Bellows Falls Times

Disgraceful frauds have been discovered in sifting the returns of the recent judicial election in Wisconsin. Some of the returns favorable to Lynde, the Democratic candidate for supreme Judge, are proved to be forgeries of the most shameless sort. In some cases the vote for Lynde is double the whole vote cast; in others the figures are transposed, so as, for example, to turn a majority of 126 into 261, and some of the returns are altogether fictitious. The matter is to be rigidly investigated. Four years ago an effort was made by frauds equally audacious and criminal with those just come to light, to cheat the Republican Governor out of his election. It is time, for the good name of Wisconsin, that the offenders in these transactions were sent to the Penitentiary.