Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1859 — DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS.

[We issued an Extra Gazette last Saturday, exposing some Democratic frauds. As we have had no reason to change our mind since, we re-publish the article, containing the facts and comments. The following is the extra, omiting the tickets for want of room:] Wear® pained and chagrinned at the discovery ofa high-handed scheme of dishonesty, which ought to consign its authors to their political graves. It is nothing less than to aVarf t’e people of Jasper county out of their rights. It is attempted to make the election a farce, by imposing upon the voters n spurious Republican ticket! A Jasper county Democrat has had such tickets printed at the office of the Monticello Jacksonian, a Democratic paper. It will be seen that one as a Republican ticket with the exemption «f the name of Alexander Sharp, for Auditor, which is put in the place of D. T. ffieletead, the Republican nominee. The ether ie a Republican ticket with the exception of Henry Barkley for Clerk, instead D- I. Jackson, our nominee; and the words "Alexander Sharp or D T Halstead," toetoed of D. T. Halstead, our nominee. Both tickets have at the end the name of | Xesqr M Nbune for District Prosecutor, j JTM Jtpppblinens-have jm>.candidate for that espe. - Wo havp p sample of these two spurious tickets Jo* in our pojwesaion, and we believe that the same dishonest gang of Dwamp Land thieves have printed other MM* of spurious Republican tickets, such as printing all the names of the Republican Candidates, but running them for the wrong offices. Watch close every ticket. Republicans! turn out and crush the vipers who thus attempt to despoil you of your right. Honest men of all parties, turn •Ut and put your seal of condemnation on the eeeondrels who concocted this revolting

scheme to defraud the majority of their just rights. It is so revoltingly dishonest that we would hardly believe it did we not see it with our own eyes. The perpetrators of it are dangerous to society, and they should be spurned by every honest man with loathing and disgust. They should be spit upon like dogs. Every man should set his face against them, and compell them to leave the community they have so deeply disgraced. Men guilty of such wickedness would not hesitate to steal, and are fit subjects to be confined within prison walls. Citizens! if you permit yourselves to be robbed of your dearest rights, farewell to the liberty your fathers fought for. But we know that you will not submit. No! the people of Jasper county are to intelligent, too honest, and love freedom to dearly to submit to this outrage. You will rise in your might and hurl the Treasury-eaters and Swamp Land thieves into merited oblivion. You will cast them from you as you would the leper. Their touch is polluting, from which arises a stench that fills the nostrils of all good men. This should be no party affair. A whole county is disgraced. There is a stain on her fair fame. Let the foul blot be removed at the ballot-box. Dig the political grave of these robbers of your liberties. Bury them deep from your sight to rot in forgetfulness, and press down the cof-fin-lid with a majority that shall keep them down forever. Watch. Be vigilant. See that every man is at the polls. Seal their doom forever. Let them die the death of traitors. Freemen! remember next Tuesday. Consider well your verdict. Strike down the assassins of private character. Remember that the Swamp Land thieves expect to succeed by destroying the good name of our candidates, by slipping in spurious tickets, and by the votes of the men at work on the railroad. There are one hundred and fortyone hands at work on the road, by actual count. Shall they outvote us- Let the setting sun next Tuesday witness the proud victory of the freemen of Jasper county.