Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-28
LOREN FLETCHER THE TOOL.
Providing for Fraudulent Election Pre-
cincts on the Frontier.
A sWINDLE THAT gcAN'T STAND.
1t May Send Washburn to Saltwater
Instead of Washington.
THE NEFARIoUs PLOT EXPOSED.
And Democratic Congress VIII Send
the scoundrels to the Penitentiary. p.

The GLOBE of Saturday morning con-
tanned the following in its news department:
| Gov. Pillsbury has established the following
| election districts:
| In Kittson county-Townships l6l. 1872
range 40; voting place, Two Rivers; judges of
election. j. p. Miller, Charles Gordon Fred
Haas. Township 157, range AZ and 4S; voting
place, Tamarack River; judges of election. w.
3: Whitney, g. F. Webster, G. L. McAvoy.
ing place, Middle River; judges of election,
Peter Garves, George Forsith, Christ Anderson.
| In Big Stone county-Townships 100, 1913
and 124, ranges AZ, 4S and 40; voting place at
the house of Hermas Mireau, on southeast sec
ton 81 township 1913, range Al; Judges of
election, A. J. Holmlu, NJ. T. Matthews and
| Hermas Mireau.
In territorial times there was law pro-
viding that whenever ten men were located
ten miles from any polling place they could
petition the Governor and have new pre-
cinct established. This law was revived
year or two ago, and under this law the pc
tltions for the above voting precincts were
presented to the Governor last Friday.
This of itself might not be regarded with
suspicion, but when we add that LOREN
FLETCHER, WASHBURN'S HENCHMAN,
BROUGHT ALL -FOUR PETITIONS TO
GETHER, AND SECURED THE ORDER
ESTABLISHING THE PRECINCTS the
mask is off.
Not content with swindling his creditors.
robbing the public domain, and plunderine
the farmers; not satisfied with having cor
ruptly bought the nomination from DIR.
Stewart, and still more corruptlly seeking
to buy votes, Bill Washburn ssproposes
to swindle the people out Of the election by
establishing precincts in frontier counties
and polling bogus votes.
| We wish to say sober word to Mr.. Wash
burn. He has seen one Congressman who
obtained certificate of election in this dig
trlct and was not made happy thereby. The
campaign did not end with the election at
that time, and we pledge Mr.. Washburn that
it shall not end on Novembea 9Th if he
does not call off his ssLittle Villain and
his confederates. Republican Congress
| brought the prison bars prominently in view
on former occasion, and with q Democratic
Congress, it requires no stretch Of the mag
nation to see them again with all that that
IMPLIES. Greater and better men than Mr..
| Washburn and Mr.. Fletcher have had To nav
the penalty of their crimes. No greater
crime can be committed than the defeat of
the will of the people by the deliberate
manufacture of bogus votes. We warn
| MIR. Washburn and Mr.. Fletcher of their
peril. Their overweening ambition should
not run away with their judgment, even if
they are utterly lost to principle.
These precincts are not the only ones which
have been established for tho scoundrelly
purpose OF robbing the people. The game
is known, and its attempted execution will
be closely watched. We promise Mr.. Wash
burn if ne does not desist, to furnish kim q
vision of prison bars ali around him, SO vivid
and SO real that pressing engagements will
prevent his visiting Washington for some
years.
His career is sufficiently furnished already
without adding this crowning act of infamy
and crime.