Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-03-18
oRsTRUcTIoNs 10 THE coanTTrTEE.


80, 900; issued as records show, 10, ,O70 :;
blanks on hand, 1852; leaving Unae-
counted for, 20,068. Mr.. LeversOn
testified that in October he was in the
room formerly used as a sheriff Office,
in the basement of the City Hall bull
ding, in which the court was held,
and clerks were engaged in filling up
blank applications. The committee
estimate, for what is proved, that six
ty-eight thousand three hundred and
forty-three fraudulent certificates were
issued in New York, Ulster, Monroe,
Westchester, Rensselaer,, Putnam,
Green and Orange counties, and there
is no evidence of any Republican
court ever having issued a single
fraudulent certificate.
JUDGE McCUNN's METHOD.
SIN naturalization, before Judge
John H. MeCunu he did not swear
any witness or applicant to testify the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, nor even to make true
answer to such questions as should be
put, but he prOfessed to swear appli-
cants and witnesses in these words :
That these affidavits you have sub
scribed are true Before this, some
times, though rarely, questions were
asked as to age, residence and moral
character, but never under oath, un-
less, indeed, swearing to the truth of
their aft1davits could be so considered.
EXTENT OF THE FRAUDS.
eff the committee had devoted the
whole time. from their appointment to
the close of this Congress, it would
not have been possible to ascertain or
to take testimony to prove the number
of persons who voted more than once
in each of the $40 districts, in all of
which there were cast at the election
in November, 156, 900 votes, a number
nearly as great as all the votes cast in
six of the States of the Union at the
same election.
''All that could be done was to prove
as the evidence does, that an organized
system was perfected and carried into
effect by the members of the Demo-
cratic party, to register many thOus-
ands of names, fictitious or assumed,
and then to vote on them by hundreds
of persons voting from two to forty
times each for the Democratic candi-
dates There is evidence to show that
it was part of the gigantic scheme of
carrying the Democratic ticket in the
State of New York by fraud to delay
the canvassing of the vote in the city
until the result in the counties should
be known; then to make up the de-
ficiencies not supplied by repeating
and other fraudulent voting; by stuff
fing the ballot boxes, and by fraud
ulent canvass on the count of the vote.
''It is abundantly proved that many
names of voters were put on the poll
lists Ofvoters when nOsUch names were
registered. 1t was not possible for the
committee to trace this species of fraud
in all the districts. Its existence is
proved. 1t was not confined to one
locality, but was widespread. Ample
arrangements were made to perfect it.
No Democratic official officer or justice
or politician took any measures to de-
feat or prevent these frauds; but they
did take measures to aid them, and to
Obstruct the purposes of those who at
tempted in vain to defeat them. These
frauds are so mOnstrOus in character
and extent that they could not have
been the work of few or Of many in
dividuals it was the work of the
Democratic party. In their purposes
and modes of execution they showed
a symtematic plan devised by control
ing minds for purposes Of carrying the
election in the State. The plans were
comprehensive enough to accomplish
the purpose designed. The means en-
plOyed to secure these thousands of il
legal votes were the use of fraudulent
certificates of naturalization to enable
aliens and repeaters to vote, the sys-
tenn of repeating so successfully and
extensively adopted, and the frauds in
canvassing the result of the vote. All
these have been adverted to. To make
these means successful, the necessary
agencies were employed to prevent
the detection as far as possible, and to
defeat the purposes of those who
would expose or interfere with the eX-
ecutiOn of these fraudulent schemes,
the police census was Obstructed and
prevented, and challenging was pre-
vented by terrorism and violence.
The evidence Of a grand conspiracy to
perpetrate these frauds is abundant.
CHARGES AGAINST GOV. HOFFMAN.
"The Mayor of the city, now Gov
ERROR of the State, the AttOrney-Gen-
eral of the State, District Attorney,
now Mayor, and other less distinguish
ed officials, rendered it valuable aid.
With the courts and officers of justice
all controlled by men elected as Dem
Ocrats, and with vast official and per-
sOnal influence of the dominant party
in the city, men can escape all punish
ment for crime. Immunity and pro-
lection were promised repeatedly to
those engaged in these election frauds.
The committee argue that the vote Of
the city was too great, compared with
the vote of the former years, as was
shown by the average ratio of the vO-
ters to population. The committee
think that two thousand fraudulent
votes were cast in the Sixth Ward
alone.
REMEDIES PROPOSED.
"The committee recommend the
withdrawal of naturalization from the
New York City Courts, and offer bill
for that purpose; also q bill amending
the Naturalization Laws, and recon-
mending one day throughout the
United States for the election of repre-
sentatives in Congress, and providing
for the cOntesting elections of the
President and Vice President, and q
Constitutional amendment authOri-
zing Congress to regulate the appoint
ment of President and Vice President
directly by the people, or by electors
chosen by single districts"
WASHINGTON, March II.
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