The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-09

"The Butler votes here were all counted for
Cleveland. The tickets We're the same size and
thickness. 1t is alleged by the Butler managers
here that the same thing has been done else
where"
The committee have received dispatches from
four counties giving in substance the foregoing
information. The committee has positive evil
dence of fraud in fifteen counties. If justice is
done Mr. Blaine, he will have plurality of more
than two thousand in New York.
According to the Sun, it was not the independ-
ents who have been the main and efficient causes
of the present political situation in this State.
ut was says the Sun, "a handful of unforgiv-
ing stalwarts that did it." The Sun adds:
'"They made no noise beforehand they had no
organization; they held no public meetings. they
sent out no orators they printed no
documents; they said nothing until the
very eve of the election But they voted. They
remembered the defeat of Foger. They
also remembered Mr.. Blaine's assault upon Sena-
tor Conklng. and they voted so as to make the
old account square. Their votes, along with
those of the regular Democrats and independent
Republicans, were eficacious Study the re-
turns of Oneida county, where Garfeld's plural
ity of 1946 was changed into a plurality of %
for Cleveland, and you will see how it was DONE"
ERRORS AND FRAUDS.
The Tribune will say in its leading editorial on
Sunday:
"a recount of the votes in this city completed
yesterday, at police headquarters, made differ
ence of AIS in favor of Blaine, exclusive of the
fact that the returns from one election district
are missing altogether. A dispatch yesterday
from ALBANY to the Evening Post. announced
the discovery of a glaring fraud in the
Twelfth ward of that city. To count out
the Republicans change of 120 votes
had been made If the vote of that ward is
thrown out CleN Gland must lose 388 votes. In
the Fifth ward of Kingston more ballots were
found in the box than the polllist called for; in
that ward Cleveland had plurality of 260. In
Brooklyn. by the discovery of alleged errors, the
Democrats, on Friday increased their plurality
by 1868. Those figures slightly reduced,
yesterday, by another count. From Sullivan
county word was sent yesterday that corrected
returns reduced the Cleveland plurality there by
70 votes In Queens, Westchester and other
counties there have been wide fiuctua-
tions in the reported Democratic pluraities.,
Under this state of things, it is obyiSds folly to
| dispute about the accuracy of one newspapers
| special dispatches over another's, or to set up
any ones Judgment about the figures as infallible
| The official count is at hand. 1t will be most
closely scrutinized in every county in the State,
and in most of them the Re-
publican voter. will be represented by
counsel. In this city Mr.. Evarts, Mr.
Bliss, Mr. Sewell and other eminent and skillful
lawyers have been asked to undertake the work
We have faith that what can be done will be-
and we think we have ample reason to know that
if errors and frauds already discovered can be
legally corrected this Stare has given safe
and sure plurality for Blaine and Logan, which
even Mr.. Manning's Democratic Board of Can
vassers will have to recognize"