Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-11-18
..sANcrIrY or THE RALLor nox.,,

Our fellow townsrnan, Captain Joseph Filler,
has sent us a copy of the Richmond Wing of the
4th of November, which contains some choice
items for instance this, copied no doubt in part
from the New York World
The facts are coming out in regard to the late e.
lection in Indiana Lincoln's soldiers did thebus.
mess for the Democracy of that State One d
these soldiers eonfesses in certificate that heand
9 600 other soldiers, being opportunely at Indian
apolis were requested by the officers to vote the
Republican ticket We give his words:
A great part OF the soldiers were Germans Al
the depot were carriages which took us to thepos.
and many of the soldiers voted twice and three
times. We handed our votes into window, and
nobody asked us whether we had aright to vote,
or whether we formerly resided Id the State. AT
terWard We were treated with ale and all other
things we might eat and drink. / am convinced
that every soldier of the two thousand voted once,
and many two or three times, although we belong
ed to Pennsylvania. Ohio, Michigan, Maryland
and other States. Besides us in Indianapolis also
voted about two thousand invaiids belonging in
other States
Another, Massachusetts, man, says
Yesterday was the State election here and most
Of our regiment went down in the city and voted.
Some of the boys voted twenty-five times EACH
You could go and vote as many times as you pleas
ed and then after the boys had voted in the city,
some of the Indiana men wanted them to 60 about
thirty miles and vote again. So they took an ex-
ira train of cars and rode to the next township,
and voted there. The Indiana men paid their fare,
up and back again, and gave them all they wanted
to eat and drink
Does any sane man believe these statements
which are published by Copperheads North to in
flame the public mind and TO cover up their terri
bic defeats and In the South to induce the people
to believe that they can expect nothing from Abra
ham Lincoln administration But we happen
to have positive denial Of the above by citizen
Of a precinct at which these soldiers should have
voted, addressed to the editor Of the ~ Y. T1b-
leue under date of Wilmington City, Nov 7, 1864
He says
SIR | want to pronounce, at this late day,
Gov. Seymour, or any other Copperhead, liar,
who viii reiterate the falsehood that Massachusetts
soldiers voted in Indiana. AMcClellan butternut
stated to me yesterday that a detachment of a
Massachusetts, regiment left indianapolis on the
morning of the election in Indiana, and via the
Cincinnati Railway, went to Greensburg, Decatur
County, and voted, While part either got off en-
route or returned to Shelbyville Shelby County
and voted. / happen to be resident of that To-
caity and know the charge is false as to any such
votes being cast In Greensburg; and | happened
to be born in Shelby County, and know perhaps
every voter of ], 100 IN Shebyvile especially do
/ knoao that not soldier voted there whom / did
not know, for spent most all day there Further
more, the Copperheads cast larger vote than ev-
er at that poll, and carried it by 100 majority-a
thing never known before. If Massachusetts sol
diers voted there, they must have cast their votes
for the Copperhead ticket The fact is, instead of
soldiers being imported there to
vote the Union ticket, it is charged upon the dod
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ballot-box while the INSPECTORS were gone to dim
ner. What liars these Copperheads are
j. O. THOMPSON.