The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-04-27
THEELECT1UN.

The Whies Of New York have again met
their opnoneals n q Charter Election,and been
defeated. Perhaps our hopes Of success were
unreasonable, in view Of iouner r4ulis, yet We
did hope that the character and popularity Of
our candidate for Mayor gave him a chance Of
election. sndthat the divisions Of our opponents
might give us the Council. fhatthese hopes
have been disappointed IS not remarkable; tut
the large majority obtained BY our opponents
IS a dishonest one, obtained by the ioulesl
means. COLONIZATION, double-votng by whole
sale. and systematic violence are the means
BY VIII eh Tie " big party has here been over
whelmed. SO many acts OF outrage and fraud
we believe never before dsgtaccd CITY cleo
lion. The Sixteenth Ward has been carried
AGAINST us by virtue Of Eve hundred bludgeons.
whereby three bundled Wing voters were
kept in mortal fear from the Polls while or
ganized bands Of Loco Focos.hundreds ~ num-
Der, have ranged from Ward 10 Ward, casting
three, Eve aud seven voies each for MoTs
and the LEGO Foco Ward tickets. We are
confident the official canvass vii clearly show
that not less than nOo thousand fraudulent votes
have thus been cast for Morus and the Loeo
Foco Charter tickets, giving them all that they
strove or cared to carry.
The naked, simple truth is, that m tins
great City, with three hundred thousand in
habhanls, forty thousand legal voters,ien thou
sand adult males who are not yoters,and seven
ty-three Polls,an Election without a Regstra-
ton Of voters is game, in which the most un-
scruDulous viii win. Five hundred reckless
men BY layingtheir plans skillfully, can at any
tune put in illegal votes enough to give which
ever party they please an oyerwhelming'maior-
| ity. They may do this without once'sweanng in
an Illegal vote, ifthey are squeamsh about that
formality. They have only 10 kHol0 certain pa
ces in the several Wards 10 claim as their resi-
dences, answer al questions promptly and with
perfect sell-possession, and their votes VIII 60
in unchallenged, Thus, while the mass olboth
parties vote honestly and IN utter ignorance Of
all fraud, a small knot Of gamblers and kayes
may impose on New York just such Govern
ment IS they choose! This is virtualycear-
" asserted by the Loco Focos themselves in
their clainor about Pipe laying but to every
effort 10 establish an eiiectual barrier against
such frauds, they oppose a stubborn and I'M
reasoning hostility. They have broken down
the only law which could stop such iniquties,
and do not even propos or desire any thing in
lis stead They have opened wide The door
| 10 all manner OF Election frauds, and vainy val
they seek to escape the odium Of the conse-
| quences which ensue while they suggest no
remedy and % ely profit by the deluge Of cor
ruplon and fraud which they have letin to tram
pie on the Rights and destroy he Morals O
! the People,
Up.to one o'clock yesterday, we had high
hopes Of Wing triumph !; ia the afternoon,
every thing went against us. Our friends were
driven away fromlmany Of the Polls and over
aved at others by violence and hos oil frau.
/ dulent votes were cast by men who had AREA
| dy voted at other Wards. We shall give par
ticulars Of many acts Of violence and proofs o.
! Illegal voting tomorrow. For he pr,seut,wC
can only state that only one Wing (N mtded
Case) in the Twelfth Ward, and one in the
Sixteenth, were bludgeoned, utterly without
provocation, and most severely ifnot danger
ously injured,
The Wing split 10 the First Ward did Us
great harm-tIe supporters ofthe split for Col
4 lector selling the whole Wing ticket for Col
lector votes We could not have believed
this befo-ehand-who could!-N T. Tribune