Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-18

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aspirants, and, as it does not in the
slightest affect the smiling eomplsceney
of the victors, we are not disposed to
find fault with the Mcclellan men Of
Indiana for resorting to the old and stale
method Of obtaining consolation for their
overwhelming defeat In 1856, We re.
member, the Repnblicans Of Indiana at
tributed their defeat at the October
election 10 the grossest and most out
rageous Frauds Yet the November
election proved that worse and more
glazing frauds we're perPetrated, or that
the October election was fairly con-
Quoted; for the party was much worse
beaten in November than in October.
We apprehend the same thing will oc-
cur this year The Mcclellan men will
find themselves in the minority to
greater extent in November than they
are now We suggest to them, there
fore, inasmuch as their hopes OF victory
are already blasted, that they devote
their time from now uHtil the Presi-
Dental election in perfecting arrange
ments for ibe detection and punishment
Of illegal voting and frauds upon the
ballot box. They viii have abundance
of leisure to give to such work, and it
may yield them a larger per cent of con-
ISOLATION than the November election
promises to do in other particulars
The only foundation for the charge Of
fraud made against the Union party, or
pretended foundation, Is that the vote
cast was large beyond precedent The
Mcclellan party seem to think that no
more votes should be cast in 1864 than
we're polled in 1860 and 62 This, toe,
in the face of tke fact that thousands
upon thousands Of refugees from the
Southern States have made Indiana their
home for the past two years. But, -
just here, puts in a Copperhead paper
these refugees generally voted the Nc
CleIIan ticket, aud this only makes the
fraud more apparent" We grant they
generally voted the Mcclellan ticket aud
had they not done SO little Macs ad-
herenis would have been buried beneath
weight Of popular Indignation that
would have forever destroyed their po-
litical lives. But the Union triumph il
easily accounted for 10 spite of the refa
gee vote. It is found in the notorious
fact--palpable 10 every man who viii
but open his eyes and look about him
that thousands Of honest Democrats al
over the State, voted the Union ticket
When they found that the usurpers who
had assumed the leadership of the ole
Democratic party had sold outthat time
hOnored organization to treasonabl'
secret political association, calling them
selves the "Scns Of Liberty" the,
at once rallied around the flag o
their country and voted the Unior
ticket Sold but not trausferred,' wa
their motto. We have been furnishe,
the namas OF scores of such honest Dem
oerats in different townships in this Dis
trict, and we doubt not they we're foun
all over the State.
~ but the enormous vote the enormou
votsl indianapolis polled 9,0s7 vote
This, says the State Sentinel, shows
} population Of $4,000, when every bot
knows that her population does not e,
ceed $4,000. The Times takes up th
cry and applies it to Evansville. "
polled 1928 votes, showing" says ii
,, Times, a population of 5000" Til
:, Indianapolis Journal disposes of tn
= = erroneous assumption in the followin
paragraph:
Our neighbor Of the STATE Sentins
states that the vote represents a popul
- tion of over eighty shousand in Indiar
apolis That estimate would allow b
= one voter to every nine persons of OF
population. The census Of 1860 gay
, to Indiana a white population of 1886
, 600, and the joint vote given TO Lar
aud Hendricks in October OF that yea
D. was 263, ,696, being one vote TO eve
Eve, aEd a small fraction, of the viii
to- population. The vote cast in Indianap
- y. lis last Tuesday represented not on
the city, but also the township in whiC
- il is situated, and would indicate pop
lasion in the entire township OF 1921
10 There has been no recent censas of /
disnapolis, but the usual estimate of o
. citizens is from thirty-fve to forty thoV
" and, within the corporate limits. VIII
u we consider that the township exteu
p !, for three miles or more on every sic
" and that the suburbs of the city 9
q thiekly populated, no fair man c
charge that the, vote is out Of proporti
to the number of inhabitants in the toV
ship.
n Applying the ratio Of votes to the P
ulation, IS shown By the election retul
and census of 1860, to our city this ye
II will be found that our vote is not {
proportioned to our population. 3
mating the number Of votes as one
J, Eve, the result of last Tuesday elect
would exhibit for Pigeon Township
-, population Of little over l6, ,00a 4
"a is there an honest man in Evsnsv
who does not believe there are
many souls living within the bound
lines Of this township Does the III
- rleaa the nooulrtioo of ps,xa,a IN