The New York herald., 1870-11-06
Besides there can be no election frauds


thai he dreaded the operations or these vioiators
OF the election law as certainly 10 be used
against himself and IN support OF ms antagonist,
Ledwlth. Judge Bowling, anxious for the purity or
the ballot, anticipated the action OF the federal au-
| Woodruh az. Inc lact q, 81 the HERALD mas al
I ways maintained, that these election fra as were
greatly oierrated OF exaggerated THIS IS eyid nj
| from the tact That over nfty thousand names were
| registered ON the first day OF the registry after
| unusual vigilance and with impro1 Ell detective
| machinery IN the hands or the federal officials
and that after two weeks search they have dlscov-
ered only score or 50 OF supposed delnduents. and
convicted but three OF those arrested. This Is ll-
| dcrous disproporton, when the wholesale charges
that have been made Is consl iered ana compared
with the facts brought TO light The action OF the
ledera authorities, although villined by partisan
Journals, u, aier all, democratic blessing In radi
cal disguise, because 1t has swollen the honest re-
alarm the repeaiers, whose acrs might
| have preciptated trouble election day. Then
when Hoffman shall nave carried the city by an irl-
mense majority, his opponents deprived OF their
| dangerous and iallacious crY-that he has been
elected by irand and hereafter no one VIII deny Inc
value OF the detective and Judicial Interference In
/ favor or law and ORDER
TUE CONGRESSIONAL coNrEsT-rHE FOURTH Dis
TRIcT.
| The elections IN the matter OF the Congressional
canvass, 1t may be setuown are now before the peo
pie. The only Congressional contests that deserve
the name OF contests are the districts where Cox and
Greeley Roosevelt and sicNahon, aud where Brooks,
wilkes and Wadsworth encounter each other,
In the Fourth district John Fox, dssparing Of
nomination. and certainly OF reelection, aftei alb
sentng himself three thirds OF the time from his
Ing himself with the men who prosecute the natural
respectabie but rather pliabis gentleman, who Was
recently the republican Minister TO Paraguay TO ac-
cept nomination to run against the Knckerbocker
boy or the d6trict-0ne to the manor born-RObert
Roosevelt The General In this district will certainly
be AZ badly beaten as was hts namesake at Sedan.
go TO grass. and come up. IKE his namesake with
hip badly hurt After vany trying to get any nomi-
nation IN any OF the districts rom the Tammany
people he has t0isted himself upon the shoulders
OF the sore heads Every merchant in the lower
part OF the city ought to eectionesr throughout ali
they can do by sending for their stevedores cotton
plckers longshoremen, labOrers, psrters and jani-
tors and all who '.ive, move and have their being,
in the district aud raly them for the polls On Tues
day morning. Mr.. Roosevelt Is peculiarly th 10 can
diate OF the commercial and laboring interest.two
interests which are more blended and identified In
that district than in any other district In the city
In recent speech delivered by him Mr.. Roosevelt
friend and associate In business OF Private Miles
o'Reilly, or the Fortyseyenth-the late amented
him among tne Irish, but this must fail, FOR mono
who know The true-hearted Miles Q'Reilly win be-
lleve that ne could assocate himself with any but
ALL Mr.. Roosevelt, like his father and grandfather,
was born In the district and all the business inter-
in and been Identified with those OF the district.
His paternal uncle an old democratic war horse OF
the past represented the district in Congress, SO
that even IN this way he has q strong claim to the
SURFACES of all the citizens OF 1t. Should he get
that support his constituents will find In hlm an
one who knowing all the wants and needs OF
the district, has the abb ity and force Of character
TO the fullest extent in every leglilmate way.
General McMahon's real opponent is General
David wmyss Jobson, another very erranc genius
and peripatetlc philosopher. who Is canvassing the
district with most extraordinary assurance on his
own part or success. That the McMahon-Fox party
stand In mortal dread OF the terrible JobsOn Ia seen
IN the fact that their satellites broke up disorder
an impromptu mass meeting that J0bson was ad.
dressing from the steps OF the City Hall on Friday
Temporary
rrepressible candidate for the suffrages OF the
Fourth districters. Jobson will have the satisfic-
tlon, however, on tuesday next or proving that
The best laid schemes
or men and mice gang aft aglee.
