The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-07
The Meditated Frauus in Our Coming
Election.
From the N. Y. Tribune.

From the N. r Tribune
The World thus deals with our exposure of
the conspiracy to corrupt our ballot-boxes and
falsify the verdict of our State at the ap
preaching election
THE Tribune boldly charge the Democratic
party IN Lils city VITA deliberately intending
10 corrupt the balnt.boSes In November. IL
charges the Democratic party with intending
II aud. THESE charges are .uSde g4inst q parry
which outnum6ers the radical party Two TO one
In city where, without the in tervenJion OF the
legisialioh OF radicals fiom the Tlra! districts,
and without the radical COMMISSIONS yhtcn
such legislation has fasjcDsd upon the tazpay-
ers ol tne clty, not q radical on Man .aJtan
Island cOulu De elected TO 50 smail an office as
ofnces were elt ctive. In the face of such facts,
the ITf6UHe pre- etenus thai Jne Democratic
party, which usually gives IN the city maj J.
rIty nearly equal to the entire radical vote.
needs to resort TO fraud to elect it's csudi-
dates The Tribune knows better. aud knows
that lts readers are not deceived by such pal
pable common. What, tnen, is the Trtbuite's
object IN slandering twO.thlrds of the honest
voters of this city by charging them with tne
intent TO deliberately defraud the remaining
one third at the bAllOt-bJ&es in November? II
is thiS:-The Tribune hopes by mekIng an In
famous charge, to cover and excuse the fact that
our police, VINO are employed as our hired SER
wants 10 protect our lives and property, and
paid for such services by the tax payers in this
overwhelmingly Democratic city, are used by
the radicals for their own private purposes.
Every policeman Is now engaged as census
taker. not for the city. not for the Taxpayers
whose servant he is, but for the radical party,
and for radical purposes, which are of no ac-
count except to this insignificant minority. This
Is a thing 10 talR of as fraud 1t is swim die
upon The people who employ these public SER
wants for legitimate purposes, and pay them
good round wages therefor. II is Time that the
police, from Policeman Kennedy down TO Po-
liceman Smith or Jones, understood that they
are the servants OF the city, not the runners
and lackeys of party. They are hired to work
for the people who pay their wages. not for the
party which swindles the employers by impro-
perly using the servants. The place for a police
is tle
ball. DOORS or as ell.boy aud walter at a poll
tical club And at whatever door these inuuisi.
tive policemen apply for the sake of propound-
ing party conundrums, they should be plainly
tod to go about their business-the business
paid"
Comments by Tie Tribune.
l. The city of New York will give consid-
cradle majority for Seymour and Blair; the
State, outside of the city, if none but legal
votes are polled, will give still larger ma
jority for Grant and ColfaX. The game of
certain magnates and wire-pullers of the
Democratic party is to swell by fraud the city
majority for Seymour, so that IL shall over
balance the country majority for Grant. In
furtherance of this conspiracy, Brooklyn was
most unjustly deprived of her Police Commits
sioner by our late Democratic Legislature. In
farther turtherance of it, our city and county
tax levies were swelled by millions of dollars,
which the managers of the Democratic party
are using to promote illegal naturalizations,
and hire "repeaters" to swindle the electors
out of their rights by voting from poll to poll.
The Worlds language given above proves it in
guilty conspiracy with the swindlers.
II. What is charged upon the Police Super
intendent as a misdemeanor is simply an effort
to prevent illegal voting-nothing less,
nothing more. He is not even accused of ask
ing or seeking to know how any man will
vote, but simply how many, in given
locality, have right TO vote at all. 1t is mat
ter OF record that over 100 voted last year
from house where no ten men lived-that
the vote of our city was swelled by monstrous
wholesale frauds. The Democratic vote here
for President in '64 was 73, 3,709; last fall, with
neither President, Governor, nor even Con-
gress to choose, it was swelled to So, ,764; and
there was not so many legal votes for Nelson
in '6o as there were for Mcclellan in '64, when
there was quite cheating enough. We firmly
believe that the Fourth Sixth, Eighth, and
Fourteenth Wards each returned 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 whole
sale villainy. Let the wounded pigeons hut-
ter If they must
III. The use of police is to expose, resist,
aud prevent crime. And what is crime if rob.
bing the electors of their right of suffrage is
not An illegal vote destroys the legal vot-
er's right OF suffrage as completely as though