Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-31
Triumphant Liberation Of Duffy
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ARREST dF THE FRAU uDULENT VOTER sNIlR
The Radical Leaders Go Bail for
Their Tool.
The "Draft Sneak" at Liberty
How the Radical Leaders Protect
the Ballot Bux.
How Smith will Escape the Peni'
.tentiary and How EsIs Admir-
= de ers will Foot lhe Bill.


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= On yesterday, after full examination,
JOHN DUFFY, arrested on the warrant of a
fellow by the name of SMITE, for completely
In certain so-called naturalization frauds,
was discharged by Commissioner CHITTEN-
DEN without a particle OF suspicion oil
wrong doing resting on his fair fame.
SSTET The nsan recovered of the bite. s{ I Qf !
9 / F4aA THE deg il was that died. - - . ~
The swift witness of the Radical lead
ers, SMITH. who acknowledge that he
voted on naturalization papers which bore
his name, but which he had never pro-
cured, and that he had voted in 1868, when
he had been but six weeks in the country
was arrested on Thursday night and
lodged in Jail until Thursday morning
when he gave bali before Squire MEEKER
in $500 for his appearance on Tuesday
next. The bail was procured by pony
purse made for the occasion-five leading
Radicals OF this city being found willing
to risk 500 each against the certainty OF
his running off, and he is now at large.
On the examination of Mr.. DUFFY, this
man SMITH swore that he was afraudulent
voter in 1S63-that he voted the Demo
cratic Ticket-that soon after he went te
Canada, and there got British papers te
protect him against the draft-that he re-
turned, as a draft sneak, and at the late
election procured naturalization papers in
the name of JAMES SMITH. without going
to the Probate Judges office and taking
the necessary oath-the papers. the oath Of
Judge PUGH shows, must have been in
tended for another SMITH of the same
name, for the applicant was present in his
office or the papers would not have been
issued-and that on these papers, knowing
that they were not intended for him, or il
intended they were fraudulent, the
witness, SMITH, acknowledges that he went
to the Ninth Ward and voted when his
residence was in the Eighth Ward. 7sao1q
The witness was careful to state that
when he gave his fraudulentvote in 1868, it
was a Democratic ticket. The fraudulent
vote was cast In, the 9th ward, he did
not tell for whom it was cast. As he was a
tool in the hands of the Radical leaders,
and as they went his bail on charge of il
legal voting, 1t is not difficult to deter
mine the fact that this fellow SMITH was
one of the. illegal voters used to elect
WINANs to Congress.
The witness against Mr.. DUFFY, thus
liberated from Jail by the Radical leaders,
admits that he added to his crime by al
tering the naturalization papers, he had.
no doubt, fraudulantly obtained, which of
itself is Penitentiary offence, and he also
swears that he was put up to make the
charge against Mr.. DuFFY,, by a leading
Radical, who manages the machine shops
of the Central Ohio railroad, by threats of
prosecution for illegal voting, and that in
addition, he had promise of credit,
through the same leading Radicals influ-
ence at agrocery, and with it he was to
get promotion on the Ohio branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. ZNb
This man SMITH, as we before stated-an
illegal voter in 1868 "a .'drqtt sneak soon
after-a fraudulent voter in 1S6S-this
knave secuted by Radical leaders to pre-
fer charge against an honest man-when
arrested for his crimes, found friends in
the Radical leaders to get him out of jail.
The men who did thls-who thus made up
a heavy purse to liberate the draft-sneak-
ing, Misunderstanding scoundrel-were
the men, of all men, who charged that the
Democracy were importing illegal voters
into the District, when the evidence, from
their own candidate, and from SMITHS
admission that he was not only
their tool and voted fraudulently
for them, but was bribed and put
forward to make serious charge
against an honest man. IF this is the way
the purity of the ballot box is to be pre-
served by those leading Radicals, then look
out for still. greater frauds on Tuesday
next.
The bondsmen of this fellow SMITH-the
men who went his bail in order to get him
out OF Jail, where from his, own testimony
he deserved to be until the Penitentiary
claimed him as his own, were ri
ALBERT b. BUTTLEs, Chairman of the
Republican Central Executive Commit
tee;osLisIH ol0o'foTI bae JcaA
BENJAMIN F. MARTIN, President of the
Radical County Convention and member OF
the Radical Committee for Franklin coun-
ty and Collector of Internal Revenue;
HENRY MILLER, leading Radical poll
tician and member OF the Radical County
Committee;
THEODORE BUTLER and WIN. JAMIsoN,
active Radical electioneerers and ranking
among the Radical leaders of the county.
These are the men that bailed the draft
sneak-these the men that gave bonds to
save fraudulent voter from just confine-
ment in Jail, where he could not escape,
until he was indicted. tried, convicted and
sent to the Penitentiary for his crimes
against the elective franchise, and some Of
these are the men who proposed to offer a
reward for the conviction of any illegal
voter. es6v5 4s5sas
SMITH, it is thought, will never be con-
victed. The impression is that he will
leave the country for his country's good,
and then Messrs. BUTTLEs, MARTIN, MIL
LER, JAMIsoN and BUTLER will each pay
500, and the Radical party will be saved
closures. Such is the glorious uncertainty
of the law, and such the efforts of Radical
leaders to make it still more uncertain.
A Beautiful Brace Of Candidates
General GRANT is on the record, that ht
is the despiser, the contemner and the pro
scriber OF the Hebrew race, while ScHUYLEI
| Cnrr.v hie oo1Ieoouo on tha Praeidantio
ticket, is the sworn enemy of men of for
eign birth and Of the Catholic religion
And yet Republicans manifest surprise