The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-10-30
9oIticaI.
VIII Z. F. Dickinson Resignl

From the sandusky Register.l
E. F. Dickinson of Fremont is the
Democratic congressman elect for the
Ninth Ohio District. The returns from
the various counties indicate that his
majority, legal or illegal, is about !, ,45O.
The following is Mr.. Dickinson's posi-
ton before the people of the Ninth dis
trict and of the United States:
l. Mr.. Dickinson, as probate judge,
had charge of the business Of natura-
lizing aliens for Sandusky county during
the campaign which resulted in his
election.
2. Mr.. Dickinson made no canvass of
the district, and assured the writer of
this that his official duties as probate
Judge would confne him to his office
in Fremont during the campaign. Ac-
cordingly he seldom left Fremont be-
tween the date of his election and did
not deliver single speech, at home or
abroad.
8. While Mr.. Dickinson was thus
closely confined to his office that office
was made the headquarters of system
of naturalization and voting faruds,
which, for magnitude and deliberate
villainy, have not been surpassed in the
history of America politics. Hundreds
and perhaps thousands of illegal and
fraudulent naturalization certificates
have in the past six weeks been issued
from that Office, bearing the signature
of E. F. Dickinson and the seal of his
court. Democratic politicians from
nearly every county in northern Ohio
have taken to Dickinson's Office lists of
names offoreigners known to have been
in the country too short a time to be-
come naturalized, and in return have
obtained from Dickinson or his bogus
''deputy" final certificates of naturaliza-
ton to enable those aliens to vote il
legally for Dickinson and other Demo
cratic candidates.
4. When the work of issuing fradu-
lent papers for the purpose Of electing
Dickinson was begun, Mr.. Dickinson
took into his office temporarily, as a |
''deputy clerk" ]. H. McArdle lead
ing Democratic politician of Fremont,
and chairman of the Democratic central
committee of Sandusky county. A
large majority Of the fraudulent natura-
lizatiOn papers are signed by this
McArdle as deputy clerk" k"-D3ckin-
sons name being also signed by Nc
Ardle.
5. This McArdle, when arrested and
examined before Commissioner White
in Cleveland, admitted every material
fact here charged, and was accordingly
bound over for trial for his crimes at
the January term of the United States
district court.
6. Mr.. Dickinson is understood to ad-
NIT that fagrant frauds have been COM
mitted under his seal and signature, but
charges that McArdle has prepared all
these frauds, unknown to Judge Dick
inson, and that therefore the latter is
innocent in the eye of the law, and en-
titled to seat in Congress, as one of
the law-ma kers of the nation.
Z. In addition to the frauds prepe-
tuated in Mr.. Dickinson's office, and, we
believe, at his instigation, sworn .evi-
dence is on file which convicts the Dem
ocratic probate judge of Ottawa county
of similar felony, committed in the
interest of Dickinson; and we have al
ready published an affidavit conyicting
one Tyler, of Fremont, a warm friend i
and political agent of Mr.. Dickinson, of I
the crime of inducing a minor to vote
illegally for Dickinson at a polling place
where the said Tyler was a judge of
election.
Such is the indictment which an in
dignant and outraged public make +
against E. F. Dickinson. We believe i
the proof is overwhelming of Mr.. Dick .
inson's legal and technical completely =
with McArdle in these naturalization !
villainies as well as of his actual and i
moral responsibility for them. We be-
ieve that Mr.. Dickinson will be speedily -
satisfied that he forgot to get McArdle's \
signature on all the bogus .,
certificates issued from his office, and : :,
SO soon as proof is in proper shape we .
expect to see Mr.. Dickinson arrested, +
tried and convicted of the wholesale :,
frauds of which every intelligent voter n
in the Ninth District believes him guilty. =
But no matter whether this shall be done +
or not-no matter whether or not Mr.. p
Dickinson shall succeed through the a
1uirks of the law, in shouldering the II
legal responsibility for these frauds up A
On bis tool and agent McArdle. E. F. to
Dickinson already stands before the bar NJ
If public judgement as the conscious Z,
and responsible author of these felonies. /.
No sensible man can be convinced that a.
hese fraudulent certificates, bearing IN
Oickinson's signature and seal, have h,
oeen issued from his Office by the ream ~
md by the thousands without his know p
edge and consent. It is an insult to st,
he intelligence of any man to ask him mr.
o credit such story. n
Under these circumstances will E. F. ~ ~
Dickinson now make the only amends T,
within his power, BY resigning the office ",
o which the fragrant frauds have so n
realty aided to elect him? Will Mr., q, a.
Dickinson have a sufficient regard for al
he fitness of things and the common W. W.
ecencies of the occasion to voluntarily n
withdraw from position, which under n,
be circumstances can only add infamy A.
D his name and disgrace to his party? ~,
lr. Dickinson's election is, in the mind r,
f every honest man, yitiated by bare g
iced and now admitted fraud-no mat :
,r whom the law may hold responsible firm
u these frauds. The question for Mr..
dickinson and the people to answer is
lis: Shall E. F. Dickinson, who ad-
its that great frauds have been com
lifted in his name and on his behalf, ha,
nd whom the public believes to be the