Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-27
/ From The kfp York Erenmg Post, October ~
EXTENSIVE AND ENORMOUS FRAUDS.

EXTENSIVE AND ENORMOUS FRAUDS.
We give I'D our columns to-day to circumstance
disclosure of frauds the very rumour OF which mas ~
ready filled the public with astonshment and hol'oi
60 extensive has been this conspiracy to cheat inc ma
iorty so many who have h'therlo susta'h,u " ~
pree of responsibility in society are mplicaten' 50 "e
of honesty been violated horrible scheme oil per
ury and subornation Of perjury has been set on
and in one instance least, successfully carried 'o
effect that we do not see how any man can reau
revelations without strong cohtehui'9 ehio''
alarm, grief and Indignation
II consolng however to see how short is the career
Of vlany how incomplete is al the ingenuity oil ira"o
10 provide against the chances Of detection, now soon
conspiracy of one set of men az lins the rights o,
their fellows in country like ours, is exposed anu
avepued and how the laws by which Providence go
yerns the world heap upon the head of the wrong doer
infamy and shame beyond even the measure OIL lhe
mischief he has wrought .
In snyinu that this conspiracy has in one instance
been successful we refer to The autunna eiecl'oh u
ls3s. when Moses H. Grinncli and his present col,
lcspu.s were elected TO Congress The HISTORY OF
Thai fraud is told in the deposition Of Jonathan - Ste
ycnson, which we give below. 10 snow now com
petelv his account agrees with information wn'ch we
at that time had in possession, we quote from le
Evening Post of Nov {, 1898, the very day ALTER the
election the following passage, in which circum,
suntia account of the fraud hen committed is gwen
Besides letting out the inmates OF the city prison on
condition of their voting the Wing ticket arrangements
were made for procuring large number OF wing voters
| from Philadelphia
wos snnposed from his situation 10 know the most ahan-
doned and profigate persons in that city, men VINO
were VIGOROUSLY ready to sell their conscienccs or
money! engaged TO conduct the negotiation. onoer
his auspices and those of other wing agents. seiec-
ton of these fellows made amounting, IL is sup
posed to about two hundred, who were sent to tins
place in different divisions. Tiey were each paid
twenty.two dollars in advance, Instructed to present
themselves in each ward and offer their votes, and at
ter having voted in many wards as they could, they
were TO receive 4 still further compensation
| "On arriving at New York, they were taken to the
Whp quarters in one of the lower wards, where they
received a ticket prepared in very peculiar manner
II was the printed Democratic ticket but the names
were cancelled with very fine pen, drawing delicate
lines across them which could not be on the other
side The names of the Wing candidates were then
written on the margin with the sane fine pen and DELI
cate hand Tie ticket had thus all lie appearance, out
wardly of being the regular Democratic ticket whlle
in reality, it sWhig ticket was prepared IN
this manner that the fraudulent voter might escape the
Democratic chaenGers. To secure HIM IN the mean
time from being obsruc,ed by his own party he was
furnished with note to confidential person at the
polls nmatiDg that he to be allowed to put IN ms
vote without challenging.
"a gentleman from Philadelphia, who knew some
thing Of several of these men, and Who saw them hang
ING about the polls in one two wards, gave warning
to the Democratic chaengers, and prevented IN some
instances their voting But, generally, IS supposed
that they voted several times each and that The fhlia-
delpha reinforcement has swelled the aggregate Wing
vote by at least or GOO. To stimulate them to greater
diligence in the work they had undartahen these men
received dollar each at the several wards where they
had succeeded in getting in a vote.
This account, we gave at the time, upon information
carefully sfted by us confirmed almost literally ny
the testimony this day publish Its fortunate eN-
posure prevents n repetition Of the same fraud IN the
II. cb f,ya cnlncp MI p ne
Illustrate the exalted hopes expressed IN the wing CIR
cuar which we published yesterday.
We would especially direct the attention of our read
ers to the afida rit of r. NJ Batchord, the agent o.
the Bank Of the United States.
! Never in our opinion knavery more transparent
than the transaction between that man and Glenworh
! He admits that he gave money 10 Glentworth IN order
10 procure the from Philadelphia TO attend oui
elections. lie admits that men were brought on ac
cordar to that cement But he insists they were
imported TO watch and detect the spurious voters on
the other side. He conured Glentworth with great
solemnity and sincerity not to employ the money 10
buv voters, and Glentworth with equal soemnity, and
VIC dare say equal sincerity, assured HIM that ne would
not.
Doubtless these forms ofspeech were all gone through
with as Blatchford relates There is rustic anecdote
which very well illustrates the dialogue between the
virtuous Blachford and the rruons Glentworh There
was huskng one evening in the barn OF worthy
deacon. When the party about to break up. ar
old wag addressing half dozen of the young fellows
said Snow boys, when we are gone home, don think
of setting the deacons Wagon on the top OF his barn
don't think of doing any thing SO improper and dlsre
spectful-Remember that have given you speca
charge not to do it, so here boys, sxpence for each
YOU OF course the boys promised with mock grayI
w. that they would do such thing and ct course thu
deacon's wagon was next morning mounted on TN
top of his barn.
We promised yesterday that we would shortly DIS
close the means hv which the Wing Committee expect
to carry this city by the large aorty they claim II
their circular The disclosure is before our read
ers Ii is n melancholy we admit, as regards TIT
extent of prohigacy which it lays open, but in anohe
respect it is matter of congratulations that
is made in season to prevent part of the mischief ant
that the namy il is likely to bring upon those engaged
in il will operate a warning to others
There is not a man whom the charge OF assisting
in this enormous fraud can be fairly fixed, who does no
deserve 10 be excluded from the society of honest men
and made to bear the mark OF disgrace upon ms lore
head till he sinks into the grave. ;.
Ii will be by readers that the persons lmPl
Gated in these transactions persons of the hughes
standing in the Wing party, and some IN high and re
spectacle Offices. Among them are
4 James B. Glentworth, Tobacco Inspector
r. f.. Batchford, Agent Of the u 8 Bank
R. G. Wetmore, Chairman of the Young Men
Wing Committee
/ John F. Raymond Leather Inspector.
Moses II. Grnnell, Member of Congress
Patrick McArd.c, Deputy Keeper of the Debtor
Prison.
Il Henry W. Havens, Wing candidate for Assembly
Noah Cook, late Wing Member of Assembly
Il Did Governor Seward, at the time of appointing
Glentworth and Raymond, know of their agency in tn
affair:
In the matter of The Investigation Of the Charge Of Fran
dnlent Fotcs al the Fail Election Of 1888 in the CT
of Nep York, Jtfore the Recorder and Justice Georg
II. MatseH, on the 20M, 2lst, and 22d Of Oet le4o:
STATE OF New YORK, CRY AND County OF NV
4 York, ss:-Jonathan d. Stevenson, of the city an
county of New York. being duly sworn doth depos
and say that lie was in the city of Philadelphia on tn
18th day of October, inst and that day at SAT-
city James Young, one of the Police officers in tina
city, and had n conversation with him upon the subiec
of illegal voting in the city of New York, at the No
vember election, in eighteen hundred and thiryegh'
the said Young then told deponent that he could fur
nsh men who would vote in every ward of the city Q
New York; most of them he said would be the sam
who had voted in the said city of New York, at the No
vcmber election, in 1888; particularly Charlie
Swnt who, he said, voted at said November election d
sixteen wards in said city. Deponent the,eupon aske
him whether he had voted himself, 10 which he rePie
he had in several wards in the city of New York, ant
particularly he recoeced that he had voted in the six