The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-04-20

whlc the II. c. POUNDS his eetistcal and self rafu
latiagnoe the EDITOR Of the slavery Stanared
which reproiaes in another column. He well
say THE result Is shs radical s~e FOE Randolph
to be the only county in the District that has
given him Vaprars
Look at the Figures.
Politicians, when they regard their
case rs desperate, sometimes resort to
illegal voting to escape defeat The-e x-
pedient is too often successful, but, as
in the Kansas candlebox election, where
the pro slavery Democrats copied several
thousand names from the Cincinnati Di-
rectory into the poll books. stuffed the.
ballot boxes, and returned the result thus
attained as the voice of the people OF
Kansas, the thing showed up such ride
ulous phase As at once demanded and
secured an investigation. and the result
of the investigation sunk the Democratic
party to such a depth of infamy that it
has never since lifted itself up to re-
spectacle attitude before the country.
a similar transaction of smaller magni
tude but on much larger scale of fraud,
appears to have been enacted in Randolph
county. at the recent Congressional nomi-
mating election. The vote of that county,
as reported by the Winchester journal,
stood ,S03 for Julian, and 32l for GEN
MEREDITH. The Journal, in clarifying
the result, asks US to look at the figures !"
We propose, in this article, to comply
with the youraaFs request.
II : sr-f I.. n,rlar-fNnI that
every township and county committee in
Randolph county is made up exclusively
of Julian men that they conducted the
nominating eclection to suit themselves,
and that they are, therefore, alone re
sponsible for whatever frauds the record
fastens upon them.
The total vote Of Randolph county in
1860, for Lincoln, was :, 29S; for Doug
lass. Bell and Breckenridge. ,247 total,
SOIL From the Presidential election in
1860, to the 10th of September, 1862. the
county had sent to the army I, 50 volun-
tcers, and in the State election of 1862.
the vote for Mr. Julian, the Union candi-
date. was 1.611, and for johnson, the
! Copperhead candidate, was 1885; total,
SOP. This shows loss in votes, by
/ sending L. Isl soldiers to the army, of
! 532. Since the vote of 1862 was taken,
the county has sent to the field lis vol
/ unteers, which, at the same ratio, will
! diminish the number of votes now in the
county by 323 which being subtracted
j from 3,012, the total vote In 1862, leaves
i 1859 as the actual number OF voters now
in Randolph county.
As seen above the sending of 1,1S3
vote of the county 621, while the Copper
head vote gained in the same time, by in
crease of population, 50. 1t follows,
therefore, that the sending of the us
soldiers to the field, from October 1862,
to April 1864, would reduce the Union
vote of the county from LOTT to 1854,
which is now the legitimate strength of
the Union party of Randolph county.
How does this result, which is very nearly
automatically exact, look by the side
by the Journal as having been polled at
the recent nominating election?
Every election board in the county be-
ing composed exclusively ofJulian men,
it is fair to assume that they would suffer
no Butternuts to vote for GEN. MEREDITH
1t follows, then, that the 321 votes re-
ported for Gen. Meredith we're all Union
votes and when we deduct that number
from ,35f, the total Union vote of the
county, as shown above, it leaves ,033
as the number of Union votes cast for
Mr.. Julian, instead of 1903, thus dem
onstrating beyond cavil that 40 Butter
nuts in Randolph county voted for Mr..
Julian at the nominating election; and it
being totally inadmissable to suffer But
ternuts to interfere in Union nominations,
that number must be deducted from Mr.
Julian's reported majority before the
aggregate vote of the several counties of
the district Is thrown together, if that
method of computation is determined
upon by the proper county committees,
having charge of the affairs of the party.
We have now looked at the figures
agreeably to the Journal request. and
beg leave to inquire if it is DESTROYS of
having the matter subjected to little
closer scrutiny than that which we have
given it: lit docs. we-are}able to assure
it, and the friends ofits candidate. that we
have in our possession few more facts
and Figures" that will prove Of much
deeper interest to it. and the immaculate
gentlemen who managed the voting i'm
that county. than what we have already
presented. telegram
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