The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1869-02-25
The New York Election Frauds.
WAsHINnroN Eeh :

Jude Lawrence has prepared a volu
minous report upon the New York elec.
tion frauds of last November. He will
present it tomorrow. Jude Lawrence
says -
"But appalling and startling as the
frauds have been in our past history, they
are all surpassed in some respects by those
perpetratcd in the general election in the
State, aud especially in the city of New
York. These frauds were the result of a
systematic plan of gigantic proportions,
stealthily prearrspged and boldly execu-
ted, not merely by bands of degraded de
spcradoes, but with the direct santion, ap-
prevail and aid of many prominent offi
cials aud citizens of New York, with
shrewdly concealed conuivance of others,
and almost without an effort to discourage
or prevent them by any of those in whose
interest and political party associations
they were successfully executed, who
could not fail to have cognizance of them
aud whose duty it was to expose, defeat
aud punish them. They were aided by
corrupt and corrupting official patronage
and power, which not only encouraged, ),
but shielded and protected the guilty
principals and their aiders and a5ettors.
These frauds are so varied in character
that they comprehend every known crime
against the elective franchise. They cor
rupted the administration Of justice, de-
graded the judiciary, defeated the execu-
tion of the laws, su5verted for the time
being, in New York State, the essential
principles of popular government, robbed
tho people o! that great State of their
rightful choice of electors for President,
and Vice President, Of Governor and
otherwise disgraccd the NEST populou.
city of our Union encouraged the enemies
OF Republican government here aud every
where to deride our institutions as fail
ure, and endangered the peace of the Re
public by an attempt to defeat the will of
the people in the choice of their rulers.
REPEATEEs
MANY hundreds of persons voted in
Nsw York city from two to forty times or
more, each under assumed or fctitons
',ames, franduiently registered for the
purpose. Extensive frauds were COM
mtred in canvassing tickets, and names
of voters We're entered on poll lists, and
Democratic tickets counted. as if voters
representing them voted, when no such
persons voted at all
NATURALIZATIOH PAPERS.
The largest number Of naturalization
papers ever granted in one year, in New
York city, before 1868. was in 1856.
when only l5,493 were issued, while in
1868 there were IL ll2 issued. In Octo
Der about 1000 we're naturalized by our
courts. The Superior Court, on October
II, issuei 2l09 papers, and one Judge Is
sued go on October -, and averaged us
per day duriug October. The Republi-
can Naturalization Committee procured
papers for only 20S5. The New York
Printing Committee ordered, between
September l6 and October 23, blank ap
p!ics:ions amounting to 10000, and of
certificates of naturalization, GO 900; in
addition to this, other presses were run,
ming on blanks for other Democratic COM
mittces."
DISTRACTIONS TO THE COMMITTEE
Tho committee say that Instructions
were thrown in the way of this investiga-
tion BY the Judge of the Supreme Court
and clerk, Charles 4. Loew. In Mr.
Iocw's Office the whole number of blank
certificates received was $4,000 issued
as records show, 1000; blank on hand,
1862; leaving unaccounted, for, p, ,O6S
Mr. ieverson testified that in October he
was in the room formerly used as Il sheriff
office, in the basement of the City Hall
building, ia'which the court was held
sud clerks were engaged in filing upI
blank applications. The committee esti-
mate, from what is provcde, that sixty
eight thousand three hundred aud forty
three fraudulent certificate. were issued
iu New York, Ulster, Monroe, Westches-
ter, RepSalaer, Putnam, Green and Or
nuge counties, aud there is no evidence
of any Republican court ever having is |
sued i single fraudulent certificate.