New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-17
.uR RH-D,srkICCING swISDLE.

The R-DlsUkICCING swiSDLE'
bold scheme for MULTIPLYING tho Registry Law,
sd Selling upon the polls in some OF the stronger
Democ ratio portions of this city, is now In prog
"a, through the Common Council, in the sh,pe OF
an ord,nsnce 70 remodel the Election Districts
Some months ago Special Committee was raised
for this purpose, who reported IN July; Gus III
order to keep the job from exposure 1t was found
convenient to delay the printing Of the report until
September. 1t was said at first thai toey nsd
merely added few districts up town where Pcpn
ls;ion wss rapidly increasing IN order 70 fscu''s'e
the taking of votes and that most OF the city vas
undistur bed But the truth is, the three Demo
Gratis and one Republican who sign the report,
have rot only added thirty new di,tricts, bur have
altered the boundaries OF nearly all the others
When T,emsbn and Wood were voted for, there
were r} Election Districts; now, if this ordinance
pa,ses there will be 2O3 And the additions have
b. en- made IN the very places where the worst sort OF
Democrats are strongest 10 numbers. For Instance,
the Eleventh Ward in 1857 gave 5,5l3 votes IN
twelve Election Districts; the S'xfern'h "a'd
gave 5 534 in ten districts. The Eleventh Wsfd
is Democratic, nearly two to Que. Toe Sixteenth
Ward gave 300 msjority for Tieminn Now this
precious ordin.nce gives no new districts TO the
Sixteenth Ward, but adds SIR now ones IN tho
Eleventh Ward (Boole's) OF the eighteen dis
tres into which this Eleventh Ward Is din Ted,
DO less than ten consist Of only two blocks escn,
ard some of them cannot have hundred voters
10 the Seventeenth Ward, which gives generally
about 1900 Democratic majority four new dis
tricts have been added; aud arouod Msckerelylle,
where Wood had about ten to one OF the votes,
seven or eight districts of two blocks each have
been made. In the Bloody Sixth, a new Five
Points district is added. In the Democratic Glib
raltar the Fourte enth Ward, there are three dis.
trcts more than in 1857, although the voters have
doubtless decreased n number. In the Eighteenth
Ward-With sCme show of reason--four districts
are added; in the Twentieth, two; in the Twenty
first, four.
But the most rascslly part of the business is tho
change of boundaries 10 the ten wards where no
new distficts have been added, and where su'h
change was wholly inexcusable This is done for
the purpose Of turning out of Office the Inspectors
Of Election chosen by the people aud in those
wards the majority of them are Republicans. by
changing the boundaries, the Common Council get
or suppose they set-the power Disappointing new
Inspectors OF course, two of the three, and per-
haps all in each district would De Democrats, and
so arranged that in Republican localities they
would retsrd voting as much as possible; while in
such places as the Five Points, Water street, the
Hook, and Mackerelvllle, they would stuff in the
Rum Democratic tickets without hindrsnce or TO
straint.
So far as this is intended TO affect the registration
of voters it is meant TO confuse the people by
pelng them to 60 to the City Hall to learn where
the boundaries If the districts run The rogues
kno very we'll that men of business have neither
time nor incn alton to do this and they hope that
Thousands Of Republicans will thus DO compelled to
lose their votes II they mean to regard the Regis
try act at all, they will take good care to get their
own men up; but it is quite probable that they
will ignore the law practically 1t the polls what
ever obedience they may seem TO yield beforehand.
This beautiful ordinance was to have passed the
Board Of COuncluen on Thursdsy night, but tho
Republicans succeeded in preventing it, by leaving
INC DOdiu WitHout 4uofum VhcIlrl inc DcmO-
Gratis i'll attempt it, after the Supervisors have sp
pointed the Registers, which the law says they
must do on Monday next, We are NOT informed. 1t
behooyes every friend Of pure ballot box and
good government to uss oil fair means TO defeat
this iniquitOus scheme. Better rnat no quorum
should appear u ii December than that this high
handed outrage should go through. But, after this
exposure, We doubt if even the Democrats will
bave the hardihood to urge it forward.
But, as we understand the law, the Registers to
be named on Monday are also TO be Inspectors Of
Election. IL this is really the case, of course
the Common Council have nothing to do with
the matter. In any event, however, the whole.
sale alteration Of the Election Districts, done
in such manner, and under such circumstances,
must not pass. II is q swipdle of tho most
hasrant ptior-amOGnting 10 no less than
putting the entire vote of the city into the
hands Of the Democratic members of the Common
Council-in which case New-York would be good
for at least sc, 900 msjOrity for the Cagger Wood
state ticket, and at the Charter election would be-
bound hard ald foot TO the triumphant chariot
wheels OF dozen Of the most reckless scoandrels
that ever the seethng caudron Of party corruption
cast to the surface.