New-York tribune., 1870-10-19
THg OVFRSYADOWJNG ISSUE

We desire and mean to poll ono vote-just
exactly One-fOr Gen. WOOdfOrd and the
other candidates of our choice on Tuesday,
Nov. 8. We never offered nor sought to vote
till we were legally entitled to do so-have
ever since cast one vote at each recurrence of
our State Election-and never sought to cast
more than one.
Our one vote we are willing to have neutral
lied by that of any legal voter who prefers to
be governed by John Il. Hoffman That voters
right is exactly equal to ours, ard we will
stand up for it as heartily as for our own.
We are not willing that our one vote shall
be neutraized and nullifed by that of per-
son who is not legally an electOr, nor by the
fifth or fifteenth vote of q repeater, as it has
repeatedly been at many recent elections
notably at that of 1868, when Gen. Grant had
not less than Twenty Thousand majority Of
the legal votes polled, and yet he was not only
swindled out of the thirty three Electoral Votes
of our State, but they were all scored up
against him, making difference of sixty-six
in the aggregate. BY frauds and Outrages
different in character but kindred in purpose
and effect, the States Of Georgia and Louisiana
were likewise made to vote for Seymour and
against Grant.
Happily, the popular preference Of Grant
and Colfax was so overwhelming that it could
not be overborne even by frauds so gigantic
as these. But, in the closer election of 1874,
Henry Clay was by far less extensive vilanics,
cheated ont of the Electoral Votes Of this State
and Louisiana, and thereby defeated-a defeat
which Ovorthrew the Protective Tariff of ~,
annexed Texas, involved us in war with Mex
leo, and, in its rcmoter consequences, whelmed
the country in desperate, bloody civil strife.
We have appealed again and again for egis-
lative protection against the crimes whereby
our Right of Suffrage has been outraged and
trampled under foot by the villains then and
now misruling our City. The Legislature has
tried to help us by Registry Laws and other
Devices which have proved powerlcsS because
their execution 'cas in good part dependent on
Judges and other fanctionaries who pee the
tools Of the conspirdtorS, the sharerS of their
aspirations and their gains. Themselves elected
by these very frauds, or hoping for further
promotion at the hands Of the criminals, they
became virtual confederatcs in the nefarions
work of depriving us of our most cherished
rights.
The Right of Suffrage is the foundation and
guarantee of all other rights. TO be deprived
OF 1t without reason may well be deemed in
tolerable oppression. But the legal elector is
no more disfranchised by refusing his vote
at the ballot-box than by allowing an illegal
vote 70 be polled that neutralizes it. If his
vote is to be thus deprived of all efficacy.
lar netter relieve him of the fruitless trouble
of casting it.
From the hour of its first organization, the
Republican party of this City and State has
done its very utmost to prevent Illegal Voting
and fraudulent counting of votes. It has
passed act after act with no other intent than
to secure TO every legal voter his constitn-
tional Right of Suffrage For so doing. il has
been persistently assailed, DETAINED, maligned
by vllainous demagogues and unprncipled
journals. Ignorant and credulous immigrants
have been made to believe it the implacable
enemy of their rights because of its efforts to
save those very rights from subyGsion. Thou