New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-15

members Of the Legislature who were Frequently
ard scsndslously drunk in their seats while IN pub
lie ,es.iop. Let US have decent, reputable men in
ofFc.-uen who won't steal and don't make bessts
Of tbemselye-snd We shall gratefully scknowl'
edge the merits Of those who put them there, no
matter Of what party. AID we are very glad that
the c,titslists Of the Democratic party have been
At last aroused to sense Of their responsibilities 10
the premises, ard have apparently resolved !"
respect them in their political action
But how far do their acts tally with their loud
sounding professions
RIGHT we'll do the rich Dem ocrats know that He
gal Votpg-voting by aliens, by minors, and by
persons who have not lived here long enough to en-
title them to the right of sufrsge-yoting two,
three. FIVE ten aud even twenty times at the same
elections the malignant cancer Of our political
system. They know that herein j, the strong
hold of bl.ckleg potency aud rowdy performance
in our City Elections Mr.. Watts Sherman could
only vote more than once in any election with great
difficulty and danger; but Tsgue Maloney and
Hans Spifferdecker could hitherto put in their
dozen votes each at az election with ease and i'm
cal circles. thst Robert H. Morris was once re-
turned Mayor Of this City by Six Thousand ma
iorty, when he had not Elk hundred (if any msjor-
ity of the legal votes; that Aaron Clark was run
out by voting the came men over and over against
him; that James X. Polk had large majority re-
turned for him here when Henry Clay beat him
largely on the legal poll; that Wood was first made
NF 4 1aolsr al m ~
when Barker beat him as many on the
legal poll; that Buchanan WAS declared to
have received Forty-Fiye thousand Votes here,
when bis actual legal vote was less than
Forty Tboussnd aid that in the last May
crafty Election not less than Fifteen Thousand
Illegal Votes were poed-not all on one side,
though Wood received by far the most of them.
If any body doubts even one Of these statements,
he las only to apply confdentially to any friend
who has an inside acquaintance with our City
Politics, and he will be more than satisfied
Mr.. Watts Sherman aud bis confreres may not
personally kno,o that these things areso-presumng
that they prefer not to know it but they can easily
ascertain the fact. Their money has often PAID Tor
rasca.ies that they would naturally prefer to have
"bush unseen" but they could not help knowing,
in l356, when they piled up their thousands on
Thousands for the Pennsylvania Election, that no
such sums could be required, at that late stage OF
the CANVASS, for any honest purpose. WIN that
money-mainly expended in polling fraudulent
notes.-the State was carried at the October Elec-
ton, and Mr.. Buchanan's triumph thereby secured.
But for that money the Opposition State Ticket
would have succeeded by Ten Thousand msjorisy,
and Fremont's election been rendered morally cer-
tain.
We are perfectly willing to lei bygoues be by
cones. We admit that the frauds have n st been all
sn one side. But this We know is true-and,
Messrs. Watts Sherman & Co. also know it right
well-thAt for twenty years past the Wing party
formerly, and the Republicans since, have never
ceased to be earnestly, anxiously DESTROYS to have
urEle cton laws so made or mended that erery legal
roter could easily rOte once at each Eeeton teh'e no
man could rote more than once, and none but a tga!
roter could rote at ALL Yes, Messrs. Watts Sher.
man & Co. right Well do you know that our side
has steadily striven to effect these just and neces-
,ary ends, while yours has steadily resisted and
usually defeated every effort to render Illegal Vot-
ing impossible.
But the Fifth Avenue Democrats now say that
they want to Danish corruption from our politics
and prevent the election henceforth of unworthy
men to public stations. Then why don't they begin
BY approving and resolving to sustain the new
Registry Act They know that it is measure
directly and powerfully calculated to subserve the
great end they profess to have in view-they know
that rowdysm and other malign Influences at cleo
tons can never be put down so long as facilities
for wholesale frauds at the bsllot-box shall noto-
rously exist They know that the current oejec-
tiors TO the Registry Act are substantially the bur-
glars objection to the locks. Then why have they
not formally approved and resolved to sustain that
mos. righteous and necessary Act' Why do they
not reprobste the conduct of their political breta-
rea in the Board Of Supervisors, who have used
the power cOnfded to that Board by Republican
Legislature to deprive the Republicans of any voice
whatever in making the Registry Is not this Ne
fariousl We had undivided power; We freely
gave il to what we believed an impartial Board;
yet that Board, turned against US by treachery,
has denied us any voice in the Registration. The
Democratic majority say they have appointed one
Republican or American in some of the districts;
perhaps they have; but they have not allowed the
Republicans 10 designate single one. Is not this
conduct deserving the reprobation Of honorable
gentlemen earnestly DESTROYS Of banishing eorruP-
ton and fraud from our Elections
-Messrs. Sherman n Co, st their Fifth Avenue
Hotel meeting, urged by speech from the Hon.
John Cochrane, the identical gentleman who de-
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