New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-17
Total vote.
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The elections of go and '64 were contested
with desperate energy; the whole people were
intensely excited by them; there was OF COURSE
illegal voting in either case; Dut thcro ""'
nothing like the gigantic machinery OIL bogus
naturaiizations, fraudulent registering, anu
Wholesale repeating, which the Immensely IN
creased stcalings of the Ring enabled its mas,
tor.sr;rits IN utilize in the last Presidential
Election. BY the immense maJorities '"u9
achieved. the state was maze 10 caS'
her Electoral Vote for Seymour III doil-
ance of at least Twenty Thousand ma
ior;tv for Grant of the votes legally
no,led and John T. Hoffman was thus
foistcd into the Governors chair The game
of Wholesale repeating and deliberate mis-
countine was played again in 1859, when,
though the public interest in politics was
languid the Sixth Ward was made to poll
twice as many votes as the whole number OF
its legal voters, and its Xth district cast more
votes than the whole number of men, women
and childrcn-alcns, fclons and all-WhO were
found residing in it when the Federal Census
was taken the following June Need we add
that these votes were cast almost solid for the
Democratic ticketH
For years, the more respectable Democrats
of our City have been " standing by and con-
"senting" to these frauds, like Saul at the
stoning of Stephen. They did not cheat-they
simply received and enjoyed the fruits of
others cheating They knew that such enor-
nous frauds costimoney, and that such patriots
as Tweed do not play the game of politics to
lose. Now, they profess to be shocked Mt the
revelations of Ring robbery and Municipal
bankruptcy. What reason, what right, had
they to expect anything betterP
The prohigacy which began in our City was
not confined to its limits. Hoffman, made
Governor by fraud, could not have arrested
fraud had he wished it. The Canals, the State
Prisons, the Executive Departments, have all
bowed to the sway Of prOdigality and pecula-
ton. Just look at these figures:
Republican. Democrats
Canal Expenditures In GS. Sl,5l65c6 In oS,s95,4G
Executive do LIN '65.. I7G,S93 In 20. S23.iD
State Prison deficit In Go. 1o4,3S2 In 10. 7O6lT
Such are the natural fruits of an asccn-
dency achieved by fraud. "CrOwns got by
blood must be by blood maintained" Those
who helped cheat the Democratic party into
power expected to be paid out of the aggregate
winnings, and have insisted on their divi-
dends. The result stares us in the face In
ever-swelling taxation and augmented debt.
That the party which cheated its way into
power should now be expected to punish its
own master-theves would be ludicrous were
it not so pcrilous Suppose the Dem
ocratic State ticket elected this Fall, it
must succeed by the efforts and disbursements
of that very Ring which an Attorney General
is wanted to expose, arraign and bring to JUS
tice. Strike out of existence the votes which
the Tammany plundereIs absolutely control,
and Marshall b. ChaInplain could not come
within Twenty Thousand votes of an election.
If he is elected at all, it will be by the gen.
eralship of William NJ Tweed, and Tweed
will be in the Senate, backed by the heaviest
majority of any Democratic Senator. Who be-
lieves who can believe, that the tool of the
Erie and Tammany Rings in the past will
bring their master-sprit to justice in the i'm
mediate futuref
Electors of our City and State if You really
mean to stop frauds in elections and frauds
in administration, you must vote for othor
candidates than those preferred and heartily
supported by Tweed, Fisk, jr., Oakley Hall g.
Co. Is not this too plain for argument
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