The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-10-23
[From the Cleyeland Herald. oot. lp.l

the 18th District. The fact seems to hay,
been generally known among the Democrati,
! leaders, at least in the western part of thu
county, and they sent men to Fremont t
get their papers, well knowing that they
could not be procured honestly at home. Al
Fremont, too, the arrangements for receiving
and putting through such visitors seem tC
have been as perfect as they would be made
for the reception of a national mass conyen.
ton. No stranger who went there had an
trouble in finding men who would 90 with
him to the Probate Court and swear or voueb
for him, though they had never seen him
before in the world. The affair was carried
on little too boldly and extensively, how.
ever. 1t made splendid" Democratic gains
in Sandusky county and its neighbOThood
and helped amazingly even ss far away Is
Ouyahoga county. 1t is pity to spoil such
nice little scheme, but misfortune is after
the Democracy, and this most promising
Fremont election mill is doomed to destruc-
ton.
On Friday the Q. s. Marshal arrested in
Dover an old Irishman of sixty years, named
Dennis Haugh, who voted on the 18th on a
naturalization certificate issued at Fremont.
On Saturday morning the Marshal arrested
two Irishmen named Monahan and Horrigan,
who voted at Olmsted on the same kind Of
papers. The latter were at work on the
railroad at the time, and train was side
tracked and delayed to allow them to vote.
At the time of their arrest they were work.
ing on the Waverly avenue sewer.
Saturday morning the examination OF
Haugh was commenced before o. s, Com.
missioner White. The following was the
testimony, showing that the business, of
making fraudulent votes was deliberately
and systematically entered upon by the
Democratic leaders, seconded and encourag-
ed on election day by Democratic Judges,
and that men who would have been honest
il let alone were deceived into the commits
sion of a crime in voting ON fraudulent
papers. The following was the testimony !:
John RoSe.-Was one of the judges at the
election Of Oct. I3 b in the town OF Dover.
Remember that the defendant, Dennis Haugh,
voted at that election. His vote was not for-
mally challenged, though his right to vote
was not di,cussed. Remember seeing his
certificate of naturalization, but did not get a
chance to look at it closer, as the other
judges, A. s. Ward and S. w. Simons took
care to keep it out of my hands. Ward and
SImOns are DemOcrats-ED. HERALDl.g A,
j. Coe, d, D. Lampher, and N. H. Austin
came in with Haugh. Think 1 was told it
was none of my business where Haugh's
papers came from. Haugh came to Dover
late last Fall.
a. S. POTter-Was clerk at the election in
Dover Oct, 18th. Remember that Dennis
Haugh voted, and that there was some dis
cussion about it. HGf rrt
Pdtricle HGlgh--Am son of the accused.
Live in Dover. l went to Elyria Oct. 7th
to hear PendletOn, and coming home stopped
at Elliot d Spence's store and bought some
flour. Next day l went for the flour, and
after getting it into the wagon, Ed Hyde
came along aud said
" Pat, are you voter2"
l said l was
Z" Is your father voter PATTI" said HYDE.
"No," said l, he is not"
''Well," said Hyde, " wouldn't he like to
vote if he had his papers.
told him he would, and he said:
Are you sure your father would vote
right if he got his papers2"
1 said We'll, l think he'd vote the
Democratic ticket. I'm going to vote il
anyway" Hyde then took out pencil and
paper, asked my fathers full name, which |
gave him, and he wrote something on the
paper. He also asked how long father had
been in this county, and how long in this
State. Then he said:
s l don't know as I'll get the papers
around for next Tuesday (the State electiop.O
but l II have them in time for the Presiden-
tial election.
On Sunday the IIth was at Rockport all
day. Getting home at night, Horace Lamp
hear told me man named Glasgoe had
been there, and wanted me to 90 down to
Hyde's and get my fathers papers-they
were there ready. Next night | went for the
papers, stopping on the way at Glasgoe's,
and he went with me. We found HYDE at
home. After talking about the weather.
but saying nothing OF the paper, Hyde went
into another room, and then went out doors
calling Glasgoe and l with him. Then he
read the papers to me by the light of
candle. He said the paper was all right
1t had fathers name in it, can't read, but
the paper was about nv fathers naturaliza-
ton. l asked Hyde what were the damages.
and he said, " W ell about 20 cents" paid
him so cent scrip, a 10 cent scrip, and ten
pennies. Next morning l told father I
wanted him to go to election. He said no,
he didn't want anything 10 do with it.
told him he'd got TO go, for here were his
papers and I'd paid far them. Ny father
did not see Hyde, nor any Of them, and
didn't go to get the papers. he saw 10 one
but me. He don't know Hyde. Father
went to election and voted. He told me he
had voted, but | did not see him do it. The
paper had 10 stamp on it when got it. A
mau named Sat Austin put the stamp on it.
after We had got to the polling place on
election day. He did this out in a shed by
the town house, and saw him use a pen on
the stamp. The stamp was cancelled with
the letters I'D. H., Oct. 8, 1861 This
was done a few minutes before my father
voted. They all told me the papers we're all
right, but | told them they didn't look like
my own papers l got in Cleveland. Told
them my papers bad a stamp on them.
Then Austin put a stamp on father papers.
Don't know that father ever made application
to any one for papers. Don't think he ever
took out his frat papers he told me had
not. He has been in this country ten or
eleven years. He is about 60 years old,
He never voted before
Defendant was here asked by the Court if
he had ever declared his intention TO become
a citizen. He said "No, indeed, l never
bothered my bead about them.T
The cases Of the two men, Michael Mona
ha and Timothy Harrigan, for voting in
Olmsted, on fraudulent certificates Of natural
izatiOn from the Fremont mill, were eontinuy
ed, in order to get the necessary witnesses.
The defendants were questioned and made
statements as follows:
Monahan-I got my papers from Mike
Frail at Qlmsted. He told me he got them
at Fremont. paid 81 for them.
HOrrigan-I went to Fremont Oct. ] TO
get my papers. 1 was told they VT, re max
ing them there. l went there alone. Found
two men there. Did not know them. Never
saw them before, but they went with me to
the court house to swear for me. The man
who gave me the papers didn't ask if had
any first papers. He swore me to support
the Government-that was ell. No others
were sworn that l know of. l have been in
the country four years last April.
NJ ARDLE's TEsTIXONNY-HE ooNYIcTs HIM
SELF.
j. 81. McArdle, clerk of the Sandusky
County Probate Court, whose name was
signed to the fraudulent certificate, was then
put on the stand. He identified Haughs
certificate, as made by him, but did not
know who it was delivered TO-. He testified
further:
Don't know Hyde; don't think I deliver
ed Haugh's papers to him or to Hyde; de-
hvered papers to Thomas Pollard, of Ohm
sted don't know how many Pollard came
to Fremont about week before election, and
gave him number of papers, he furnish
ing the names and filling them in ! saw