The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-11-13

A. ,indionation meeting in brooklyn,
E.;d.u riobt. one of the largest ever held IN
Al, - ~ and addressed by Mayor Kaibheisch,
c. siocum. District Attorney Tracy, Rev.
~ cry,er. it was plainly disclosed that the
democratic Ring in Brooklyn, if it is not SO
,,o,ysrful. is worthy scion of the Tammany
Ring that the people of New York SO thorough
" crushed last week. Like the rest of the EN-
pire State, all the rest of Kings county and all
the wards of the city of Brooklyn, except four,
showed an increase OF the Republican vote,
though but moderate. Nothing was heard
from wards two, five, six, eight and twelve I'M
til long after the others were counted, and it
was ascertained that the city had been carried
by the Republicans and Reformers if those
wards retained the heavy Democratic MAORI.
ties they had for the past few years. About
ten o'clock, a report came from one of those
Indicating Democratic majority of 1900, and
soon from another, majority of 5000; SO that
when the tardy wards were in it was found
| that they had exceeded the heaviest Demo
cratic majority ever before given by average OF
| one thousand each. In 1870 the vote of the
| city was unusually full, nevertheless ten dis
| tricts from the wards above mentioned, that
gave total Democratic vote of 1895, returned
| 6246 on Tuesday-an increase of 2721, or more
| than rs per cent. The evidences of the most
| extensive frauds in stuffing ballot boxes exist
| everywhere. 10 one district, well know citi
| zen testifies that he voted upon the opening o.
| the polls at seven clock, one of the first Of
the day, but the poll list taken as the votes ar.
received showed his name the five hundred
aud twenty-eigth. Hnql aa Lao
In one district VIM. Colt, Esq, candid ate TO
County Judge, and a perfectly reliable man
testiies that the inspectors shut every one on
of the room for some three quarters of an houl
and that when he gained admittance the POI
clerks were checking, opposite names, the bal
lots voted by each This checking, if genuine
must be done when the ballot is cast. Tb
clerks were simply doctorfng the list to max
it tally with the count from stuffed ballot box
Among other cases that of Col Morton, can
didate for Assembly in the 9TH district. is s.
| palpaby one of fraud that the Brooklyn Eagl
| confesses to it. AT an early hour Tuesda,
| night Col. Morton had returns from every pol
| in his district save one, and they gave him %
majority. At that poll the Democratic vote o,
the State ticket was about $685. and the tota
| vote on every ticket except the Assembly die
not exceed Az. The Assembly ticket was no
canvassed till O'clock next morning, when i
was found that 100 men had voted for Assem-
bly, and for no other office, and all had vote,
for the regular Democratic nominee.
Mr.. Attorney Tracy says that he is prepare,
| to prove in any Court of law that gangs of re
| peaters, numbering from ten to fifteen, Wake,
from district to district in certain wards votip
| all day, and this in all cases with the knowl
| edge and in many with the actual conniyane
| of the police. T4t sa tr
The Brooklyn frauds are to be thoroughly in
vested, when it will be shown that they ar
only second to those carried on in New Yorl
because its Democratic majority is smaller.
1t is certainly unfortunate for the Democrat
ic party that its triumphs results from frau,
and violence and that the amount of corrup
ton and degree of terrorism that its partizan
exercise is measured by the completeness of it
victory