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


suggestive that somebody had made careful cal.
cuiaion to the precise number or votes needed
to swamp The county ana city tickets and those
SON. Before the next morning the evidence OF
irand In the election had become Overwhelming.
and 1t determined that the candidates who had
been counted out In this election should meet to
devise means. not only OF redressng the wrong that
had been done to them as representatives OF the
citizens OF this county, but the wrong that
mad been done TO the entire city OF
ana to every one who is interested in the per.
peiuity OF free institutions. Applause.l That
FIRST TO cali this meeting tonight and another com.
mitiee was appointed, OF which had the honor TO
be named Chairman. 70 gather up tue Mountainous
been committed at the ballot box on Tuesday last
TAT this point exMayor Booth entered on the stage
Will briefly recapitulate, Mr. Chairman and fellow
ciizens all these frauds, and begin first by calling
Us evidence to prove the assertion when your chair
man has made, and the assertion which repeat
that vailed about the streets Of ths
city on Tuesday last IN gangs OF from ten to fifteen,
they with tGe q .Ss e
and consent IN most instances and by the actual
81 your oe ea1 m
votes poled at the recent election in the city Of
fierce contest tina. ran through this city at
their G as ps ss 81 osSS
Herman aSsu ;ns 49, most ess,o popular democrat
plaUse-but we nad severe contest S~ over ane eec
ton OF Congressman and every one knows That
when we elect 2 Governor and Congressman the
people come out ana vote as they at no other
election except thassof President. We HAD a fun
vo,e In the wards y which nave alluded we had
publican party wS SIR at that election ierceiy
ba as was ne s no
sand votes polled N the county OF Kings. AT
s are o yess
dlnarliy prevail at elections, there would nave been
Ssw say Ssar mao were o
these 10000 additional votes are the work OF repeat
lion to nmo IN 10 od soS aere e
Second ward sS there We're poed last ass emo
cratic votes. This year there were polled IT'S
ab ae 20 eeys those can
man in mis- common sense believe that thi IS Is q
truthful record OF the increase OF the votes of that
ward2 And yet there was no decrease Of the re-
publican vote. In the Eighth district OF the Fifth
ward there were polled last year $50 votes: this
democratic vote OF sixty per cent. In First DIS
Tlct OF the sixth ward there were oiled last year
there were poed l, 1872 democratic votes In the
First district of the Eighth ward last
year a. democratic votes. In the second district
OF the Ninth ward there were POO last year and this
year they pretend to nave polled ASS democratic.
votes. In the Fifth district or the Twelfth ward
there poed 2,3 democratic votes last year, and
this year there is claimed TO have been poled sol,
or an increase oil ia per cent In the SIKH district
the Twelfth ward there 1872 democratic votes
last year, and this year 1t Is alleged there were
That this is not the work OF fraud and perjury and
corrnptlonf The evidence IS 100 palpable, and here
y an Increase IN nine election districts out Of
TO the democratic vote OF 272O, or an average In.
crease OF seventy.eignt per cent It was this enor
nous increase, Mr. Chairman, that FIRST attracted
the attention Of those VINO were scanning these
turns. on Investigation what DO we find coll
ward. There processes to nave been polled !, 1862
democratic votes and 167 republican votes on the
Number i Of votes has already been alluded TO- but but
there is an additional fact that has come to the
knowledge or the ne, committee We heard
Sesn % rePea iss the Coun,y 'f''s cers s
office Yesterday, and in company with other OF my
examined that poll list, On examination we found
that 1t took two books to contain 1t. One book
the first book We found I'VE Hundred and odd lanes
on that poll list, written In clean, uniform hand
supposed to nave voted at the election, and every
one OF them marked as having voted solid for every
that poll list changed and the balance is in differ
ent handwriting That was very suggestive; for 1t Is
supposed that one poll clerk keeps the tally OF his own
book. But the handwriting in mat poll list changes
and then from that on 1t hears the evidence Of being
expee every now ana then
fnd citizens only voting q portion OF the ballots
vote at the change OF handwriting and asked them,
did yon rN vote ut ihat poll on election dayw II
as the polls opened and before seven o'cockn we
have the AFFIDAVIT In our possession OF q voter
before severn ococx on ha morning ae and p0
very few moments after the poll opened,
and yet his name stands the 62sth on the list thus
OF that district deliberately wrote down five hum
dren and odd names on that poll list before The vot
ct fhn hn1 hnv
the ballots correspond with the names the list.
(Hisscs. Another instance OF fraud occurring In
tnat ward In another district Is this:-At elec-
ton district your hOnored candidate for County
Judge, Mr.. olt-tapplause)-having been elected
this year because no was candidate, made
an arrangement with the democratic authorities
tnat vacancy which bad occurred IN their inspec-
resignation should be flied, each naming q candi-
date Of their political party. so that the political
status of the inspectors should not be changed,
being two democrats and republican. On the
morning OF the election he repaired to the polls
with his friend whom ne wanted to have appointed
Inspector, and when he came there he found that
they refused TO carry out the agreement and had
democrats and no republicans Then the three demo.
cratic inspectors and the two democratic poll clerks
proceeded to business. VIII not stop to tell what
polls everybody was ordered out OF the room, and
tney were shut up with those ballot boxes for forty
public was again admitted. Judge Colt on going
into the room, found the poll clerks busily engaged
III CHeCklllp Oil OppOSlle InaJ udu
been written upon It. He asked how IN the world
they could tell how people voted so long alter they
had vOted-n0w they fill those blanks; but they paid
no attention, and kept filing up the
blanks opposite those names, clearly indicating
that names had been added to the poll list IN q
hurry, and they had not time to fiji them up and
were then filing at random. Two hundred aid-
onal democratic majority In that district It's
usual democratic majority Ia the result Of that
fraud. Mr.. Tracy asked II the men who committed
tho frauds should not be punished. Would the peo-
pie be content In merely driving these democratic
canyassers to give the certificate Of election to Colo
mel Norton who was counted out in the SeAenth AS
semDly district or would they insist that the
Grand Jury, the District Attorney and
petit jury should do their duty2
in charging the police with having cOnnved at
fraud, Mr.. Tracy stated that the Alderman or the
Twenty first ward mad asserted yesterday that q
certain police officer IN that ward had
voted in two different precincts, and that
his captain was aware OF It and did
not arrest him. He charged that an inspector in the
Second ward had been approached by the Alderman