Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-01-25
TWEED'S ELECTION.
Frauds Com IN tied In His Distriet-The
Evidence OF HI. X scality.

the Senate on behalf of the Committee
of Seventy, setting forth the gross
frauds perpetrated in the district of
William NJ Tweed, in the late election,
and asking that the seat claimed by
Tweed may be declared vacant and a
new election ordered. The facts are
given in the affidavit of John J. Daven-
port, who has conducted the investiga'
ton. After showing that the election
districts were constituted by the Mayor
in violation of law, the affidavit recites ::
FOURTH WARD.
That in most of the election districts
Of this ward the challengers, or the
" watchers representing and appoint
ed by various candidates irrespective
of party, indorsed by the Committee
of Seventy" and especially those des-
ignated by the said Rosa, We're driven
from the polls, and ia number of in
stances arrested on groundless and
false charges, made solely for the pur-
pose of enforcing their absence from
their post of duty at the polls. That
in most of said election districts re-
peating was allowed, and false canvass
ing INDUCED in, to a very great extent,
and deponent cites as an instance the
Second Election District of said Fourth
Ward, where the declaration of the
canvass of Senatorial votes was as fol-
lows, to wit
For William NJ Tweed Observation-Disclosures GAL
For jeremiah O'Donavan Rosa. ....... Al
For Anthony Miller. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. a
Maxine total of votes .,............6S s
And deponent says that he has now
IN his possession affidavits from one
hundred and thirty-nine voters in the
said election district, who positively
swear that at said election, and III said
district, they voted for Jeremiah o.
Donovan Rossa for Senator,
SIXTH WARD.
And deponent further says that in
this Sixth Ward the same condition
of affairs was and is true as is detailed
by him as to the Fourth Ward. says
that the outrages and frauds there
committed were even more open and
notorious, being unparalleled in the
history of any locality or community.
That deponent has possession or at his
command the most complete and de-
tailed evidence of such frauds through
out the said Ward, and, as samples, in
stances the facts as shown in atfidavits
respecting the Eighth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Election Districts of Sixth Ward
The affidavit then shows by the CEN
sus that the total male population, ma
tive, naturalized and alien, over
twcnty-one years of age in the Eleventh
District was 2i9, while the vote was
3lS; in the Twelfth district, male pop
ulation 2S3, vote 30i in the Thirteenth
district male population $50, vote 430 ;
in the Fourteenth district, male popu-
lation 2l9, vote 373, and so on. The
following further facts, among others,
are given
An inspector of election in one of the
above mentioned districts, who, until
a very recent date, and since the dis
coyery and exposure OF frauds and cor
ruptiou in the civil administration of
the local affairs of the city of New
York, held, ms depouent believes and
charges, position under said VIM. NJ
Tweed upon the Water Police at a
monthly salary of 800, for which he
rendered no service, man whose prin-
cipal if not sole occupation, is gam
bling, and who was appointed 10 the
office of Inspector of election by the
Mayor of the city of New Nork-not
only allowed men Ill gangs, and known
To him to be repeaters, TO vote, in the
district in which he acted, upon scores
of names not their own, but leaving his
polling place in charge of a single IN.
spector, itself violation of the law,
placed himself ut the head of a gang Of
repeaters, some eighteen in number,
visited, with said gang, four adjoining
districts, and with the counivauce of
most of the inspectors therein, pro-
cured and caused said men to cast from
100 10 $50 votes in each of said dis
uicts.
That when the Inspector in said dis
trct found It impossible to even pre-
tend 10 look for names upon the regis.
try 50 fast were the votes of the gang
offered, their said leader practically
took possession ul the polling place hv
jumping behind the ballot boxes, seiz-
ing one of the registers, from which in
rapid succession he called of thenumes
thereon, received from his men votes
ON SAID names, and deposited such
votes in the hallot-boXes And depo-
nent says that in the manner SO .des-
cribed and in other fraudulent ways ON
the day of election, ana in false count
ing and returning the votes canyassed,
there were returned and declared, in
the said five districts Of said Sixth
ward, for said VIM W. Tweed, rs de-
pouent believes and changes, and as to
which he has much proof, at least 500
more votes than were legally cast in
said district