New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-12

that party proclaim by their Sp!es 'na! 'ne! unaer
stand the fact A. well a. we do Having ninetenths Of
the groeshops on their side, they ccn'roi through
them nineteen. tweutieths Of those who cannot
read our language and Of all who, having been but
a few months on this continent, are the easy dupes
Of loud professions plausible names ana freely DIS
pened LIQUOR Thousands OF these are irst Piled
with whisky, then supplied with Democratic BAL
ot,, and thus driven or led up to the polls entirely
ignorant that in voting while yet unnaturahzed.
they are committing grievous wrong aud break
inc the laws Of the land Others, maddened with
LIQUOR and rendered desperate by want are induced
to vote from poll to poll often ten or fifteen times
At single election. Aud against these and kin
dred crimes, which zap the very foundations
Of Republican Institutions, our existing laws
afford no adequate, no tolerable safeguards. Int
rural election district where nearly every resident
for fur months past must be known to persons Of
each party, the chances for illegal voting are far
less; yet even here, township nearly all on one
side is often the scene of illegal voting BY minors
aliens ard nor-residents. In the cities, under our
existing laws, fraud is the rule and an honest poll
the exception. Our Sham Democrats are not salts
fed with cheating their opponents by ballot-box
stuffiDg; they have extended the system TO swind-
ling each other. Give him the Inspectors, the
Ward bully is q poor tool who cannot carry
Primary Election though the voters of his party are
four to one against him. twenty-five hundred
votes have been poed OF Primary Election IN this
CITY By less than three hundred persons, not hall OF
them legal voters. so universal and wholesale has
this fraud become, that the results of contested
Primary Elections are longer regarded as OF any
account and the control Of " the party has fallen
practically into the hands of selfelected, self
perpetuatiDg secret junto known as the Tammany
Society,"" consisting nominay OF four hundred, but
practically of thirty or forty persons. Thus
Democracy debauched by bslotstuffing leads to
Arstocracy BY process as resistless as the
fall of water at Niagara. And so rank is the
abusc that Mr.. Joseph Rose prominent
Tammany politician and Democratic Office
holdDr, gravey proposes in yesterdays Atios, that
the Democratic General Committee shall hence
forth be constituted by lottery-the names of all
the known Democrats in q Ward being placed in
box, whence " two respectable Democrats" shall
draw, say twenty five names; and the persons 80
indicated shall proceed to elect the Delegates to
which said Ward is entitled in the General Com
mittee. Such is unwilling Democratic testimony
to the utter decentralization and breakdown OF our
present Election machinery, so far as cities are
concerned
AS to the objections to the Registration OF
Voters, they would apply with equal force to the
Registration of Title Deeds-nay, with greater
force, unless Rights of Property are Of more
Importance than the Rights Of Man. 1t costs con-
siderable TO record deed; it need not cost tenth
part 20 much to register voters name. 1t pos
sible that the legal requirement that deed be
recorded may operate to divest the rghtfu owrer
Of farm or house of his title; it is not possible
that one legal voter should bs deprived Of his right
to vote by Registry Law where fifty have that
right secured to them by the same means. 1t may
seem greater hardship for seihzen to be denied
the privilege of voting than to have his legal ballot
by illegal one yet, practically, these
are exact equivalents. To let every one vote who
chooses, and az often as he chooses, is to nullfy
the Right of Suffrage and transform our Common
wealth into an aristocracy of grOg-bruiaers aid
ballOt.b suffers.
We do most earnestly hope that the Assembly
will to-day or tomorrow consider and pass the
Senate's Registry bill. 1t may not be perfect, but
any Registry act must tend to limit voting to legal
voters, or reduce Illegal voting to minimum.
Once establish the principle of Registration, and
the details may be improved and the process simp-
fed from year to year. We only ask for such pro-
visions as shall prevent factous and partisan con-
spiraeies to render the Registry odious by making
its operation onerous. Let the registering officers
honestly try to execute the law faithfully, putting
legal voters to no unnecessary trouble, and we are
confident that it will not only work well but commend
itself to the approval of all who want to baye cleo
tons decided by legal votes alone. To satisfy the
other sort is not practicable, nor do we deem it
even desirable Their opposition will be the laws
most emphatic commentator.
Our State Senate, we regret to say, has rejected
hill providinr for the alection