Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-11-11
The New York Election Frauds-Paipabie Proof


The reports from the state received
at Tammany Hall By William NJ.
Tweed, immediately after the election
seem to have been, like those received
by others, very favorable to the Re
publicans. He doubtless had. al eight
o clock, IN answer to the secret cir
eular to which the signature of Sam
j IlIden was attached. substantially
the same returns which reached the
public about eleven o'clock, and which
satisfied the best judges that the state
had gone for Grant and Griswold Lv
small majority, in spite Of the enor-
nous majority Of $4,000 then sup
posed TO have been cast for the Dem
ocrats IN this city,
But the returns from most Of the
city wards were still held back. In
ten or twelve wards the vote could
not be obtained by the police officers.
until there had been ample time to
send Instructions from Tammanv to
the inspectors to stuff the ballot
boxes with the required number of
tickets, and afterwards to count them
in full.
The secret circular discloses a plot
laid by the Democratic Tammanv
Committee to cheat the people out
of their decision should thew decide
against Hoffman. The holding back
Of the returns on election night shows
to a moral certainty that the plot
was carried out But the absolute
demonstration in figures might have
been impossible, but for the stupidity
either Of Tammauv in demanding, or
Of its tools at the ballot-boxes in at
tempting, more than was needed.
The nspirators had provided IAN
pie room and verge enough" for their
frauds by registering forty thousand
more names than there are legal v0t-
ers IN the city. OF this excess. some
thirty thousand, at least, were in
districts which they controlled
without check They had but to
keep careful account Of the number
of false names registered in each vot-
ing district, and the conspirators at
Tammany might send to each dis
trict directions how many false votes
should be credited TO Hoffman. The
onlv nrecantion raanirad NO. +b,t ~ -
district shonld ran6rr totaI rota -
avcass If IT, rarr;,'+r,-
In the haste and confuzion Of the
couspirators on Tuesday, this precau-
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