New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-25
QUE CITY.

The falsehood that the Republican party of
New-Yo is declining, dying party, Is best
refuted by the official returns of its vote at
the several Presidential Elections since it was
organized. Here they are;
Is56-Fremont. ..I7,77l 1S6O-Lincoln.... 900
IgSG-Lmcoln... ISGs-Grant .......4773s
The first election at which distinctly Re-
publican ticket was run in this State was that
Of 1856, when Preston King, who headed our
State ticket, received 6,678 votes-abOut one
serenh of the vote cast for Gen. Grant last
November We then polled 1868 votes in
the whole State, against 299,2lG for the three
adverse parties" Hard" "Soft," and "Know-
Nothing'O-we last Fall polled 419SS3 for
Grant to the fraudulenuy swelled 429SS3 for
Seymour: showing that the increase of the
Republican vote in this City has largely out
run our proportion Of the increase in the State
All this time, our native-bOn citizens, who
are mainly Republicans, have been removing
by thousands annually from the City to her
suburbs, leaving their places to be supplied by
immigrants from Europe, who mainly vote
against us. We tell them that they must he
residents of the United States five years before
they can be naturalized; but the Democrats
supply. them with Naturalization papers at any
time, on condition that they will vote their
ticket. Thousands who had not been year
in the country were thus supplied last year.
without even going through the forms of Nat
uralizati0n. Their names were ascertained and
the fact that they would vote the Demo-
cratic ticket: nothing more was required, and
their papers were made out duly attested, and
to in Tn
for Seymour, Hoffman g. Co. We do not be-
lieve in making citizens that way, but most Of
the old now-Nothing" wire workers do: so
this sort of voters all 90 with them for Sham
Democracy. 1t was by such votes that Theo.
F. Randolpb-an old Wing and Know Nothing
was chosen Democratic Governor of New
Jersey last Fall, and another of them sup
planted George A. Halsey in Congress.
There is some poor timber among the Repub-
leans of this City; but the great body of them
are among our very best Enthusiastically ent
substantial merchants mechanics, manufac-
turers, teachers, doctors, clerks, lawyers,
bankers, &C., including at least three-fourths Of
the members of our Protestant churches with
out regard to sect. Very few of them are
professional politicians, and too many are apt
10 stay away from the polls save in times of
high party excitement; but they have stood
firmly these twelve years against an over
whelming majority whose leaders tax us with
ont mercy to supply them lavishly with the
means whereby they subsidize tens of thou
sands of the ignorant and the unprincpled to
vote against us. The Markets, Streets, and
City improvements of all kinds, are gigantic
sources of bribery, which the dominant party
use without mercy to buy every voter who
can be influenced by pecuniary advantage !;
and these tell heavily against us. We beg our
friends in the rural districts to be assured that
we shall do our utmost at the polls next week,
and that we strongly hope to reduce the swim
ding Democratic majority Of last year by