Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-09-27
BALLOT BOX FRAUDS IN NEW YORK.
ADemocrat Describes the Tricks.

political faith we give in his own words /:
do not know whether it is exactly pos
slDle Tor man to be born Democrat but
claim to come as near it as any one can.
The earliest recollection that | have of
public questions, when my arms had at
tanned little more than seven years pith,
was my unfolding stanchly and unswerv-
ingly the great doctrine of Democracy.
Since that time | have been a Democrat :;
for Democracy is like vaccination, when it
once takes well, it lasts "A lifetime. But
asIdid pot believe disloyalty to mean Dem
cracy during the war, l do not believe dis
honesty to mean Democracy now.
Part of his speech was devoted to ex-
planning how Tammany managed the
ballot box in New York city, and This
honest confession we feel bound to give.
He explains the whole process as follows
To begin with, gangs of repeaters were
organized whose first duty was to have
their names recorded in as many districts
as possible, usually from q dozen to fifty
and 1t was curious with what childlike in
nocence the Republican register would re-
eelve the names of 100 men who assumed
to reside at the private dwelling of some
Tammany Ward politician, and who pre-
tended to camp out on some vacant lot.
The reporters are enrolled, and have had
lists of them offered to me for sale at so
much vote when Tammany did not need
them.
On election day these men went to the
polls in gangs, with their captains, and
marched from district to district like COM
panies of soldiers. If one of them was
challenged, the result depended upon the
Ipcality III dlsreputaDle helghborhood,
tne chaIlenger was knocked into the gut
ter, and probably locked up by the police
for disturbing the polls. In district
where this would not answer, the accused
was taken before the police magistrate, who
sat an day to hear just such cases, and who
haii MN "uV az ollce on oaii, tne necessary
and the reneater was usuaIIv hack Of tLnl
polls, and hard at work. before the choI-
longer, and no one ever heard of snch n
case being brought to trial ofterward
In another way were these repeaters
used. Many DeopIe esneciollv wealthy
Republicans. do not vote. II il the dnty
of every man to vote this is one ofthe oh
legations he assumes i'm DEMANDING liner
ty, and rather than have the dntv neg-
lected, Tammany sees that it is perf0rmed
Toward the latter part of the day If will he
found that certain persons who are regis-
tered have not voted and il then belonrs
to the polling officers to COPY such names
on Sins and pass them TO the nroner mar
ties outside: and it would horrifv if not
anluse some of our wealthy miliionaries
to see what rapged-clothed. bloated-faced
and disreputable individuals renresented
a public duty which thew had neglected
This is repeating. | have given YOU but n
hurried sketch of it the votes boiled bv
it count up by tens of thousands. Buf.
successful as it was, it had its defects. The
repeaters began to imagine thew were the
masters: they thought they held the now
err because they were the instruments of
power To use political slang term. thew
undertook to set up shop for themselves
Still repeating, when kept in its place. is
not disapproved by our Ring rulers.
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