The New York herald., 1870-11-15
NEWTOWN ELECTION FRAUDS.

Some Startling Encts-"We Will Count You
In for Five Hundred Dollars "-Conclusive
Evidence Of Guilt.
The excitement over the election in Newtown
abates but little, and daily evidences Of fraud
come to light. Mr.. Cook tod Aaron A. De-
grauw ne could prove that in one ward in
Long Island city over 8cO illegal votes were
cast. Ofilcer Heaney asserts boldly that there
was fraud, and adds al Will prove it.n clerk
one Of the ward polls asserts that boys from If
teen to eighteen years CT age permitted to vote
several times each. In anosker district the inspect
ors sat with folded arms while the ballots were
counted by Ambrose and Corwith, two Oakley men.
Some OF the inspectors offered to "count In" Mr.
Everett, the republican candidate, for the sum OF
$500. Several prominent men have volunteered
their testimony and state they will prove that fully
100 men voted hve and Six times each.
comparison OF the vote cast for the State ticket
and Assembly ticket shows plainly that the re has
been fraud. For the Otll,e OF sherin there was q
great strife and 1t is therefore, taken as criterion
In Newtown village there are 1876 more votes for
Assemblyman than Tor tue State ticket In the Mas
peth district there are 30 more votes Tor Assembly.
nearly with the vote cast for the State ticket. In
more mo votes FOR asssmblyman than for the State
ticket In the Filth ward OF the city there are thir-
teen more votes for Assembyman than for The State
! ticket. Other differences exist Of from five to ten
votes making total Of 2es more votes
returns s Vim IN the S First M ward s Of Long Island
CitJ give Oakley a majority OF 500 over Baldwin,
although the night OF the election the inspectors
announced 450 as the majority. These 293 tes
not be accounted for Oh any plan than that OF re-
peaters voted the Assembly ticket exclusively It
commended that the repeating was not sufficient to
carry the cont st. and that in counting ont Baldwin
the inspectors were rot shrewd enough TO balance
| the entire vote by candidates.
Mr.. Newell candidate for Congress-, proposes to
contest the seat of MIR. Townsend, as he has no
doubt from the testimony offered by leading citizens
OF Newtown, that there was fraud extraordinary IL
successful In the contest he Will propose to Mr..
/ Townsend that the scat be lett vacant and
/ the Face run again next November. Mr.
!; Baldwin does not care much to contest
the seat, but the people everywhere demand
II. He Is satisfied tn he has been counted out
and tna the job was put up at Cr0cheron's Bayslde
| House. Some OF the 'rlng' boasted IN Fusning,
preparatory to the election, that Genet would carry
Newtown for Oakley, and that lie had advanced
money TO defray the expenses
The matter is now IN the United States courts.
! The supervisors of Queens county will to-day be
giving the certificate or election to Oakley. The In
spcctors OF election will be arrested, ana also those
| who are accused OF having bribed item. They will
| be tried on q CRIMINAL charge, and the law
bearing on such OfIenceS vigorously enforced 1t
will take fully week to receive all the testimony
| lawyers and merchants are responsible for the
/ whole OF this crime, as they have been for years
past and 1t Is quite probable that general investt.
CATION OF the affairs OF the county VIII take place.
The parties interested in this matter were yester-
day made joyous, and at the same time appalled, by
the statement Of Mr. Everett the defeated republican
nomiuee that Mr.. Degrauw had been to see him land
offered to defray his travelling expenses for the
winter to keep out Of the way OF the Invests.
eating Committee. This Mr.. Everett refused to do.