New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-29
NEW-YoRK AND PHILADELPHIA VOTIYG.

NEW YORK And PHILADELPHIA VOTING.
The largest honest vote ever pOlled in this
city was that of last November, when, out OF
n registry of 1872 SOP, there were thrown for Sec
rotary of State 1374G3 votes The registration
this year is, we are willing to believe, in many
respects more honest one than that of 1871,
and the total is 14S,81O, OF 3,7s2 less than last
years. More than three-fOurths of this de-
crease is in the first four of the twenty-one
Assembly Districts, comprising the First
Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh,
and Fourteenth Wards. The Grant organ says
that our ticket will suffer heavily from the rigor
with which the provisions of the new Election
law have been carried out, owing to the loss
:" of naturalization papers" by foreign-born
citizens. But of this we do not complain. In
so far as the work of the Boards of Registra-
ton is fair and full enumeration Of those
men who are qualified and intend to vote on
the 9Th of November next, we accept it az
cheerfully as we shall its consequences. From
these figures let us draw two conclusions, one
from the past and one from the present.
/. If the present registration is anywhere near
correct, those of 1863 and 1869, when the
present Custom-house leaders were acting in
secret concert anu WIN HNCN
and his confederate robbers, must have been
monstrously fraudulent. In 1875 the registra-
ton was 169070, and the number of votes re-
turned as cast for President 156,054, each
about 1900 greater than the heavy vote and
registration of last Fall, and the registration
more than 10000 greater than the one just
completed.
III. The registration and vote of Philadelphia
in 1872 are even more mOnstr0usly fraudulent
than those of Mr.. Tweed in 1868. Phiadel-
phia, by the census of 1870, had a population
of 674,022, and New-York of 942,292. We shall
not be far from the truth if we call the pres
ent population of the former city 100000, and
that of New-YOrk 100000. The ratio is,
therefore, that of seven to ten. If we sup
posed the registration of Philadelphia, viz,
163,oo0 to have been correct, that of
New York should be three-sevenths larger,
which would make it $4,000, whereas it is less
than $4,000, and was but 10000 in 1868. So
much for frauds contemplated. Now for those
actually carried out. If 1912, the vote Of
Philadelphia as officially returned after re-
peated manipulations, is the honest vote of
that city, the vote of our city should be
900. But the present registration is only
10000, and the fraudulent vote of 1868 was
only 10000. These figures afford occasion for
grave reflection. In New-YOrk nine tenths of
all those registered voted last year; in Phila-
delphia last month but about seven-tenths-
and yet at that rate the vote of New-YOrk
next Tuesday will fall $4,000 short of what it
should be, according to the Philadelphia
Standard
VIII Mr.. Geo. II. Stuart and the other Christian
gentlemen who have rejoiced over the moral
" triumph" of the Philadelphia election con-
slider these figures, and tell us whether the
fraud was in Philadelphia under Mr.. Cam
erons, or is it to be in New-York under Mr..
Murphy's arrangements Fraud in one or the
other city is manifest and mountainous.