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

| Ciiv Aggregrt,, Rrpsbltor. ntmorii@
| 1860. Lincoln. 1920 Dem Fusion. 6229j
| 1864 Lincoln. .....3G,6Sl McClelan.... 73Io9
| 1866 .Fenton......33,i9l HOhnan...-.. ooO1
1868. Grant. ..i7.788 Seymour .....lOs,jl5
| Gri5wOld .43,372 HOnman,,.....ll2,52
! 1870 Woodford. .3l,391 lIofman........ 1868
These figures tell their own story. The
Republicans have always suffered here from
the votes of aliens and repeaters, but never
before nor since were they swindled on scale
40 gigantic rs in 1868. Gen. Grant was more
popular than any predecessor, and obtained
| thousands of votes from moderate Democrats
| and non-partsans who revolted from the pros
pect of fresh civil war opened by Blair's
Broadhcad letter and his nomination there
upon for Vice President; and there was no
| Thirty Thousand majority of legal votes here
! against him; yet the City was made, by sys-
tematlc wholesale fraud, to give Sixty Thou
sand, and thus beat him in the State by nearly
| Ten Thousand
This fragrant crime against Popular Gov
eminent we Republicans resolved should not
be repeated 80 we appealed to Congress for
the legislation required to prevent such repeti-
ton, and our prayers were partially responded
to- Congress passed an act intended to pre-
Federal character and the President enforced
that act. Mr. Hoflman's diminished majority
is the result. Distracted and parayzed as the
Republicans were by feuds, and though money
stolen from our taxpayers was poured out
ike water to swell the Democratic vote, every
one who would being placed on the CIty's
pay-ros whether there was work for him or
not, yet IIOffman's vote il nearly Forty Thou
sand and his majority all but Thirty
Thousand less here than it was in 1868,
though he gained largely in almost every other
County.
Gen Blair asserts that troops were brought
here, to "Overawe the stern Democracy, and
make them elect q Radical Governor" We
oppose to this vjlainOus SANDER facts of the
widest notOriety. There are Eighty Thousand
Democratic voters in this City. Which one of
them all was Distracted, or meBaeed, or any
wire "Overawed," in his efforts TO vote the
Democratic ticket last Fallf We have a.
many polls as our Democratic Mayor chose to
create by dividing districts: which one of the
four hundred (nearlyy was in any manner
troubled or "overawedr by Federal gunbOats
or Federal troopsf If che President, or any
one under him, brought troops here to "Over-
"awer the voters, and make them vote
for Woodford when they preferred Hof-
man then it must be that some
one voted, or was inpelled to vote,
in fear of Federal bayonets. Where IL
that one7 Where is the Democratic liar so
shameless that he will say that he was pre-
cludcd from registering or voting, or that he
registered or voted under duress, because CT
any act of the President or the Military
Reporters and fraudulent voters mere " over
"awedr 90 we intended they should be but
not one legal voter. There never was q more
peaceable election; there never was greater
facility or dispatch, whether in registering or
voting and. the legal Democratic vote was
never more thoroughly polled than in Novem-
Der last. Yet HoflInan's majority was Twenty
Thousand less than it would have been but
for Federal legislation and Executive action
III obedience thereto whereby the illegal Vote
of our City WAS reduced to tenth Of what 1T
was in 1868.
Such are the facts In the case. We are
better acquainted with them than Gen. Blair
can be; and we are among the Legal voters of
the State of New-YOrk who are grateful to
Congress and the President for protecting our
most precious right from invasion and spOlia-
ton by Democratic felons whom We are taxed
to pay for robbing us of the Elective Fran
chise. Gen. Bliar may make himself the ac-
complete and confederate of Our' Oppressors
and despOers. He may echo The atrOcOus
caIumnies whereby they seek to- cloak their
crimes; but he cannot make LIE the truth,
nor can he render fraudulent voting and sub
ornation to vote illegally other than crimes
which good men abhOr and the laws should.
punish.