Year: 1859

SIR-.YOur special attention is directed to the
recent letters of ~. A. w." in the "PIoNEER"
zen route" No place or ''local habtation"
is given them but from this and that in them,
well understood by the ''SACHEMs," you may
well divine that the whole expedition" has
something to do with "OTTER TAIL" business
this fell. Keep your eye upon this whole mo
BILE expedition" Have you watches and senti.
nels upon the walls out there?


It is a matter of much i'm.
portance to the Republicans to know if the
gentlemen mentioned. went out to fix up frauds
and prepare the way for the necessary votes
to elect the Democratic ticket.-Minnesota
Times, Sept. a. 1859.


To the Editors of The Pioneer and Democrat.


Having lived in this part of the country
for sixteen years, and it being the first time
that my name has been used directly or in
directly in connection with frauds, or by
any man or set of men for perpetrating elec.
tion frauds upon the people of Minnesota,
I deem it my duty, in behalf of myself and
others, to say one word, at least for myself,
and if possible to give the Times and its
Republican friends the much desired in.
formation.


Knowing but little, if anything, about
the arrangements of parties in the State of
Minnesota during my absence in the North
west; and being busily engaged in the
business which started to accomplish,
have not for a moment spoken, thought or
done anything for the election of any man
or set of men for any Office in the gift of the
people of the State nor have I heard or
known of any one of any party doing so,
and did not know the names of the nom-
inees, until arrived on the Mississippi
river, some distance this side of Otter Tail.


1 am an Old Line Wing, and any
services that l should render either
party of the present day, in perpetrating
election frauds to advance the interests of
either, would be entirely gratuitous on my
part. had rather be the means of securing
to one destitute family home in that beau
tiful Otter Tail country, than to secure the
election of any man to any Office whose views
do not accord fully with mine in all and
each Of the following, which Democrats, as
we'll as my Republican friends of the Times,
may consider the platform upon which 1
shall stand and act in the present election.


lst. l am opposed to any man holding
any Office who supports, or in the least fa-
vors the present corrupt Administration,
and who will not do his utmost to redeem
Minnesota from the blight and mldew that
it has shed over the Northwest.


I'd. will not vote for any man who l
think will favor, in any possible manner, the
doctrine of reputation.


Sd. 1 will not vote for any man, let him
be of what party he may. who 1 believe
would even try to secure his own or anothers
election to any office, by trying to induce
one individual to cast an illegal vote, there
by showing himself entirely unfit for any
ofice-an enemy to his country and race,
who would use the most powerful lever to
overthrow the very foundations of our gov
ernment.


4th. l am in favor Of letting the slavery
question rest, at least until such times as we,
by attending to our own matters, have re-
deemed ourselves, as State and people,
from poverty, and have delivered ourselves
from the bondage that politicians have sub
jected us as people, and have made our
selves as free and comfortable as the negroes
of our sister States.


5th. am in favor of Railroads and their
speedy construction, and of the election of
those who are not mere politicians, to make
laws to secure their completion.


9th. 1 am in favor of having popular SOW
ereignty in all the Territories fully carried