New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-21

with families Of influence living In different parts OF the
State who possess control the laboring
classes in their neighborhOod Through this system OF
relationship control is had Of large number OF voters
not only In the vicinity but in distant parts OF the STATE
Thus IL would seem that the Administration politician
who numbers among his relatives the greatest number
OF impressble voters can command the beat Offices In
the gift Of the Navy Department ENGINEER.
hittery, Name, Sept. H. 1877. Dab. |f
| CORRUPTION IN THE NAvY-YARDs.
IRON Tge L1oosii az H. Democrat SspL H.
| A gentleman who was well informed rs TO
the operations In and about the Ndyy-Yard, on the
kefy SIDE az SIN th soG there ex
pose them, and make an ssne on the question OF Ieio
could fight his Congress on that sngie quesCo
There now employed at that Yard 1900 men, wnile
there is not work enough DOING TO give SHOW oa i
to contrive how to idle the time, and thelF most
arduOus labor, In answering at roll nnu urawnS
sent 10 the Yard to 80 to WORK. navug peen
engaged by the Grant City Committee IN PORTSMOUTH,
who have absolute control OF the hiring OF ali men
| who 90 there 10 work, and without whose APP
prevail no man can get place. lhese TWO men were
| that department. On reporting themselves they were
told by the BOSS that he did not know of anything ho
could set them doing, but knowing as he did. who
theIn they Were sent he said he would see
what he could set them about After day or two he
took them 10 a piece OF timber twelve feet in
length aud told them they might make it into an anchor
tine transverse beam running through the shank OK
an anchor right angles with the arms To do this In
| a good workmalke manner would take man possibly
| Two days, working as men ordinarily LABOR N their
| shops or their farms. And yet those men
managed, by a keen exercise OF their WITT "
| get II done In just four weeks. And when tae Joo
done the anchor stock that had cost 4S days Work
Was thrown among the waste chips and used Tor nre-
wood. And that is a fair example OF now Things are
| managed The men vary the monotony OF DONG moth
Driveway places. and playing cards other games,
keeping cOmrade on tue watch to notify them when an
officer is approaching that they can quit tner game
and resume their idienesS The Two men referred 10
eked out their time by frequent prospecting Win
lOfoOt pole and square In the Undergrad as IL looking
for something they did nd. and would spend
day sharpening tool that had not been used since 1t
last ground WHAT these two men did Is sample OF
| what tne other lI9s are all the time doing. -.
Some OF our readers VINO are not informed may ask
| men hredP My dear ST. there Is something Tor them
to DO and they hired to do 1t and paid for IT out OF
the public money Iney hired 10 vote, and are hrcd
other purpose. II is just well understood Ivy
them that they must the Republican ticket as 1t is
they will get thelr 50 per day Tor DONG nOJAnS'
They know That upon no other CONDITION womb they De
allowed to draw pay single day Large gangs OF men
put the Iald just before election III TINS sae aud
IN Maine for other purpose than to VOTE ana having
often aud We'll they are pad oil and 70 ABOUT
honest pursuits until another election approaches
now THE MAYNARD VOTES ARE CAST.
In the debate on the BayOnet Election bill,
Senator Casserly delivered speech in the u s. Senate.
May 49, 1871 which take the following account
OF the voting at the Mare Island Navy last sepem
Der:
The NayyYard at Marc Island is in soano County, q
county Of the second tird class as TO population ~
quiet agricultural county For the last hye or SIX
years 1t has been closely balanced IN pOhuts, the una
Jority on either Side beng usually aDouJ hnnUeu' UT
below that. N
tenber last the state, as am informed "a5 scoureu
Tor men TO Oe employed at Mare lsland HtVh5 Gkcn
unusual pains to ascertain the facts wnlie they were
fresh, can hardly be mistaken IN Wha am ABOUT 70
sate. As rule, pains taken 10 select Tor employ
menG men who were Democrats. Times were duli, ana
tue offer of the liberal paid NJ the Government
Nayy-Yard for several weeks was temptation very
market The result that very large DOdy OF
wOrkmen and laDorers, from 1000 to liOO was III the
Government employment at tine NiVy-fard on Ihe ddy
OF the election IN September. As events showed tht
young Of this number OF what votes tney should
|
under what control, matter thoroughly ORGANIZED
beforehand by the officials The enuie pIoeeedmgs
were conducted with military precision ana regularity
GA the morning OF the election operations were com
gn of M IN from the Nayy-Yard ~ polls Of
the TWO precincts the Maynard vote was u Dc
est Al tese polls the Oil .ers Of election, acting under
ne authority of the STATE, had provided as Is usual
where large vote rs expected, gahgWdy OI umper,
through which the voters pass up 10 Inc banOtboA,
gong i'm at one end and coming at the other such
gIngway, beng nearly shoulder mSh secures LOT inc
Voter projection interference aud at least some
redom OF changing or scratching hs ballot wne he IL
passing through 10 the balIOt-oOx TO deposit ms vote
Notation law, tore down before the eyes OF the
ofcers VINO to resist tnem Ins left every
Navy fard workman as ne went w 10 N1,o cYihplceS
under the eye OF the foreman boss" OF his gam,
s,dnding by ior the purpo". sich Il my lnlorinatoh
TIE woRKNEN MARCHED UP IN Gangs TO VOTE UNDER
THEIR FCREMEN.
