Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-10-24

THE FRkUDuIENTs VoTINesto which allu-
sion was made last week, has had time to air a
little, and the elopen,ent shot that quite
a wholesale business has been done at il
through several of the northera districts sfthe
state, but perhaps more freely and profusely in
the 9th district in which the mill was located.
and the probate Office incumbent was the de-
mocratic candidate-now elect-for Congress.
1t was stated in the Cleveland Leader, on
Monday, that Judge Dickinson was brought 10
Cleveland, under arrest, but that statement
has since been corrected, and it is now given
out that he has only been subpGnaed, in the
case of j. H. McArdle, his depudy clerk and
scapegoat. This worthless scamp has had an
examination before U. s. commissioner, White,
and admitted that he made out these papers,
and that a good many of them had been made
for different parts of the state, that he never
saw the individuals they were intended for,
administered no oath Of course, and filed in
the names as they were given him. He says
he had no special authority from Judge DICK
inson, but only general authority as deputy
clerk Don't thing Dickinson was IN the Of
fee when any of the papers were read. de
was held for trial on his own testimony, his
hail to be fixed on Friday of this week. Judge
Dickinson was put upon the stand, and testi
fed that he knew of no records in his office of
the papers under consideration before the
court A number of Irish voters who used
these papers are under arrest, sufficient
as we were informed by the District Attorney,
to keep the Commissioner occupied jor two
or three weeks. .E .s.!..'i.
The Sandusky Register says: ....F
1t is now stated that Dickinson admits the
fact that extensive frauds have been perpetra-
ted. but claims in defence, that McArdle the
deputy who had access to DickinsOn's office
and SEAL is exclusively responsible for the
crime. We are informed that this eminent
politician is leader of the Democracy of San
dusky county, man of forty years of age, of
pleasant address, business partner of Colonel
Nat. Haynes, in an extensive spoke factory,
well -to-do financially, and chairman of the
Democratic Central Committee of Sandusky
County. 1t is supposed that McArdle accept
ed the position of deputy to Dickinson tempor-
ally for the express purpose. Of manipulating
the naturalization business.
In copying the testimony given by McArdle
the Register says: sfa F.. -'- '--@
Its understood that McArdle attempts TO
shield Dickinson by assuming all blame him.
SELF This is done doubtless to save the repu-
tation of the party, McArdle knowing that he
will not be punished more sevcrly for commit
ting a thousand frauds then he would be for
five hundled. But Dickinson cannot thus es-
cape There is abundant evidence that Nc
Ardle is not the only guilty one. Besides it is
absurd to suppose that McArdle could
be engaged week after week under
Dickinsons very nose, in issuing reams OF
DO gus papers, using Dickinson's signature and
seal without Dickinson's knowledge and con-
sent. Besides, citizen of Sandusky, the day
after the election, showed Dickinson three Of
these bogus McAardle papers and asked him
if they were bogus or genuine. Dickinson re-
piled, "they are genuine" thus indorsing Nc
Ardle's work. .E
The leading Democrats of this place who
were desirous ofhaying these fraudulent papers
and the votes deposited, put on an
air of offended dignity and innocence, and are
ignorant and free from any connection with
this outrage as the judge of probate of San
dusky county himself Perhaps the tools that
have been used for this purpose, will, some of
them be able to show to whose agency and
they were indebted for their sud-
den transition from aliens to citizens invested
with the right of suffrage. Thirty two votes
were cast in Olmsted, Cuyahoga County upon
these papers, and warrants have been. issued
already for nineteen of the number.
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