New-York tribune., 1868-09-05
TIE MEDITATED FRA UDS IN OUR COMING
RLECTTON

TIE MEDITATED FRA UDS IN OUR COMING
RLECTTON
The World thus deals with our exposure OF
the conspiracy to corrupt our ballot-boxcs and
falsify the verdict of our State at the approach
ing election:
aTHr TRIBUNE boldly charges the Democratic party In
thIs city with deliberately intending 10 corrupt the Da0t
boxes In November IL charges the Democratic party
with intending to elect ts candidate for te Governor
which outnumbers the Radical party TWO 10 one W F,
where without the Intervention OF the legali ION ol hdu
ca the rural districts, and without the Radical
which such legislation has fastened upon th
navrrs of tie cy net Radical Manhattan Island
could 6e elected small office "a the doorReeper
ship of "A police station such Offices were elective IN
the face Of such facts TRIBUNE pretends that the
Drmocrafic party which usually gives in the city
a majority nearly equal to the entlIe l'adical Soc'
dates, TnE TRIBuNE knows better and knows that ts
readers are not deceived by such palpaDie gamm1h
What then is THE TRBuNEs object IN slanderDg Two
thirds o the honest voters Of this city by charging them
with the intent to deliberately defraud the remaining
one third at the balOtbO1es IN November IL is ts
TIE TRIBUNE hopes bY making an Infamous charge To
cover and the fact that police, who are EN-
property and paid for such services by the taxpayers In
this Overwhelmingly Democratic city. are used by the
Radicals for their own private purposes ENeIy Pote
man engaged as censusakcr not for the Guy.
the tax payers whose servant he IT, but Tor he
Radical party, which l. an insignificant nlnOnV
in the city. aud for Radical purposes. winch are
of account except To this insignificant minority inns Inns
is a thing To talk Of as fraud. III Is sNIhuie upon
the people who employ these public servants lor tku
purposes. aud them good round wages IcllOi
IL time that the Police from Policeman Kennedy down
Policeman Smith or Jones, understood mat they are
the servants of the cy not the runners ana aea9s OF
party. They are hired to work for the people VINO pay
their wages. for the party which swindlcs the EN-
pOyeTs by improperly using the servants The place Tor
policeman his beat In the street, not at area or
halldoOrs. a bellbOy ana waiter AZ pclncal cluD
Aud at whatever door these inqmsltive policemen apply
for the sake of propoundng party GonnndI'unS tney
should be plainly told TO 30 about their
business fOr which they specially employ anu paih
Comments bB The Tribune.
M ls:4 No, mill e,i,
cradle majority for Seymour and Blair; the
State, outside OF the city, IL none but legal
votes are pOlled, will give a still larger ma
iority for Grant and Colfax The game of GER
tain magnates and wirc-puers of the Demo
cratic party is to swell by frand the city
majority for Seymour, 50 that it shall over1al-
ance the country majority for Grant. In fur
therance of this conspiracy, Brooklyn was most
uniustly deprived of her Police Commissioner
by our late Democratic Legislature. In farther
fmtherance of it, our City and County Tax
Levics were swcled by Millions of Dollars,
which the managers of the Democratic party
are using to promote Illegal naturalizatons,
and hire "repeaters" to swindle the electors
ont of their rights by voting from poll to poll.
The Worlds language given above proves it
in guilty conspiracy with the swindlcrs.
II. What is charged upon the Police Super
ntendent as "A misdemeanOr is simply an effort
to prevent illegal voting-nothing less, nothing
more He is not even accused of asking or
seeking to know how any man will vote, but
simply how many in a given locality, have a
right to vote at ALL 1t is matter of record that
over hundred voted last year from house
where no ten men lived-that the vote of our
~ Ill l, vlplnu Ia
frauds The Democratic vote here for Presi-
dent in '6i was 1900; last Fall, with neither
President, Governor, nor even Congress, to
choose, it was swelled to s5,7G4 and there
were not so many legal votes for Nelson in '6S
AS there were for Mcclellan in "a, when there
was quite cheating enough. We firmly believe
that the IVth, With, With, and XlYth Wards
each returned a Democratic majority exceeding
the whole number of legal voters therein of all
parties who went to the poll. We propose to
put stop TO this wholesale villainy. Let the
wounded pigeons futter if they must!
III. The use Of Police is to expose, resist,
and prevent crime. And what is crime If rob-
bng the electors of their Right of Suffrage is
not An illegal vote destroys the legal voters
Right of Suffrage as completely rs though
he approached the ballot-box, and prevented
his polling it. What is tho function of a
Police if it is to stand idly by and see the
whole body of legal voters robbed of their
rights and the popular verdict falsfed in a
crisis like this2 ...f
". The Police mean to detect and expose
the wholesale crime which is meditated-a
crime which strikes at the very foundations
stone of Popular Liberty They have nothing
to do with party or politics; it is their duty to
prevent fraud and crime. Every illegal vote
pOlled is a crime cOmmitted-a gigantic afro
cious crime The World virtually cOnfesses
that to prevent illegal voting is to reduce
the Democratic majority Every intelligent
politician knows that this is so-that if 10000
illegal votes are polled in this City, the Demo
cratic majority will thereby be swelled at least
10000. That is no business of tho Police-but
the prevention of crime is. On behalf of all
legal voters, who wish neither themselves to
cheat nor to profit by others cheating we en-
treat the Superintendent 10 do his whole duty.
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