Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-20
TIL. Impending Crisis in New York.

respectable majority.
The Impending Crisis In New York.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The city OF New York is drifting to-
ward one of the most formidable riots 1t
has ever known, on the approaching
election day. All the elements for such
a riot exists in full force and are now be-
ing prepared by their leaders for the
fray. Unquestionably the business will
be serious unless President Grant him
self makes aa adequate manifestation
of force by placing troops on Governors
Island ready to DE used on the day OF
election to preserve order.
The facts which indicate the coming
riot are these: For fifteen years New
York has not had an honest or peaceful
election, or one in which Tammany ruf
fianism did not run the polls with un-
disputed sway.
Generally, Republicans were allowed
to vote by standing for hours in ranks of
reporters and alien voters, though there
would be many cases in which they had
not even this privilege. But, during all
this period, no systematic or efecti, at
tempt has been made to prevent repea-
ters from voting as many times at one
polling place, and in as many polling
places as they chose to vote. Ii is con-
clusively shown by the returns of popu-
lation that this repeating. together with
the other frauds incident TO the election
have poIled from twenty to thirty thous-
and illegal votes, at the last election.
placed the present Governor, Hoffman,
in Office, and enable him, together with
Fisk, Gould, Tweed and Barnard, to
steal the Erie Railway from its stock
holders The whole Illegal vote is DEM
ocratic, and every Democrat knows it to
be SO. The Governor, who has control
of the State militia, and who is fond of
ventilating his States rights notions of
the independence of the State from all
interference by the National Govern
ment and the Mayor, Oakley Hall, who
controls the New York police, are both
determined that the force of the police
and of the State militia, if necessary,
shall be used 10 sustain this fraudulent
voting.
These are very formidable forces to
meet, aud it behooyes the government
at Washington to consider that they are
as determined in their way TO carry their
smaller point as Davis and Lee, Floyd
and Toombs were to carry theirs.
Congress has passed statute aimed
speci lily to break up and abolish this
fraudulent voting in New York It's
passage grew out of the investigation by
a. Congressional Committee into the
frauds in the election of congressman
which attended and accompanied the
election of Hoffman. All the power OF
><Tammany, from its Governor and courts
to its police and plug-uglies, is concen-
trated in one determined effort to smash
this law so effectually as to frighten the
atf, rn A, II
So far as the law-abiding forces III New
York city are concerned, they are utter
ly inadequate to enforce the law OF Con
gress.
Where the United States Marsh al
could appoint one deputy, Mayor Hall
and the Sheriff could appoint fifty. We
undertake to say that there will be a
mortifying and blood fdsco in the at
tempt to enforce this law, or pusilan-
imous fizZle if the Marshal be expt Ct
ed to enforce it. II needs and deserves
the direct energies and military for S
at the disposal of the government. t.
These and no less, will insure pea,..:-
full vote and au honest one. OF couI e
there will be the usual howl that this S
'satrapy." federal insolence, ""milis :
ry despotism," an attempt to intimida (.
the honest Democrats OF New York city ,
and the pretended rejoicing over the
supposed converts such a course will
make to the Democratic party. We
estimate all this hypocritical bosh at
the same weight the magistrate attaches
to the thief's targon when he orders him
ten years in The Penitentiary. The rule
of the Democratic party in New York
city is confederated viliainy. 1t is the
great national and international nuis-
apce Now that slavery is abolished, it
is the chief national crime, and the only
fact in our condition that brings repub-
licau institutions into contempt. 1t is
the duty of President Grant to suppress
its crimes, to the extent that existing
laws enable him to do so, with the strong
hand, as no longer tolerable by the ma
ton. The opportunity to do so will occur
at the approaching election. Congress
has passed law authorizing the Mar
shaI and his deputies to arrest whomso-
ever they see voting illegally, or COM
mitting any breach of the peace. Tam
many Hall and its packers threaten to
arrest the Marshal and lis deputies if
they attempt to enforce this law. They
deny its constitutionality of course, and
that, under the circumstances, means
that if the force which attempts to sus
tain the law is one which they can whip
they intend to fight. Let the President
himself see the law enforced by the
whole power of the government, or that
adequate preparations are made to that
end. and there will be neither a shame
full ilure, nor a bloody .fasco, but an
honest, peaceful, and pure election, in
which Democracy will, as rule, vote
once. the first of the kind that has oc-
cured i'm that bailiwick for many wears