New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-23
THE STATE ELECTION.

There has been published tho Official
Statement and Declaration of the Board Of
County Canyassers of the County of New
" York" of the votes cast in the recent cleo
! ton. 1t is certified to be correct" by Viii
liam NJ. Tweed, Chairman, and Charles l..
Loew, Secretary of the Board, and further
certificate of "Charles 4. LOew Clerk of tho
County of New York" declares that il is
correct transcript of the statement on file IN
his office. I'm testimony thereof he la, added
his official seal.
The certificates of MessIs. Tweed aud Locw.
and the sacred seal that Processes to attest their
truthfulness, carry no conviction. Good citizens
throughout the State, Democrats as well a. Re
pubcans believe that the official statement an
uounces the result not of an honest election,
but Of a fraudulent conspiracy that the Grant
Electors, and Grswold and Cornell, had a major
ity of legal votes; that the people have been
systematically and wilfully dclIauded by a
handful of desperate cOnspimtois, and that the
names Of Messrs. Tweed and Loew, aud We
may add the Official seal are so singuarly
blended with certain details of the conspiracy,
from its beginning to its end, that it would be
difficult to find two other names, or another
seal, whose official attcstatiOn would command
less confidence with an intelligent community.
The outline of this conspiracy is well under
stood, aud each day adds TO the convincing
proofs that exhibit the bodncss of the scheme
the adiOitncss of its mmageTs-the elaborate
arrangement Of PTS separate paIts-the conniv-
ance of public Oflicials-the completely OF party
managers-the employment of agents far and
near-and the utter wickedncss of the whole
plot to make the franchise an instrument OF
fraud, and to place the people Of this State,
thus swindled and defTauded OF their sover-
eignty under the feet of the Ring that has so
long oppressed, and plundered, and disgIaced
this city.
The recent letter TO the Union League Club
from the Hon. Andrew d. White and some
sixty other citizens OF Syracuse, spoke plainly
the one deep thought that stiIs the hearts Of
our citizens. 1t said
"The great state OF New York stands to-day disgraced
by tho announcement Of political verdict which IS lie
before all the world The gigantic frauds perperated by
the nnscrupulous party whose strOnghods are IN the
sinks and dsns Of inquty Ia the great cities have over
borne tho truthful vote and voice Of the Empire state
desperate with national defeat and flushed with The
state victory which fraud has won, hardly cares to
deny IT,"
This last fact is perhaps the most significant
of the whole business.
1t is true that II would be hopeless task 10
deny frauds so daringly pcrpetrated, but from
the more respectable organs Of the Democracy
1t has been thought that some condemnation
might have been expected, and some readiness
expressed TO assist the investigation and to
punish the criminals Honest Democrats are
met with every day, who declare that unless
the thing is stopped our institutions are at
an end; that our city elections are merely
fraud, and that 1t is idle TO organize parties
or to vote, while the men in power consent to
cheating and thimble-rigging, and organize
schemes after the polls are closed TO learn the
majorities against them in the country that
they may more certainly cheat by stu0ing the
boxes or counting the ballots. But the trusted
leaders and organs of tho party, like Mayor
Hoffman in his proclamation, and The World
ia its editorials, encouraged the eonspirators,
and abused all who attempted to arrest the
crime in its commission Of to punish the wretehes
! who cOptrvcd Il, ~f'
! The World Of Thursday devotes long
leader to personal defamation of the Hon.
! William 4. Dodge, for the reason that Mr..
! Dodge is the Chairman of the Union League
! Club Committee, WHO are collecting aud col