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

Two or three hundred repeaters lodged the night
ne and secondaye The moving spirit OF this
ganizaton Sheriff O'Brien, who lived close by lie
Used to keep open house for these free aud independent
voters and to have had them all in TO breakfast
The Committee examined Mr. a. Oakley Hall respecting
the famous Secret CIRCULAR to the chairmen Of Democrat
R County organizations throughout the state-the circular
which purp0rted to be signed by Mr. y. loen, Due
the public that It was forgery Beyond tho fact that
Mr. Hall wrote the circular himself as secretary Oh Ino
extracted from astute witnesswhch Is not snrprs
ing Mr.. Hall admitted, however that at meeting 90
Sunday before the election, he advised them contrary 70
custom in counting the vote to canvass S an ' o
every eector every ticket and that in THIS one oi
his objects to proong the count as far as nc the
private circular Tammany Hall would get me h cnnd
the county 3SS S fy e pcs cpsnS
before o'clock M Another eneSs o f each oIlS
tat cs pa eoSSpey ,SGs arranged for The ppose
10 change Republican tickets Jo enaoc,gg, H., son~d
6aot1ores and Democratic heKssS ana "'0 "'e'
instructions delay had the desired effect The
Democratic canvassers very generally followed tleia
Instructions More than two hundred kilograms came
to Tammany Hall in answer to the circular SHOWING nor r
well the programme arranged, understood anu ca
ried into effect BY about half past o'clock On h ,d
evening the election about onethrd OF the state u
Henry johnson, poll clerk in the Third Election
There we're names added to the post during tho day
Of persops who had not voteds5 names in that dsrc
dctno ,H, poed was 59 During the afternoon names
taken from one OF the registers Of one OF the district
pspecors 10 the number OF 49, and is or me were
added to the voting list while there was uil IN me
rush OF voters In the evening the counting OF the Pres
Dental vote was delayed until about haipast II or ~
o'clock for some purpose which at that tlino was UNI
known to me, wei known; the Democratic eanvaser
insisting upon counting the vote OF each OF the 80
separatey and making out tallyis Tor each ana ihe
Republican canvasser insisting upon taking ench tleke
with IS votes and making out single tally WhiSn
would have taken threeQuarters of an hour, wle inc
other way would have taken eight or zen
hours BY that time the Republican eanvasser mao DE ne
come pretty well intoxicated and during tne eNenS
there were IS tickets containing each OF the
candidates. obtained from some OF the booths Outsue
and when the tickets showed out on the table 10 po
counted by the canvassers these additional tickets WIZ
thrown In so as to make the number correspond Win o
humber of names registered From the time OF inc clos
ing Of the polls the Republican and Democra0 %
ers were wranglng TO the propriey OF counting t
votes At o. or 10 O'clock the Democratic canVsseI
me n had any objection keeping the tally toia mn
N they directed that be DONE should certainly no ~
They went on and tailed about 500 votes when Two
three gentlemen came in called him one slde ana "n
nered To him He came back aud agreed TO the terms Lo
nosed by the Republican canvasser iheh aShou MN ~,
he had been obiecting TO that all this time he ba1 ta
two wears ago the Republicans in the interior deieateu
ohn Hoffman by holding back until they mad hear from
the city, and that now he meant to DO even VIII noin
and TO hold back the count until the interior had peeu
heard from,