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

lating tho evidences of the election conspiracy,
and who have put forth what the country re-
| CARDS as a temperate aud judicious address, In
which, with an entire absence Of partisanship,
they expressed the hope that the Mayor and his
associates wOuld bring to justice every Republic
can who might have been guilty of the foul
crimes so boldly charged in Mr.. Hofiinan's
proclamation. The tone of The World is that
of the Old plea of confession and avoidance
virtually admitting the facts, but insinuating
that Mr.. Dodge is hypOcrite and not a proper
person to obiect.to political frauds.
| There is, to be sure, reference to the Com
mittees address, as assuming frauds to have
"been committed but the Committee had re-
ferred not to assumption but totJdcf when they
alluded to the fact of fraudulent certificates,
proven by thousands, in the case OF Rosenberg;
of fraudulent registres, proven by the Registers
themselves of repeating gangs" going from
poll to poll as an asCeitained fact; of stuffed
ballot boxes, or fraudulent counting, as proven
beyond dispute in districts where the votes
reported actually exceeded the votes regis
tered. More than all. crime is shown by
the circular marked "Prirdte and Strictly
ConfdenhdI,r arranging for the instant
transmission of the estimated major1-
ties, the moment the polls were closed,
from the different counties Of the State, that 1t
might be known how many more Democratic
votes would have to bc added, even though
the number should exceed the total registry.
That circular was not an assumption, az init
mated by The World, nor forgery. rs asserted
by The Express 1t was dated at the rooms
of the Democratic State Committee, and
that circular replies were received by tele-
graph, the payment arranged Tor IN New-1 ork'
addressed to civilian NJ. Tweed, Tammany
"Hall" A copy of one of these kilograms
picked up at Galen, in Wayne County, con-
tanned the original note from the county man
ager, cautionng the correspondent to put the
Republican majority "high enough"
What can be done about i'll This Is the
question which men are everywhere asking.
In San Francisco, under somewhat similar cir
cumstanccs, the citizens established Vigilance
Committee and took the law into their own
hands But this is not the way in which we
must dispose Of our honorable scoundrels IN
crminc, and our official thieves lin broadclOth.
With us the foundations of republican gov
ernment are threatened with destruction, and
for the moment wo seem without remedy.
simply because no such fraud converting the
franchise to defeat the popular will, was ever
contemplated by the trainers of our laws.
The Syracuse address states clearly what we
want, and what every good citizen should re-
solve to have:
ave want the world 20 know the fact by legal and in.
dsputabe proof and we want tho false moral effect Of
s fraudulent Democratic victory broken and scattered
Much more do We want the purity Of the baotbo
protected or the future aud We believe tnt procStoh
York and In the certain punishment VI those frauds how
ever high or low"
1t is for Congress to revise carefully the
whole subject in connection with the question
of naturalization, and the frauds in which
naturalizcd citizens have been Go great eN-
tent innOcently involved, by Democratic
officials, from the Judge on the bench and the
Mayor with his proclamation down to partisan
inspectors, deputy shcrns, and captains OF
"rcpcating gangs" all combining 10 lure the
unsuspccting foreigner, under the idea of eNer-
cising a right into the preparation OF crime.
For the fit performance of this great work
o. protecting in the future tho purity of the
fran hisc members of Congress should acquaint
ia msclvcs with the working Of the present sys-
en- in the National Metropolis and To this end
,iev should appoint q Committee of luycstga
zion, with power 10 send fot persons and papers.
Then We may know how far the statements of
the Union League Club are assumption or facts.
TO this end, memorials should 90 to Congress,
not alone from this city, but from every part
OF this State, aud indeed from the whole
country for the fraud that has succeeded IN
manufacturing a false majority for the Elec-
tors Of Seymour and Blair might have had the
effect of defeating Grant, precisely as similar
fraud in this city, in 1884, is positively asserted
by Democratic authority to have defeated
Henry Clay, and to have elected his rival,
james X. Polk In the mean time the Club Com
mittee will continue their labOrous scrutiny, and
citizens in all parts of the State should furnish
them with whatever facts may tend TO unrayel
tho plot. The Rosenberg trial, where it Is
reported that Judge Davies and Judge Pierre
pont are to aid District-Attorney Courtney,
will presently throw light upon the real
authors of the foulest conspiracy ever formed
against American institutions.