Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-28

circular assessing CLERKS was sent round
in Sen4sor Cox's tims Il Aonly said ii n
italics, can answer is expected.
There was no intimaIion that It was not
wholly voluntary.
For fear This harmless Interpretation |
would be put upoE il, it viii also De re- |
melrbered that Senator Chandler swsg /
gered through the halls of the Interior |
loudly announcing that he only wanted |
the names of those who refused to pay.
There were plenty of men in Michigan
who would be glad to take their places.
IF this department is to be Sunday
school" he continued. on that occasion,
q want to know it.
stAnd In. the case of the clerks being
compelled 10 register, it was stated IN
this correspondence, upon the authority
of sgentleman in position to know ex-
actlY what he was talking about, that he
slsolcoupled his statements with the set
phrase, so well understood here IN the /
departmente, viz: eff any of those
clerks don't register, we intend to know
why"
'srhe whole thing has been exceedingly
discreditable to all concerned; still the
affair has great value as an argument for
civil service reform"
Here is Radical (Gen. Boynton) sus-
tanning the charge of the Patriot. But
there is another feature of the election
which is equally discreditable to- the
Radicals. The Washington Patriot re-
ferring to the fact that if frauds were
charged upon the Radicals North or
South, they turned up the whites of their
eyes and pointed with affected horror to
New York, contrasts the District of Co.
lumbia with that city as follows:
According to the last census, the pop
uiation of New York is reported at $685.
941 and the recent vote for Governor is
officially stated at 121, 059, OF Is per
cent on the aggregate, of men, women
and children. By the same census the
population of the District of Columbia
is given at 1857, while the
vote on Thursday las: reached rs, 800; or
90 per cent. of the aggregate of men,
women and children; and the registry ex-
ceeded this vote by 2,2l4 Names 1t is
thus demonstrated that upon the basisof
population, Washington voted per cent.
| more than New York. Hence if the al
legations made JIM regard to that great
city have any truth whatever, then it is
clear that they apply with vastly more
force to this capital, which is entitled to
claim the palm for fraud under Radical
4 r,s1oi ,.h; oI,od- IN, tho d;raot opd oH,erDO1r
ering influence of the administration.
But this extraordinary result, which we
venture to say exceeds that of any large
city IN the5whole Union, is made more
| manifest and imposing by other facts.
| The adult white population is
| %, IT'S, of which 17,746 names
were registered, after unprecedented eff
forts on both sides to prepare for full
vote. The adult colored population is
10, 149, and yet they registered 10, TIA, or
625 more names- than the entire pOpula-
ton. This transparent fraud requires no
commentary. 1t is too bald to admit of
any possible explanation. But it is only
one feature of a system which was
adopted, and which is equally capable of
mathematical demonstration. On the
basis of total population, the negroes ex-
ceeded their proportion by 2,S42 in the
registry, and on the basis of adult popula-
ton they exceeded it by 2,S7s. So that
in whatever aspect the case may be
viewed, a bsrefaced and monstrous fraud
is apparent on the part of the negroes,
some of whom were even imported from
North Carolina for the occasion, after the
neighl Oring counties of Virginia and
Maryland had been exploited.
| We have here clear insight into the
manner in which Radicals carry elections.
They do not stop at making the employees
of the Government register and vote, not
withstandidg they claim citizenship and
have registered and voted elsewhere, but
they bring into Washington thousands OF
negroes, who have no more right to vote
there than Camanche Indian. This is a
specimen of the fairness with which they
have been conducting elections in the
South since the war. They have bribed
negroes to vote in many different places
in the same election in several
of the Southern States in Their
desperate efforts to retain the power
adventitious circumstances had placed
in their hands in the reconstruction OF
those Statez. They have been only a
l8tle bolder in the late election in the
District of Columbia; it was smaller
territory to operate in, and the heavy
vote they polled has exposed their rascal
ity. These facts cannot be successfully
disputed, as the Washington Patriot
says, and they give the capital of the
nation a pre- eminenoe in eleclioneering
frauds, under the immediate direction If