New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-22

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rrbs ,t,1sfsIeled ana stnpepaoas TRIUMPH y I'M
ssisss, 5000 ii tbe citg 81 Baltimore 1t the 81
tn,,Tis;ral election, has aVfaiy disgr1ntea "
sy so siF,IFr mere party backs and common san
$500, NH tfa decent portion 81 the press appear 70
$500 II IL natural result flowing from natural
III III onte evident that the property holders
SsIsnfs ana business men, and respectable people
yated hi Mayor Swami and the American ticket, ~
rsssf II aasse without any regard to political eonsld
oyatioas In order to infet whitening rebuke upon
III cainnniatoTs and vifers Of an honest and abe
Chief Magistrate and faithful and efficient admins
tration of the city government we can arrive st No
other reasonable solution Of the result tor such ire
mendoas victory could not have been achieved on
mere party grounds Fairly tested, the American
party il probably In majority in the city Of Batl-
more, three thousand yotesnot solitary vote more
Hence, d majority Of nearly twenty thousand votes,
such as Mayor Swami received can only be accounted
for on the ground that there was general uprising
Of the people
Of course the mere party hacks charge, because the
oppostion candidate for Mayor withdrew about one
o'clock in the afternoon Of the day Of election, that
multifarious and enormous frauds were committed BY
the American party. This was to have been expected
| Those who usually thrive By fraud, when defeated,
invariably charge fraud upon their opponents But,
unfortunately for them in this case the figures prove
that If fraud was committed that they were guilty OF
the fraud positively and incontroyertibly guilty We
will now proceed to subsantiate these statements BY
producing the rrefutable figures.
The following is the vote Of Baltimore, cast at the
J last two municipal elections:
4epferate9voe If the whole city east for Mayor .
sg en- s3s vote j The whole ey Mayor 80,
in 1856. 'a.' 80
Increase in toa! vote # The git{ is;s s4a 1851
agsafs Vote FOR Mayor ii Egh ward 1856, 1856
: Increase in Eighth Ward alone ..s~7t.. 1865.
Increase in nineteen American wards. 81.
Nearly tqF9sBnifds Of this whole increase, says the
Baltimore Clipper Of the 10th, is thus found in thu
h single Democratic ward, and only about onethlrd
ii in all the other nineteen wards together we tax
ii the testimony offered byour opponents themselves Il
It show concusyely that two-thrds Of all the fraud
alleged were committed by their partsans in tn
D. single ward in which they had exclusive sway, an
Of that the amount Of frauds in that ward alone wa
of nearly donbe what remains to be charged to til
IS other nineteen wards.
le The Eighth Ward of Baltimore must be swee
d ward If the managers there had had time probabl
IL thev would have cast thirtyve thousand votes il
stead Of three thousand five hundred and torty-nn
,al They did pretty well, however In two years thf
We increased their vote sixteen hundred and sHy-thrt
he ballots-all on one side-swann receiving only OF
er. hundred and twentyone votes, all told 70 at "Hr
,nr al all events it cannot be said that me parHsahs
CT Swami perpetrated frauds
Id Neither will the charge hold good IN the ON
an nineteen American wards for the increase OF the 70
kes ID them was only nine hundred and seventyioar-
yer little more than fifty to each watdabout lust a.
rec legitimate increase We presume. So, re matter
what light ii il viewed, Of how deeply and rg1dly
yestigated the triumph in the Monumental CITY
II, the most complete and astounding on record