Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1858 — Frauds in the Ninth District. [ARTICLE]

Frauds in the Ninth District.

The Democrats are talking of heating Mr. Colfax in the Ninth District. Not the rational or honest portion of them, but that class of blustering, .ignorant and rascally men, who, in the main, form the sentiment uud direct the policy of the party. They say they will beat Mr. Colfax, and yet they don't pretend that they can get from him a singlevote that made his majority more than a thousand two years ago. They admit that he is stronger to-day than he ever was, that his views are more acceptable to the District, that his efforts have added to his supporters, and yet they say they will beat him. We have herd more than one, or two, or ten •say the same thing, and we can give the names if it is worth while to select a few ■fronc the mass who talk so. Now this talk means something. Not as a prediction of the result, for in that result view it is mrisense, but as an indication of the means by which the election in that District is to he 'carried, if possible. It tells us that Mr. Colfax is to he beaten by fraud, if fraud will do it: and’so confident arc the projectors of the success.of their plans .that they already v .wilt as if the success had been achieved. What does the declaration that “Mr. Colfax is ms strong now as the day when lie was elected by more than thousand majoitv, and ; yet that he will be beaten,” mean! Why, that the Democrats mean to succeed by illegal votes, or by fraud in the return papers. It means just that; and some iff them are so sure of their game that they don't deny it. No concealment is tirade es their determinate fill every ditch in Jasper county, and every rod of the Fort Wayne railway embankments, with .imported voters. A contractor on that road publicly boasted that he “would have a thousand hands to vote against Colfax in the District before the election,” and the Democratic contractors for swamp-land ■ditching! have been, and are still, busily at work bringing in hands from Illinois, to lie went hack in time to vote in fheir own State.: The preparations for a fraudulent, election were never made so openly, and the success of the frauds were never so defiantly proclaimed in advance, before, Besides these, the dist.ric.t-has been persevering !y canvassed by all the leading Lecojnptmi speakers, ynd office-holders. Colonel Abdomen Adipose .May lias been bellowing and “sloshing about” in every township of the district, Mr. I/ieuteiihnt, Governor Hammond, who thinks a Democrat might to hold two offices at ohee, has been 'helping- the' Colonel and a h ilfia dozen other stumpers who 'have been at work, and handbills, papers, and letters fall of imagin tide lies, so gross that no sweater dare tell them on file stump lor fear some honest .man should kick him, have been ’llyltjg in i'll every corner. A more vihsijxia.pu.hjus canvass, so far as ordinary tn - ans are concerned, has never been made, and mm at all approaching it has eyer been attempted in open, and boasting preparations tor the importation of votes. YV hat we say.; <>f this-m liter, is the absolute truth, or rather i if. is los.l tha n tin' truth, for all the Iraiidu- j ibhit (schemes of the Democrats they cannot j lie known. Our friends must lie alive and! active, and ready In meet such men. They : halve the numbers, aijd the energy, and the i • oi-e. to enable and jtu justify them in re- ! polling such infamous attempts to stille the '■ voice of the [teople by fraud. Let them poll ■every ■scboyl district, and punish on the spot, every scon ndfel they tea tell trying to cast a In udiilent vote. Don't wait, for the uncertain success of an arrest:. .Punish him well first, and Linn arrest him. This policy well carried out. vyjll Hjvoil the boasts ol- these knavish cputracfors and politicians. —State Journal.