The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-02-11
Plamping in Pennsylvania.

IT IS an interesting popularity of Grim
lnal voting in Pennsylvania that the ras
cally Repeaters, when brought to the wit
ness-stand, usually acknowledge their
multiplied misdemeanors with a cheerful
frankness which is eminently edifying. A
contested election case Dunn cs. Witham)
is now before Legislative Committee at
Harrisburg-the seat in dispute being that
of the XTth Legislative District. One
witness, Michael Slaven by name, swears
that he voted the Democratic ticket TWEEN
ty times, between o'clock a. M and Oh
Som. p. m.-being about twice every hour
"a remarkably energetic days work, and
speaking highly for Michaeps peripatetic
ubiquity. Then comes confessor re-
joicing in the name of Lamb, who &C
knowledges that he voted the Democratic
ticket twenty times on election day Then
follows Henry Elliott, who on his own
statement was also double X voter The
modest and moderate John Rowan con-
tented himself with voting the Democratic
ticket only ten times. According to the
testimony of Slaven, there was a small
party of ten men, the witness himself be-
ing one of them, who went meandering
about all day, voting the Democratic
ticket whenever they pleased and as of
ten as they pleased, being furnished
with ballots by "men with the Demo
cratic badge on" Some of his COM
panIons, according to Lamb, belonged
IN Baltimore, and ssme of them in
New York Elliott. it seems to us, was
absurdly cautious; for h deposes that he
changed his hat and coat sometimes in
going from poll to poll" Why he did
this we are sure we do not know for it is
not at all probable that any Democratic
challenger would have molested him or
made him afraid while he was doing a
work SO noble and patriotic For the en-
thusIastic Elliott to disguise himself was.
as 1t were to hide his light under a bushel,
and the change of hat and coat might
have rendered it difficult for him to estab-
lsh bis Identity when the rovers called at
the Democratic Headquarters to receive
their reward
Mr.. Slaven testifes to an interesting
circumstance in regard to "the man who
gave US the tickets" This charitable
purveyor of ballots presented to the little
devoted band So bill whereupon the
Tree voters went to the Girard avenue
Market and {" got their dinners'-and an
uncommonlY good appetite we should
think they must have had after their lohg
walks and exhausting exercise of the
Ilahchise These, were, indeed, true
democratic politicians They were after
a Tree dln1er, and they got it; and who
ever says they didn't earn it can know
nothlng Gy personal experience of the
iatlgue OF voting early aud voting often.
Mr.. Michael Slaven and the other dill |
gent perambulators exhibited touching
confidence in Democratic integrity. 1--WE
voted, says Michael, the Democratic
ucket. did not examine any of them; the
men we took them from had the Demo
cratic badge on" Each enterprisinp voter
received from g the man with the badge
on slip of paper. Upon this were
written facts with which the recipient was
supposed to be unacquainted, viz, his own
name, residence, and occupation. These
memoranda were necessary, it seems, to
manufacture citizenship for the gallant
balloters. 1t is MT everybody who can be
rechristened, get new house, and learn
new trade, dozen times over in one day.
Although the Philadelphia system ap.
pears to us to be nearly perfect, yet there
is one improvement which we may venture
to suggest. Common humanity would
seem to require that every Repeater, pass
ing "from pole to POLE" should be fur
nished with velocipede. If Mr.. Michael