The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-21

The New York Elections.

in New York. In ev ry line and inquire
of its pages they read Radical disaster
and defeat in the future, and they gnash
their teeth and tremble in every mus
Gle of their limbs. The Cincinnati
Commercial, which may be considered
the leading organ of its party in the
West, frankly owns up to the disaster,
and its political causes, as follows
"The result of the New York cleo
ton is not comforting one to the Re.
publicans. While tremendous Dem
Ocratic majority was anticipated in the
city, owing to the system of fraud prac-
ticed with IMMUNITY there, it was thought
the interior would give handsome Re
publican majority. The incomplete re-
turns, however, indicate that the State,
as well as the city, is Democratic. With
heavy taxes, protective tariffs, land
grabbing legislation, and Summers so
cial equality bill, what other result are
Republicans to expectY
This is honest, except we think the
Commercial gave sufficient reasons for
the Republican disaster in its closing
lines about Congressional legislation,
without charging intimidation and
fraud in the Democratic wards. There
is no doubt that some fraud is always
practced in New York city elections, but
the Republican party was the first to
set the example, and we have no doubt
practiced as much of their old tricks
this time as the vigilant eyes Of an
honest Democratic police would permit.
Both the Commercial and the IteHigenee'
of this city furnishes lis some amusing
evidences Of this fact in their lame at
tempt to fix the fraud OF repeating or
double voting upon the Democratic
party. Here are some of the shocking
frauds charged by those papers:
An old Irish woman tr;ei to cast a
ballot in the Fifth Ward, but it was re.
jected, much to her disgust.
In one district only did the negroes
dare to exercise the franchise, and there
bat eight out Of twenty-seven registered
mustered sufficient courage TO face the
hangerS-on at the polls
In the Second, two OF the strong
minded women attempted to vote the
Republican ticket, but We're sent home
disgusted.
In the Ninth Ward colored man mis-
took his district, and was arrested, but
released.
In the Third District of this ward an
old colorcd 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 Republican ticket.
A coal yard, corner Eleventh. street
and University Place, in the Fifteenth
Warl, WIS the headquarters Of gang
of forty repcater', VINO required thl,he
after voting in one d,Str ct, CHANGED
heir clothes, and then went and voted
in another.
These are the ludicrous specimens o.
Democratic fraud furnished us by the
Republicans, and they cannot fail to
excite the laughter of every reader. 1t
appears that three strong minded wo-
men wanted to vote the Republican
ticket, and were sent home disguised
because women suffrage does not exist
in New York. In one ward a colorcd
man mistook his district and was re
fused a vote; and in another a colored
woman wanted to vote for her absent
husband and was rejected. In another
ward there were forty repeaters' who
changed their clothes" and voted in a
second ward, but whether they were
Democrats or Republicans we have no
information They were Republicans
no doubt, for like the chameleon, they
change their clothing and their colors
whenever necessary to accomplish fraud
or escape detection-iust as they have
done in this State on the question of
negro suffrage and various other qucs.
tons. If our Republican friends can
not substantiate their allegation of
fraud against the New York Democracy
by better evidence than what they have
furnished, they had better not repeat
the falsehood again.