New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-19
THE INDIANA CAMPAIGN.
A STARTLING REVELATION OF FohhEh
ELECTION FRAUDS.

| bTATE EVIDENCE-TIE GRANTOh ~"
| THE HEADQUARTERS or THE CONofHnhiV"o'
| lBY TELEGRAPH TO TBB TRIBUNEI
| INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 18.-There il affair pros
poet defeating last resource Of tho Gram party IN
this State There never was since the campaign begun
moments doubt as TO which party carried sucoe1 ior
at the first pretty generally conceded thSt tho
coalition carried the largest Of voters, and for
time tho Morton party thought 10 equalizo the
matter by securing the Legislature, making no
fight in the general tickets. The Straight
ont nomination and local. I'll feeling,
however, inspired a new hope, and It at
snce set on foot by the Official organs that there was
reaction and that Grant and Browne would carry the
State but as the Louisville Convention failed utterly
the importation business came up again as tDo last ro
Sort and by no doubtful one with such unlmitcd
sums of money 10 expend 50 thorough system OF III
PRODUCING negroes from Kentucky has been oarTIed on
for weeks and az the report out OF state can
vass giving Grant slight majority there is no mystery
as to the number that is TO be kept in the shambes until
after election The Sentinel OF this city has however
taken means Of disclosing Of the proposed raua
and publishes the sworn statements OK a uo~h
or more men. who testify TO the most shameie's
fraud on the ballot former years 1t further SHOWS
Senator Norton when Governor aided ana aDotted
the same system that it intended TO practice this year.
Again, it is shown orcumstantaly ana tna'
ballots placed inside of the regular Dallos were
deposited In number high as "a to man; mat IN Ioo
tho men who now managing for Morton heid BACK
election returns until permission came from head
quarters and that false regisries were used by the
judges of election to cover these enormous increases al
the polls
One witness testiGes thus TO the manner of swelling
the vote
The tissue paper process is in this way We had
Republican Ticket printed upon thin tissue paper 50
that 20 OF them might DO folded in one ord
nary ticket but so artfnly arranged that IN raining so
the ballot box they separated Now 10 vote theso
packages we had 1t understood VINO was To cast theh
had concealed under our pollbooks corresponding
number Of fictitious For illustration, say that
Douglass, Samuel Douglass, John Douglass, Cy'
Buttorneid, Newton = Kellogg, Andy >, Foqqg n,
b DSk ware ana men ROM were to vote these
pregnant tickets containing each tissue tickets
would steal from list Of fictitious names aud enter
up 20 poll books, so as to have names OF
done only where both clerks Of the Board were Repub
cans At the next election public sentiment forced us 70
OF sharp, watchful, and courageous Democrats on
hand, &c is difficult to do much with tho ballot .d
up big dinner for the board, aud there the work OF inc
day was to be oonsumated we were 10 adjourn ior ai
be concealed IN an adjoining room 10 fOOss unihe
apartment, and while at dinner jim was with
false key open the box and abstract the required
same number OF Republican tickets. Douglass backed
heart failed him too. AT thls crisis rom sOos
at table under pretenso of having TO go
TO neighboring grocery on some errand. he slipped
around the house and stealthiy crawling in at the
window where the ballobox had been placed, with MS
duplicate key he opened tho box and pr0ceedoa 70 s
He afterward told US that he had distracted $50
Democratic tickets and replaced them With ike num-
| Der OF Republican ballots. -,
with supply Of Republican tickets properly iotd tSs
Democratic ticket with tho right hand, and. pre-,
tending to pass 1t To tho lelt, conceal ~
IN the palm Of the hand and substitute
from the sleeve Republican ticket which drops
into the box Bin LOOMS used 70 complain Iuas III oHs
ballots another cheat at the commencement OF bal
oting, when the box yet open for examination 90
| ntercepting like number Of Democratic ballots.
| Another witness testifes as follows:
In 1863 at the election at the Fifth Ward polls Frank
| Riley was Inspector, and Dan Greenfield one of tho
Foster match for Frank Riley, Dan Greenfield,
was, they had il pretty much their way. Foster
and Riley each held their hands copy Of the register
posite name Of each fictitious voter. Foster was
Ss TO Vote finding ana aS dS If d6 %s9
| pretended 10 be quite as slow as Foster, so as 10
smut nts as ccssD AS the voting Was done the
were crossed fictitious fellows and ALL so as TO indicate
nGceHfly fast slips paper containing these fictitious
names passed out to experts who rushed In false
| Evans & Co. The point now was u hurry down the
| window and close the polls, being as tedious and slow
| and down came the window upon hundreds Of
| mechanics and laboring men who were honestly legal
vote enabled the Radical members OF the Board to strike
of the list the names OF spurious aidaVit Ieows
and allow the OF veritabe residents OF that ward
to appear having voted, when IN fao they had not
could not because OF TINS pSrP0sed delay IN re-
contriyance at least onethird OF the legal bona 1de
voters OF the Fifth Ward that day robbed Of the
elective franchise. When that poll was closed in lieu OF
these rghttUl votes Of resident citizens VI tho ward
| these false names substituted Hendreks's ma
orfv i'm that ward thus shrunk TO only IL votes
When the counting begun, Riley placed the box
on a chair at the edge of the table so that the up
| ftadl of
| Judge, from looking into It, Riley sat lmmedlateiy IA
ohguey 70 the left rather IN front Of the inspector
that Foster could not without moving ms Dody look
which packages of Republican tickets wero dropped into
the box ana Democratic tickets stolen out 50 as TO make
all things oven. About midnight Foster was at last IN
| duced 10 20 out and take drink. TIN FOOs was the
manager OF the whisky room, which was situated IN a
| coal vault Frank Riley, Greenfield, and Byrht were
left 10 watch the balotDox. Lefeyre accompanied Eos
| Ter to the coal hole.
! In order to gain time for the use of the ballot box
suffers Zoos pretended that he could not readily fnd
the whisky jug However, after protracted search ne
found it. WHAT he did find was empty, aud 80 consd-
cradle more time was consumed IN gong aitef
another supply FoItS SoS eG MS B qak and
| greenfield had done their work and done II
well. The count did not tally with the
fE ett in the box IN the hurry of substituting
We could not always be precisely accurate ate
| from Democratic interference. Frank Riley shook his
lett armsleeve to show that hs packages Of kep1Dcan
quantity OF crumpled,uP Dem1 Dol, sekets: rae
| bOasted he had changed 1IOm 10 Al
most an of our in regard TO these raudu
Lem contriyances against the balOtb0x took place at
The Journal office. The Journal Is the Grant Morton
| organ in this State -
In the October election of 1868, Frank Riley met me on
| the street and boosted that no had managed
| 10 change 100 100 Democratic votes into
| that number OF Republican ballots and showed me
some of the Democratic tickets he yet had In his peck
era AT another time Riley complained that A. Maltner
was too sharp for nm ~ make any headway upon the
ballot box aud for this reason he had failed 10 do what
| was xpected OF him. John g. Russell stated TO me
several years ago that he intended TO have
| nothing more 10 do with tampering with the
| baOt-box: that il he placed upon the Election
BOARD he shut his eyes and let others do IT, but he
would do nothing more himself AS to Ell thompson he
| lno,ys enough oT THOMPSON told that Henry