded by the friends of the
Union last Monday. '-LouisviHe Journal
We intend to illustrate the truth or oil
this by facts from all parts of the State. We
gave some facts Wednesday from Mt. Wash
ington and Bloomfield.
More about the fair election:
FAlEFELD, NELSON COUNTY, KY, August 4.
MEssRs. EDITORS: must give you some
OF the facts in regard to our political farce
on yesterday. 1t was our election day, you
understand. At sunrise on yesterday morn
Ing about twenty Union soldiers came dash
Ing into our little village, for what purpose
we could not tell, until about half past seven
O'Clock, when the polls were opened for all
voters. Just at this time the officer COM
manding the squad notified the officers of
election that he would attend to that depart.
ment himself, whereupon the eyes Of the
civil officers began to bug out largely. They
began to conclude they were to be deprived
OF that honorable position themselves, and
so off they went and bowed, scraped and
gestured awhile, returning with the belief
that all was quiet on the Potomac" The
officers were all sworn in. Now begins the
farce, for it can be called nothing else
The voting began. Six Bramlette votes
were cast right off. They looked around
for more Bramlette votes, but there were
no more at hand. The Wickliffe votes then
ran up to ten, when the aforesaid Hocsier
Lieutenant, who was acting as judge sheriff
anG clerk, began to get restless, and said be
could not allow any man to vote for Wick
life without being sworn; so the said Lieu
tenant and officers juggled awhile, when the
Lieutenant came out victorious without any
wound whatever. At this stage, some ge, -
tleman inquired ii he insisted upon that
course. He said he did. By this time
three or four Bramiette votes had appeared
to cast their votes, when one of them re-
marked he did not want to swear to VOTE
The said Lieutenant then decided that all
Bramlette men should vote without taking
the oath. The Democrats then withdrew
awhile, and discussed what to do. They
concluded they would vote anyhow, by
taking the oath. So they began voting again
rapidly their ticket ahead; when the Lieu
tenant became very restless, scratching his
head, splitting promscuously, looked at his
orders again from his Colonel, and then de-
cided positively that no more votes should
be cast for Wickliffs, oath or no oath. Our
officers then looked like simpletons, just
"udt Iuey were. lucy lOOkeQ as II t00Y
would if they could but how could they if
they SC uld notH l saw several old men
(Democrats) then attempt to vote, but all in
vain. This may look preposterous but such
is the fact. as can be testified to by fifty as
good and loyal men as there are in Ken
lucky. So the polls olosed-seventeen for
Bramlctte, nineteen for Wickliffe, with fifty
votes for Wickliffe remaining unpolled by
this audacious, tyranLical party. Just so it
has been, SO far as we have heard, in this
county. the home of the statesman, geutle-
man and patriot, Hon. G. A. Wickliffe.
A few more words and will close One
precinct in this county (Chaplin,) where
there was no interference, the vote stood OF
noon. Wickliffs 20, Bramlette 3. In Spen-
Ger County, close by, from every precinct
we heard that Wickliffe was getting five to
one ten to one, and so on. There is one
thing wish to call your attention to. At
this Garfield Precinct,) out of the IL vo ties
polled for Bramlette, not one single vote
was Democrat. A DEMOCRAT,