The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-03
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3.
TIE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND ITS
CHARGE OF DEMOCRATIC FRAUD.

The CINCINNATI Gazette, WIN All liupu-
dence sublime for its audacity, ventures a
charge that New York and Indiana were car
ried for Mr.. Tilden by fraud. As to the
former state Little johnny Davenport" an
authority that is considered very high with
radicals. says positively that The election in
New York was fairly conducted. This
Davenport is a radical appointee to the office
of inspector Of elections and was elected be-
cause of his peculiar sharpness and bis evil
dent fitness for an Office Of the kind named
The Cincinnati Gazette has a very select cir
culation, confined principally TO few old
citizens, male and female. who live princi-
pally in and around Cincinnati Its princi-
pal business is TO prevent these old ladies
from losing respect for the radical party, and
1t therefore soothes the old folks on a weak
sort of Cruel with an occasional
eulogy on the honesty, patriotism and at
tainments of the radical party. This, natu-
rally enough, they get tired Of, and then it
makes bugaboo of the democratic party
and tries to scare them. This has the effect
OF satisfying them completely, and the dear
old souls not having access to other papers,
are living contentedly in the opinion that
>the Gazette is the only paper Published and
that the radical party is altogether the
purest, most patriotic that the country has
ever produced. Good joke on the old folks
This charge of frauds by democrats made in
Thursdays issue is in the same article in
which it endeavors to palliate and explain
the premium rascality OF the century, as
perpetrated by the infamous returning
boards, and for proof of which we have
creditable republican evidence-General
Barlow, as to Florida, and Mr.. Robert Carr,
OF De Sofa parish, Louisiana, as TO that state
This latter gentleman was counted
In by the rascally returning boards
and had the manliness TO come
forward and acknowledge that ne was
fairly beaten by his democratic opponent
aud would not be counted in" but refused
the Office. As to frauds in Indiana. There
are only one set of ballot-box suffers and
manipulators in this country that We think
are entitled 70 pre-eminence over our home
made radical set, and they are the coterie
that preside over the political destinieS Of
Philadelphia With population two hun
dred thousand less than that Of New York,
Philadelphia voted three or four Thousand
more votes than New York did last Novem-
Der. They registered thirty-seven thousand
bogus names. When we say that this whole
machinery is in the hands OF radicals, we
aeed say no more. We propose that these
Philadelphia scoundrels have second pre-
MUM anyhow this year. The returning
boards have already secured the first. We
say then, after these PhiIadel phia rascals, we
introduce to the Cincinnati Gazette the next
most accomplished set of bsllot-box swnd-
lers in the world. Right here in Indiana
Governor Hendricks was probably swindled
out of his election in 1s6o-he certainly was
beyond all controversy in 166S-and it was
only by the most skillful detective instru-
mentality that he barely got through in 1872
The truth is that he has become so accus-
toned TO being swindled out of his elections,
that he will be one OF the most disappointed
men in the country if he finally arrives in
the vice presidential chair. In this county
Of Marion the democracy were swindled as
regularly as the elections came around. We
have radical authority for saying that our
old friend Henry Nelson carried this town
ship at one time by twelve hundred major
ity and his opponent was counted in BY
three hundred. Who can forget the picture
whoever witnessed it-Of old John Wallace
standing,outsile of the court house window
one crisp October election morning, few
years ago, and shaking his fist at the proies-
sional ballot-box suffers within, made them
tremble, as he told them he knew enough
about them to send them 10 the peniten-
'tiary?" Who can forget the mob of last
spring, roaming at will over the city and
voting five to ten times each, end the conf
dental letter found afterward, in which one
radical told his brother rad TO hurry and
send some well dressed negroes to an up
town poll? But one of the grandest pieces
of scoundrelism in this line was done in
Morgan county, our adjoining county, in
1859. Hundreds of illegal votes were cast,
and The facts afterward proven by repubIi-
can witnesses. Fraud of the most gross and
shameless character was perpetrated, aided
and abetted by republican election officers;
votes were imported; minors voted. the box
stuffed and fraudulent poll lists made. In
one township there was one fictitious list OF
seYenty-eight voters. In another mems
names appeared who had been dead for
years; one had been dissected eleven years
before. After this election one OF the de-
Gated democrats contested. the election OF
his opponent and was successful. Maj
Gordon, late candidate on the radical ticket
for attorney general, was the lawyer for the
contested. He arose before the evidence
was completed and said "May it please the
court, in behalf of my associate counsel and