The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-02-26

ment, this great moral Democratic tri.
umph, and l will first show you that
there is no element of glory in it; aud
then l will snow you that there is no ele
ment Of morality in it; and then | shall
leave you to infer that the distinguished
Senator from Kentucky was wonderfully
at fault in the application Of his high
sounding terms. How was the result
accomplished? I shall read from the
records, official documents embodied in
the report of the State central committee
of the Union party Of Indiana, and now
on file in the Office of the draft commits
> sioners of that State; and no man can
, gainsay single statement of this paper:
"The statistics here presented will
. show that the great mass of our brave
soldiers are with the Union party in sen
timent and action, anu that notw tbstand
ing their absence from the State, that
party is yet numerically greater at home
than the party claiming to be successful
1t will also be shown that the alleged
number Of votes policd was II, s64 great
er than the actual number of voters in
the State, and that in the fifty seven
counties the Democratic vote is greater
than it was for Governor in 1860, al
though from those same counties there
were 56,27 volunteers in the service at
; the time of the election
, l ask you to listen to the proof Of that
! fact, for we have proof which approxi-
$ mates almost to certainty as to the cxac
= number Of our voters The vote cas-
= was nearly eighteen thousand more tha,
$ the number of voters in the State.
= alt will also be shown that although
e there were $4,000 voters out of the Stat
o at the late election. yet the Democrat
t vote was larger at that election than
+; was at the election for Governor in 1860
v The first question to be determined is
}. what was the actual number of voter
. within the State on the day Of the cleo
E tion? The vote of the State for prcsi-
Q dent in 1856 was 234 l3l, and in 1866
J. it was 272, l43, being an increase in tou
!. years of SO, 712, and an annual incr as
o of9,17S. The highest vote ever give1
Q lin the State was that in 1860 for Pres,-
ss111dent, 272, l43, to which, if we add Is,
sXVe56, the increase of voters for two years
tE7f have 290, 400 as the total number {
1an1 ers belonging to Indiana in 1862 -
w Sana has 93,04l volunteers in tn
" |0fice, from which deduct onc-third
lcovtAfAggregatc of minors and yolur
\ II Oan p~nd we h~~e 81 900 ~"te'
fem |tate. The total number
|! ~ bSIonging to the State has bee
80 I'm to be 900, 400, from which, if v
NJ hot the 81 900 voters out of the Stat
If will have 22S ,499 as the total nun
1 ia Of voters within the State on the da
n 2c lection.
E9he $lle vote polled at the late clcctio
], as ifhws: For Athon, Democrat, l27
J s1377; for PeeIe, Union, u.s. 1856 max
G ing total vote of 24G 1868 Thus tn
!. votes polled were 246,363 while th
: whole number Of voters in the State wa
j 22S, 400, being an excess of votes owe
voters of 1854 This excess is fraud
D ulcnt, and who got the benefit Of tn
j. fraud may be readily asccrtaired by CON
t pairing the party votes of 1860 with thos
n of 1862 The vote of Athon in 1862
1,0O9 more than that of Hendricks, tn
!. Democratic candidate for Governor j
n 1860; while the vote of Peelle is IS, "a
;. less than that of Lane, the Union cana
!, date for Governor.
- "Another mode of ascertaining th
l. number of voters in the State is this =
8. The total militia enrolled, between eieh
O. cen and forty five years Of age, is 2O9
u. PIG, and the total number Of voluntec
in the service is oo,O4l making an a
ut gregate of 3O2 ,2577, from which dcdu
IN $4,000, the number of volunteers out
ut the State, and we have 222 ,251 as Il
he total number of voters in the State
r. election day. This calculation is bas
h. on the estimate that those enrolled b.
IT, tween the years of eighteen and twent
ye one are equal in number to the vote
n over forty FIVE years of age. This mo-
IL does not admit of the exactness Of II
0, other, but the result is near y the same
l? "Having thus shown by the aggrega
h ulent vote of II ,S64 at the late electlo
l. / will now descend to counties, and co
l. firm this result and trace home its origl
ID 1t will be impossible, in the space allo
l. ted to this examination, to review Il
lr election in each Of the ninety two coul
a ties in the State | am, therefore, cor
1, PEELED to contine lis statement to po
Is tion of them. The number selected wi
1t however, be abundantly sufficient to es
s. tablished the position assumed. shs
l. begin with Allen county. This count
IL gave, in 1856, at the presidential ele
p. ton, 4,947 votes; and in 1860 at Il
he election for President, $3.50 votes, b
Of ing an increase in four years of eOl, a,
ne an annual increase of 225 voters. II
Sc vote in 1860 was $3.50, to which, if ,
Sc add 45O, the increase of votes for t,
a years, we have 6,3Oo as the total numb
n, of voters belonging to the county
. 1862. This county had volunteers