Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-18
The Outrageous Frauds Perpetrated in
the Third District.
A FEW OF THE TRICKS EXPOSED
Which VIII BE More Fully Ventilated
in the Contest for Wash
burns Seat.
TABLES OF OFFICIAL RETURNS
Donnelly Loses a Thousand Votes by
Careless and Criminal Conduct
OF Judges.


been made by the State officers the GLOBE is
able to give the official figures as they will
appear when that record is made. There
was surprising blunder in the Secretary of
States office, whereby blanks were sent out
with no place for entering the Con-
gressional vote. A still moro surprising
blunder OF worse was committed by numer-
GUS judges of election i'll emitting the vote
Tor Congressman because there were no
blanks. AS remarkable coincidence it NAV
be mentioned that these errors of omission
or worse were invariably against Mr.. Dom
nelly and in favor of Mr.. Washburn with q
single exception. The Washburn men were
IN high giee, and as Mr.. Donnelly's vote was
criminally reduced by the hundred, they
winlsed and smirked as though the violation
of law was fine thing. They were sud-
denly startled when the Hennepin county
canvass was made to find omissions which
would reduce Washburns vote some 713,
Then there ac0S trouble and the canvassino
board illegally adjourned and hunted up the
derelict judges. Tho missing returns were
secured, in one instance 566 votes being
fished out of the private memorandums in
the vest pocket OF one of the Judges,
These returns, though illegally made,
Were counted, and as the State
canyassing board is exclusively Republican
it will, Of course, decide that it cannot 90
behind the face Of the returns, and will give
Washburn ali That he claims. Mr.. Donnelly,
on the other hand, loses nearly one thousand
votes by the criminal blunders which have
been made against him and have not been
corrected In addition to what is noted be-
low he loses over two hundred votes in
Stearns county, one hundred in Morrison,
Atty in Meeker, and so on. Probably a great
many more have been lost, which have not
been made public. There ought to be some way
to reach the matter and correct the wrong,
but the only hope lies in an appeal to the
House itself, which may oyerturn the illegal
proceedings Of the Republican returning
board Of Minnesota.
We give some samples of the rascally man.
ner in which the canvass has been con-
Quoted.
FRAUDS IN KITTsoN COUNTY.
The whole vote of Kittson county can be
set down as a fraud, devised by Washburn,
Fletcher and Co. One special instance of
fraud is reported at Tamerac river. Web
ster & White have n lumber camp at that
point with thirty Or forty men, and they Or
ganized bogus election camp and returned
11G votes for Washburn AID for Donnelly.
An old man named Mccullough, not having
voted for five years, was allowed to make up
for PAST delinquencies, and accordingly cast
five ballots for Washburn.
CHEATING IN THE COUNT IN WRIGHT COUNTY.
To the Editor Of the Globe.
DELANo, Mimi, Nov 13.-The official canvass
in this county was completed yesterday which
gives Donnelly 1920, Washburn LILA, giving
Donnelly 1O6 majority. But the town of
Frankfort has made no return of the vote for
Congressman, and in that town Donnelly had
II votes and Washburn IL; therefore Don
nelly's total vote in the county is 1921, and
Washburn's vote 1125, giving Donnelly an ac-
tual ajority of 166. The above are facts. l
have the true figures from each town. Don
nelly would have had over 200 majority in the
county had John Brasie not sold him Donnelly)
in Delano. He succeeded in delivering votes
to Washburn, but failed to get any for Mealey.
In fact he thereby injured Mealey.
The entire Democratic county and legislative
ticket, with the exception of Rawson, Repre-
sentative is elected, and he would have been
elected had not few Monticello Democrats
slaughtered him in Maple Lake and Frankfort
two Democratic towns adjoining Monticello.
They made special efforts to do that to satisfy
local interest and prejudice. VoX.
THE FRAUDS IN IsANT1 COUNTY.
To the Editor of the Globe.
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 14.-Knowing that you
would be interested to hear how the returns
from Isanti were made up and being an OBJ
server of some very curious maneuyres in cam
wasting returns, thought would write you
30 that you could use the information.
When the canvassing board met here and COM
menced canvassias the town returns, the town
of Isanti sent in returns for Congressman at
all. The 'wn of Spring Vale was in the same
fix, the returns stating that Washburn received
forty-two votes for State Senator. The town
Of Stanchield returned, under the heading of
State Representatives, that Washburl had re-
ccived some fifty votes, but thu countylcanvass-
ing board presumed that they forgot to desig-
nate the difference and counted the number
for Congressman without having the returns
corrected. In the case OF both Isanti and
Spring Vale the return sheet was given to the
first man who would volunteer to take them, per
fectly loose and unsealed, to go and find sons
one TO correct them. One fellow started for
Isanti and accidently met Il resident of that
town on the road who claimed he was one of
the board that canvassed the votes and could
correct them himself, and did SO, returning 139
votes for Washburn. The returns of Spring
Vale town we're transmorgutied over by one OF
the citizens of that towu in the same way, max.
ing forty-two votes more for Washburn, max
ing difference 23l votes. Ii that is the right
way to correct returns all right, but claim
that there is q fraudulent return sent in from
this county of 23l votes. The canvassing boarC
of the county was not made up fairly, as il
was conp posed OF the auditor, judge of probate
and one justice Of the peace, when two parties
are needed.
The editor that found that fine horse on,
morning that was left here by mistake, which
caused him to change from a Stewart to
Washburn man between dark aud daylight, i!
one of the chief tigurers in this changing O
votes.
THE FRAUDS IN MORRISON COUNTY.
To the Editor of the Globe.
LITTLE FALLS Mimi, Nov. 18th, 1875
It should be known that two towns in thi
county made no report of the vote for Con
gressman and it is we'll known that Mr.. Don
nelly's majority in those towns will not fol
short of 100. 1t is also we'll known that on