So McMahon's political schemes az well as hts own
VIII have ganged aglee on that important day Of
trial ...t.-. s.s. .....4.. ..s... 80
cox's DISTRICT
In Mr.. CoXS district Mr.. Greeley, the republican
candidate, has plready received two knockdOwn
blows from the evening radical Journals, while all
4 his morRing coaJreres singuary silent as TO his
claims almost overlooking the fact that he Is in the
race at ALL IL is strongly advanced however, by his
torians for thousands Of years have quar-.
relied over the birthplace residence while liv-
ing ana whore he sleeps IN death OF the great
Homer and of Horace does not set The questions
where he was born and where he was "raised"
| rlgnt-right on, while he Is yet among u.s. he VIII
leave legacy OF doubt that may In the future cause
considerable stir in the world ono thing Is certain,
that he mas no local habtanon, but bad name in
the district In which he intends to run. This will
hardly suffice TO bring him through, with the great
s. 5. Cox as his opponent and who only being
and has Notwithstanding that he Is carpet-bag
ger. received the triple crown OF candidacv-the
Tammany, Mozart and Young Democracy nomina-
ton.
BROOKS DISTRICT.
In the Seventh District the present incumbent,
Mr. Brooks, Is between two millstones The demo
cratic vote likely to be divided with him by julius
Wadsworth, President OF the Second Avenue Rail
road the nominee OF Sheriff O'Brlen and OH the re-
publican side he is opposed by George Wilkes
who will not only receive the whole vote Of
his party, but who, from his great popularity with
he
Seventh district-wll assuredly receive consldera-
bic strength from democratic votes. Should the
! pubcans poll an unexpectedly large vote in favor
| OF Wilkes, Brooks ormer ajority OF eleven thou
sand may be reduced 10 three or four thousand
enough Of course TO elect him. There Is doubt,
| however, but Mr.. Brooks VIII serve second term
| COUNTY TIcKET-A sHREwp MOVE.
The whole democratic ticket sweeps along as an
| entirety Hitherto candidates have scrub-raced
TO see how much OF majority one would have over
| another, and thus exhibit personal strength for
| future contests. But with unusual magnaninity
| Messrs. Brennan, Losw. Keenan,, Young and Her
! man have issued card in which they suDstan-
! italy say that they do not want any votes
that shall not be equally shared by Mayor Hall and
| 70 nrevent nind,eio1s friends Of Brennan or Ioew
giving votes for Ledwlth In return for Ledwth votes
for sheriff and County Clerk. This reduces the
! county fight simply to for Mayor. II Is conf.
IDENTIFY asserted by old politicians that at the polls
| the Young Democracy ticket VIII, OF course,
/ be headed by Wo0dford. republican candidate
for Governor, in pursuance OF the bargain
and tailed on with all the names on the whole demo-
cratic county ticket, with the exception oil the SUD-
| sttutloD for Ledwlth for Mayor. BY this mannuvre
the Tammany dsorganizers expect TO get republican
! votes Tor ledwith and humbug some democratic
| voters to votipg for Woodrun and Ledwth by
! having the names of Loew, Brennan and the
| other democratic county candidates conspicuousy
printed at the foot OF the ticket. But this shallow
/ manuuvre, being once exposed, must TAIL. Demo-
Gratis have learned that the faction OF dsOrganzers
| Ledwlth, Fox, Morrissey, Hayes and Bumenthal
and the ''rougns' that hang on to their skirts first
invited federal interference with elections by their
own infamous acts IN the past ana that a. when NE
| honest democracy repudated them and drove them
| from all participation in their counses they shame
| fully and treacherously allied themselves with
| the gangs Of federal marshals and supervisors TO
| overawe the honest voters and bully and defraud
| the naturazed citizens OF their newly acquired
| privileges
MAYOR HALLS REELEcTIoN SURE.
The plain English OF the county canvass is, so far
| as the Young Democracy are concerned, tnat Led
with, under idea that 1t may be useful TO him In
future contests for place and power desires 10 show
i nresenl STRENGTH and nnnularllY. Tne former he