The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-18

head of fraudulent Voting -
$ Dnring our last canvass the active
friends of Republican candidate for the
Assembly III Kings county were approached
ny an operator, who proposed for con-
sideration to poll for them several hundred
votes. Business Is business said the oper-
ator: we work for pay; We usually work
Tor the Democrats, but we will work for
you If You will engage u.s. The gentle
man approached, though not inclined to
negotiate, thought they might as we'll in
crease their stock of knowledge; so they
sehta trnstv agent to ascertain. in strict
confidence, how the thing was done
Inc agent was taken to a suit of rooms
on Broadway, near Fulton street. and
there. under an injunction of secrecy. mi
tlated into the mysteries. There were
maps OF the city by wards and election
districts, and in each district tor most of
thenl) were marked the number of houses
from which bogus voters might register
with full assurance that they would be
protected in so doing that any inquiry
Tor them there would lie answered as they
woHld wish.
''fhe voters were procured as follows ::
n hildred or more persons were hired to
10 10 as they were bid and ask no questions.
Each was provided with Il DSme under
which he was to register wherever required.
They were then divided into squads of ten.
each led by wltle-awake tru~ty captain.
Inns organized each squad Enthusiastically
on the last day of registration-to register
IN as many places as possible. The squad
captain regularly provides each man with
the street and number from which he is to
register at the next poll. So each SQUAD
starts under the lead of its captain say at
the Battery. anf registers in each district
up to tile west side of Fiftieth or Sixtieth
street; crossing over to the east side and
registering along down town till the reris-
fsIh ir.s1,
lutte captain may get his squad registered
IN nifty districts; and he can easily vote
THEM III "a many Oh election day. the cap
tain knowing his ground so Thoroughly
that he makes no false steps. Flee hu,l-
aFed et!5df'as thus organized may poll t.centy-
tre tt0arSe,9td J1t,,u2ale:tt rotes
= Bnr. says the inquirIng agent. are
you not afraid OF the law?'
1.-The operator smiled meaningly. 'The
law may be little rough he replied.
but the men who are to execute the law
are oilr friends aud will see us through
we poiied fifteen thousand bogus votes
last tall. when bnt sir arrests were made
for illegal voting. and nobody hurt We
shall poll twenty-five Thousand this wear.
The law don't bother us much,'
The villains who work this machine
VIII he prepared to 90 all lengths this fall.
ihe money 70 pay them munificentIy has
been provided in our citv and county fax
lrvies- If any are so ignorantly timid as
TO lear our legal dispensers of injuStice the
captains may draw their squads from the
aliens OF Philadelphia aud other cities.
sending them away as soon rs they are
done using them We have nothing to
hope from our officials. whom this fraud
i'ahltua.iy keeps in power and enriehe< :"
How did Boss Tweed s Co. treat this
exposure? How did Samuel j. Tiltlen.
'Fweet's = chairman of the Democratic
State Committee? 20
Again and again, in the Tribune, Mr.
Greeley repeated this exposure again aud
again he denounced the extraordinary Ievies
OF tho year, from t1ro to .Jiee millions, upon
New York city and county, as a corrupt
extoTtion for the yilese of party purposes
as an enormous partisan fund for the s'mu-
nificent payment - of the williams who
work the machine - as wholesale rob
berry of honest citizens for the means of
rewaFdIf1g ruiiians employed to cheat those |
very citizens, by the most infamous frauds.
of all voice i'll their government! How
were the exposures of such crimes which, |
according to Thurman, should have called |
the State to arms which should have |
aroused every honest AID patriotic man to
vindication of the laws. the purity of the |
= low were sach exposures |
treated How by the Democracy How
by Tweed & Co.? How by Samuel j. Til |
den, Twced's chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Committee 20 Did lie indig-
nantly condemn the williams ?'' Did he |
lip Il
prohibit them, or give out any sign of dis
approval?
Horace Greeley had long known Samuel |
j. 'filden. He thoroughly understood his |
character. He accordingly. i'll the Tribune,
paints its strong features-the character of |
the craft, the willy Vaccinations of an un-
principled and consummate demagogue
and trickster. He exposes the wicked craft /
Of the ex-rebel party-the so-called De-
fixing upon the 4th OF July /
Is the day upon which TO hold their Presi-
1ential nominating convention. He says.
IN the Tribune of July 4th. 1868. that no
'infidel ever had the audacity to appro-
pirate to his skeptical uses the ha!lowed
birthday Of our Savior,'' but the Denoc-
acy-'the ex-rebel Democracy the re-
gilers of the Declaration of Independence
prostitute the ''birthday of the nation''
to their unholy and traitorot,s ends.
Such an outrage Horace Greeley only
equalled by the mischievious cunning of its
chief manipulation, Samuel j. Iilden -
Under Tilden's management Seymour en-
acted the farce of pretending to refuse the
Democratic nomination, protesting that he
could not and would not accept. and ended
by taking 1t. Mr.. Greeley, in the Tribune
Of July IA, 1858, exposes its low cunning,
its characteristic craft. by reviving the 7th
scene, act Ill. of Richard III, in which
systematic murder and perjury triumph in
the seizure by GIoster. aided by Buck
ingham. of the British Crown! Even con-
spirators, hardened as they were in blood
aud sin. courted the popular voice as
shield for their crime. their meditated seiz-
nre of the Throne Buckingham n,anipu-
ates the people, praying Gloster to accept