National Republican., 1876-10-21
WHAT OF NEW YORK :?

1t is now claimed, and very justly, too
that the State of New York is to be the
battle field of the pending political struggle.
The leader of the Democratic hosts-the
man Of fraud, the ackno Wledged de-
baucher of the right of suffrage and the ex
pectant of the Presidency through a cor
rupuon of the ballot box-has determined
to transfer the fight to his own State.
Without it he knows he cannot be elected;
with it he hopes that he may be, and
hence all the machinery of repeating, bit bit
lotboX stuff az z aad aad every appliance Of fraud
and corruption will be resorted to in this
election to secure the vote of the State tor
Tilden and reform. 1t is by these agencies
that Tildea hopes and expects to succeed
in his own State. Without them he will
be in a minority of seventy five thous and.
Already it has been discovered that one
little arrangement of Tilden and his friends
in the city of Brooklyn contemplated re-
peating to the extent of five thousand votes.
That game may now be defeated, inasmuch
as the note of alarm has been sounded. If
the registry law is honestly administered
fraud is not possible, but the trouble is
that most of the political machinery In the
cities of New York and Brooklyn is in the
hands of the Democrats, who regard all as
fair in politics, no matter about the princi-
pies of common honesty and right or law.
These are not taken into the account by
Tilden and his supporters under the hypp-
critical banner of reform.
When John T. Hoffman was declared
elected Governor of New York, it was done
by bsllot-box stufing, under the direction
of Tilden and through the agency of VIM.
N. Tweed, who, though a fugitive from
Justice, is about to step foot on these shores
again. He returns at an opportune mo-
ment Tilden needs his valuable services
as stuffer quite as much now as he did
when it was decreed that Griswold Should
be counted out and Hoffman counted in.
The game is more valuable to Tilden now
than then, and it is not unreasonable to sup
pose that he will apply his agencies of
fraud with renewed cunning and vigor.
This being well understood, the scheme
for debauching tie elective franchise must
be thwarted. The laws applying to regis
tration must be respected and enforced.
Every legal voter must be assured in this
right, while every fraudulent corrupter of
the elective franchise must be thrust aside
and the purity of the election be vouch-
safed in this manner. If under fair and
pure election the people declare fol Tilden,
we say amen to the result; but if he is
thrust upon the nation and ascends to power
through the paths of fraud, corruption and
bloodshed, it will be a sad day for the Re-
public. It's enemies will triumph; those
who sought the national life through the
force of arms will come TO the front, and
from that hour the future peace, prosperity
and happiness of this people is sealed.
Under the banner of reform new era
will be inaugurated. Rebels will assume
the reins of pow er, and those who fought
to preserve the Union, the equal rights of
all men and the Republic from overthrow,
will be ordered to take back seats. This
is what the election of Tilden will mean,
and this is not all The burthens cheer
fully assumed by the people of the North
that the Union might be saved, though
regarded as somewhat burthensome, will
be light when compared with the claims
that will be urged by the late insurgent
States and fastened upon the National
Treasury. 1t is too late now for the
Democrats to deny that as their prospec-
tive policy, for they have already demon
strated it in the schemes of plumber advo-
Gated by them in the last session of Con-
gress which aggregated o sum exceeding
four thousand millions of dollars. And
this is but premonitory symptom OF the