Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-01-29
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The Tventy-First District Senatorial Con-
test-Gross Frauds Proven Senator Wal
lace IMPLICATED.

test-Gross Frauds Proven-Senator W al
lace Implicated.
Special Correspondence of Pittsburg Commercial
HARRISBURG. PA, January %, 1868.
The Committe drawn in the Senate to try
the case of Captair,J Fl. Robson, of Ju-
niata county, who is contestlng the seat OF
J. T. Shugart, of Centre county, the sitting
member has been In session this week. Orvls,
of Bellefonte, and Maynard, of Wllliamsport,
are counsel for Shugart, and ID. b. Swoope,
of Cleartield, and John Cessna, OF Bedford,
are counsel for the contestant The Com
mittee consists of Senators Fisher, Landon,
jackson, Linderman, Taylor, Ridgway, and
Cowes, five Republicans and two Demo
Gratis. The principal ground For contestins
Mr. Shugart's seat is, that quite a number
of lrisLmen had voted on false naturaliza-
ton papers, and others had been brought in
! 10 the district and kept there ten days prior
to the election, for the express purpose OF
voting. Mr.. Shugarts majority was only
twenty-five votes, and 1t was alleged that
there were near one hundred illegal votes
polled in one place in Centre county. 1t
appears that there was railroad being made
from Philipsburg, in Centre county, to Clear
field, and there were last fall about forty
rods of light work to be done near Phillips
burg, which could have been done by TWEEN
ty men in FIVE or six days However, an ar
rangment was made with an lrlshman nam
ed O. Mara, boss on that work, to bring a
bout one hundred Irishmen on that part OF
the work, which was In Centre county, ten
days before the election This he did, and
as soon as the election was over they We're
sent away When it was ascertalned that
Shugart had only twenty two majority, IN
Guiding the hundred Illegal votes at Phillips
burg. and that Robson was going TO contest
his seat, the leaders of the Democratic party
concluded that the Irish boss, . Mara, who
knew all about the importation OF voters and
the fraudulent papers upon which many OF
them voted, must be sent out OF the State
For that purpose they employed Catholic
priest by the name Of Father Tracey, to
induce O Mara to leave. Shortly before
theLegisature met, Father Tracey visited o.
Mara and stated to him that the Legislature
would soon meet; that Shugart' seat would
be contested and that his 70 Mara s. testi-
mony would be very much against the Dem
ocratic party; that it would be best for AIm
| 20 Mara) to leave the State: that he CCra-
| cey) had some money which he was author
lied to give him TO- Mara if he would go
| out of the limits of the State, &C., &c. o.
Mara asked two thousand dollars for taking
| his family out cf the State never to return.
| Father Tracey said ne was not authorized to
pay that much, and could not do SO until he
| would write to Philadelphia. After several
| interviews between the priest and y Mara, the
| former at last told the latter that William
| A. Wallace said that "a hundred dollars per
month was enough to pay Tor getting him to
| leave the State.
| Father Tracey then struck bargain with
| Mr.. O. Mara to leave for FIVE HUNDRED
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afterwards counted by young inaBin Clear
field, and accordingly left, and took up his
abode in Elmira, New York. But his where
abouts became known to the counsel tor the
contestant, and the Sergeant at Arms OF the
| Senate was sent to Elmira few days ago,
where he found Mr. O. Mara, and brought
| him to this city. He was brought before
the Committee last night, and upon his oath
testified to the foregoing facts, and in addi-
ton, he stated that another boss on the
work above referred to took the fraudulent
naturalization papers and colored them with
coffee, so as TO make them appear old. Is
not the foregoing, which is sworn to by an
| Irish Democratic railroad boss, disgrace to
any party, and, especially, does it not show
what measures the rebel sympathising Dem
ocratic party will adopt to carry elections
and thwart the will of the majority Of the
|
to hear these hypocritical demagogues talk,
you would suppose that they are the only
guardians that the Constitution of the State
and the Constitution of the United States
have. [ suppose it is in strict accordance
with the Constitution to forge naturalization
papers and to color them with coffee, and fol
| aliens to vote on such papers; provided al
ways that they vote for Democratic candi-
| dates that it is eminently proper tor such a
man as Father Tracey to become the pay
master Of the Democratic party, when wit
ness who would have to testify against that
party, should leave the country, and no one
would dare to doubt the constitutionality of
the rig hit of the c hartman of the Democratic
State Central Committee to fix the price to
be paid to such a witness for leaving. ''Oh
consistency, thou art jewel y There is nc
doubt about Robson getting his seat. The
evidence so far makes out a clear case of any
amount of fraudulent voting done by aliens
and imported voters. JUNIUs.
THE TRIBUNE ON GRANT.-The New
! York Tribune of Thursday thus speaks of