The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-09-03
The Tribunc's Injustice and Wrong TO
Judge Barnard.

The Tribune attempts TO justify the accu-
against Judge GEORGE @. BARNARD OF com.
RI city in election frauds. 1t says that dur.
ing the last eight years OF more he has been
leading magistrate of our city :" and that
in lsGS, according 10 the testimony Of eye
witnesses, ne turned out twenty or thirty
thousand citizens in the course of two
months, when it WIS simply impossible that
with proper inquiry and deliberation. one
fourth Of the number could have been natu
rallied in one Court"
Nowiwc have TO meet this statement by a
simple, plain, clear, unequivocal, distinct,
downright, absolute denial. We assert, on
the authority Of Judge GEORGE @. BARNARD
himself-and no man living, certainly no
man who knows him, will dispute Lis word
that he las Nicer, during his tRtire term Of
| office, signed certificates Of naturalization or
sio0rR in ndturdliz6d cittztns, 10 tie number
in The aggregate. all told, Of oreT four thou
sand. This, too, in a term, as stated by the
Tribune of eight years or more.
1t is evident that the Tribune has r
monstrously misinformed
The Tribune further says:
| "There is no one livinRwh
| done what We could 70 e 20 doubts that we have
lcpul votes airly elections decided Oy
| How Las II b. lied, and hy those alone.
| Was en- with Judge BARSARDf"
wcr, it has been thus with Judge
.NARD. The first conviction for fraudu.
lent voting took place before him. He sen
tcrced the culprit TO the State Prison. He
used the following language on occasion
OF passing sentence. We quote from the re
ror, of his remarks publ shed in the 7'ijunt
at the time:
Us PfUFoEskNcE or NY Dirty AZ PUBLIC
; OFFICER. AN coMiUIItp TO TTiMrT To sroP IL
; LEohL VOTING ~ TUE CITY AND COUNTY or NEW
YORK. AND DUEISG NY EXPEcTLD OCCUPANCY
, | soME SEVEN YEARS YET-oF SEAT on TINS BENCH
| INTEND TO UsE THE rowER OF THIS Court TO PRE-
| VENT MEN IRON VOTING HoRE THAN ONCE STUFF
ISG BALLOT. BOXES, OR ANY INTERPRETERS or tina
D KIND, BEcAUsE ~ You DO NOT sTOP ILLEGAL voT
> iSG AND YOU Do ATTEMPT TO pErEivE HOSFsT CITl
- 2ENs or TnE RIGHT To BE HEARD IN THE GOVERN
MINT or TIE IErUnLIc, THIS KErUBIIc cASSo
Last MANY YEAR,"
~ There never was JGdge On the berc'
from whom such notce-such a threat
e would have struck greater terror into tn
Il hearts of corrupt voters than it did comm,
r. from Judge BAENARD, His sincerity, h.
=. fnnness his icarlossness, IRE just as We
If known and understood Us those qualitic
P were known and understood in the characto
A of ANDREW JACKSON.
# We do not question that the IIiJunt
A sincere in its expressed wish to stop illcgi
"a voting; but we ASK, is il triSe not to hail wit
id II loud voice, and welcome with the sound {
n trumpcts, such powerful ally in the mob
,f work as Judge GEORGE @. BARNARDf
IN il fidelity to the cause TO seek, by harsh, u
M uat, and incorrect statements, 10 repel sue
a. IA doughty champion from the ranksr
10 The Tribune makes the point that Tar
~ many il in favor of illegal voting, and th'
~ Judge BARNARD is q Tammany man,
Ii the 1riJune is right about Tamman
he Icing in favor of Illegal voting, is not JUDI
TT BARNARD to lie doubly honored, for II
IT. merely sustaining the purity Of the ball'
nd box, but for sustaining il in opposition TO Ii
at own political associatcs2
le Tammany seems likely to elect our Judg
US for some time TO come Would the etitor
he the Tribnne prefer to have one in Jud
" BARNARD's place who holds the views viii
III. he mputes to Tammany on the subject
&c, fraudulent votingf
ar The Tribune mentions some act of Go
he IIOFFMAN-at the time when he was May
20 go which 1t dsappIovcs, and adds 1--WE ci
lt not rocollect that he was rcbuked for Il
ny unworthy and Indecent conduct by Jud
n P>H&Aup'
t. Really can tie editor Of the 7Yaune
nj s'tiou- in Offering such an c&crs, for It's Ill
wo on Judge pA;2,AED? We Ahk it safe
&C. | pg,alue that Gov HOFFMAN did MOTH