New-York tribune., 1868-11-02
ygK ELEcT1oN-OUR MAYOR.

n,ole her vast army of thieves, emigrant-
svindIers. sailor -pluckers, blaclllcgs, pocket
hook droppers, baggage -smashers, blacklegs, and
brothel keepers unit against them. Every
stand in our wretched markets is made to pay
! toll in money and votes to support the Demo
cratic ascendency. There is no vice. no crime,
no outlook of human deprayity, that is not
made to bring Grist to the Democratic
mill. All this we Republicans endure
in patience, asking of the State such care ana
protection as will enable us to live here at all.
OF tho infamous Ring of swindlcrs who mis-
rnle and punder us, we ask only that they
cheat so crcumspcctly as not to be caught IN
outright felonies, and that they do not rob us
outright of our votes, by stuiling the ballot
boxes with ballots cast by "repeatersn and un-
naturalizcd or fraudulently natTalzed aliens.
This is just what they habtually deny us.
They can beat us here by legal votes; but they
want to poll enough more TO cheat the people
of the State out of their Governor To tins
end, they have just registered 16S,S72 voters, at
least Thirty Thousand of them fraudulent.
They have power to make as many election
districts as they see fit, aud have just cut up
the old districts ayOwedly so IA 90 leave but
four hundred legal voters in any district-tho
Alderman of each Ward dividing it rs Inc
chose. Yet they have registered over One
| Thousand names in four of these districts ana
| Eiqht Hundred or over in twcnty-iour Others.
Though they have just reapportoned the Wards
eyprcssly TO e0ualse tho number of voters IN
eoch. they have sixteen districts that register
less than Two Hundred voters each-three OF
them 90. 50, and 30 respectively. Each of these
petty districts will cost the City heavily for
full board Of registers, inspectors, clerks, can
vassers, &c, &c.
Hitherto, they have boasted that we charged
Them with gigantic frauds but proved nothing.
This year, we have caught their managers
dealing out Certificates Of Naturalization to men
who never even pretended to visit the City,
appear in any Court or take any oath what
ever. They simply sent to the Democratic
Naturalization Bureau, and obtained the
Ccrtifcates-price - retail, 81 30 whole
sale and no questions asked, ox-
cept that they were to bo used
to help the Democratic party. At length, wax
ing bold through mpunity In yIllainy, they
were caught selling Certificates whereby per
sons who never existed were made citizens Of
the United States! Tho papers seem To be at
tested by the seal Of our Supreme Court and
the signature Of the County Clcrk-whcther
these be genuine or counterfeit, Is not yet
ascertained. Brought before United States
Commissioner the detected culprit chose 10
rest his defense on an allegation that the law
cited for his condemnation docs not apply to
his case And there the matter rests
The names registered in the Sixth Ward lor
example, amount to Fico Thousand Sir Hapd-
red and Flfy-one. That Ward is very limited
in area, and is steadily diminishing in popula-
ton, through the erection Of great warehouses,
depots. and manufactures IN place of inhabited
dwellings. 1t used to be fun of mechanics
boarding houses, which have been driven up
town. Brothcls, rum-hoes, and thieves dens,
now abound within it, limits, and are sparsely
inhabited by men. The takc,s Of the last State
Census Gn 1869 found but 3,G1l persons in this
Ward who even claimed to be legal voters.
Yet now 505a names are found on its regis
tries! Last Fall, it was full Of repeatcrs, yet
only 34sG votes were polled II will not poll so
many now, il thcro be fearless challenging at
the polls And this Is n fair sample of the
entire Registry. If tho Republican challenGers
ae well backed at ovcTy poll, aud do their
whole duty, the total vote will fall below
| 10000, and tho majority for Seymour and
Hoffman cannot exceed 10000. But if we quail
and allow ourselves to be swindled by whole
sale the State may be lost, in spite of q Re
/ publican majority of her legal voters that GER
! tainly exceeds Twenty Thousand.
! We already kaoiC where thousands Of voters
/ have illegally registered. Twelve did so as
/ residents of the Spinglcr House; two registers
of diverse politics inquired there, and found
| that not one Of these twelve lived or was
| known there. Fifty registered from house
| in the Sixth Ward; but, on due inquiry, 1t was
/ found that but nine men in all lived there.
! Thousands have registered as living at num-
| bcrs which are vacant lots, covered by no
structure of any kind Yet every name will
be voted on, unless our clallcngers shall be
/ encouraged 10 do their whole duty.