The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-12
Alleged Election Frauds In ahc City.

From the sunday Courier, Nov IL
ELECTION FRAUDs-THE CLAIMS or wILLETT, suEp
ARD AND FLAGG, TO De COSTEsTED-A FUSS ANTI
CIPATED.
Either the who acted inspectors OF election IN
many Of the districts grossly incompetent else
they have been guilty of fraud for II IL evident tha
wo that could readily be accomplished by ordinary
clerk ia twelve hours does not require the services OF
three eight times that length Of time without
they had some improper purpose 10 else they
too thick beaded and ignorant for the proper fnf
ment OF the duties assigned them The former sapposi
ton, however. is the most natural and . number Of
facts have already been elected TO strengthen and
dorse IT,
For instance II can be proved that in one election dis
rict where the Of the number of ballot.
cast made IN accordance With the law gentleman
made memorandum 81 the votes and examining
certified returns of the inspectors he discovered a di-
cTepsncy Of hundred votes against the American
car didates
another district the Inspectors excluded every rer
son from the room and locked the door while thsy
"a the ballots proceeding contrary TO Law, and one
that vfiaies the entire vote Of the district. >
Ia another, Il declared th, the Inspect ,rs voted
trce and furnished voters with tickets their wn
pockets. In another, LORENZO B Shepard's vote in
creased, two nights after the election seventy eight
votes and II t. .s 10 presume that all the candidates on
The sre teAe were sufficiently lucky TO hare the
rectihed 10 ia, ,ir advantage.
set Of returns from distri:. made up on
lhurfday and sent into the ofce Of the County CT tx
Ia several districts the ballot boxes removed before
the votes counted.
The inspectors u district satisfied Of their n-om-
potency, allowed irresponsible man 70 count their
votes and the returns afterwards being lost again
made up from the obscure scrioblngs Of hs meroran
Gpm book.
We learn the inspectors of one dis.c. have De.
csred that their retirns they furnishe by
them have beea materally altered, and that they
The returns Of he sixth ward /, is aid EXHIBIT oyer
twenty hv ndr@d cast while the poll st 10 the
oce Of the County Clerk declares that there are over
the ward.
In fact the greatest latitude has been aovsa =. the m
speotors TO crafty their personal wnims perpetra,e
the mos; outrageous frauds ADD learn tha, Ambrose
l.. Jordan, W. Curtis Noyes, and Charles OConor have
been retained 10 contest the claims Of Mcssrs Fagr
The a~ is sufficiently stringent 10 punish these ira 1ds
II proven, but there Is not single In the city pos.
aessed with hr share OF brains who does not confess
That the crcunsaa aA6 that lead directly " TIE ooor6f
uh establish the tacSoAAt outsa1~s ~ the vest cha
raser have been committed ssins' the purity Of the
elective franchises II behoyes ~ al parties y aid
t. seeking out the guilty.
In ore district Of the sixth ward where the ballot
boxes had been removed from the place where the polls
we're held, 20 more convenient place for eanvassDg
ore toad by reliable Who stands ready 70 20
he fact that ne saw Que candidate on the democratic
ticket oseditS with of ten votes twice within
a few mnut~. The same man stands ready to
ths b. these inspectors Afterwards proving their
returns In this wise A. and proving their &C.
count AS count IL SO for favDrfte candidate and
BIS 80 hr. y. presumes that he has made q mistake
10 putting down the figures, and generously accepting
As account as correct alters his $40 20 $40 without
counting the ballots. This our informant ays he sa~
dcne repeatedly.
Again repor,ea on Friday evening iha, seYerai
dstiiet returns had been within block ha. o. the
City Hall for two days but the inspectors would
bring them in, because they wished catch bets
them ard clay of 70 how many votes wanted
- elect certain candidates. certain Of
ths that he offered TO bet 900 on Il, but touna
takers.
Yesterday afternoon n reported tha, All the dss
tfcts had been heard from that A. G. Favg 37s
atsad On whiting the County Clerks ofce last evening
btseter, We were surpslsed 20 hear that the missing
dis.fic (the First district, Twelfth ward, Manhattan
VIE had no. yet come in and lnq0irns how many
votes the district probably had told from 2s H. 10
ouf of which young employed In Connoy's osiee
iutsrued a. that he knew that Flsgg would get
Jory q one hundred votes Giles rh0 vas then a.
The returns stood, 1i6 ahead ~ F1sgg voters os the
ivefth ward y II possible that IL takes three ectos
four days and hse nghs 10 small clsfsf In
yoaf vws where, u II said there bat from Us v
90 voter
In district u TIE thirteenth ward the Inspecsrs
procee1ei TO the voes r chatter ca before
having canvasssd the senate or Assembly
N another district 'he ballot b0xes we're er stAnIng
10 ~ sxpossd place unprotected and IN such manner
fhs lry person c5uh easily have slipped hAad'i d
vu*e4
re hssf il addition q al the sbore he4sd offantry
viefe 'hs inspestors have been arunk shne tr
20 ~ 'o r1un' ~ ballots hat was tsnrasl tr
fheta e 4, rtst5y ~ theif ssafi.
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