The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-02-09
THE JULlAN-RElD CONTEST.

, THE JuLlAN-RElD CONTEST.
To the Voters of the Fourth Congressional District
In the Indianapolis Daily Joxrnoi, of
the 18th ultimo, there is ssCard' sign
ed s'Nim. II. Johnson" relative to the
late Congressional election, spiteful in
character, undignified in language, un-
true in conclusion, and if suffered to
pass unanswered, may be taken, as judg
ments are, by confession or default. .g
Mr.. Johnson sets out by saying that
while the Democrats and traitorous Re-
publicans, who made themselves hewers
of wood and drawers of water for the
Ku Klux Khan, were engaged in the un-
savory work of burying their dead (ter-
rible employment), he deemed it his dus
ty to apprise friends of an atrocious'
conspiracy to defeat Mr.. Julian, by
means Of q spurious ticket. containing
the names Of all the Republican candi
dates, except that Of George W. Julian
for which that Of John S. Reid had
been substituted that the thugs and as
sassins who attempted q death blow at
the rights of the people were all well
known; that they had fallen into d pit
they had digged for their brethren, and
it would be long ere public opinion
would lift them from that pit. or gal-s
vanize their dead carcasses into politi-'
cal life Finally he alludes to Mr. B
W. Davis and myself, and says "Mr.
Davis, of the Polladiuns,'' confesses he
printed these tickets, and j John Y aryan,
with coolness that is refreshing, ae-
knowledges he procured some of them
to be printed, and that he was q party
to plan TO defeat Mr.. Julian by the
use of them. t#<l sic d i
Passing by all the acrimonious per
sonalities of Mr.. johnson as too unin
teresting to readers to be fur rther no.
fuss about spurious tickets and stuffing
heat oppressed brain, got up to order for
he benefit of Mr.. Julian, and to break
his fall; that the causes Of contest were
mere immaterial irregularities of cleo
ton officers which did not invaliiate
the poll; and, finally, if they did, that
the Board Of canvassers had no right to
set onfhem judicialiy. II think 4 can
make these propositions so plain that al
honest wayfaring man, though q fool,
can not err. .ssa.l nlf9i. o. - s-a .e1esT e. -
,5-a-s THE sPURIoUS TICKETS a. ltzac
The peculiar friends Of Mr.. Julian
charge that this ticket was got up aud
mixed with the Republican tickets for
the fraudulent purpose of imposition =
Nothing can be more foreign to truth
They were got up for the convenience of
the Republicans who had determined not
to vote for Mr. Julian, and were not
mixed with others or imposed on any
one. No doubt handled as many as
any one-handled no other kind on the
day of the election, have hated Julian
for.a 10 !, these many years, as much
as any man of my size COULD but
he may GO to- Congress the balance of
his life rather than WOO do such thing
I appreciate the elective afranchis, too
high for that Let any honorable man
be found who will say lie received . sin
gle ticket from nae not knowing its con-
tents, and I am willing to be condemned
and punished with such punishment as
the most censo<tous may wish to infiict.
But why elaborate this matter? Judge
j Johnson himself says: y "Notice was
promptly given in Richmond Of the ex-
istence of these spurious tickets, and sthe
wallis were placarded with notices of
the fact SO early on election day that ut
few of these tickets could have been vo q
ted by mistake Further: Isa C Ju-
lian, in theeeRodieoI better known as
the "Julian family organ,'' in reply to a
very silly remark of the Telegram that
these Al tickets did deceive voters,
spurns the charge and says (italicised
as he has it): There can be no doubt
thatpery teao, here or elsewhere, voted
these spurious tickets through mistake,
we'll calculated as they were TO deceive.
Nobod y doubts that the mass of the said
tickets were stufed-' These exonera.
tions, coming from the sources they do,
should silence certain gentlemen, whose
ears grew longer, on account of this lit.
tie ticket affair, thar those of any ass
that ever was import ed from Spain; and
it is TO be hoped they may recover from
the mobocratic hydrophol,ia under which
they have 50 painfully labored .
sfd 5H BALLOT BOX sTUFEING.
! After c.osing the polls at Engine Hall
No 2, south of Main street, the III all be-
ing cold, the Board adjourned, for more
comfortable quarters, to the Office of
Captain Lacey, in the second story of q
building on the north side of Main
street, and in the north precinct, Main
street being the dividing line. The Of.
fee has no back door or back window in
it, and is only accessible through b stair
way from the street. Hungry and IA
tigued,r recess was agreed on long
enough to 60 to an oyster saloon and
take ''hasty dish of soup" Both door
and box were carefully locked, the in
spector taking the key of one and enc of
the judges that of the other. They left
the office in q body and returned sogeth-
er, after an absence of thirty or forty
minutes. and found everything as they
had left it. Later in the night, still not
being through, they again took recess
Of about thirty minntes for like pur-
pose eecared the box and door as he