The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-20

Newspaper Accounts.
EXCITING SCENE BEFORE THE PHILADELPHIA ELEC-
TfoN JUICES.
lrrom the Pb.ladei pha Bulletin, Oct. 1871
After we dad gone TO press esterday afternoon it was
discovered that there was disparity bet the return
made from fbe Ninth Ward and the precinct returns
handed into the Office Of tho IL fo,honoary the morning
after the election The original return of the officers OF
sud was discovered that according to il Mr. Ramsey
had but 49, votes instead OF 157 returned yesterday
This difference OF 20 turns the SCALE and ek cts Hr
George smith by a majority OF three votes
O. Appicafon was made for permission TO amend this
ciscussop, Ech Issss. ss ws,s !" .ous.dsrseIs
dalstd Ihc motion vas finally lost was SlNssas sL!s.
dispose OF the matter. Too result Of this was Disagree
rent Messrs Yard and Parker signed ceriiicats for
Mr. Smith and the iour other Judges from the city signed
q certificate Tor Mr. Ramsey II this Correction had bcen
psde II would have secured the success OF the entire
Union city legislative ticket.
THE rUdIOS IL PENNSYLVANIA.
from the Philadeiphis Journal, oct. ISL
Three staie Central Committees assembledrn this city
YESTERDAY the object being understand to negotiate
Tor fusion electoral ticket The Republican Committee
represented the Fremont party Of the sate the Fillmore
Committee the friend Of Fillmore AMI Donelson, and the
North Amtricsn COMMITTEE woll-nobody In general and
their dsipgu he'd selves In particular. the Republican
and North American Committees met together, and
agreed upon plan for electoral ticket the purpose Of
which was let the Fillmore and Fremont parties vote
the same ticket and then dcvdc tho electors according TO
the number OF votes cast for Zach party This PROPOSE
ton submitted 10 the Fillmore state Committee,
which in at another hotel and alter some de-
hate and delay finally rejected. The Fillmore re-
pytfontAlNcS uCtcrmlncN 10 uy tnCr own utkcN
previously nominated Thus, the fusion arrangement fell
10 the ground.
Ncscaiions have not yc. been rcllnqushcd butt 70
be hoped they will be defeated. Suppose they should
result 10 the desired arrangement We are quite snro
that The who have thus assembled 10 "secrct con.
claye win Dnd that In protesting to represent fbe mass
Of their respective parties they have counted without
their hosts. NO such confederation viii DO ratified by
ses noua !. much from the eTsu Of
last tuesday. II fusion that drove the Fillmore men
into The democratic ranks, or sert them at homo. "
fusion that cost the republican party many votes
that could not be brought TO the support Of native Anne
r!cans. Bettcr then for DO partes-bcter above oil,
Tor mDciple-that unmxed tickets should be voted By
tho friends OF the pectve candidates. Principle hrsi
and the leaves and nshes Afterwards.
THE ELECTION FRAUDS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
From the Philadelphia Tines, Oct. IS.
Every unprejudiccd obscr ver who Ia familiar with the
facts ard deductions Of political economy, as relates 10
population, will not fail 70 detect the fraudulent increase
the apparent vote Of Philadelphia From 1880 10 1910
the Of population a the rate OF % per
cent From 1870 TO 1850 the ABOUT 40 per
SD now would be at ,he rate Of about IS per cent? Now
our population in 1850 was 100000 soals 1t now
certainly Is not less than eos,oco Nos all
census returns and all statistics and comparisons
demon trate that the number Of legal actual voters
never exceeds onetenth OF our population and hardly
as any deductions o. political economy be-and Il is
The most exact and deanto OF sciences not purely mathe
there GaIno' @ S De .na nsn
Of Phiadelpba Before the late election no man Of any
party ever imagined or asserted that moro than $4,000
every body except the and perpetrators Of the
late nancs, Philadelphia to have polled nearly
COCO voes-tcn thousand than any previous com
putafion assigned.
But another test reveals tho fraud Just as clearly There
about $1,000 enumerated taxabes In Philadelphia
Now all economic statistics and comparisons prove that
lees than two thirds OF the taxRbles voters More
than third minors, widows, married women,
ressdenu oecedcnts estates, corporations, business
hrms and such like. 50 that the sts OF taxabes demon
sate that there are but few any, over go 600 legal
voters In Philadelphia Where then, the excess OF ten
| m 4 Ia .
The argest vote ever given IN the city Of New York; Be
tdcs those general facts the details OF the vote here,
they now transprDg, and are ocisy set FORTH
Gfm the froofs Of gross fraud No reasonable man do
ries the vote for lewis G. Cassidy s outragcousy
fraudulent. And votes for him were doubtless also
votes Tor the rest OF tho Shsmocrstc ticket. In
many Of the precincts especially In the Fourth and Sew
encerth wards the snamocrsic Judges and Inspectors
bad all things their way contemptuousy disregard
Cd all challenges and objections asked no questions OF
such persons brought 70 the polls by persons OF
their own kidney, and hurried IN such votes they
knew 10 be shamocrac with needless and eager haste
Men bad themselves assessed In various wards previous
the election, and thus voted several times the
day in different places BY this device, the apparent
shamccrac vote has been immensely increased Frau
immigrants not entitled 10 them.
BY such means the voice OF the people OF rhadephIs
has stted cannot be that this city OF Penn and
Frapkhnoi the Declaration Of Independence aud Of the
constuton--can be 90 dead " all ts antecedcnts IN
memories and s sores 10 approve the horrible prin
cipes and policy Of the border ruan shsrnocracy Th
negcrce the virtue, the brains the force hi
real substance the true democracy o this city are cer
4 Cincinnsti platform Enforcement
Every day and every hour dscoses new proofs OF "a
Infamous hauds that have thus far prevented the
preston Of the undsuned popular win OF Philadelphia
eiT bM Inn W 80 suddenly 70 many hundredsl Fo