The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-11-24
Gov. Honnan on the New York Election.

Gov. HoYnaa on the New York Election.
Governor Hoffman was seranaded by the
Jacksonians, in Albany, New York, on Tues
day last. When called upon, he delivered an
address, from which we take the following
extract:
Our opponents realizing the popular APP
proval which would follow, and the intense
dissatisfaction which pcrvadsd the public
mind in regard to the administration Of af-
fairs at Washington, felt that it was necessary
to find some ''cry" which to shout in the peo-
pies ear, and to adopt somo extreme meas
ures by which they could regain the vantage
ground they had lost. The cry they chose
was frauds in elections in the city of New
York. They must be stopped" And the
measures they adopted were the use of Uni
ted States officers in the United States Army
to intimidate electors and control elections
here, charging, though falsely, that heretofore
the Democrats had carried the State by fraud.
| They set themselves to work to carry it by
intimidation and force In the city of New
York, especially, they aimed to break down
Democratic majorisics. A United States
Judge selected the supervisors who were to
supervise the elections there. | abstain from
criticising his Officially acts, except to say that
| am content to leave him to his own refec-
tions hereafter, and to the calm and candid
judgment of the bar of which he was once an
houored member. [Applause.] Several thou
sands of deputy marshals surrounded the poll
ing places in New York, each armed with a
navy revolver, instruments which in the
judgment Of the Administration at Washing
ton, were best calculated to secure to the
rights of suffrage. daughter and applause
United States troops with the money wrung
out Of the pockets Of an overtaxed people,
were kept in reserve ready when the word of
command should be given. The National
Guard of the State, that noble body OF citizen
soldicry who, more than once, marched during
the war to save the Capital Of the country,
and who, without pay or reward, are always
ready to aid the civil authorities in the pres
ervation of order applause we're not deem
ed worthy Of the confidence Of the President
and his advisers; but they and all State and
local authorities were ignored. Thousands of
United States warrants were issued In advance
for the arrest at the polls of persons claiming
| to exercise the right of suffrage. All that
could be done by intimidation and display of
power was done. 1t is the first time in the
history Of the great State of New York that
an organized effort has been made to control
its elections by the exercise of Federal power.
[ prophecy, my friends, it will be the last
[Great applause Well, our opponents ad-
nit, at last, that we have had an honest cleo
ton, but, as has been said of others, the last
| IL H. 4.
Judging from the result of Tuesday last, it is
safe to predict that they would prefer to go
back to the old system Of what they were
pleased to call election frauds. Honesty does
not seem to agree with them. Laughter
By their own admission, the faircr the cleo
ton the greater their defeat. [Applause.1
Notwithstanding all the efforts of the Federal
authorities the city of New York gave the
largest Democratic majority ever given at a
State election. Great applause Had it
not been for a combination made there between
certain Democrats, who sought to accomplish
local objects, and the Republican leaders, by
which at least ten thousand Democratic votes
were lost to the State ticket, our majority
there would have been greater than it was at
the Presidential election Of 1868. It would
have been more than seventy thousand But
it is large enough as it is, for it answers once
and forever the charge Of fraud, and rebukes
in thunder tones the unwarrantable Federal
interference with State affairs The uniform
gains to the Democratic ticket in nearly every
part Of this State tell their own story. Ap-
plause. They Indicate what is to come in
the near future, just as the first falling snow
fakes indicate the storm that is to follow, or
the first rustling Of the breeze precedes the
gate and the whirlwind. The political revo-
luton has commencedin other States and here,
and it will go on until the party now in pow
er at Washington, which has been false to ev-
cry principle of constitutional government and
and to the great interest of the masses Of the
people, shall be swept out of existence
[Chee:s and applause The people of this
State and of other States care nothing for the
Estate rights in the offensive sense in which
those words were by many, construed but they
do care for aid they will have what by the
Constitution of the country belongs to them.
1t is their right to manage and regulate their
own local affairs and to control their own cleo
lions, and they mean to exercise it. [Cheers
and applause
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