New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-27
THE FRAUDS THEIR BENEFICIARiES,
AND THEIR DEFENDERS.
The World says +:

AND JUEIH ULFENDEhc'
The World says:
"THE TRIBUNE is under illusions the subject Of
election frauds in New York City IL knows There mare
been none IL knows there could have been none"
ResponSe.-I. That the above assertions are
utterly false, we do most certainly know.
That they are deliberate lies, uttered in the
interest of great public crime, we most as
suredly believe; but, as we cannot know an
others secret impulses, we do not assert It,
Every one must be presumed the best author
ity rs to his own personal convictions. We
choose, therefore to act as though Tie World
were under grave misrepresentation with
regard to matters of which we must know and
it can only guess
II. But The World proceeds to say that
ct knows moreover. that even according to the cen
sus Of lsG5 (and that ~ WAS ,s VE Ce D cr c
i'm the last election whereas the rural districts, by The
which is 2y3l7 Tess than any cast III the last cee'oA
Now here we are out OF the region of
speculation as to motives, opinions, &c, and
wholly in the domain of recorded, undeniabie
facts And We repeat our statement of yester-
day. that the Census of 1865 returns the legal
voters of this City as 12s975-neither more nor
less. (See "New-York Convention Manual
part H. Statistics" PIP. 800, 4O3) On tbs point
we cannot be mistaken, while The World Is
1885 voters out of the way. VIII 1t plainly
confess its elror2 1t can make nothing nOW by
affecting buster and abusing Secretary DepeN.
The public eye is wide open, and nothing can
be gained by an attempt to brazen it out.
ILL., But Tile World seeks TO dodge behind
the INSPECTORS of Election, as follows:
~ ayoa m
pointed by irresponsible power, tho Police Comms-
siOners THE TRIBUNE knows and therefore II Is cOHu
OF It's shame IN charging fraud that no lhsptc
tor or canYasser Is appointed except with the concur
renee Of the two Republican Commissioners IHE Iblb'
I-NE knows, and therefore IL knowingly ISLANDERS III
charging frauds that Commissioner Acton Is too asiuto
10 appoint any but capable men, aud Commissioner Ma
niere too ultra in his political feelings TO appoint ANY
but those OF his stripe
TIN TRIBUNE knows that the cooperation OF these
Acton and ManoIre men, 20 say nothing OF regsttars
would be necessary in any election district to accomplish
fraud"
Response.-The four Police Commissioners are
equally divided between the two parties. A
vacancy in the Board was last Winter filled
by the Legislature electing Matthew T. Bren-
nan. He took the place of Mr.. Bergen, de-
ceased who was a fe-long resident of Brook
Ign. Kings County had always had one of the
Commissioners, and was every way entitled to
one. Yet the Tammany Ring OVERRIDE her
claims, defed the earnest remonstrances of her
Democracy, and insisted on taking the fourth
Commissioner to this City, which had already
all the others. What private arguments they
used with the Democratic members Of the
Legislature we cannot say; but their most
shameless organ, The Sunday Mercury, openly
declared that Mr.. Brennan's presence in the
Police Board would insure large increase of
the Democratic majority here. We presume
it did.
Messrs. Acton and Manerre did their best to
protect the legal voters from fraud in their
appointments of the Republican half of the
various Election Boards We doubt that others
could do better. We believe most Of the In
spectors tried to do their duty, so far as the
Sheriff IS special deputies and other Democratic
rullians allowed them to do it. But there are
at least hundred districts wherein the polls
were surrounded throughout by a mob over
whemingly Democratic and ripe for any out
rage, whereby the right of challenge was prac-
tically subverted Terrorism produced results
here differing only in degree from those
similarly achieved in Georgia and Louisiana.
Nor was it possible for the best Election
Officers to prevent illegal voting by wholesale
Men had been hired to register in ten to twenty
districts each. Many of those men voted ac-
cOrdngly; if they did not others were hired
to do it instead. They have done it before
though never on SO vast scale and they
will do it again, unless the laws can be 80 in
vigorated as to make the difficulty and the
risk too great 1t must be made felony to
register, or offer to register, under false
name, or from any house where the applicant
does not 'achI9lly reside, or, having registered
once, to attempt to register again for the same
election, or to vote on any other than the
voters true name and "a large reward must be
paid for the conviction of any person offending,
or inducing another to offend, against these inbi-
btions The yillainies which have robbed Gen
Grant Of the votes of New York and New Jer-
sey and foisted John r. Hoffman into the
Chief Magistracy Of our State will yet be in
part exposed to the light, as that portion Of
them which consisted in the fraudulent issue
of many thousands of Naturalization Ccrtiii-
Gates has already been. We shall have al least
the satisfaction Of seeing John II. Hoffman write
"AUDroyep at the bottom of statutes which, if