This was not the worst Far seen after the
voting commenced at the polls IN the two precincts
where tho NayyYard vote Was cast Twelve or thirteen
hundred marched up IN gangs, each gang with
"A foreman at IT'S head, each man IN the gang with
ticket, whcn will presently exhibit lndr@ed as am
informed with his number on the payroll at the yard
and there put his hand. TINS ticket he voted under
eye OF his ioremal ana as each man yOiGd mat
ticket the foreman cuccSed hn OF the payroll IN ls
hand. In tnat way were thlIeeA OF fourteen hunIcu
votes east. 49,, -,
ing M an and oxJtiag - the Scnatcl j. notable
SAMPLE OF the freedom OF elections winch tie Admins
aton the United states to-day allows 10 the unfOr
tunae men VINO nave W ctel Wy ~oia huI ~ %
earn their bredG. viii send IL up 10 the desK 50 That
nv collcaee (dr Cole who thinks laboring under
some deuslOn' III the matter zen MN ih't IL i
marked tnc back IN inc handwriting OF prominent
Republican ana lawyer Of California, wei known u my
colleague anu 20 ne, Win these words state tlcRet
Vallejo 1871" had 30 of these tickets III Cdhi0r
MIA last September, bat Insald them. IL Is remark
a1ls specimen OF tho ideas current ia Administration
OF the wOrkingmIn IN the Government employing
As you see, MI. Presidential ID u sip OF paseboard
b Two inches long and less than inch wide, with
the Republican STATE cGet printed upon tue lace of as
closely be in tic smallest type mat Is ever u9eu,
$50 rs totally prevent the substitution OF one name fOf
another Tue back is printed WIN cheek ana no"er
pattern in tnIee colors dlncut IL NOT lmioipe 10 oq
initiated AS any can see, the tcket may pe houheI
up but We be folded 80 as TO conceal the con
Understood in California and have understood the
same thing since returned here ttat tnls ucA9t was
printed in TINS city ana Sent ou1 10 toi was mi lied
ana circulated FOR the use OF tho WOrAhch ~ Tue Navy
Yard ia this city at the recent election. -
With such a ticket the voter has neither freedom nor
secrecy IN casting his vote. He might well vote an
omen ticket IL is mockery 10 call IL ballot III any
sense OF Tue word known to elections IN this country
HOW MANY OF THE CARDBOARD TICKETS WERE VOTED.
Now Sir, keep m mind what sald IN regard 10 Tue
tins 0uet county Of SOlanO, where the Navy
Yard is and the clOseness OF the vote there You VIII
see low eloquent the returns Tor the state election
of last year Senator's 10 listen To the hguIes he
official figures will first give the returns Tor lhe TWO
previous general electiOns tue election IOr GOVernO IN
1857 and that President in 1865. mention these De-
cause they were tle twO general elections before
1s7l The election 1863 was for members OF the Legs
iatre and went almost by default for the Democrats.
The judicial election tile same year went the same way
I'm IO there was general election. The proper com
ns"n ia between tine elections OF 1861 1865 aud 1871
et Ms compare them The vote IN the county Tor GOv
ernor in 1851 was 122S Democratic and LIS RepuDl
Democratic majority 49, In Inc IoloWlhe SehI.
1903 Presidential election now 5000 me vote III
the cOuntyl Your candidate then, MT fresuenS Was
publican ticket in tine State OF California ana perhaps
the strongest man. 50 far as regards slrehg VI