New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-17

not take o fNtAnR NJ II Ard DO esu6 not Keep
Il twenty years in he Inv - his fnend Md he
Kent hs gui,s but the law said that . writ OF
ouo rarrante should have preference OF others
and take precedence. In this way Mr.. Cook Vas
turned ouslsst year. He got bis cerncate ana h fees
but The courts made hin take up his bed and walk and
put Mr. Welch p. BY this writ they could dive into the
bowels not only Of the returns, but OF the inspectors
II they wsnted 10. The law OF ono ~drrdMo I'D not
cost cent. That remedy bad been spphed snce The
wear 1873, ard il never had been found wanting. he
had been before the count Of Errors in many ease,
and had many verdict recorded against ann, but be
never suspected that political bias had anything 70 DO
with il. There was something in toe ermne oy which,
when once il was assumed, men chose that II should
ueyer be soileo. When, ss in the case he had eet
the Supreme court were 8 week In nveng s'tng the
frauds in one eection district, would years tine Be
enough TO investigate sn these which were alleged
Mr.. shepard would fight ike tiger for bis place ard
old Flagg Ger ably would never turrender his
asg. TLey could not surrender ~l'nesses Politicians
veuld Gene and men who had bet on the election
would come there and they would have perfect eex
garden The Romans had NO punishment for pArreide;
bey never suspected that any mao could stab bis
father So the statute did not presume that inspectors
chosen BY the people coald commit iorgeriee. M
had no where charged that there had been forgery.
Let the governing principle prevail. He vas for q
low law; he had never followed any law higher thsa
,hst Of the statute book-hsd never gone behind
the statute book and he had found by dong 80 mat
he had been led slopg pretty respectfully 80 lar The
protect had neither length, breadth, nor thckasssi
wa. intangible and could no, be acted upon.
Mr. ASDRIw> stated that he would we've his r7eh
10 speak in favor of Mr. Jordan.
A little discussion arose, and the chair resssed h,
decision that the Proesan,s should have the hst ana
the last speech.
Mr.. JoRpaS, in rising to close the argument, said
that free government Recessltsfed eonsidefaoo
smount of law. When q man committed crime,
whether he were mayor scsvenger would Il be SAID
that should not be tried because It woud take zoo
much time-because il would occupy the time OF
I'D ;urias If tbia inyasflyAtfOQ abOuf
70 on 10 the year, the old officers would hold
ever If they counted the votes the frauda ent re-
turns gave them, then they would give the election not
10 the people but 20 the villains who tasned the re-
turns Mr. Jordan proceeded TO review the Argument
of Mr. Gerard-who he thought hsd mistaken hs vo-
cation and ought 10 perform IN mensgNie-st CON
siderable length. He would tell the gentleman what
thew charged in few Instances. We charge that 10
he With district of the Twentieth ward
Mr.. SHEPARD objected to listening to any charge
rot contained in the protest.
Mr. JORDAN said his go0d-ns ured, laughing, good
for nothing friend had deu uded more explicit charges
He was Just ~ oceedng 10 give them One charge wead
be- them that in the With district of the Twen'ieth
ward the return was seen on the sth OF NoVemoer III
the hands Of one of the inspectors, and II gave onep
ard two hundred and fifty woes, and Glover two
hundred and forty,hree; that on parting with the In
| .pector the latter told gentleman that they hae
claimed right to alter the return, for they thought
they had made mistake; aue at,erward, when this
return was examined in the county clerks office II had
only huLdred and forty three votes br Glover.
Another case would be that Il was discovered in the
With district OF the Seventh ward that no votes at
all were returned for Glover but the attention OF in
spectors being called to it, they had received t~o hun
cred votes for him. and went to the county clerk Of
fee 10 correct the returns but the clerk would not al
low them to do so, and he cid very tightly; Another
csse couo be proved by the chairman Of the inspect
ors of the let dist let of the First ward. On the next
Suncay after the pol two gentlemen high In
| authority, or rather enc high IN authority aud
another very high in the eetim alton OF the public,
loa ~ in allad or the
inspectors OF that district and inquired where the re-
turns of that district They were told that they
were filed in the proper place. They asked the IN
spector if he had the tally He said yes and showed
it TO the clsretcoaed gentleman who was W IN the
gentleman high IN authority. The claet coated gen
tleman ask ed him why the Know Nohings got more
votes than Flsgg We'll of course that was question
which this poor inspec or could not answer lie said
that the tally was the that sent in 70 the
county clerks office aud that was oil he could say
aboutit Then the gentle man high In office said: am
the Dsyor'-he hsd tho mpudence to Say that he was
in Mayor WooI's place" and want the 70 ums, and
have called 10 get them" and then the ms pectOr
showed himself a little refractory and not believing
that the mayor was quite almighty, declined giving
further satisfaction In another case, an outsider, no
Inspector came in where If the district polls had
been held, and without being sworn, without pretent-
ing to be an inspector, he Joined In aud helped them
canvass the voice. He opened the boxes and took the
ballots out and he counted them, and his coant was
taken and set down without any further examination
on the part OF the oficers and they made up their
tab es from IT, and Fagg had one hundred and nine
teen votes and he told them to alter one hundred and
nineteen TO hundred and thity nine, and they
did IT, and returned according 10 the clerks office.
The pext DAY the inspectors told this ind ,idual
that they had lost their returns and they won't
10 work and a ace up new return from memory aud
memoranduns. Now are those supervisors TO SIT here
and canvass into Office upon such return as
this fret falfified, and secondly recreated in fact
forged psper' In anotner the whole number of
votes IN certain ward was by tae poll lists nled
i ....r1 rnn ha
thousand two hundred and two and yet the returns In
the clerk Office footed up the shole number or votes
az two thousand three hundred and Looty eight.
Where cid hese two hundred extra votes come from
IL was not lkelythst csnd ate playing game for
an office worth Fifty thousand dollars year would put
in the &c votes himself he would not charge such
thing upon nr. Wilett bnt It was possible that soqe
toaoy some lick spitle of his, did 90 ii. de might
when the Inspectors were eating or drinking or talking
have slipped in 8 handful OF votes. Add WAS there
any law earth which could prevent thsm from going
behind the return in sich as Gaze as this. Mr. Jordan
then proceeded TO notice the lmmoyable foundation
upon which Mr. Gerard placed bin self before no came
to the bur cOmbe ppOn of HE speech. Tie said that
Mr.. Geruo's posit1n RI cly literal iuerpreta-
ton OF The stute There was law in ~ AN that
any who touched the person of her most sacred
meesty the Queen should be cspit4ly punished. On
one occasion Der mOet sacred Majesty was IN great
danger of being buIne5, ~ q fire consu ming the
palace soldier retcued her asd ins,ea1 Of elevating
him on gGlows their law required, they elevated
bin TO power. Mr Gerard would hardly have dared
10 apply his Ii era Interpretation In this case IL Was
not to be supposed that the Legislature intended any
sbsurcity, lie would like to know if he WIS 70 have
bis III his determined by district inspectors. And who
were these mel ectOrst
Mr. EyARr said that they were the elect OF the
people.
Mir )ELY said they were sometimes appointed ~ the
supervisor.
Mr. WAKFMAS added that they were sometimes ap-
pon ted BY an Inspector. .,...,