New-York tribune., 1872-10-16
PENNSYLVANIA ERECTION FRAUDS.


p-orr.r .rr0gr. TIE JUDGES OF ELECTION ~
ruE FIFTEENTH WARD or PHILADELPHIA
Tur EFrCRNs ALTERED EOO VOTES IN
F.vOR or HARTRANFT-AN ESTIMATED
TuAUpULENT MAJORITY OF l5,OUO IN PHILA-
DELPHIA.
ToItl rdttor Of The Tribune.
SIR: We have been defeated and that de-
fo,s more glory for us than for the friends Of Gen.
Hartr.nf. and u g. Grant The following Is @y a
Fuau specimen Of tue fraud accomplished In the recent
election:
10 ne rrp I,,,-atioa aras GIN otPlnat.l1ha So po,.,
wsfl t lie vote Governor as follows:
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BY e-o 2 % how our re ret9T esetoa I'D ses alter tie re-
turns er partisan way Of anHg ~ sgcsOA aH ~
specially '01''' yedgs Of First Division.
JANE Judge SS5oi q Second Division
'" Judge j. Of Seventh Division
ALTRT5 MURpHEr,
Pha.aerhia oe H. ls72 Judge Of twenty second Division
Tho Fceuth Ward poed the largest vote for the Re
torm candidates, and cheating was with difficulty In
dulced iu stiu there difference OF 200 votes III
200 votes were counted more than poled in each ward
f the % wards Of the city we have $500 fraudulent votes
Iventure 10 state that the Nineteenth Ward, which now
Is the champion fraud ward IAN honor formerly held By
tho Fourth poled fully 1900 fraudulent votes tho
twentieth COO the Tenth 500; the Fifth 500 the Fourth
lsod out 20 HarranfD the Sixteenth where the lO4O
gang resides fully JO0 the Seventeenth the same, etc.
etc The fraudulent votes and false counts in the
City OF "Brothery Love- amounted to fully 1900 votes
We have some 400 precincts false count in each OF 90
votes 1nakee lCOOO fraudulent votes Ihave knowledge
Of ten friends whose names had been voted upon before
They came TO the polls stl there is no redress. DO
believe that this city will give Grant the majority
that Hartranft was "fxed" for. The National Com
mittoe should keep eye New-Jersey, as our Cam
eronans' the Burns, the Maras, the Binghalns, the
Eots, &c, will work in that State Look out for
big frauds IN Camden County. Yours, YERTTAs
Philadelphia, oct H. 1917.
WHY BUCKALEw, CURTIN, AND GREELEY WERE
DEFEATED IN PENNSYLVANIA.
70 ths EdftOr Of The Tribune.
SIR: The Liberals were defeated in Penn
sylvania because,
First: Large importations Of negroes, men and
women, were made from Delaware Maryland and Vir-
gina, who, in BODY voted for Hartranft The negro
women having short hair like the men, were dressed in
mems clothes and voted while white women who could
not be disguised nen, not permitted to vote.
This fraud has been practced all through the South as
well as in Pennsylvania.
Second; Large numbers Of white roughs from New
York and other States we're imported and were per
mtted vote "a violation Of the law and IN outrage
The rights OF the people.
Third: In the state Of Pennsylvania no less than 90
Societies of the old KnowNothing party under the di
fection Of Henry Wilson, were fully organized, all
pledged toivOte for Grant and against Horace Greeley
because Horace Greeley had rendered his powerful ao
." "eeIVSlaG the kp0V-GotpDg parry 10 lSSS and IsSS