New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-04-12
The Election.

The Wings Of Newly rk have again met their
opponents in Charter Election, and been defeat
ed Perhaps our hopes of success were unreason-
able In view Of former results, yet we did hope that
the character and popularity Of our candidate ior
Mayor gavehim chance Of election, and that the
divisions of our opponents might give US the Coun-
GIL That these hopes have been disappointed IS
not remarkable; bu, the large majority obtained
BIZ our opponents is dishonest one, obtained by
the foulcst means. Colonization, doube-vo;lng
by wholesale, and systematic violence are the
means by which the Wing party has here been
overwhelmed. So many acts Of outrage and fraud
&c believe never before disgraced CITY Election.
The Sixteenth Ward has been carried against us
by virtue Of FIVE hundred bludgeons, whereby three
hundred Wing voters were kept IN mortal lear
from the Polls; while organized bands OF Loco
Focos hundreds in number, have ranged from
Ward to Ward, casting three, five and seven votes
each for Morris and the Loco-Foco Ward tlckcts.
Wearc confident the official canvass VIII clearly
show that not legs than tmo thousand fraudulent
votes have thus been cast for Morris and the Loco
Foco Charter tickets, giving them all that they
stroyc or cared to carry.
The naked, simple truth is, that in this great
City, With three hundred thousand inhabitants,
forty thousand legal voters ten thousand adult
males who arc not voters, and sevenfythree Tolls,
an Election without Registration OF Voters is a
game, in which the most INSCRIPTIONS Will WIN.
Five hundred reckless men, by laying their plans
skillfully, can at any time put IN illegal votes
enough to give whichever party they please an
overwhelming MAJORITY. They may do this with
out once swearing in an illegal vote, IT they are
squeamsh about that forrnolity. They have only
to knoao certain places in the several Wards to
claim as their residences, answer all questions
promptly and with perfect self-possession, and
their votes will go in unchallcnged. Thus, whic
tho mass Of both parties vote honestly and IN utter
ignorance of all fraud, a small knot Of gamblers
and knaves may impose on New YorkJust such
Government as they choose This Is virtually,
clearly asserted by the Loco-Focos themselves IN
their clamor about Pipc-laying,' but to every
effort to establish an ehectual barrier against such
frauds, they oppose stubborn and unreasoning
hostility. They have broken down the only law
which could stop such impurities, and do not even
propose or desire any thing in It's stead They
have opened wide the door to all manner OF Eiec-
ton Frauds, and vainIy Will they seek 10 escape
the odium of the consequences which ensue,
while they suggest no remedy and quietly profit
by the deluge Of corruption and fraud which they
have let in to trample on the Rights and destroy
the Morals of the People.
Up TO O'Clock yesterday, we had high hopes
ola Wing triumph; in the afternoon, every tfing
went against lls. Our friends were driven away
from many Of the Polls and ovcrawed at others by
violence; and hosts of fraudulent votes were cast
by men who had already voted in other Wards.
We shall give particulars of many acts of vio-
lencc and proofs of Illegal voting tomorrow. For
the present, we can only state that one Wing
whitfield Case in the Twelfth Ward, and one
in the Sixteenth, were bludgeoned, utterly with
out provocation and most severely if not danger
ously injured.
The Wing split in the First Ward did us great
harm-the supporters of the split for Collector
selling the whole Wing ticket for Collector votes
We could not have believed this belorchand--who
could?