The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-11-11

York, or Tammany Ring, was pulverized as
between the upper and the neither milestone
In Brooklyn, on the other hand, the republi-
cans had one ticket and the reform democrats
had another ticket and between these two
armies, each fighting its own battle regardless
of the other, the compact army of the "Ring"
marched In and gained au easy victory. Tho
figures of the Brooklyn election for Mayor tell
the story. In round numbers they may be
stated as follows -
For Powell ring candidate. 27.0oo
For Booth, republican. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000
For Kalbneisch, reform democrat .......... $4,000
Plurality for the Ring ..................... 5000
Now, If the anti-Ring men of Brooklyn,
democrats and republicans, had only put their
heads and hands together and formed CON-
bination ticket, say with Kalbfeisch for
Mayor, the allied vote against the Ring"
would have been:-
For Kalbneisch 49, 900
For Powell ana the Ring. Observation-Disclosures. $1,000
Giving an anti Ring majority of........... 1000
and a reform victory just as decisive as that
of New York. Failing to enter into this vic
torious combination. however, the Brooklyn
reformers are thrown back to our starting
point OF the Cooper Institute meeting Of the
4th Of September. They had on Thursday
last their first citizens Indignation meeting on
the Ring frauds perpetrated in the late cleo
ton, and last night they had another meeting,
and the disclosures of these meetings 10 refer
ence to these frauds and the spolations Of the
Brooklyn Ring show that, in proportion to
his means, instruments and opportunities,
"Boss Mclaughlin is worthy to sit at the
head of the table with ''Boss Tweed"
Mr.. Tracy, the United States District At
torney, stated at Thursdays meeting that
proofs of frauds by 'the Ring" were abun-
dant; that republican inspectors had been
walked out and ballot box suffers put in their
places; that ''the Ring" by this box stufing
had counted out Assemblymen who were
honestly elected. He charged that there
was in Brooklyn an organized system
Of frauds perpetrated in this late election, and
that the police were in league with the swim
dlers. Mayor Kalbfeisch declared that If
American citizenship Is worth anything in
Brooklyn something should be DONE" In
election he said that in 1868, when Cover
nor was elected, ''the democratic vote In the
Fifth ward was 1900, against 4, 100 this year,
when there was no Governor to be elected
an increase Of $780," without any increase in
the population Of the ward, beyond five hun
dred souls, men, women and children. In the
Second ward the vote this year had been In
creased 1,100-an increase which was impos-
sible except by heavy frauds. The Mayor
further stated that s'on the ticket on which
ran In 1869 there was 9 gentleman elected
who ran nine thousand behind me, and when
/ made on inquiry Of Mr.. Mclaughlin, the
reply was, We elect all our men, and then
understood that there was another n,0dus
0perandi for electing men"
These specifications will serve to indicate to
some extent the fraudulent devices and prac
tices of ''the Ring" in the Brooklyn elections
They are quite up to the mark, as far as
needed, Of the repeating and ballot box stuff
ing for which the Tammany Ring has become
so Infamous. In the next place, the frauds of
the Brooklyn Ring upon the city treasury
are beautiful to contemplate. The Brook
Ign Water Board in these robberies has
filed the place Of Mr.. Tweeds Board Of
Supervisors. As far as discovered these Brook
lyn robberies amount to at least one million
Eve hundred thousand dollars year in cash
appropriated, and, as with us, they have ope-
rated to bring about q dangerous enlargement
Of the city debt, and with heavily increased
taxation in different shapes and forms. 1t is
asserted, too, that an examination Of the city
books of Brooklyn will show plentiful lot Of
raised vouchers and forged endorsements, and
oil the other tricks connected with the tremen-
dous expenses Of our new Court House. But
the very worst feature Of this awful system of
municipal robbery and corruption, and of
frauds and rascalities Of ell descriptions, lies
in the melancholy fact, as reported, that not
q single newspaper In Brooklyn dare speak its
honest mind on the subject, because they are
all in the stocks or the pillory Of the 'Ring."
This Is, indeed, gloomy inside view Of
the City Of Churches, the city Of Brother
Beecher apd his pious Puritans. It is as de-
pressing as walk In cemetery nay, it has
none of the soothing consultations of morning
ride in Greenwood But can 1t be true that
there is no press in Brooklyn equal to the crlss3
If this is true, II there Is no public journal
over the river which can be secured or trusted
by honest citizens in the cause Of city reform,
the independent press Of New York must go to
their rescue. Having ''smashed the Tammany
machine" and cleared the track for the work ola
thorough publication Of tho Augean stables on
Manhattan Island, We must 90 to the assist
ance Of our neighbora, still In the "Slough Of
Despond, on Long Island. They have been
laundering about in the dark; they have
missed their golden opportunity In the late