New-York tribune., 1876-10-30
4 cOv.pJRicY DEFEATED.

Friends from the country ask if the chances
for HAYES and Wheeler are rot alarmngy di-
minishcd by the fraudulent registration in
this city. We hasten to rcassuIe them. We
believe that that fraudulent registration will
be fully countoIactcd, that effective measures
TO that end are already in progress, and that
their successful issue will defeat Gov. lildcn
in his own State. The Democratic leaders in
this city are already grievously disappointed
at the result. They confidently claimed a
total registry of not less than 100000; a
vote of 175OOO and n majority of from
1000 to 10000 They would listen to no
smaller estimates.
EXPOSURE of such q bold scheme was all
that was necessary to Illustrate it. and THIS
TIE TRIBUNE has made. The registration IN
this city has fallen 1900 short of the lowest
calculations and claims OF the best informed
leaders of the Democrats. The highest vote
probable is 100, 1000, of which it Is conceded
by Democrats that the Republicans can poll
81, 900 or $4,000 the Republicans themselves
claim more. Instead of Tammany Hall
naturaizing 10, 900 foreigners for this occasion,
only II 900 have been sworn in by both
parties, and of this number 5000 will vote
with the Republicans.
More than this, exposure has aroused unsus-
picious Republicans to ii sense of the danger
and to recognition OF their duty There has
been pcrceptible increase in the activity of
the canvass on the part of the Republican
! leaders here; and the subOrdinates IN every
district have gone into the active work of the
hour with renewed energy arising from lndlg-
| nation at the exposure Of Democratic lniamy.
| Thousands of Republicans who have hereto
| fore trusted to the honesty of inspectors and
clerks of registration have personally exam
| incd the lists, and many instances OF fraud
have i'm this way been brought to the attcn-
ton of tho Chief Supervisor of Elections.
! Additional aid and strength has been brought
! 10 Mr.. Davenport by the publication of these
! facts. The last Democratic House reduced all
! it dared the appropriations for securing honest
! elections; the necessary money has been sub
! scribcd from other sources, and needed men have
volunteered to do duty on election day as
! supervisors. At no previous time has the sys-
TEN of supervising the elections been more
nearly perfected than at present. Contrary to
| all hopes and expectations, we do not be-
leve that hundred suspected voters will sue
ceed in fraudulenty voting in this city; we
hope very few will be any more successful in
/ BROOKLYN. 1t may be necessary to make hun
dreds of arrests on election day, but the legal
papers, the official machinery, and the sworn
men are ready for the emergency,
should it arise. At this election, for
the first time in many years, the
Police Commissioners will be on the side OF
peace and order, and the police force under
their direction will supplement the United
| States Supervisors in securing fair election
by arresting and OBTAINING repeaters. We
have not had, since 1868 to the present Board,
a Police Commission that was not IN the in
| terest of Tammany Hall-even those headed
by pretended Republicans-and which did not
cheat for it. OF the present Board, Gen.
| Smith, a Democrat, is too honest in his
zeal to perfect the discipline OF the
force to consent, even if he were par
tisan, to its misuse on election day
Sidney p. Nichols, though warm Tam
many partisan, is a man of such scrupulous
honesty as to repel as insulting any suggestion
of dsbonorable use of the police force by his
| narfv Dewitt T. Wheeler and ,IOel Erhardt Are