Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-03
Rotten DemOcracy-The Election Farce
in the City of New York.

New York MAY ~ Dispatch to Cincinnati Com
mercal
NEVER in the annals of New York chi
canery was an election characterized by
greater frauds than the one which TOOK
place to-day. The city swarmed with re-
peaters, who voted openly and with i'm
punity in most of the districts, the in
spectors generally either being in league
with the scoundrels, or deeming it OF no
use to have them arrested.
In the First Ward repeater attempted
to vote on Judge Hogan's name, in the
Judges presence, and the policeman on
duty in the booth refused to arrest him,
although ordered to do so by the magis-
trate. Very little challenging was done,
and only three repeaters were arrested.
In the Fourth Ward nearly every Re-
publican name was voted on by repeaters
before the rightful voters arrived at the
polls. :,
In the Eighth Ward two hundred and
eight negroes had registered, and they as
sembled in their church and marched In
body to the polls, but found that one hun
dred and sixty of their names had already
been voted on.
An old Irish woman tried to cast bal
lot in the Fifth Ward, but it was rejected,
much to her disgust.
A gang of 400 repeaters paraded the
Eighteenth Ward, and voted in nearly
every district, without let or hindrance.
Repeating in the Twenty first Ward
was confined to Districts Nos a, B, and g..
Here the inspectors made every one of
them swear the votes in, which they did
without flinching; but no one was ar
rested.
In one district only did the negroes dare
to exercise the franchise, and there but
eight out of twenty-seven mustered up
sufficient courage to face the hangers on
at the polls. = CE
In the Second, two of the strong. mind
ed women attempted to vote the Repub-
lican ticket, but were sent home dis
gusted.
In the Ninth Ward, colored man mis-.
took his district, and was arrested, but
released. :. -r~s-
In the Third District Of this ward an
old colored woman sought to deposit a
vote for her husband, who could not come
himself The negroes turned out strong
in this ward, and voted the straight Re-
publican ticket.
A coal yard, corner Eleventh street and
University place, in the Eleventh Ward,
was the headquarters of a gang of forty
repeaters, who repaired there after voting
in one district, changed their clothes, and
then went and voted in another.
The Seventeenth Ward was overrun
with gangs of repeaters, but two mem
beers of which were arrested. This was
the case all over the city, the election in
every ward, without exception, being
given up to the mercy of the repeaters,
and not more than thirty arrests being
made all day.
Very few of the respectable citizens
thought it worth while to waste their
time in casting vote which would not
count, and the greater number of those
who did attempt it found that repeaters
had been beforehand with them, and that
they had their trouble for their pains
There never was greater farce than the
New York election of to-day.
From the New York Evening Post.l
At 9 o'clock respectable merchant Of
fered his ballot in the Ninth Ward, when
the following took place:
Poll Clerk-This gentleman has voted
once to day.
Voter-That is not so; have not left
my house. e2
Poll Clerk-The record states that you
have voted.
Voter-I don't care for your record. ]
have not voted, and insist on my right as
a citizen to have my ballot deposited in
the boxes.
Inspector-We cannot go back on the
record, sir. Itappears that you have voteG
once, and we cannot receive second bal
lot from the same person.
The voter retired without further ar
gument, amid the bantering and derisive
laughter of the reporters, who were gath
cred in full force.