New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-10
NEW YORK FRACTION FRAUDS.

NEW YORK ELECTION FRAUDS
OF the, vote cast Tor Seymour in tn
State of New York at the late election, viz
42S,213, at least $4,000 were fraudulent
arising out of repeaters in the city Of New
York and persons voting upon bogus o
false naturalization certificates. Had tn
canvass in that State been purged of tn
Democratic frauds the majority for Gen
+ ersl Grant and the Republican candidat
for Governor would have been between
10000 to $4,000.
As an evidence OF these frauds, in reia
ton to bogus naturalization certificates, j
was proved upon oath before the United
States Commissioner in the examination o
the case Of Benjamin B. Rosenburg, one o
the accomplices in the manufacture of sucl
certificates, that he showed to Mr.. William
7. Sims, one of the persons who applied tt
him for some, a list of 5000 Of fraudulen
and bogus certificates which had been sup
piled to order. The river counties or cities
bordering upon the Hudson between New
York and Albany were flooded with them
and they were wholly used in the interest
Of the Democratic party. So great was the
confidence of the prominently honest
Democrats in the city, in the honesty
and purity of the Republican party that
several distinguished lawyers of the Demo
cratic faith offered their services without
fee or reward to aid in the prosecution Of
any Republican, or set Of Republicans who
might be charged under oath with orignat.
ing or being in any way concerned in any
attempt to perpetrate fraud upon the
elective franchise. The offer was not &C.
cepted by the Democracy, for they could
not find single case of wrong doing on the
part of the Republicans.
Iuthe registry in the city of New York
under the Registration laws of the State,
l6O,OS9 names were put upon the books,
and in Brooklyn over 10000. In the Dem
ocratic wards and districts the law was en-
tirely ignored by the Seymourites, and a
large number of names of fictitious persons
were put upon the poll list, for which the
repeaters were to cast and did cast the
votes.
AS specimen of this stupenduous fraud
the poll list in the Sixth Ward had put
upon it two thousand FIVE hundred more
names than there were known legal
voters in the ward, and in each
of twenty-three polling districts of
Democratic wards there were returned from
fifty to one hundred more votes than there
were names upon the registry list. In four
Of these districts, Democratic, of course,
the canvassers returned more votes in
favor of Seymour, Blair and Hoffman than
the whole number on the registry, at the
same lime, as they thought, to give a SEM
blance of honesty, returned few votes for
Grant, Colfax and Griswold. In Brooklyn
(where the Democratic Mayor Kalbheisch
illegally joined with his brethren of the
Board of Supervisors to make the two
thirds requisite to secure the appointment
of registrars, inspectors and canvassers)
sixteen Of the polling districts had boards
composed exclusively of Democrats, who
were to obey, and did obey the behest of
an INSCRIPTIONS party. At least 5000
votes were cast by repeaters,
and were counted for the Democratic
ticket, in Brooklyn, and swelled
the bogus majority by which |
the State of New York is said
to be carried. The repeaters who did
their part of the neArious work in de-
Irauding the people of an honest result in
favor of the Republican party in that State,
were heard to boast openly upon the streets
Of the city of New York that they had
voted ten and fourteen times at the various
Democratic polling places in that city. A
circular was issued by the Democratic
Committee, Familiarity known as the "Tam-
many ring" and sent to certain of their ]
friends who were upon the canvassing |
boards in the known Republican districts
of the State, to inform this committee, at |
he closing of the polls on election day, about
what would be the probable majority tor |
he Republican ticket, so that the city re-
turns might be manipulated sufficiently |
before they were sent in to overcome and
the Republican majority in the |
State. This was done, and together with |
The other frauds above enumerated, the ap-
parent vote for Seymour and Hoffman of |
l2s,2lS was made up, thereby carrying the |
State Of New York by fraud the most stu
pendous and gigantic ever known in the !
history Of our country, and thus deprived
the State Of the honest expression Of the |
Will Of the people. ~ nya.la
Let US hope that in one respect at least,
that is, in the granting OF certificates of |
Of foreigners, the State
Courts In all the States may be deprived Of
the right Of naturalization, and that 1t may
be placed where it properly belongs, in the
United States Courts, whose officers are not
compelled to become the servIIe and viii |
ling tools of debauehed and rotten party,
such as the Democratic party Is known to
be under its present corrupt leaders.
WANTS OF THR WORKING PEOPLE.
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