New-York tribune., 1872-10-16

marauders should be sent across to our own
territory for trial. Tho Mexicans have given
us abundant occasion to wish we had better
neighbor on the south but Gen. ROcha begins
his administration as if he wanted to do exactly
what is right in the premises.
! A flaw in the indictment is pleaded for
! Tweed; and the absence of Fields from the
city is set up as sufficient reason why that
| person should have his case indefinitely post
pOned. Mr.. Fields took himself off because
J no understood" that his trial would not
como up immediately we understand
/ to be the claim set up by his counsel. NOW
/ it is very well known TO many persons
in this city that neither Fields nor Tweed mas
/ left the city. and that probably neither VIII
get away at all. The adjournment III the case
of Fields is unnecessary bench warrant can
find him at any hour. AS for Mr.. Tweed, the
adjournment is asked by the prosecution.
The banquet given in honor Of Mr.. Froude
last night, by his publishers, Messrs. Scribner
g. Co., was in several respects n noteworthy
event. 1t brought together a larger repre-
sentation of the intellectual workers of
the day than are often found under one
roof, and gave kind of foretaste OF
the millennium in the proof which it
presented that tho publisher is not neces-
sarily the natural enemy of tho author
The speeches were genial, and marked
with that catholic spirit which was to be eX-
pectcd at a table where every civilized nation
was represented, where every Christian sect
had its priesthood, and every school Of art
and literature its disciples.
The sort of officials we should have in New
York if James O'Brien and his gang get into
power is illustrated in the new Developments
in the case of the murdered prostitute, Nellie
Stanton, published elsewhere The murderer
was a political appointee OF OBrien, sustained
in the honorable position of Clerk OF the
Board of Aldermen in spite of his vicious
habits and ignorance. He is no sooner ar
rested and imprisoned than his friend and
patron, the Senator himself, resorts TO bribery
and the procuring of perjury to secure his re-
! lease Such fellows would mako a dangerous
as well as theving Ring, which might soon
render return to Tweed's rule really de-
siTable.
| Voters! Register! No man can vote in this
! State at the November election unless his
name has been duly registered. And let 1t
not be forgotten by the thousands who regis
\ tered on the first day that that registration
has been declared doubtful if not illegal;
| and that the only safe plan is to be
sworn and registered again. There are
three days left IN which this duty can be
performed in this city-to-day and October 25
or bo will Ia frOO n.
to 0 D. m. on those days. Qualifications of
voters are elsewhere given in this issue. In
Brooklyn but one more opportunity for regis
tratiOn is left-Saturday October 20. 1t does
not seem possible that there is any need to
urge citizens to secure this estimable privilege
of freemen; but the experience of every cleo
tiOn shows that there are thousands of men
without votes in this city-disfranchiSed by
their own neglect or indifference. There will
be no chance to remedy the omission to regis
ter; and every voter ought to deposit his
ballot on election day. So, again Register!
The protest of the Election Judges Of the
Fifteenth Ward of Philadelphia gives some
indication of the extent Of the frauds on the
ballot-box in that city. They say that they
made return of majority of 1897 for Hart
ranft in that ward, whereas the Oilicia! count |
puts the majority at 1851, giving fraudulent |
addition of 200 votes to Hartranft. An ex-
tension of this swindle throughout the city
would very readily produce the tremendous
majority for the Ring over which they boast
so much. The estimate that at least $1,000
4rordrIoDt xo+as 1vcra cast in the OctODpr
election in Philadelphia is a moderate one;
and each day adds to the cOnclusiveness of
the evidence that such frauds were perpetrated.
Yet (" the purest and best" of the Grant Ad-
m1nistration organs try to turn this off with,
"Oh yes, the beaten party always cry fraud"