New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-31
THE PURPOSED CORRUPTION or THE
B4IIOT- BOYFS


That a very large majority of the legal
voters of this country prefer Ulysses S. Grant
TO Horatio Seymour for their next President is
evidently understood by men of all parties
hence the gigantic efforts of the Seym0urites to
flood the ballot boxes with illegal votes They
reelected Judge Sharswood in Pennsylvania by
means of illegal votes largely swelled by the
counterfeiting and coffee coloring Of Naturali-
zation papers and Judge SharswoOd has since,
with full knowledge of the facts, nullifed the
Registry Law whereby the last Legislature
sought to guard against the repetition aud ex-
tension of such frauds. They repealed, over
the veto of Gov. Ward, the Registration law
of New-Jersey, IA also that which required the
closing of the polls at sunset--at which hour
their "repeatersr and FOUNDERS" may not
have been enabled to vote more than twenty
times each In this City and State they
cheated us heavily by fraudulent Naturaliza-
tons and "repeatersr in 1866; still more heavily
in 1867; aud they mean to cheat us still worse
this year. Brooklyn was shamefuy deprived
of her member of the Police Board last Winter
with view TO this end and The Sunday
Mercury thereupon boosted that the Demo-
cratic majority in the City would be swelled to
One Hundred Thousand That paper now
says: .....'
SUPERINTENDENT KENNEDY ORDERS HIS THUGS To IN
WADE OUR HOMES has ssaed orders TO all the
captains OF police TO invade the homes OF the people and
obtain list Of the male inmates In each house. In order
10 furnish to the Radical General Committee, who win
refer II 70 the Radical Registers Of Election so that they
may refuse 10 register the names or reject the Votes Of
Democrats who come 10 deposit them in the ballotbox
election day. The police have no right TO invade the
premises Of any citizen seek TO get list Of the number Of
inmates IN any private dweing honse and we exhort
every citizen before absening himself from home 10 in
struct the female members OF his household only
inform the pmpsaDd spies who sneak around the premises
fu Of soapsuds In their faces That will prevent them
from pursuing their search for knowledge under DIM.
and through kcyhoes, WILL at last, have received ther
deserts. ..4-s "A, ~, 49, t.
To the same effect, says The World: 81.
Tue Police PAUL PRr At WoRK:rWe are Informed
tendeAt otPoyce ~ this city has without authority
rom inc Commissioners, Instructed his force To call at
male residing there. This LIST. when obtained, Is TO be
FURNISHED 10 the Radical Registrars and Radical officers
or election to be by them used for rejecting
these who apply registered and also FOR refusing 10
receive votes on election day ..E.. -
ms work, Kennedy Is doing In behalf of the Radical
Committee. who is said, pay him literally for the list
SnS ne makes tps policemen collect the names at the
By what authority, and where does the superintendent
OF Police ind his power 70 convert the police force In this
not for ay snc i Oo S
duty The police system Ia maintained for the purpose
VI projecting persons ana property and preserving the
peace and not and spies any political party
The best thing that citizens do refuse 20 give
kennedys agents any reply whatever Let them under
stand that the people In this metropolis have had enough
Oh political Fouche operations. =.
Comments BY The Tribune.
The fact that fifty to one hundred persons
have hitherto registered and voted az residents
of houses where not even ten of them lived, is
familiar to every well informed City politician.
That the Democratic majority in this City was
thus swelled by thousands last November is just
as notorious as that John 7. Hoffman is Mayor,
has run once for Governor and been beaten,
and wants to run again this year. His hackers
mean to elect him by fraud; and they calcu
late that, if Ten Thousand bogus votes brought
him within 1921 Of an election in 49, Thirty
thousand will put him through in 1863, And
they are laying pipe accordingly. f.g
Tho supporters of Grant and Griswold ask
nothing but fair play. We want no single