The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-02-13
HARRISBURG.
The Twenty First District Senatorial
Contest-Gross Frauds Proven-SenatOr
Wallace Implicated.
Special Correspondence of Pitsburg Com

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II HARRISBURG, PA, January %, 1868.
The Committe drawn in the Senate tot
try the case Of Captain j. Ii. Robson, OF
.Duuiata county, who is contestlng the
seat of j. T. Shugart, of Centre county.
the sitting memte~, has bcenin session
this week Orvis, of Belefontc, and
Maynard, of Williamsport, are counsel for
Shugart, and ii. B. Swoore, of Cleariield.
and John Cessna, of Bedford, are counsel
for ffe contestant The Committee con
sists of Senators Fisher, Landon, Jackson
| Liudermau, Taylor, Ridgway, and Cowles
five Republicans and two Democrats.
The principal ground for contesting Mr.
Shugart's seat is, that quite a number OF
Irishnen had voted on false naturaliza
ion papers, and others had been brought
into to the district and kept there ten
days prior to the election, for the express
purpose of voting. Mr.. Shugart's ma
jority was only twenty two votes, and it
was alleged that there were near one hun
dred illegal votes polled in one place in
Centre county. 1t appears that there was
Il railroad being made from Phil psburg,
in Centre county, to Clearfeld, and there
were last fall about forty rods OF light
work to be done near Phillipsburg, which
could have heen done by twenty men in
five or six days. However, au arrang-
ment was made with an Irishman, nam
ell O'Mara, boss on that work, to bring
about 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 were sent away. When it was as.
certained that Shugart had only twenty
two majority including the hundred lille
gal votes at Phillipsburg, and that Robi
son was going TO contest his seat, the lead
. ers Of the Democratic party concluded
that the Irish boss, OMara, who knew
all about the importation Of voters aud
the fraudulent papers upon which many
of them voted, must be sent out of the
5 State. For that purpose they employed
a Catholic priest by the name of Father
Tracey" to induce O'Mara to leave
Shortly before the Legislature met, Faith
er Tracey visited O Mara and stated to
him that the Legislature would soon meet;
that Shugart's seat would be contested ;
and that his 90 Mara's) tcstimoney would
be very much against the Democratic
party that it would be best for him 90
Mara) to leave the State that he (rra-
cey) had some money which he was au
thorized to give him CO. Mara) if he would
90 ant Of the limits Of the State, &c., &c
, o. Mara asked two thousand dollars for
taking his family out of the State never
to return. Father Tracey said he was not
authorized to pay that much, aud could
not 60 so until he would write 10 Phil
adelp phia. After several interviews between
the priest and O'Mara. the former at last
told the latter that William \. Wallace
said that "a hundred dollars per month
, was enough to pay for getting him to leave
the State.
Father Tracey then struck bargain
with Mr.. o Mara to leave for five hun
dred dollars, which were paid over to him
and afterwards counted by young man
in Clearfeld, aud accordingly left, and
took up his abode in Elmira, New y Iork
| But his whereabouts became known to
the counsel for 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.
lie was brought before the Committee
last night, aud upon his oath testified to
the foregoing facts, and in addition, he
stated that another boss on the work above
referred to took the fraudulent naturali
zation papers and colored them with cof
fee, so as to make them appear old Is
not the iorgeing. which is sworn to by an
Irish Democratic railroad boss. disgrace
TO any party, and, especially, does it not
show what measures the rebel sympathis
ing Democratic party will adopt to carry
elections and thwart the will of the ma
ijority of the bdad fde citizens OF the coun
try? And yet to hear these hypocrtical
demagosues talk, you would suppose that
they are the only guardians that the Con
atution of the State and the Constitu
ton of the United States have. | sup
pose it is in strict accordance with the
Constitution to forge naturalization papers
and to color them with coffee, and for
aliens to vote on such papers provided
always that they vote for Democratic can
didates that il is eminently proper for
such man as Father Tracey to become
the paymaster Of the Democrat party.
when witness who would have to testi-
iy against that party, should leave the
country, and no one would dare to doubt
the cnnstitutiona!ity OF the right of the
Chairman Of the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee to fix the price to be paid
to such witness for leaving ''Oh con.
sistency, thou art a jewel !" There is no
doubt about Robson getting his seat
The evidence so far makes out clear
case Of any amount of fraudulent voting
done by aliens and imported voters.
JUNIUs.
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