New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-08-26

III. Bat While TIE kepubiit AIS nc p'"''fJ "
4 ID, mselyts % carry TIE STATE they are to' s''o
uu, 10 carp al, or nsHfiJ a. the Congress D'
tfie, There. AZ most. eleven 4 thee Dstn'e
IL vt'ck the Republicans sd Ansrcios c. n'inea
eau elect: but IN which neither party car reason
Ably hope 10 prevail without the I'D Of the o1ser'
Tbe.e u ,,ric,. are tie sufolI, tie Bro klJn fodr
IN this City AID Wlliansburgh, the Ulster, the
Albany, the Rensselaer,, the Clinton, s'd n. E''s'
TIE two parties conbioed nsy carry al, And pretty
certainly vii carry eight or ter Of these Ds'r'ts.
/, i.lishiy prob,ble that they vii de'er@iae the
political character Of the next House. Have we
ratt TO throw item away if j, be possible to 'ive
thtml What obi cation Of good faith or dictate OF
sound Policy requires us TO do 30 VIVA: good'
external or internal 10 to be achieved b. their Sac
rfce We do not understand.
III. The Americans a. body stand before Their
ftow-ciiizeDs the more especial ard decided adso-
Gates of trtain meas Tres which seem to US to be
right in Themselves aid 10 be commended By each
years experience more and more clearly 70 the
popular undertaking ard judgment. They favor
Registration Of Legal Voters as protection against
fraudulent and double voting st Elecs;ons and this
MEASURE right in tself, is rendered more and more
obviously, urgently necessary BY the scandaous In
crta Of balotbo stuffiog. We believe less than
three fourtbs of Fernando Woods Forty thousand
Votes last Fall we're legal; We believe he WAS fairly
beaten at the Election wien be WAS first made our
Mayer We believe Henry Cl,y had . majority
of the legal votes cs.t for Presidential Electors 10
this State in 1344, and that the rejection Of all
Illegal votes cast in that contest would have made
him President. And the perth acity With which
the Democratic party resist Registry convincss us
that they kno,e they are habltusly benefited By
Illegal votiIg Ard, although the facilities for
ffsud are fer greater in cities, especially in this
great Baby Ion, than elsewhere we are opposed to
any halfway job Of registering. When the Wings
passed Registry Act for this City only in 1910,
the fact Of its partial application was the main
ground of assauit upon it. "Make yourlaw uniform
IN its applcat o. said it's adyersaries; "we pro-
test against Its assumption that one part of the
estate is more hoL est than another" 1t need give
lit G trouble and do no harm whatever to have q
LIST made out and posted up before each Election of
those legslly entitled TO vote in each Election Dis
tIict; while it would certainly facilitate the detec
ton and prevention Of fraud. Now person may
present himself before the Inspectors at any poll,
and offer ballot which, there being less than half
dozen persons present, may be taken in perfect
good faith, though half dozen citizens Of the
town know that the person offering it is not citi
zen or has removed from the County. A Registry
secures TO every one not merely the right bat the
opportunity Of challenging whomsoever may offer
to vote without being entitled to do so; without a
Registry, an Insignificant knave has only to watch
the coming and going of these who know him to be
and he will find chance to slip in bis
vote unobjected to. We are for Registry any
bowit is tie fair thing and the honest thing; it is
the only possible barrier against Illegal aud Double
Voting; ard if supporting it tends to draw Amer-
cans into accord with Republicans, that is an add
tional reason for its advocacy.
So with regard to the requiring au interval be-
tween NatursliziDg and Voting, Our present Con-
,titution Was framed BY strongly Democratic Con-
veIton: yet the gross abuse ard wrong OF hunting
up sliens and transforming them into citzens, for
the sske Of getting their votes in pending election
did not escape its notice and apprehension. We
believe that Gulsn c. Verplanck was beaten for
Mayor in 1884, ard Aaron CLARK 10 1910, by voters
for that very purpo,e while the cleo
,ion-tbat is, the polling-was ia progress. Our
last Constitutional Convention put check to this
by requiring that an immigrant must have been
raturazsd ten days before he is entitled to vote.
This 10 right bu. insufficient; for immigrants are
still hunted up by paid party drummers and induced
10 undergo Naturalization at the cost of the party
ess"', and Of course for the benefit of the partys
poll hundreds are made to believe that their oath
OF hdety TO our Government binds them TO vote for
the Administration or Government candidates; while
the certificates of naturazstio are withheld from
until it 10 seen that they have voted right
AL this is f.grantly wroDg-a monstrOus abuse
a ,cardl to intelljg gent and independent Adcped
Citlzen,, whom il tends to copfound with tho
dumb ere atures out of whom Party for Partys ,ake
j. constantly fabricatng citizens 1t ought to be
ard must be corrected. We would take away no
facility DOW afforded to voluntary applications for
citizepsbip but We would arrest the practice Of
yokpg ard ringing immigrants after the fashion
above deserted BY extending the interval between
and votiog from ten days to one year.
When . citizen Of Connecticut or New. Jersey
moves into our State we require bin to bde year
before voting not that we consider him less ntell.
gen. or CAPABLE than any Of US, but because We
would maintain an adequate barrier ag,in,t the i'm.
OF voters into closely contested State to
oyerbear the msori.y Of its bona fds citizens The
prir cpe is the same, the necessity at least equally
manifest and urgent, in tie case of NaturaIzirg to
feet pending Election. We would so amend our