New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-30

I ,,no practically. and snow .hh' .''o
ponr,o,can party Of HewYork Is III ''V Nv hava made
ssovn,n man who clutches at o straw w ocauso
.ho nont and THE TRIBUNE nae nu' nd, for
! , ."e that no Federal Courf sh e"'e''a"
oanno' .nifi,s for cioiatin0 the e'ecffon Iars o.
~, ~, ,,v acts of Congress are mere sco'ee'os
| m. 7Libuno's RespOnse.--What We asKed Oh
| c.,ngress was the prevention and punishment
~ such frauds as the Editor of The Nortd
| testified that he sdw perpetrated = Hauds
whereby many election districts OF our City
| were made to cast vote nearly or quite equal
TO one-half their total population, whereof not
more than one-eighth are legal voters-cer-
tainly, less than one-sixth-their inhabitants
being preponderantly female, with large pro-
portion of aliens and persons who have not
yet resided here long enough to be entitled 10
vote. Thus several of the lower Wards, whose
population has not increased since 1910, have
recently been made to give twice as many
votes as they did in the vehement contest OF
that year.
Do not such frauds cry to heaven 7 Since
they have shocked even the Editor OF me
World, who can be expected to regard them
without Indignation
Our elections have been "put under Federal
" supervision" simply because State and Mu-
nicipal supervision nOurished, melted, and
perpetrated, the frauds complained of by The
World, and thus stole the thirty three Elec-
toral Votes of New-York from Grant and Col
fax, foisting Hoffman into the Governors
chair Congress was asked to prevent repe-
tition of the frauds so justly complained of
by the Editor of The World. We trust the
good work has been well done-we know that
Congress in good faith has tried to do it, and
we tender it our hearty thanks therefor.
The World says the avowed purpose" of
the acts of Congress in question is that OF
controlling the elections in State" Well
if preventing frauds in naturazing, polling
and canvassing, will control the result IN our
State, that is the Object-if you please, the
"avowed object What We want is an cleo
tion by legal votes, each cast by distinct
legal voter and so honestly Canvassed and
returned. If that will control the result, (and
The World, doubtless, knOws,) then it ought
so to be controlled and we trust will be-
The World does not even assert that there
is aught unfair or unequal in this Federal
Supervision" nor that the laws in question
can do any thing more than stop illegal vot-
ing and false counting. 1t detests them simply
because they are in the way OF such frauds az
gave Seymour Sixty Thousand and Hoffman
over Seventy Thousand in our City. And that
is just why every one who desires that cleo
tons shall be fair and honest should uphold
and prize them.
But, says The World, they "amount to moth
cling practically" WhyR Because ono Fed
"eral Court will entertain suit to enforce
penalties for violating the election laws of
"Staten Messrs. repeaters and ballot-box-
suffers do MT you trust your feet on that thin
ice; for the water is deep and cold beneath
The Federal Courts can and will punish viola
| tons of the acts of Congress in question, such
as The World is eggng you on to attempt. Nc
| Gum cannot bail you out, nor will Barnard
or Gilbert have the trying of you, if you dis
regard our warning and undertake TO cheat
this Fall. just keep on the safe side of the
law this year; for, if you do MT, you will
surely wish you had Be wise while it is
called to-day