Marshall County Republican

"A FREE ELECTION!"

What the Democracy mean by a "Free Election"-the Freedom to Stuff the Ballot Boxes!

The following certificates show the means employed by the Democrats of this county to swell their majority. Comment is unnecessary.

Read:

We, the undersigned citizens and voters of Union Township, Marshall county, Indiana, hereby certify that we voted the Union Ticket at the election held in said township, on the 11th day of October, 1864:

1. Henry White 45. John G. Powers
2. George Hoke 46. Austin Gerrard
3. A. W. Bogardus 47. Squire Owens
4. E. E. Owens 48. Wm. W. Owens
5. F. M. Owens 49. James Wylie
6. R. H. Norris 50. Jeremiah Mosher
7. Isaac Jones 51. Elihu Morris
8. Wm. Y. Peeples 52. Samuel Garn
9. Samuel Jones 53. Levi Overmyer
10. Abijah Wilson 54. Wm. W. Creviston
11. John Miles 55. John Creviston
12. J. F. Lewis 56. Wm. Creviston
13. W. M. Miller 57. G. W. Morris
14. James Personett 58. Wm. S. Yakely
15. Samuel Longan 59. Hugh Brownlee
16. Jas. E. McMillan Jacob Bickler
17. G. J. Zachman 61. Joseph Rorer
18. D. J. Pontious 62. Luther G. Dill
19. Christopher Myers 63. John Berlin
20. Jacob Robins 64. T. T. Berlin
21. James Lyon 65. Wm. Dinsmore
22. John Robins 66. James T. Bartlett
23. Samuel Medbourn 67. E. Parker
24. Daniel Thomas 68. Wm. B. Morris
25. Horatio French 69. O. Morris
26. Daniel Peeples 70. Elihu Morris, Jr.
27. Gustavus A. Derr 71. George Peeples
28. Adrian Foote 72. Cyrus Hibray
29. William Jones 73. Wm. Curtis
30. Adrian V. I. Foote 74. Solomon Priest
31. Fred. Lovingood 75. W. H. J. Flagg
32. J. B. Porter 76. F. H. Long
33. Henry Burket 77. George Flora
34. Samuel Drake 78. Samuel S. Wise
35. Joel Curly 79. Barnet Adamson
36. S. J. W. Hullinger 80. George W. Grove
37. Samuel Reed 81. Mathew Berlin
38. Jacob Saylor 82. Thomas B. Waid
39. George Flora 83. J. Wilson
40. George H. Burket 84. Wm. Miller
41. Perry Harris 85. Moses Working
42. David Garn 86. Charles Clifton
43. Abraham Garn 87. A. Byer
44. Philip J. Garn

Here are 87 men who certify that they voted the Union ticket at the last election in Union township, while only 70 were counted out. What became of the rest? There were three others who voted the Union ticket in this township, but they could not be seen in time to get their signatures to the certificate. Now read the following from the Union men of Green township

We, the undersigned citizens and voters of Green Township, Marshall county, Indiana, hereby certify that we voted the "Union ticket," at the election held in said township, on the 11th day of October, 1864:

1. I. A. Gabby 36. Herman Alleman
2. W. D. Corey 37. Wm. T. Dunlap
3. W. S. McCoy 38. J. M. Personette
4. W. H. Atkinson 39. I. R. Personette
5. G. W. Craver 40. Lewis M. Bowles
6. N. Bartholomew 41. Azariah Kilpatrick
7. A. Newhouse 42. J. G. Thompson
8. B. Gray 43. P. D. Lowe
9. H. Stiller 44. D. T. Bowles
10. A. Wirt 45. Aaron Kellogg
11. B. Corey 46. Jesse R. Moore
12. E. Newhouse 47. Thomas N. Bowles
13. W. Marshman 48. David Bowles
14. J. Siple 49. C. Waldo
15. Hugh McCoy 50. S. C. Cellars
16. James E. Willard 51. A. Scott
17. E. Franklin 52. W. M. Cor
18. Dennis Willard 53. J. Pickerl
19. Henry G. Smith 54. C. Pickerl
20. Wm. Mow 55. A. V. Morgan
21. Charles Smith 56. James Moss
22. Wm. Atkinson 57. H. Smith
23. I. Richels 58. James Dunlap
24. C. Langdown 59. John A. Boots
25. John Marshman 60. John Rupner
26. C. Alleman 61. H. Gordon
27. G. Dawson 62. G. W. Hill
28. A. Korp 63. T. B. Thompson
29. H. Hendricks 64. J. Leland
30. R. Tucker 65. M. Leland
31. J. Price 66. Wm. J. Hand
32. R. Johnston 67. H. Pickerl
33. J. C. Low 68. A. B. Wickizer
34. J. Brewer 69. S. P. Wood
35. L. Gibbyon

Only 50 Union ballots were found in the ballot box in this township after the polls closed, while 69 citizens certify they voted that ticket. What became of the rest? One other person in that township voted the Union ticket who could not be seen in time to get his signature. The abstraction of the same number of tickets in each of these townships shows the plan was pre-arranged and concocted by the leaders in Plymouth, and was intended to be general. The following certificates from one of the Clerk's and one of the Judges of the election in Green township tell their own tale and need no explanation:

I hereby certify that I was one of the Clerks of the election in Green Township, Marshall county, Indiana, on the 11th day of October, 1864; that when the Board adjourned for dinner, I folded my roll paper and saw the Inspector place it in the ballot box; the other Clerk's roll was then placed on top of mine, and the tally papers on top of both. But when the box was opened on the meeting of the Board, after dinner, my roll was on top of the other Clerk's roll, showing conclusively that the box had been opened by some one during the interim.

A. V. MORGAN.

I certify that I was one of the Judges of the election in Green Township, Marshall county, Indiana, on the 11th day of October, 1864, and observed particularly the order in which the papers were placed in the ballot box when the Board adjourned for dinner, and also the order in which they came out after dinner, and that I am sure the position of the roll papers had been reversed

CHASTEEN PICKERL.

Here is another certificate showing conclusively that the ballot-box was tampered with. Mr. Low says he voted a Union ticket with one name scratched. The official returns show that all the Union candidates received precisely the same number of votes:

This is to certify that I voted a Union ticket with one name scratched, at the election held in Green Township, Marshall county, on the second Tuesday of October, 1864.

P. D. LOWE.