Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-01
SrEPHENsPoRr. Ky August % 1869

EDITOR SENTINEL: / inclose a alp cut from
| the Cincinnati Commercial Is il ignorance or
effrontery that causes that sheet TO persist in is
| lying statements Several times reiterated)2 |
have not the full official statement the polls of
the recent election $50 called) in this State: hut
have seen sufficient to render il certain that the
total vote will not exceed so 900 There was
polled at the last Presidential election. l46 600:
this leaves $1,000 votes unpoed, assuming that
election to be far criterion. but il ia not By
the Auditors report of last wear. there were in
this State about lS3 900 legnl voters, and they
nearly all here vet Of course, all these
suppressed votes were Democrats and if they
had voted would have carried the Democratic
ticket by an immense majority. even under all
the disidv tntages under which We labor, and
they are manifold and outrageous
have no doubt that. If all the acts of petty
tyranny and oppression committed in this State
by petty military despots we're collected tosether
and published. they would fill large volume
No man living in Kentucky that has sny re-
gard for truth and decency. will pretend that
there the least approach to ANYTHING like fair
ness in our election I'm this precinct the Demo
Gratis seeing on the Saturday evening previous to
the election how things we're managed. unani-
mously resolved TO abstain from voting They
knew they could not poll full and fair vote and
therefore concluded the hest policy 10 be TO treat
the whole thing a. n wrerched farce One vote
only given for Wckfe. We could have
given over fifty Ia all the LARGEST precincts of
the county the Democratic ticket was not en-
tered on the poll bonks. In several. large bodies
OF soldiers were stationed As il is Brsmletie's
vote is little one third the voting population
of the State, and had fair canvass been had
one third of these would have goue Cor Wickliffe
No doubt he received a great many illegal votes
There was little restriction about voting for the
50 called Union ticket Undoubtedly the main
plank in the platform hut not printed) is a most
bitter, unrelentinc prejudice and hatred against
Democracy Bramletle is A. good Republican
YOU need want. but it YOU intimate to those
that voted for him ab ui here that thew ave all as
practically of the Black Republicans. most Of
them will get mad a hons
II il pretended that the soldiers enlisted in this
State will account for the SIN III vote. But this
will not do Our county i considerably above
the average in point of volunteers furnished. and
vet had there been a fair election, we would have
cast much larger vote than any previous
election This j. certain So IL L. no doubt.
over the whole State. with few exceptions |
have studied the elections in this State where |
was born and raised closely for many year>, and
have no doubt Whatever that had the State been
canyasscd usual. and perfectly far election
held Wicklitfe would have carried three fOurths
Of the counties and the State hv y tremendous
minority, certainly not less than g.. 600 perhaps
75. 900 to 100 600
Ia conclusion. | would earnestly ipauire-sn
inquiry that now nearly everybody about here is
making: What is to hinder the Administration
from carving the next Presidential election by
precisely such means used in Kentucky, unless
the people awake timei B.