Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-06-25
SIOUX CITY, IOWA, SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1864.

law and order; and plainly avowed theiI
determination to carry the election by
fair or foul means. Such i,nerant po-
litical gamblers as Jayne and his minions
we arc aware, are opposed to a fairly con
Quoted and untrammelled election, bu,
nowhere have they had the nerve to carry
out their programme, as in Dakota; for
while their scoundralism was unbounded,
the boldness and impudence of :heir acts
give them respectabilily rather below
that Of common thief and robber.
This Geo. NJ. Pinney was then U. S.
Marshal of the Territory, and it appears
that the election for the county was held
at his house, and that he was the leader
Of these scoundrals and that when they
were caught in this villainous conduct,
they were so overwhelmed with shame
and confusion that they rushed out Of the
rocm--out in the open air to cool their
burning cheeks. Yet this same Pinney,
is retained in Office through the influence
Of Jayne, and pe,,ed by his gang Of non.
resident com morants, and honest residents
are told to look up to him as man hav-
ing q character that they would do we'll to
emulate; but so long as the devil is in
existence We beg leaveto be excused citi.
zeus of Dakota, what think you Of man
that persists in having this Pinney hold
any important office in your midst? Is he
worthy of your support? Is he worthy Of
your respect?
BRULE CREEK PRECINCT.
"The place fixed according to law for
voting was at the house of A. X. Phillips,
one Of the judges of the election. But it
appears from the testimony that the judges
met at the house Of one Timothy Andrews,
about midnight previous to the day of the
election, and there by candle light received
forty. one votes Of persons who had not
resided in tho Territory ninety days, and
some Of them unnaturalized foreigners
who had been in the country but short
time. All these votes were cast for the
sitting delegate The man at whose house
this voting took place, and who had been
10 the Territory less than two months, was
called ou. of bed to vote, and did vote
about two o'clock in the morning. His
own son was at the time acting as judge
Of the election. One man, while he was
presen. voted for another who was not
present, stating his name aud absence to
the so'called judges.
Two or three persons from the adjoining
county were present actively engaged in
distributing votes for the sitting delegate,
and quieting the scruples of those who
cast them; and it was openly urged that
they had better vote early, as, when the
regular hour for opening the polls should
arrive, there would be men present who
would challenge voters. and we, who had
not been here ninety days, could not vote.
One man was seen to vote three times !;
twice under assumed names. Foreigners,
who had not been in the country but few
months, were made to believe, by some
ceremony there performed, that they there.
by became naturalized citizens. aud they
then voted. The following certificate was
then given to one of them by man by
the name of Glaze, who was then present
urging men to vote:
Il, Ole Thompson, do declare upon oath
that it is bona .fde my intention TO become
q citizen of the United States. and to re-
nounce forever all allegiance to any for.
eign prince, power, potentate, state, Or
sovereign whatsoever, and particularly to
Carl XIV, of whom was last subject.
Ole THOMPSON
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 2Sth day of August. A. d. 1862.
A. V. ECKLEs, Clerk,
BY JonS B. GLAZE, Deputy
There were forty.two votes polled in this
way at the house of Timothy Andrews at
dead of night, and before , o'clock in the
morning. At Q o'clock, the next morning,
tho same judges proceeded with the same
balot.box to tho house Of A. r. Phillips,
and there, with the same box, with these
ballots in it, polled twenty other votes
making the whole number certified sew
enty ore. When these twenty.nine votes
had been polled, and the names Of voters
recorded, one Of the judges insisted that
the clerk Of election should add the list o,
names of persons who had not voted while
that clerk had been present, but which ls
was furnished to the clerk by the JUDGES
but the clerk refused and resigned, and an
other was put in his place. aud the for.y'twe
names of the voters in the night time were
added, not one of whom was legal voter
Whether tho judges ard clerks were
sworn, or not, does not clearly appear