Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-11-03
TFrsn the wabash Express
The Sullivan FFaud.


The satisfaction of sd persons familiar
with the facts that they possess con-
sciences of wonderful elasticity. They
FIRST swear that the returns made at .he
late election in Salliyan are correct, and
then cone cut in "a Gard over their
own signatures, few days later, and
declare that they have good reason to
believe that the ballot-box was opened
in thsir abssaes and the tickets handled
before the counting cut was completed,
They swear we'll on both sides Of the
question. One day they allege the re.
turns 10 be correctly made, and the naxt,
they allegs that they we're not correctly
made. Which allegation Is supposed 70
be ooFrect7 Their card is as follows:
t&t AcAKp @ 'e'
We, the undersigned, judges and
Clerks Of the Election held at The court
house in Sullivan, on the ilth day OF
October, 1864, in yiew OF the frauds al
legged to have been perpetratsd, and 10
justice to ourselves, avail ourselves Of
this the hrss opportunity offered to make
the following statement:
Ofths frauds charged We know moth
ing. We saw no act Of improperly By
any member Of the hoard while in ses
sion. But that We are satisfied ia our
own minds that such charges are not
without foundation, and We have such
opinion hpou the following eiFeam.
stance, 10 which We ere willing al aey
and all times 70 be qaklihed At the
Adjournment Of the Board FOR supper
which was about dusk, We had counted
out between ftteen and twenty tickets,
which were strund on q string prepared
ma ss.a tansE@ssse ras AtrIng of ficgets
vas placed in the ballos-box on top Of
the uncoubisd tickets. The poll books
and tally papers we're then placed on top
OF the tickets, the box locked and set oa
table in one corner Of the roomI
When ths Board met after sapper the
hallot.box was unlocked in our presence
BY the inspector, the tally papers and
poll books takea Out but the string OF
tickets csuld not be seen. The Inspee-
tor turned to the table in the corner OF
the room TO search for il, aud while thus
engaged We found the string Of tickets in
the bottom Of the baliot-hox completely
covered BIZ the sncountsd tickets. We
are satisfied that the string Of tickets
could not have got 30 the hottom Of the
ballot-box without the same being open
ed in our absence and the tickets han
died. Respectfully submitted,
PosTER BURKs,
JAxxs A. BEAED, suogss
= 10 baaDAnEI LAsGDos, cl.,t.
i 3 aaaoa BExJ HAvEss, ~
t-I-heFehy certify that ] believe the
above statement to be correct When
the box was opened altar supper | took
out the poll books and tally papers, bat
could not hnd the string Of ticksts Sup.
posing thsy had been left out, / turned
4 70 look for them: N meantime thew were
found in tbs box II is epident they
were moved while the board was ad-
iourned for supper.
Respectfully,
4t sa w. c. GMFFITH,
October 18th, 1884. Inspector,
The Inspector says s il is evident the
tickets we're removed while the board
| were adjourned for supper" Certainly
such was the case. They were removed
whils you were at supper. Then WHY
did you make the returns that you did7
w uAA ANU Va y &IJ&n NAS u NuGEt tue
ballot-box was thus left7 Was it locked ?
Or was il left open by the Inspector, for
everybody to snter7 Did the Inspector
loan his key to some cne2 Or did he
and the Judges all have keys? Were
these keys 20 the box in the possession
sf the parties when they convened TO
resume the eonnting2 The circum-
4 stances connected with this matter do
4, not do much credit to the board They
also furnish evidsncs Of fraud, By ethics
some member of il, or by their partisan
friends. Verify the reputation of that
party has sank low indeed. The Dodds,
the Bovles, the Miliigsns, the Vsllsndig-
a hams, the Binghams, are the fs leaders
and representatives. Of party 20 coz.
rnpt and reasonable rs il ie
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Important order from Gen. Hooker.
The following has just been issued BY
Major General Hooker, commanding the
Northern Department:
II HEApo'Rs NORTHERN DEPAErNFxr, ,
-. Cincinnati, Oct q, 1864 I
zsnsz CIRCULAR.
The Commander Of this Departrn emf
has received Information that IL il fhe