New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-25
POLITICAL LYING.

tan nothing be c1ect1Vsfy uOne 10 StOp ene
flood of defau stOry falsel bod which peryerts
aud maddens Il large share Of our People9
Sen Frank p: Blair has Just been chosen
Senator of the United States His election IA
the net result OF the Missouri bolt Organized
by Graft Brown Carl Schurz, The st. Louts
Democrat, & Co and first proclaimed At the
Free Trade banquet in WasT ington last Win
ter Gen. Blair IL a Democrat but he was
once q Republican, and we IRE confident Is
still 4 man of truth yet he Nv fit in return
ing thanks to the Missouri Legislature which
elected him to the Senate. to ntcr the follow
ing:
what was the just hcaton OF the outrage Of carrying
to the City of NewYCrk armed tro to oyerawe the
peopls their elections last Novem ser IL there any
comparison for the outragei Was the any justification
for iti II was an act 10 enforce the XVIII Amend
ment There had been election IL the state OF New
York At which the nofrocs hadivote without molesa-
ton. There not sugeestion from any quarter that
there would be any obstruction placed in the way and
yet know that the President Of tho United States at
an immense expense country Girdled the City II
New-YDrk with gunbcsts and filed 10 with troops 20
he stern Demceracg Of that e,tg and make crs
elect . Radical Gorernor for the State of Nec York"
Comments By The Tribune
Gen Blair we esteem man OF truth and in
this instance the victim of osher's villainy.
But this does nos make the assertions above
WITCH we have placed in Italics other than de-
fanatory, libelOus falsehOOds, which Senator
OF the United States should have known batter
than to utter. They falsely accuse the FRESH
dent, and they likewise calumnate that portion
Of the voters of this City n6Snte from whom
Frank Blair has apOstatizsd, but whom he
! nevertheless knows to be at least IA worthy
and truthful as their antagonists, to whom no
has allied himself. All that was done by Con-
gress or by Gen. Grant in the premises, YVES
done in obedience to the, urgent entuoaty OF
the Republicans of this City. And This WIS
! their reason for it
In a great city, where Universal Suffrage If
established, it must always be iflicult to- pre-
vent Illegal Voting. In this City, it is pecu-
liarly SO, because its population is 30 largely
made up of foreigners who have merely halted
here OH their way to their future homes. A
very large majority Of our legal voters are OF
foreign birth and hardly Now-YOrker can
distinguish the voters from the n0n-vOters
residing on the same block with him. In con
sequence, it is less difficult and less dangerous
to vote illegally here than almost any where
else on earth. And our local magnates
political and Judicial, seeing that on
unnaturaized, but more especially on
vast criminal population, is general!
in sympathy with their politics, ant
that nineteen Of every twenty votes
illegally cast will naturally almost inevitably
serve to swell their Democratic majOrites, do
not seek nor wish to prevent Illegal voting
, On the contrary, though they sometimes pro
fess to condemn it, they oppose and resist al
, legislation which tends to impede it. HavinI
l last Winter repealed the Registry Law, 80 ia
as it affected Brooklyn, Albany, and all part
of the State except this City, they mean thi
r Winter to repeal what remains of it, and ope
Y wide the food gates of ballot-bOx corruption
Y in the Autumn of 1868, it was just as plai
that this State was for Gen. Grant rs mex
, President as that Ohio was. Our Democrat
e managers and wire-workers kneO that the
: could only carry it by fraud; so by frau
t they resolved 70 carry it, and did carry =
4 To this end, they flooded the State Wit
s fraudulent Certificates of Naturalization
1 which were given or proilered by the
4 faInilars TO every alien who would take thci
f and proceed thereon 90 vote the Democrat
$ ticket They organized. directed. and pai'