The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-08-11

Election Ffzszs n Aes TEX
Prom tbs hands Of Hon J. a john
son We have al interesting pubic DOH
menf: the report Of the select committee
appointed By the House Of RsPresenis
tives, TO investigate charges Of fraud At
the Fafi election in New York City. A
more giaring mass Of corruption We an
not imagine. thar the Official and unoh-
cial machinery shieh 50 arbitrarily con
trolls the d~essinies Of that u~nfortunzss
city, a. shown By tie evidence Of Eii-
nesses appearing before the committee
II Is supposed that 1000 persons Fe-
eeiyed naturalization papers. in droEes
Ike cattle. and in the sane mznner hsd
their names put upon the registry That
done, they were no longer needed; for
hired repeaters supplied the Place better
In thsir absence On election day. Whole
PROFESSIONS Ct men uere thus enrolled in
the courts a. having complied With the
laws for naturalization. when in fact thsg
had not in any respect confouned TO the
Laws requirements. They were not
wanted 10 comply With the law; for that
you'd be irksoms. tedious, and not
nearly 90 effective IS the patent process
Of the Democratic boss maehinisis.
Col. Bliss, On cath. makes 3 statement
Of the mockery Of naturalization IN Judge
Mccnnn's court. We quote 3 glimpse
at the manner Of conducting the bust
ness.
They cans in at the other door, and
shen they came within eight or ten feet
Of the Judge the Bible was put in their
hands, and perhaps a dozen or fftez7
sworn al = time 10 make true
They then passed mp in front Of the
Judge. The judge bad before him a
large pile Of these applications. He
would take them mp n ask questions
about them, and the witness would an
sxer. He took them up one at 3 time,
and at first l noticed that the question
he asked vas, Do you know this mann
The witness had no neal Of knowing
Who the man was that was named in the
paper before the judge. looked about
10 see where the men to Be nat1ralized
we're, and it struck me that he mn % Be
~ndtar1li1sd uers al n The rom. ! then
vent to one Of the officers to ascertain
the fact. Just as ! was going TO him /
noticed a little noise at the door at which
they were coming in, and heard one Of
the officers say TO 3 man. Go out.
The man said, L want 10 be natural
led Well, said the officer, where is
your Eitnessf' Here he is said the
man. Well, We do not want You here
said the officer: go OUT and he kept
the man out and let the witness in. |
then found that in no case vas the per-
son 10 be nAturalized allowed to come
into the room.
And Mr. Leverson. a member Of the
Bar, thus depicts how the appearance Of
variety Of witnesses was proyided-the
same witnesses served under different
names-thus;
In the first place the witnesses, who
appeared very frequently, appeared for
different persons; the same witnesses ap-
peared sometimes under different names,
and sometimes p~ersonated applicants.
With every desire to speak as charitably
as possible Of a gentleman who behaved
SO c~ourteously TO myself as Judge
McCunn did, il would certainly be a
charity which should suppose that
he could have failed to notice that. One
single man appeared fve-and-twenty
times, at least. in a single evening. under
many different names.
1t appears, moreover, by the testi-
mony Of q Democratic manipulation,
Florence Scanned, that George Wilkes
could not resist an occasion to refresh
himself in Democratic usages; and then
could not keep faith with thieyes-as for
example:
/ agreed with him to register a num-
Der Of names and leave them unvoted,
provided they would give me two Repub-
lican canvassers in the December cleo
ton. / fulfilled my part of the contract,
but they did not theirs.
5754. Q. With whom did you make
this contract? A. made it with both
Stanley and Wilkes.
5755. @. What did you do for Stan
ley and Wilkes2 A. registered $50 or
200 names in my ward. / voted some
myself, and left some for them to vote.
$3.50. Q. How many of these names
were Of men legally entitled to vote? A.
| can not tell that; probably none, proba-
bly, a dozen.
5784. Q. Was it the agreement that
the Republicans would vote for these
names? A. Yes, sir.
No wonder Congress thought neces-
sary to interpose its authority over the
case, to check the outrageous swindle of
the naturalization laws and provide some
protection of the legitimate ballot.