New-York tribune., 1870-08-03

SHALL I'VE AGAIN HAVE ELECUONSf
A republic. without elections is fraud and
q farce--at once the coTuptest, most costly,
most perilous of despotsms Such is the ca
lamity wherewith our country is now threat
ened. If there be a remnant of honesty and
patriotism in the Democratic party, that ca
lamity may yet be averted.
In this City, elections have ceased. A few
smart villains determine in secret cOncaye
how much they must cheat to make the State
"safe" for their ticket: then they forge the
Naturalization Certificates, hire and train the
"repeaters," corrupt the needful inspectors and
canvassers, and the job is done. This is the
way they carried the State for Seymour and
Blair, when Grant and Colfax had at least
Twenty Thousand majority Of the legal vote.
This is the way they enabled John Il. Hoffman
to write himself Governor of New-York. His
majority was fabricated within sight Of our
City's steeples.
Last Fall, they succeeded again by fraud !;
last May, though the Republicans did not vote,
and their candidates for Judges would have
been defeated any how, the frauds of our
misrulers were moro shameless than ever.
They cheated as if to keep their hands in for
next November, when they mean to re6lect
Hoffman any how. They ore already setting
their pins to insure that result There are in
dcatons that they intend to rely less on re-
peatag and more on false counting than hith-
erto. Three fraudulent canvassers can do the
work of thirty TO fifty repeaters SO there are
fewer TO pay and less chance of exposure by
plumbers or peaching. Hence, tho minority of
each board chosen by the Republicans last
Spring are to be superseded where they can
not be bought and their places filled with crea-
lures and tools of the Tammany Ring, many of
them pretended Republicans.
The World, for weeks after the election OF
1868, stOutly cOntended that the City vote was
fairly cast and counted, and tho result the
Peoples verdict. After a while, it had a
lovers quarrel with the Ring, and then it de-
clared that its Editor SGw tho cheating go on
at tho poll where he voted for Seymour and
Blair, and knew it to be the work of William
M. Tweed and A. Oakley Hall OF course, he
had known this all along.
At that same Election, Louisiana was carried
for Seymour against the will of its legal
voters, but more by intimidation than by
corruption. The Blacks of half the State were
made to understand that they could only vote
against Seymour and Blair at the peril of
their lives, if at all. They were Ovcrawcd
and kept from the polls. The facts arc as
notorious and unquesdonable as figures can
mako them. Yet The World, knowing them
well, now secs fit to say of Thomas W. Con-
way;
He speaks from feeling recollection Of Rebel barba
rity In 1863 At that tne the Republican party only
gave the COored a blue muslin badge and tract
each the Rebels resorted to blue silk with silver trim
mngs knocked ont the heads Of several whisky barrels
and made large inrouds he tO note Louisiana. in
fact, wac lost to Gen. Grant"
Comments by The Tribpne.
The most forcible exposure of the shameless
dishonesty and untruth Of the above statement
will be found in simple exhibit of the UOte
ITSELF as compared with the registered number
of White and COlored voters in several of the
most populous parishes-as follows:
VOTE FOR PRESIDENT, 1868,