The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-11-12


'Now, by st. Paul, the work goes braveIy
on" Our neighbors of Brooklyn had grand
mass meeting at their Academy of Music on
rr'day evening to consider the ways and
Meaps necessary to expose and punish the
enormous frauds of all sorts committed in
their late city election, and to provide for fair
play to honest men at the ballot box in future;
ana their meeting was q rouser We gave .
iull report OF its proceedings yesterday, and
we need not, therefore, repeat here the
astounding election frauds, chapter and verse.
disclosed by Mayor Kalbaeisch and Mr.. Tracy
on the occasion. They are of the same kidney
as the doings of the roughs, bribers, periurers.
repeaters, ballot suffers and false count
tiers of the Tammany Ring in all its glory.
But the honest men of all parties at this
Brooklyn meeting, with these disclosures
before them, took off their coats. rolled up
their sleeves and went to work.
They appointed committee of forty, with
Instructions
First-To accumulate such evidence OF the frauds
courts.
Second-To prosecute promptly and to convics
ballot.
Tnird-To take measures to prevent any candi-
date not fairly elected from pr0fting by ese frauds
FOu7th-TO appeal 10 the Legislature about to
assemble for such speedy relief as it may be In their
Finn-To take such other and further measures
for insuring the ends OF Justice as may be deemed
from the beginning to the end or their labors our
moral, pecuniary and If need be, our physical sup
port.
That's the way to do. That is what General
Grant would call ''moving on the enemy'a
works" We like especially the ringing music
of the fifth prop osition, in which the honest
citizens of Brooklyn pledge themselves to
their committee to stand by them even to the
extremity, If called for, of a Vigilance Com
mittee Of the order of San Francisco; for
that is what the indignant honest men Of
Brooklyn mean by their physical support"
They are brimful of fight They say, ''We'
turn now upon the pampered public robbers,
who, having first despoiled us of our property,
rights" and that 1--WE hurl at them our in
dignant Defiance" and s'hereby notify them
that the battle to which we challenge them
shall be fought to the bitter end and that no
consideration shall shield them from the retri-
button which is about to overtake them at the
hands of an insulted and outraged people,"
Captain Tenny, however, in his emphatic
treatment of these election frauds, seemed to
come nearest the underlying purpose of the
honest voters of Brooklyn in his remarks that
sswhen we are writing in the coils of political
vipers, when American institutions are ON
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is time that we come to fight this thing
as they fought the fire at Chicago, inch
by inch, square by square and foot
by foot And, what is more, we find
the little Irishman who drew the sword at Chi.
cago and his gallant cohorts did more. When
rich out of the exigencies and necessities Of
the city what did they doP They hung them
up to lampposts. And so, when we cannot
get justice in our courts; and so, when we cam
not get justice in our Legislature against these
robbers, hang them" And this was the tenn
per of this great Brooklyn meeting. Let the
men pledged to its good work 60 ahead.
Everything now is in their favor. The cor
rupt Tammany ollgarchy, which was supposed
to be too rich, with its millions of money stolen
from the public treasury, and too powerful In
its network of briberies, frauds and corrup-
tons to be shaken, is PROSTATE in the dust
and the Brooklyn Ring is thus in the position
which has been cut to pieces. Let the Brook.
lyn reformers, then, push on their work.
Finally, as the cause Of religion depends upon
the cause Of law and order, we hope that
Brother Beecher will have something this
morning to say on the subject for he has
been hanging back when his proper place il
in the forefront Of this battle.
Our Late Storm and tho Law Of stornA
The gale which has recently swept over tho
country from Kansas and Iowa to the lakes
and the Atlantic ID another beautiful verifca-
ton Of the law Of storms. II was noticed on
Wednesday southwest Of Kansas, and signalled
to the ports on Lake Michigan Wednesday
night, where, in twelve hours, it made itself
severely felt. Its fury, however, 1t seems to
have reserved for Thursday night, on Lake
Erie, whittier also It had been foreannounced
by the Signal ONCE, and where, with velocity
of forty miles an hour, its cyclonic winds
ragged for many hours.
Tracked and traced all along Its disaster.
marked way, II is now fairly on its circuit
across the Atlantic, and doubtless forms one
Of those vast cyclonic or atmospheric eddies
which the Cunard steamship observers have 20
admirably charted, and which they have
conclusively shown chase each other across
the stormy ocean as eddies pursue each other
in river current.
Our forefathers longed to see such day Of
science as Is vouchsafed us, but never saw IL