The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-04
Republican Frauds.

The people of the State of Minnesota
have now full opportunity of judging of
the truth of assertions made by the radi-
cal press in regard to the late elections,
and also of the suppressio reri which the
same papers have been guilty OF. The
Press, for instance, of this city, claimed
an Abolition gain in Maine until we con-
victed it of falsehood by official figures
showing Democratic gain of nearly two
thousand. The elections in Connecticut
and Delaware have not been alluded to by
the Press or the radical newspapers, be-
cause they were afraid of having the truth
come to the knowledge of the. people.
They dare not let their readers know that
the Democrats carried both of these States,
gaining six thousand votes in Connecticut,
and three thousand in Delaware. In the
prosecution of their plans for suppressing
truth and disseminating falsehood, they
next claimed an Abolition gain in the char
ter election at Newark, New Jersey, when
in fact the Democrats gained $50 votes.
Then came the elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana. The whole telegraphic
machinery Of the country being in the
hands of the Abolitionists, it was employed
to scatter broadcast over the land all sorts
of lies. and false reports in regard to the
election returns. Pennsylvania was claimed
by 10000 majority, when in fact the De-
mooracy had wiped out CuRrlNs majority
of 5000, and carried the State by nearly
5000. Ohio was claimed by 10000 on
the home vote, when it will not at the very
best exceed Is, 900, as admitted by ADOLF
ton papers in Ohio, and will fall short Of
40, 900 when the soldiers vote is counted
in, leaving Democratic gain Of 10000.
Indiana was claimed for MORTON by 10000
the morning after election, before time
had elapsed for election returns. The
PIONEER pronounced the report at once an
Infamous fraud, but even the PIONEER did
not fully comprehend the extent OF the
iniquity which was being practiced in that
State. indianapolis, with population of
$4,000, pooled 9, 900 votes, when New York
city, with population Of one million, only
polls 10000 votes. But even with the
practice of the most damnable and high
handed frauds, MoRroN's majority has
dwindled down to 10000, and the Demo-
Gratis will sweep the State in November.
Then came the constitutional election in
Maryland. Mr.. LINCOLN wrote buncombe
electioneering letter for the people OF that
State to read, and ordered General WAL
LACE to suppress the Baltimore Post, the
only Democratic daily in the State. With
all their frauds and exertions, they were
only able to get their constitution through
by few hundred votes, and even this is
in doubt. No such system of wholesale
lying, fraud and cheating of all descrip-
tons was ever before, inaugurated in a
Presidential campaign. The purity OF the
ballot-box has been trampled on, and the
principle of universal suffrage disgraced in
the eyes of the civilized world. So bold
have the radical papers become in the prac-
tice of their frauds and lies, that lnstwo
instances the Press of this city has dellb-
erately mutilated and changed telegraphicc
reports, the complexion of which did not lfIt
exactly suit the ideas of its mean and cow
ardly editor. So bold has the President
become in his endeavors to retain his slip
perry hold on power, that he is making a
fraudulent attempt to carry the electoral
voteSof Tennessee against MCCLELLAN.
Let the people see to it that these OUT
RACES are stopped, by casting an over
whelming vote for GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN
ON the 9Th of November. ~ ." ..''ra-