Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-11-03
RUTLAND HERALD.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1864.
Election Frauds.

come Familiarity known as q cardinal
rule of lstter-day democracy. Ballot
box smashing, ballot-box stufiing, ille-
gal voting, intimidation of legal voters
by brute force and brick-bats, are famil-
lar democratic" means of carrying cleo
tons. 1t is estimated that the demo-
cratic majority in New York city is in
creased on an average at least ten thou
sand votes by election frauds. The city
being entirely under democratic rule
and shining example OF democratic
rule 1t is--no serious attempt is, made at
remedying these wholesale frauds, and
an illegal democratic vote of about
the amount above stated is considered
and calculated upon as a matter of
course.
And so throughout the country, the
party opposed to this "free and easy" b y
GUS democracy, has had fraud and crime
at the ballot-bo everywhere to contend
against
The democratic party, so called, is
now in a desperate, dying condition.
Rebel sympathy, poltroonery and treason
have worked its ruin. Its death blow
is coming on the 6th of November.
With the energy Of death struggle,
with never equaled effort and villainy,
it is resorting to its fantastic tricks. In
New York tremendous effort, it seems,
is being prepared to roll up democratic
naiorities by fraud in the larger cities
which shall overbalance the Union ma
iority in the remainder of the state. The
eopperheads are also flooding the army
with Mcclellan and Pendleton votes,
falsely indorsed as the "Union soldiers
votes and no less u man than Gov.
Seymour is concerned in this little trans
action. But the mortal terror which
flls the breasts of coppeFheads at the
bare thought of the soldiers vote, has
driven them to one piece Of villainy to-
tally unexampled in the history Of cleo
tons. 1t is the diabolical fraud at
tempted on the brave defenders of our
country in the field, by the wholesale
forgery of their names to papers trans
mitting copperhead ballots, the particu-
lars Of which have been given by the tel
egraph. Some prominent New York
politicians are said to be implicated in
this conspiracy to defraud the soldiers.
No crime seems too great, no villainy
too deep, for these clamorous admirers
of a 'FRBB BALLOT"
In Pennsylvania and other close
states, and particularly at the West,
the Union party will doubtless have to
contend against similar attempts at
fraud In Pennsylvania and Indiana
the copperheads commenced operations
on this line in the October elections, and
to distract attention and cover up their
designs in November they are through
pretended letters of soldiers, charging
frauds upon the Union side.
As an illustration of the way in which
voters were imported into Pennsylvania
at the October election, who acted zeal
ously upon the aforesaid democratic
rule to ''vote early and often" we copy
from the Troy Times of Wednesday last
the following affidavit of resident OF
Troy. The necessity that Union men
everywhere should take all possible pre-
cautions and be on the alert to detect
cheats and prevent frauds on election
day will ha at once seen
. Troy, Oct. "a, 1854.
G. Robertson jr., Chairman Rensse-
laer County Union Committee-Dear Sr.
1t is with regret that feel myself called
upon to expose to you facts which have
come to my knowledge, showing that
gross frauds have been perpetrated upon
the people of Pennsylvania during the
recent election in that State, and also
that the elections of November Sth are
to be affected by similar iniquities.-
Charles Demott, of New York city, called
at my house on the evening of Oct. 10
and after shaking hands asked for my
son Charlie. I told him that he was in
Philadelphia. He then said, why die
not / know it when / was there. A few
days since l went to Moyamensing to
see an Alderman I asked him why he
went to see an Alderman there, and he
replied that he was a good Democrat
and sent for me to come there and vote;
that there were three others with him
and that the four voted seven times each
making twenty eight good Democratic
votes He also said that in few days
he was going again and would try ant
hnd Charlie. He said that in New Y orl
city every ward would be carried at the
mex. election, and that from the thor
ough organization there, it could not bt
Otherwise lie said that If Lincoln wa:
elected, the people of New York would
not submit, and that the little affair q
year ago last July was not a circum
stance to the row they would have If h,
was elected and that blood would lite
rally flow in the streets of New Yorl
and Philadelphia
CHARLES PHELPS.
Rensselaer, County, ss.' On this oath da,
OF October, 1864, before me came Charlie
Phelps, and being by me duly sworn
old depose and say that the contents 0
the foregoing letter are true.
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