The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-05-23
A Democrat Turns Informer. : ).


known as Z sCoffeelpot Wallace ~ on
account Of election frauds perpetrated
by the Democrats in the October cleo
ton of his State in 1S6s-the same year
in which New York was carried for
Seymour for President against Grant,
and for Hoffman for Governor against
Griswold- written q letter to the
editor Of. the Rhiladelphia Telegraph
denying all completely with the crimes
and refusing to bear the burden of
calumny imposed upon him on account
OF them any longer. Mr.. Wallace
SAYS: aii.D sdf ,to1oJ goGsa .bsunig "
At no time IN either my professional or
knowingly permitted the crimes thus oharyed
oommittee of Pennsylvania It was without
defined policy as the head Of nay party. There
are yet living plenty OF witnesses who can
oss5ensSa ossyas{ ssSo6ay Psoys ny innooenoe OF these
MIR. Wallace does not, however, deny
in his letter the fact that these frauds
were perpetrated and that a stupendous
outrage was committed upon the elect
ors of Pennsylvania on account Of them.
On the contrary, in an interview with o
reporter of the Philadelphia Press. Mr..
Wallace explicitly admits that the
crimes were committed as charged, and
he intimates that the time may come
when he win unbosom the secrets of his
breast and tell who the persons were that
originated and executed the fraud, the
stigma of which he has been compelled
to bear for the period of nearly fifteen
years. Before reproducing the inter-
view in which Mr.. Wallace duplicates
LIE ,,ol,f,,.I f~.o~He -
character and position in the party-it
may be well to summarize the history
of the frauds. Mr. Wallace was Chair
man of the Democratic State Commit
tee, and by his adroit management and
the election frauds which were commit
ted the Democratic ticket in the State
election of 1858 came within a few
thousand votes of being successful. 1t
ton that thousands Of fraudulent natu-
ralization papers, which had been
stained in coffee-pot to give them the
appearance of age and the more read
ny to deceive the Inspectors, had been
voted upon. Mr.. Wallace was charged
with forging and staining these doc
uments. Fraudulent papers had
also been largely used in 1867 in, the
Twenty-first Senatorial District, ,embrac-
ing the counties of Blair, Huntingdon,
Centre, Miffiin, Perry and Jnniata.
About this time . gang of foreigners,
numbering sixty or seventy, was en-
ployed as laborersb ON the Tyrone q
Clearfield Railroad, in Clearfield Coun-
ty. These men were taken from Clear
field into Centre County and quartered
in the borough of Phillipsburgh and In
the township of Rush, both election dis
tricts, q few days before the election.
Here they were illegally assessed, and,
being provided with naturalization pa
5 pers, were led to the polls and voted,
{ By THIS process, the Democratic candi.
date, Samuel T. Shugert, was elected
Senator over John K Robinson, iRepnb
hcan, by twenty-five votes The cleo
ton was contested and the charge:
made a matter of investigation by {
Legislative Committee appointed at the
session of 1868. Although the Commit
tee failed to connect Mr.. Wallace with
completely in the frauds, his enemie.
have never failed to accuse him of be
ing directly responsible for them. The
investigation resulted in the unseatins
of lShugert- - - -,
sI The Interview with the Pennsylvania
ex-senator is particularly refreshing a
this time, when the Democratic party i
making the most wonderful profession,
of reform and honesty with the view t.
impressing the country with the notion
that at last it is good enough to be in
trusted with the administration of thu
Government. We reproduce the inter
view in full. ..-a.,,,,t
sHave YOU endeavored TO trace the origna
tor of the chargesr' ASKED the reporter.
y says and Ism glad ,tS ,s ssay hsys sS,s ,Des1
xrons Us once an enemy & Of ming, ad but 1T, sub
This man was District Attorney for the wesi
ern District of Pennsyiysnia. and was IN man.
tsWn you name himT'
mo. not now He Is dead and don't wan
are very worthy people. There are men liy
Ing, however, who can let little light on tn
zssiWhat xiii you do II they refuse to speakY
Il will do nothing now: III am driven =
the wall, and my reputation BECOMES 1eopar
names and endeavor to force them to speak.
Have You any knoviedge at all as TO tn
identity OF the parties who, forged these pa
MANY persons were charged, but as hap
pened TO be Chairman of the, State Committe'
odium. somehow or other, fell upon me. Thes'
men TO whom 1 have referred know who tn
guilty parE1e8 are.
.Were these papers distributed elsewhereY
:" Yes Here in Philadelphia there was 8
much trouble over them that In an effort d
get rid Of the cou nterfeits large number o
those that were genuine were Destroyed
-" You are also CHARGED with issuing bogu
: II know ii, ana In reply cay that II is false
While in this city and locatsd at the STATE Com
mittee headquarters at Ninth and Arch streets
who 81 made mad % sdisSonoraSIeg ~ snEsestso|ns % | q me
but repelled them and would not hsten- Tha
is all there is about the matter =. -,
Mr.. WaHace's talk is very interesting
but there is as yet too little of it. al
owes it not only to himself but to tn,
people who were outraged to tell tn,
whole story of the crimes that were com
mitted upon the electors, and give th'
names of his colleagues upon the Demo
cratic State Committee who conceived
and carried out the bold yillainy agains
the sanctity and purity of the ballot-box
Mr.. Wallace can not pose as an homes
man himself so long as he refuses to dis
close the names of the conspiratorl
against the rights and liberties of th'
people of Pennsylvania--Tto On p,
Times. i.C
Morrison Heady, of Normandy
KY, the bluegrass poet, is deaf anC
blind, having suffered these afiiiction,
ever since the fever left him with them
when he was twelve years old. He
wears a glove upon which the alphabe
is printed, and those who converse Will
him touch the letters which spell on
their thoughts. In this way, knowing
each letters location on the glove, ht
has picked up great deal of book lore
and kept the story of the times fresh il
mind, by the aid of friendly readers
Detroit Post.
jay Gould has incurred the deer
displeasure of Glasgow Ky.) news
paper man. When Mr.. Gould was las
in Texas the reporter in question, hap
pening to be there also, tried to inter
view the millionaire Mr. Gor1ld in