The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-01-21

shsll Tammany Frauds Fleet the Next
President

How to carry elections has become an mt,
And the boldest rogue, who cheats the most
shamelossly and successfully, may aspire to
any place he plehsrs, and win 1t too. The
comparatively mild fraud ofcoloniGing voters
from a strong into weak district he's long
Since been put 20 the blush by the more auda.
eious cfIrontcry of modom political managers.
Yet the time was when the former ofTGrco
was regarded "a the lowest deep of political
aepravity. "Ploqucmnes and pipe
laying were once byworl ard rcproach
Now the processes Of false registration, re-
poatinG, and The lcrvcrsi9n of the returns of
an election, appear, If We may judge by the
popular Indifference upon the subject, 10 have
become regular measures oil party practice
Can the people safely rc.mit such crimes
against popular government TO go uupun.
isbed3 Lot the facts answer. The little
reed Is rapidly growing into mighty tree,
which threatens TO extend It's shade over all
The land. The tactics which at fret were
relied upon 10 carry n ward or 4 city only, IN
1908 male captive the Empire State. Three
years hence they may conquer the country,
- and establish fraudulent President in the
White House at Washington.
=, Every irmindcd man admits tia, the
State Of New York was revolut oni2ed BY
repeatcrs. False nnturalizatons by scores of
thousands were effected; re ristratun Of
voters became O farce 4; and the canvass Of
the vote was fraud. So nudacious was the
proceeding that its very Loldnoss staggered
the people who seem even yet not 20 have
realized the full measure u the enormity
il imposed upon the bona .Gdc electors a
bogus government. The leaders OF tie
conspira y and their agents, though well
known, have thus far gone unwhippcd OF JUS
tce. Nor has respectable effort been made
for the conviction of even the least Of them
The time is not far distant, however, when
this monstrous conspiracy must be taken by
the throat, or 1t Will crush ont our populcr
liberties. The great headquarters of this
conspiracy Is the city of Now York. OF what
elements it is composed the July RIOS
of 1903 made blood.ly manifest. How
powerful for evil it is, under tho tutelage of
Tammany Hall, the late charter election SUI.
fciently attests We have reason TO believe
that the conspirators are maturing their
plans for grand coup at the next Congress
sional elections Tho processes which have
prevailed 40 signnlly here WILL il is believed,
succeed az we'll in larger arena II the
State of New York can BE- carried with
the fraudulent vote of this city to aid
in overwhelming the rural districts, why
not Pennsylvania with Philadelphia for q
fulcrum, Massachusetts, with Boston, Ohio
with Cincinnati, Louisiana with Now Or
lcaus, and so on TO the cnl of the chupterH
Chimcrcel as this scheme may seem at frs.
sight, il is by no means impossible Of accom-.
plishmcnt. Tho dangerous classes which
have been orray,d here for the overthrow of
law and order are no less available in other
States. The shoddy Republicans who have
here joined the Ring have their counter.
parts in corruption in other States. Tho
chief tool of tho ccnspirstors, who was first
made Mayor of New York by daring frauds,
and is now Governor of the State by similar
means on more widely extended scale. is
the avowed candidate of this confedcracy for
the Presidency. This is the ultimate pur.
posc of the Ring and their pretorian horlcs.
The attempt to effect It will be made and
persisted in, and who can say that II will not
succecdi The means which have suificcd for
the conquest of State, may be so oxtended
Ms to overthrow the legitimate government Of
the nation. The question is one far above
the strife Of parties. 1t appeals for remedy
TO every honest man in the land. Unless
met in q, ason, sooner or later these frauds
upon the elective franchise will force upon
the people anew the alternative of submission
TO shameless usurpaton or the horrors Of