New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-13
THE CANVASS OF FRAUDS.

There has never before been IN election ia thts
State wherein Fraud and Corruption were 90
wide sprs I'd and perv aiding in that just closed
In the first place, the enormous contributions OF
the Distillsrs, Brewers and Liquor Dealers WIN
oct distinction OF party, cannot have amounted y"
less than T~o Hundred Thousand Dollars Cur
rent report names that sum as raised 10 to's C"I'
and Twelve thousand at Buffalo, with correspond
ips Iiber,lity among other members OF the trade
in other cities and villages. With this large assre-
cate. neutral and Bronson presses were oousos
mn new ones started and money and rum freely
distributed wherever anything would DO gained
nv ,ucb tactics. The last week was the most
drunken which this City has ever known, and
the Iurid fres thus kindled in the brains OF
thousands will hurry many prematurely to their
final account. 1t will be long ere our City re-
covers from the terrible debsuch Of election
week in November 1884.
A great many have been drugsed and bribed
into voting for Seymour whose sober reflections
should they ever return to sobriety-will con-
denim the deed; but, with all the lavish and skill
full expenditure in bis behalf, be has less thsn
one Il ird Of the vote cast in the State And that
vote has been, at lest so far IS this City is con-
cerned obtained in good part from dens in which
the blest recipient of SO much power would blush
to be seen-from the haunts of dissipation OF
lewdness and of crime. The Five Points the
Hook, Thomas-st and sill the foul puriieus OF
our City, have not only voted almost unanimously
for Seymour, as was to be expected, but they
have piled up On aggregate vote almost or quite
beyond example. Any man acquainted with the
Election Districts of our City must be morally GER
tain that Sey mour has at least Two thousand more
votes here than he had legal voters to cast them.
But in the morally putrid Election Districts there
were hardly any but Seymourites a,d they could
not only vote as often as they pleased, but could
count out SO many ballots as they chose, whether
they we're ever legally deposited or not. The
consequence 10 horrible majority for Seymour.
The know. Nothing" conspiracy oPerated
even worse than this. The Seymourites only pu'
into the ballot boxes or counted out three 'o'es
which had no legal voters to back the n; BUS the
vi manntes, being regarded as members oil our
own party, and often intrusted with the control
Of its organization, were enabled to steal and de-
stroy our ballots, and put their own, as ii con-
tanning the regular Wing nominations, into the
hands of thousands Of our unseduced electors. In
hundreds of places Ullmann votes were handed
out by men supposed to be working for Clark and
Raymond etimes from stands and boxes over
which the Wing ticket was displayed. At many
polls our ballots were all destroyed or concealed
by those to whom they had been intrus!ed, aud
the voters were told that Clark was not running
that the contest was wholly between Seymour
and UllmaDn-thst Ullnann was for Temperance,
and that only by voting for him could Seymour and
Rum be defeated. Twenty thousand as earnest
Maine Law men as there are in the State were
swinded into voting the Ullmann ticket BY these
pretenses.
Here is another dodge, which was very gene
rally resOrted to. A reliable correspondent in an
interior County states the fact, and we know that
similar (gum) ballots were used by the Know
Nothipes in this vicinity:
"a candidate for Congress in rural district, who
came near being nominated in the place Of true man,
has heretofore been very active tcketpedlar in bis
town. This year be procured some Of the Wing bal
lots. pasted the X. N. State nominations over the
Whig, and stood at the polls all day, pretending not
to have any tickets; but when men came up with
whom he thought he could take the liberty he would
ak to look over their ballots and, watching his OPP
poftunty he would slyy slip his altered tickets into
their hands ard thus succeeded in getting about forty
votes for Ullman."
such are the tricks by which the rule over our
State of Seymour and Rum" has been pro-
tracted. Perhaps they may win again.
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