New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-24
TIE MAMMOTH FRA UDS.

Did YOU eUer kRoW an dctre Democratic poll
tcian uho either proposed or urged the etecfire
prepentiOn of fraudulent rotingf
We press this question, because the country
is full of sleek, respectable. and specifically
pious villains of the class Shakespeare had IN
his mind when he made Lady Macbeth say
reDroachfully to her coyaTdly. shily-shaly
husband
Aud vel ,roaadsi urongty pin.
These men thoroughly know, and have long
known that the Democratic vote is system
atically swelled especially in their strong
holds by the ballots Of nOn-residents,
minors, aliens, "repeaters,r and others
| not lawfully clothed with tho Right
of Suffrage-tbat Representatives in Con-
gress are chosen, and States are carried, by
these frauds, and that their engineers are
literally rewarded therefor with :" the spols Of
victory" Thus was Henry Clay beaten in
1914, being defTaudcd of the Electors from
New-York and Louisiana thus was Gen.
Grant cheated out of the votes of this State
and New-Jersey in 1863 His friends in each
polled more votes than they expected--at least
5000 more in New-Jersey, and nearly 10000
more in this State We had carried this State
against the most desperate efforts of our adj
versaries in 1864, and again in 1866, polling in
either contest less than $4,000 votes. We felt
confident of polling 5000 last Fall in this
| City, and over 100000 in the State; and this,
with only the usual cheating.of Ten to Twenty
| Thousand by our adversares, would have suf-
! feed to insure the State to Grant and Girls
void.
But the Democratic managers were early ap-
prised that no ordinary amount of cheating
would serve their turn-that, to take the State
| from Gen. Grant, they must cheat by tens Of
thousands where they had formerly cheated by
thousands So they began seasonably the is
| suing of bogus Naturalization Certificates by
the ream, and scattered these broadcast over
the State as well as City, and over New-Jersey
as we'll We personally know decent, quiet
Irish laborers, living in sober rural township
and working for, Republicans, who were
each supplied with Naturalization Ger
tifcate by Democratic wire-worker though
neither of them had been long enough in the
country to entitle him to Naturalization, neither
had declared his intentions, and neither left
the farm on which he worked to take any oath
or make any obligation whatever. We know
of instances where Germans, having just Joined
q Grant Club, applied to it for Naturalization,
but, after due inquiry, were told that they
were not yet entitled to it; whereupOn they
went over to the Seymour Club and were
"put through without hesitation. We know
that there are not living in the With Ward of
this City so many legal voters in all by One
thousand as the majority returned therefrom
fer Seymour and Hoffman, under the manipula-
ton of two we'll known Democratic politicians.
SO we might 90 on for hours; but to what end?
1t is just as we'll known among the Democratic
politicians of this City that they swindled Gen.
Grant out of the vote of this State as that Con.
Lee surrendered TO him at or near Appomattox
Courthouse. They concocted the plot; they
devised the means; they employed tile villains
(many of them under indictment, aud
in dread of being brought TO triaD !;
who swore falsely i'll order to give a show
OF legality to part Of their Nnturaliza-
tion frauds, who personated others who
would not swear falsely that they were
entitled to Naturalization, but would register
| and vote on papers obtained through the per-
jury of others; and they hired and paid the
"repeaters" who began to vote early on cleo
ton morning and kept on voting till the set
of sun on names registered fraudulcntiy and
with deliberate intent to cheat the People of
our State out of their choice. These are facts
now authenticated by mountains Of testimony,
including that extOrted from several Of the