New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-26
TuR VOTE OF OUR CITY.

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Getty for the Fusn tcket7" our out-oi-iown
friends are arxiously itquirtg. We answer, "Ne,
nor 80 COO uness BY fraud" In fact, every vote
they get hey Dd &c, 900 majority Will be so much
can cheat-wi be a vote cast illegally by re-
"peaters," or by persons not entitled to the Right
of Suffrage. Let US show why:
The full legal vote of our City, with great many
more, was pclIed for President four years ago,
when-Fei nanGO Wood beiog up for Mayor, and
no Regist'y Law-several thousands of votes were
polled illegally. The totals were:
Fremont ...l7,nl Buchanan. Al 9l3
Fillmore. .l9 go Total. ..... ....79,606
That was the largest vote eser pplled here but
once--much larger than it could or would have
been under Registry. Oar Charter Election last
December came next TO 1.-THE vote for Mayor
being
Opdy Ike. ..2l, Az Havemeyer. -. 9l3
Wood........299 $40 Total. 1920
The vote for Mayor WOOD against Tiemann)
two years befo,e-in Dec, 1857-was a tIihe over
50 C0O-but than the illegal vote polled was fright
ful--not less than 10000. 1be vote last December
was much the largest legal vote ever polled in our
City. TIE most desperate exertiOns were made
on all sides-the very deepest interest was enlisted
"a great deal OF money was spent-and every
ereeshop in the City was hard at work either for
Wood or against hum The Republicans struggled
to preserve the Identity, and rot TO be absorbed
iu tue factionfght between Wood and Tammany
Hall-the Irish were nearly all desperately enlisted
for Woodland every vote was got out that could
be. Many thousands of Repqbl cans, in spite of
every entreaty, voted for Hayeueyer to beat
| Wood, or for Wood TO crush out Taumany Hall
| There was doubtless rome illegal voting bus less
than ever before at contested Charter Election.
| Yet q go was the total vote.
| We estimate the vote for President this year at
| Ninety Thousand, provided the Irish Democrats,
who are generally for Douglas, can be ind Icsd to
vote tor ten Bell Everett and seven Breckenridge
Electors, 10 full view Of the fact that Douglas has
rot the ghost of q chance-that to vote the Fusion
| ticket is to vote to elect either Breckenridge or
Bel. This the Irish-who constitute fully half
the Democratic voting strength of our City
moEtalIy hate 10 do, and thousands of them say
they v Ill not but, assuming that they can, for the
sake of Lynch or Brennan, be dragged to the
p De and made to vote the Fusion ticket there can
De Ninety Thousand votes polled here, and not
,ne more honestly.
"Wty," it is urged, "you will have more
L" than O0e Hundred Thousand names on your
Registry Of Voters"
No, not names, but registrations. There were
more than One Hundred Thousand of these last
December; yet OILY 1890 votes could be polled,
as we have seen.
The error lies here Every one who voted here
last Fall-tbat is at the State Electionis regis
tired, of course, ia the District where be then
voted. But meantime, some Thirty Thousand Of
| them have removed to Other Wards or DistrIcts-
| mot to speak Of the thousands who have died or
left the CITY and those who have thus removed
within the City are or will be registered in the
Districts where they Low reside; while not one
tenth OF them are erased from thu Registres of the
Districts in which they voted last Fail Thus there
may remain week hence O0e Hundred and
Twenty Tn usand namts on toe Regstrles while
there are not Ninety Thousand Voters ut the back
Of them all.
AND here let us urge our friends 10 every Dis
trlct to scrutiai-e the Registres as they HOp stand
and be ready HeIt Tuesday TO challenge Of and
pTO1e of the name Of erery toho has died or re-
DqOued s1nce last NOUemter. Ward Committees
Wide-Awskes here is toe work that needs your
prompt attention, and demands your utmost yigi
lance. We want no illegal vOtes-and the men
base enough to poll them are our deadly enemies.
Look to the Regstries at ODce and mark every
name which is not that of a living legal voter in
the District where it is registered. Be ready to
mOle the fact 10 The Registers next Tuesday; If
they fail to do justice, be ready to challenge and
aTre,t whoever attempts to vote on such names.
This work, thoroughly attended to, will prevent
the polling Of from Five to Ten Thousand fraudu-
lent votes against us. Let it be nowhere neg
lected
Suppose the voting to be honest, the total vote of
our Cly caInOt exceed Ninety Thousand, whef cof
Lincoln will have at least Thirty five Thousand;
leaving but Twenty Thousand majority for Fusion
at the wOrst. And supposiDg that the Irish
Democrats can be made to train ia the company of
Nessrs James Il Erastus Brooks, and vote for
Rel Everett Electots-is about what the lavish
expenditure of the Dry Goods mems money may
strain the majority up to.
We do not Overestinate the Lincoln vote here.
Our poll Of 81, Az for Opdyke last December was
certainly 1900 short Of the total Republican vote
cost ut that tine--the residue being diverted to
Hayemeyer and Wood as Aforesaid. And, from the
close OF that election, we have been Tesolutely
working and rapidly gaining. We have added
some -Four Thousand to our strength by Naturallzi'
ton aloLe. Strong men-representali'e meh-
.uch as WIN L. Dodge, Shepherd KnSpp, Wm