The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-26

The editor Of the Messenger does not
sfke,our style Of arguments on the nat
uralizstiOn4uestioB. Itdoes rot aston
.iakius'iRshs least, indeed il would have
been too obIigiBg in him TO have ex-
pressed himself as liking it He thinks
i weak, and then adds:
% His attempts to Offset our pIain talk
about the expense Of getting the pa
lssrs from Cleveland, By bringing in
his Ashtabula story, is still weaker. To
be plain, we ask the Journal editor if
be is ID favor Of the proposed law7--
Yes, or NOT
On Saturday the 24th of October
lGst the fraduleBt naturalization cases,
being up before the U. S. Commission
sru, the case of VIM. COklsy, Of Ash
tabula county was called. He was
charged with voting himself on fraud
Alent papers procured at Fremont and
procuring quantity Of papers for 9TH
erH,sThe following is the testimony of
Patrick McOaFthy 10 @ m
Patrick Mccarthy sworn-KnoW The
defs1daasy have seen him occasionly
s'foF TIVE on three years, but not to speak
ITO him am q laboring man, aud work on
the railroad; gave my name to Cokley
- - fbor.a. - A.IE,L..l. i, III -
perhaps two before the election. Two
or three Of rs came across himson Sun
day evening at the depot. Mr.. Cokley
said % US that he (Cokley) would vote
this fl, I asked him HoH's thatP-
He said be got his papers l asked
how, and he said he got them steFre-
mont asked him if he came 10 this
country under age, and he said no. He
lIaid there was no trouble in getting the
Sepers, and If l went to Fremont /
coald get mine. I said it would not
pay 70 90 to Fremont. He said if we
would give him some names he would
Gst the papers and we gave some
names that evening and on the ninth
day sfer we got the papers. Cokley
asid he had no difficulty in getting
them. On election day be said, i yo-
led this morning never made sp-
phcation to any Judge, never sEore ror
took any oath; ] took out my first pa
pers after / had given the name to Cox
lsBi Hook them out in Jeffersonon the
10Th Of 0ctobsr and the next morning
lrgotmy papers from Gokley. People
lAid these full papers couldn't be got
unless We got first papers 4 voted on
the papers got from Cekley, at Ashta-
buls. My vote was challenged but it
tvas taken. Cokley said be got the pa
Pers in Fremont Ny bHother John
got his papers from me and 1 got them
from Cokley.
Thomas Pollard sWorn-1. know Cox
ley; gave him naturalization papers;
Cieklsy gave me list Of fifteen names;
IBook the names 70 Ffsmont about the
ninth Of October and got the papers
from McArdle. Can't fecoIIect wheth-
et T. handed these particular papers
(aheWn to aOokley. I do not remem-
Der the names. He handed me the
names and ssid he would like to have
ne get the papers; / got all the papers
at the same time including those gave
toHyde to which l testified the other
day.. l said then that I gave Hyde
bit one paper; / was mistaken, gave
him three. had Z 7oF g1
Cokley, in bis testimony, admits
coming to Fremont from Ashtsbula,
sud getting papers from the Probate
Court, here. He was held in $4,000
bail It strikes US there is not much
sign of weakness about this, Ashtabuls
story. To quiet the editors nerves, we
take occasion to say, in regard to his
query, that we are in favor of the enact
ment of a law that will efFectually
sqaeleh all such frauds as we're prsc7
ticed, last fall by Democratic Probate
Courts, in Ohio, or by the Democratic
Courts of New York city, by which
thousands of men, who had not COM
piled with the law, were fraudulently
enabled to vote.